Cities Rethought : A New Urban Disposition (Paperback)

Prologue: A Note to the Reader

1 An Urban Disposition
Dear Reader
Three elements
Putting the three together
How to read this book
And so

2 Normative Locations
What is the fabric of the city?
How do you consume a deleted future?
What kind of fight can you pick in the city?
What is the urbanity of the state?
What evidence matters for cities?
Taking stock

3 Analytical Redescriptions
Choosing our puzzles
Improving an estate
Upstream of the river
Repairing patchworks
The propensity of lychees
Spaces across the aisle
Amidst the numbers
Taking stock

4 Operational Moves
Mapping the operational ecosystem
Modalities of change in systems
Sensing a pulse
Evaluating our moves
Moving an idea within a system
Building a social imagination
A life in practice

A Parting Note