| Urban Transformation, red. Ilka i Andreas Ruby, Ruby Press 2008, 400 stron, 336 ilustracji, oprawa miękka, język angielski, cena: 180 zł. -->Kup w naszym sklepie internetowym z 5% rabatem |
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Thursday, 28 October 2010
lektury wwb2 # 27: urban transformation
Monday, 4 October 2010
lektury wwb2 # 4: uneven development
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| Uneven Development. Uneven Development. Nature, Capital and the Productionof Space, Neil Smith, Verso 2010, 328 stron, miękka oprawa, cena: 94 zł |
Neil Smith zajmuje się antropologią, kieruje nowojorskim Center for Place Culture and Politics. Pisze na temat gentryfikacji, „produkcji” natury w miastach, jak i specyfiki rozwoju gospodarczego Stanów Zjednoczonych. Książka „Uneven Development” uznawana jest za jedną z najważniejszych książek o geograficznej teorii społecznej. Jak rozwija się miasto w centrum, a jak na peryferiach? Dlaczego ma to znaczenie polityczne? Dlaczego układ przestrzenny miast odzwierciedla geografię kapitalizmu?
Edward Said pisał o książce: „A brilliant formulation of how the production of a particular kind of nature and space under historical capitalism is essential to the unequal development of a landscape that integrates poverty with wealth, industrial urbanization with agricultural diminishment."
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
blubberland
| Elizabeth Farrelly "Blubberland. The Dangers of Happiness" MIT PRESS, marzec 2008, 219 stron, oprawa miękka, cena: 59 zł |
"I, like you, drive too much. I buy too much—of which I keep too much and also throw too much away. I overindulge my children, and myself. Directly as well as indirectly I use too much water, energy, air and space. My existence, in short, costs the planet more than it can afford. This is not some handed-down moral stricture, nor any sort of guilty self-flagellation, but a simple recognition of fact. The consequences are obvious, and near enough now to see the warts on their noses. For my own future, as well as my children's, I must change. And yet—this is what's weird—I, like you, can't. Cannot abandon comfort, convenience and pleasure for the sake of abstract knowledge. Can't stop doing it. This is interesting.
It's interesting because we think we are so rational, so intelligent, and yet we behave, both individually and as a herd, in such unintelligent ways. That's what drove this book into being."
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