Rethinking the City: Reconfiguration and Fragmentation [Hardcover]

1. Introduction: The Ongoing Reconfiguration of the City??Part I. Fragmentation and Reconfiguration: Urban and Historical Tensions??2. Cities of Memory and Ruins of the Present: Reflections in Wartime??3. My Schizoid City? 4. Lisbons Phantom Limb Syndrome: Lineaments of Spectral Ethnography? 5. The Ambivalences of Intimacy and Aesthetic and Political Reconfigurations of the Common World??Part II. City, Place and the Political? 6.?From the Domus to the Urbs: The Place of Life? 7. Navigating Marxs Collective Praxis and Kierkegaards Individual Practice in the Swarming-Dream City of Capitalism? 8. Contemporary Identity Politics and the City: More than Fragmentation??Part III. Urban Experience, Aesthetic Concepts? 9.?Towards a Political Ecology of Urban Ambiances? 10. Urban Life Scenes in Georg Simmel: Passages Between House and City? 11. The Art of Dwelling as Tacit Philia??Part IV. Cities, Fragments and the Arts? 12.?Odysseus Impounded: Lost Sailors, Lost Times, Lost Loves??13. Drifting through Lisbon in a Home Movie Archive??14. The Periphery Is Not Where the City Ends but Where It Begins to Unfurl. Contributions to an Architecture of the Metropolis from Renaudie and Gailhoustet to Druot, Lacaton and Vassal? 15. On Some Fragments of Tr?s-os-Montes, a Film by Ant?nio Reis and Margarida Cordeiro

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the dis-integration that characterises modern cities.

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities. Asking how we might unsettle and decrypt the homoglc;