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Published on: 2014-05-23
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This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social division and economic insecurity. This book considers how these threats are encountered and countered in the urban age, focusing on the issue of human knowledge and self-awareness, just as Hannah Arendt’s influential The Human Condition did half a century ago. The Human Condition is now The Urban Condition. And it is this condition that will define human prospects in an age of default and risk. Gleeson expertly explores the concept through three main themes. The first is an exploration of what defines the current human condition, especially the expanding cities that are at the heart of an over-consumptive world economic order. The second exposes and reviews the reawakening of forms of knowledge (‘naturalism’) that are likely to worsen not improve our comprehension of the crisis. The new ‘science of urbanism’ in popular new literature exemplifies this dangerous trend. The third and last part of the book considers prospects for a new urban, and therefore human, dispensation, ‘The Good City’. We must first journey in our urban vessels through troubled times. But can we now start to plot the way to new shores, to a safer, more resilient city that provides for human flourishing The Urban Condition attempts this ideal, conceiving a new urbanism based on the old idea of self-limitation.The Urban Condition is an original, timely book that reconsiders and redeploys Arendt’s famous notion of The Human Condition in an age of cities and risk. It brings together several important strands of human consideration, urbanisation, climate threat, resource depletion, economic default and critical knowledge and weaves them into a new analysis of the times. It also looks to a future that is nearly with us—of changed climate, resource scarcity and economic stress. The book journeys into these troubled times, proposing the idea of Lifeboat Cities as a way of thinking about the human journey to come Projects Fallen Fruit A Day In Paradise Caldera Presents Fallen Fruit of Portland! Join us for a day of free events and site specific artworks created by artist collaborative Fallen Fruit ... Jane Jacobss Theories on Urban Planningand Democracy in ... In a year when American democracy has courted despotism Jacobss work offers a warning and a challenge. Her goal was never merely to enlighten urban planners. Compare / Contrast On Rural Versus Urban Living Previous post Compare / Contrast on Having Having Versus Not Having Children Next post Questioning Restrictions on Adoption for Certain Individuals New Cities Institute Nevertheless a further evaluation of the content of a candidates publications now takes place in Rome. This is not only a sign of the tendency of Roman officials ... Urban Prepper Basics for Catastrophe Survival in the City ... Being an urban prepper doesn't mean that you can't survive and thrive after the SHTF you just need a plan for urban / city survival. This is that plan. 100 Urban Trends - BMW Guggenheim Lab 100 Urban Trends: A Glossary of Ideas from the BMW Guggenheim Lab Steve Harvey to Work With Trump Administration on Inner ... Trump wants to help with the situations in the inner cities so he immediately got Dr. Ben Carson on the phone to put us together to begin dialog in looking at ... The causes and consequences of rural to urban migration ... The causes and consequences of rural to urban migration. In many countries particularly in third world countries there is a noticeable pattern of rural to urban ... Communities NRDC NRDC programs help create strong just and resilient communitiesmaking cities healthier more sustainable places to live. We work to lower energy bills reduce ... Scambusters.org Internet Scams Identity Theft and ... Since November 1994 Scambusters.org has helped over eleven million people protect themselves from scams... Scambusters is committed to helping you avoid getting ...
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