Jakarta: City of a Thousand Dimensions: Across the Global South: Built Environments in Critical Perspective
Autor Abidin Kusnoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 aug 2023
Indonesian writer Seno Gumira Ajidarma has called Jakarta a city of a thousand dimensions. A megacity of 30 million under threat from rising sea levels and temperatures, Jakarta and its resilient residents improvise and thrive. This book teases out some of the dimensions that have given shape to contemporary Jakarta, including the city’s expanded flexibility in accommodating capital and labor, and the consistent lack of planning that can be understood as a result of both politics and the poetics of governing in the region. Jakarta is essential reading for those seeking to understand one of Asia's most dynamic cities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789813252264
ISBN-10: 981325226X
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 33 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Nus Press Pte Ltd
Colecția National University of Singapore Press
Seria Across the Global South: Built Environments in Critical Perspective
ISBN-10: 981325226X
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 33 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Nus Press Pte Ltd
Colecția National University of Singapore Press
Seria Across the Global South: Built Environments in Critical Perspective
Notă biografică
Abidin Kusno is professor in the faculty of environmental and urban change at York University, Toronto, and former director of the York Centre for Asian Research.
Cuprins
Dedication List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: A City with a Thousand Dimensions: Theory, Practice, Subjectivity
1. Middling Urbanism
2. The Rule of Many Orders
3. Roads, Rhizomes and Regimes
4. Where will the Water Go?
5. A New Assemblage City
6. Urban Politics
7. Islamist Urbanism
8. Escape from Jakarta: The Future Redux
9. Jakarta: A Conversation
10. Our Streets: Reflections on a Pandemic City
Afterword: On “Multitude” and the Urban Question: A Reading in a Time of Pandemics
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Introduction: A City with a Thousand Dimensions: Theory, Practice, Subjectivity
1. Middling Urbanism
2. The Rule of Many Orders
3. Roads, Rhizomes and Regimes
4. Where will the Water Go?
5. A New Assemblage City
6. Urban Politics
7. Islamist Urbanism
8. Escape from Jakarta: The Future Redux
9. Jakarta: A Conversation
10. Our Streets: Reflections on a Pandemic City
Afterword: On “Multitude” and the Urban Question: A Reading in a Time of Pandemics
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"The urban is a mellifluous, often malevolent, cacophony of enactments, encumbered by plunder, and enlivened by singular inventions—a process no more illustriously embodied than by Jakarta, which has never been as brilliantly explored nor exorcised as in Kusno’s meditations on urban governmentality as a means of ruling from the middle of things, a constant re-arrangement of oscillating fragments and power relations still fumbling for a universal ideal."
"Richly textured, revealing, brilliant and original, Abidin Kusno’s Jakarta constitutes an object lesson in urban analysis, where memory, archetype and self, generate complex substrata to our understanding of cities. Jakarta is a revelation, a new way of exposing the invisible, and a method of talking to the multitude and the common in all of us."
"Placing his personal experiences of the metropolis in conversation with western social theory, Kusno conveys the insights that thinking through Jakarta makes possible. This essay collection, examining Jakarta’s everyday life, complex spatiality, variegated stakeholders and political, mobility and environmental challenges, will enable the reader to appreciate how Jakarta works."