ARGONAUT BOOKS

Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across cities' intricate landscapes, be they political, cultural, economic, or social. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to 'cut through the noise' of urban disagreement by emphasizing a dominant lens for understanding the key, central logic of the city. This book sees this tendency to selective vision as misleading and ultimately unjust: cities are many things at once to different people and communities. It describes the various ways of seeing the functions and landscapes of the city as pl...Read More