Fragments of the City

Making and Remaking Urban Worlds

Colin McFarlane

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University of California Press
05 October 2021

Urban communities; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning

Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for change. In Fragments of the City, Colin McFarlane examines such fragments, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? For those living on the economic margins, the city is often experienced as a set of fragments. Much of what low-income residents deal with on a daily basis is fragments of stuff, made and remade with and through urban density, social infrastructure, and political practice. In this book, McFarlane explores infrastructure in Mumbai, Kampala, and Cape Town; artistic montages in Los Angeles and Dakar; refugee struggles in Berlin; and the repurposing of fragments in Hong Kong and New York. Fragments surface as material things, as forms of knowledge, as writing strategies. They are used in efforts to politicize the city and in urban writing to capture life and change in the world's major cities. Fragments of the City surveys the role of fragments in how urban worlds are understood, revealed, written, and changed.

By: Colin McFarlane
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780520382244
ISBN 10: 0520382242
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 05 October 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Prologue Reading Fragments Pursuing Fragments Routes On the Margins An Urban World Pulling Together, Falling Apart Materializing the City Urban Life Support Volumetric Urbanism Fragmenting Cities Social Infrastructure Care and Consolidation Knowing Fragments In the Relation Presence-Absence The Gap Knowledge Fragments Writing in Fragments Montaging Urban Modernity Without Closure Points of Departure Fragments and Possibility Political Framings Attending to Fragments Maintaining In-Between Generative Translation Reformation Junk Art Relocating Surveying Wholes Political Becoming Occupation Being Present Provisioning Value Exhibiting Stories Walking Cities Encountering the City Intersecting Writings Routes and Their Limits Remnants Space and Time In Completion An Exploded View Experimenting Connective Devices Excursions Notes Bibliography Index

Colin McFarlane is Professor of Urban Geography at Durham University, UK. His work focuses on the experience and politics of urban life. He is author of Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage.

Reviews for Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds

"""Fragments of the City is a beautifully written book, and it reads as if one listens to music – the pieces enter the senses, reach the soul, do their subconscious working, and bring out the listener/reader enriched, enlightened, inspired."" * Planning Theory *"