Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750 Technonatures in the Global North
This book explores the historical relationship between ‘technonatures’ and urban transformations in the Global North. In recent years, various interdisciplinary movements such as Urban Political Ecology, STS and New Materialism have affected urban history and generated new scholarly insights into th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1) Mikkel Høghøj and Mikkel Thelle: “Unravelling Urban Technonatures”
- Part I: Themes and concepts
- 2) Chris Otter: “Planetary Agglomeration”
- 3) Mikkel Thelle: “Phronologies of Urban Water: Copenhagen”
- 4) “Hybrid Cities: Agency, scale and power. A conversation between Matthew Gandy, Dorethee Brantz, Chris Otter and Mikkel Thelle”
- Part II: Agency of flow, matter and technology
- 5) Friedrich Hauer, Christina Spitzbart-Glasl, Severin Hohensinner and Verena Winiwarter: “A Techno-River in the Making: Three transformations of the Wien River from the Middle Ages until the present”
- 6) Sam Grinsell: “River Lines and Railway Lines: “Colonial military technonatures in the making of Sudan’s capital region, 1880s-1920s”
- 7) Uwe Lübken: “Concrete History: Floodwalls on the Ohio River”
- Part III: Governing mobility, waste and urban subjects
- 8) Marjolein Schepers: “Closed Gates and Dart Streets: Spaces and infrastructures of transit in the Low Countries, eighteenth-nineteenth century”
- 9) Nina Toudal Jessen: “At the Intersection of Expertise and Landscaping: How technical advisors created new nature”
- 10) Mikkel Høghøj: “Good and Bad Nature: Slum clearance and metabolic poverty in mid-twentieth century Copenhagen”