LEADER 02482oam 2200445 450 001 9910159010003321 005 20210112153635.0 010 $a1-5095-1562-3 035 $a(DLC) 2016029541 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4786299 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001018507 100 $a20160624h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $anc$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSeeing like a city /$fAsh Amin, Nigel Thrift 210 1$aCambridge, UK :$cPolity Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue -- Looking through the city -- Shifting the beginning: the anthropocene -- How cities think -- The matter of economy -- Frames of poverty -- Epilogue. 330 $aSeeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city. Such a view locates urban outcomes and influences in the character of these networks, which together power urban life, allocating resources, shaping social opportunities, maintaining order and simply enabling life. More than the silent stage on which other powers perform, such networks represent the essence of the city. They also form an important political project, a politics of small interventions with large effects. The increasing evidence for an Anthropocene bears out the way in which humanity has stamped its footprint on the planet by constructing urban forms that act as systems for directing life in ways that create both immense power and immense constraint. 606 $aCities and towns 606 $aSociology, Urban 606 $aHuman geography 615 0$aCities and towns. 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 615 0$aHuman geography. 676 $a307.76 700 $aAmin$b Ash$0119351 702 $aThrift$b N. J. 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159010003321 996 $aSeeing like a city$92895874 997 $aUNINA