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Cities: Reimagining the Urban
ISBN: 978-0-7456-2414-3
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192 pages
April 2002, Polity
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Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. The Legibility of the Everyday City:.

Introduction.

The New Urbanism in Context.

The Flâneur and Transitivity.

Rhythms and Rhythmanalysis.

Urban Footprints and Namings.

A Basic Ontology.

2. Propinquity and Flow in the City:.

Introduction.

The Nostalgic City.

Near and Far.

Distanciated Communities.

The Restless Site.

Conclusion.

3. Cities in a Distanciated Ecomony:.

Introduction.

The Urbanised Economy.

Cities as Sites.

Conclusion.

4. The Machinic City:.

Introduction.

Circulation.

The City of Passions.

The Engineering of Certainty.

5. Powerful Cities:.

Introduction.

Diagrams of Power.

Escape Attempts.

But!!!.

Conclusion.

6. The Democratic City:.

Introduction.

‘Creating a Democratic Public'.

Political City.

Rights to the City: A Politics of the Commons.

A Mobile Politics.

Afterword: Testing New Ground.

References.

Index.