Splintering Towers of Babel: Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures [Hardcover]

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on, and redefines, soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key and issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy and ethics.

Splintering Towers of Babel is a kaleidoscopic study of urbanism in different cultural settings and times. The book employs a wide array of theories, perspectives, and methods to provoke new thinking about what a city is, what it does, and what it means at different scales around the world. This multidisciplinary book promises to be a valuable compendium for anyone interested in the past and present of cities and their future.

- Akin Ogundiran, Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

With the Biblical story of Babel as a sound thematic backbone, and in a dazzling multidisciplinary exploration across time and space, this original book offers a plethora of insights to rethink the historical, phenomenological and sociotechnical complexities and paradoxes inherent in the urban condition.

- Filip De Boeck, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leuven, and co-author of