Autore |
Alexander Samuel
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (vi, 255 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour)
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Disciplina |
307.76
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Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns
Civilization, Modern - 21st century
Sociology, Urban - Australia - Melbourne (Vic.)
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ISBN |
981-15-7861-3
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Formato |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
1. A disturbed book: bubbles under the throne -- 2. Unsettling the story of disenchantment -- 3. The gentle art of urban tramping -- PART ONE: BC (Before-COVID) -- 4. The ‘new world’ is old: journeying through deep time -- 5. Descent pathways in a city of gold -- 6. Adrift in the devil’s playground -- 7. Grave matters: death in the liveable city (Part I) -- 8. Cold Lazarus: death in the liveable city (Part II) -- 9. Walking the corridors of consumption -- 10. A riverside ramble to the last hotel: lostworlders welcome -- 11. Guardians of Gandolfo Gardens -- 12. Tramping against extinction: counter-friction to the machine -- 13. The monumental army that marches on the spot -- 14. Sisyphus in the suburbs: pushing the rock -- PART TWO: AC (After-COVID) -- 15. Virtually tramping through post-normal times -- 16. A time for bad poetry -- 17. Shimmering text: re-reading The Plague in the Coronaverse -- 18. Care-full times: suffer the children -- 19. Rewilding the suburbs: CERES as a site of enchantment -- 20. Sojourning through a quiet city: envisioning a prosperous descent -- 21. Glitter and doom: between naïve optimism and despair -- COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER -- 22. An urban politics of enchantment.
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