Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action, and Contemporary Urbanism
Опубликовано на портале: 24-11-2006
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Routledge, 2005, 178 с.
Тематический раздел:
Contemporary discourse emphasizes the irrational, unconscious, discursive and displace
experiences of city life. Discussion of conscious agency is minimal and is often
confined to small acts of resistance.
Reason in the City of Difference re-establishes a strong notion of conscious agency
in our understanding of urban life. Through philosophical and empirical exploration,
the book examines how the city has been shaped by reason--through the technical rationality
of urban planning and through the profound social and spatial effects of economic
rationality. It argues that we get a view of the oppressiveness of cities from a
preoccupation with the effects of narrow instrumental rationality. If we see rationality
in a wider context, as cultural and expressive, then the city has emancipatory potential
through its diversity.
Using a range of empirical examples and drawing particularly on pragmatist ideas
of 'experience' and rationality the Reason in the City of Difference offers a new,
alternative reading of the city.
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1: Reason in the City of Difference
2: On the Body
3: On the Street
4: In the Community
5: In the Public Realm
6: At Work and Home in the Urban Economy
7: In City Hall
8: Cosmopolitan Reason and the Global City
2: On the Body
3: On the Street
4: In the Community
5: In the Public Realm
6: At Work and Home in the Urban Economy
7: In City Hall
8: Cosmopolitan Reason and the Global City
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