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Intro -- Contents -- The Men of a Million Lies, or How We Imagine the World -- Plato's Cinema -- The Deceptions of Memory -- Cartography and the Canvas of White Spaces -- Faust the Imperial Architect -- The Dialectics of Inspiration -- In Morphia Veritas -- Here be Cities -- Dentata -- Robinsonade -- Where the Wild Things Are -- No North, No South, No East, No West -- The Tower -- The Sun King -- Proteus -- Perfecting the Shipwreck -- The Sublime, Twinned With the Abyss -- Apocalypse Then -- The Urbacides -- Houses of Vice and Virtue -- New Jerusalem, or Nevertown -- Kurtzville -- The Ancient Modernists -- The Map is the Real -- Blueprinting Eternity -- Babel -- The Living Ruins -- The Return of Mammon -- City of Angels -- Discovering the Diagonal -- The Lightning Rod -- Skyscraper Mania -- Elevators Through the Stratosphere -- The Golem -- Vertical Suburbs -- Sanctifying the Secular -- Lift Off -- It Came From the Depths -- The Evaporating Cities -- A Glowing Future -- The Alchemical Cities -- Cities Made Without Hands -- Foundations -- The Wrath of God -- The Drowned World -- Seasteading -- The Seven Invisible Cities of Gold -- The Abiding Desire for No Place -- The Thirteenth Hour -- Cockaigne -- The Biological City -- Possessed -- The Jungle -- The Glass Delusion -- The House of Constructions -- Books Versus Stone -- Remembering the Future -- The Mechanical Heart -- Further Sleepwalking -- Of Steam and Clockwork -- Micropolis -- Tomorrow Will Continue Forever -- Accelerator -- Pow -- Sealess Ships, Grounded Spacecraft and the Curse of the Genie -- Home is Where the Harm Is -- The Cinematic Dystopia of the Everyday -- In Love With Velocity -- On the Road -- The Crystal Palaces -- Plotting the Stars -- Flux Us -- The Megalomania of Cells -- Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! -- Releasing the Golem -- The Turk -- The Pit and the Pendulum.

Musical Cities represents an innovative approach to scholarly research and dissemination. A digital and interactive 'book', it explores the rhythms of our cities, and the role they play in our everyday urban lives, through the use of sound and music.

Sara Adhitya first discusses why we should listen to urban rhythms in order to design more liveable and sustainable cities, before demonstrating how we can do so through various acoustic communication techniques. Using audio-visual examples, Musical Cities takes the 'listener' on an interactive journey, revealing how sound and music can be used to represent, compose, perform and interact with the city. Through case studies of urban projects developed in Paris, Perth, Venice and London, Adhitya demonstrates how the power of music, and the practice of listening, can help us to compose more accessible, inclusive, engaging, enjoyable, and ultimately more sustainable cities.

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems. Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise introduction to smart cities, presenting key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts, along with discussions of both the drawbacks and the benefits of this approach to urban life. After reviewing current terminology and justifications employed by technology designers, journalists, and researchers, the book describes three models for smart city development--smart-from-the-start cities, retrofitted cities, and social cities--and offers examples of each. It covers technologies and methods, including sensors, public wi-fi, big data, and smartphone apps, and discusses how developers conceive of interactions among the built environment, technological and urban infrastructures, citizens, and citizen engagement. Throughout, the author--who has studied smart cities around the world--argues that smart city developers should work more closely with local communities, recognizing their preexisting relationship to urban place and realizing the limits of technological fixes. Smartness is a means to an end: improving the quality of urban life.

"The fourth edition of Mark Hutter's Experiencing Cities examines cities and larger metropolitan areas within a truly global framework, lending readers much to understand and appreciate about the variety of urban structures and processes and their effect on the everyday lives of people residing in cities. Beginning with the emergence of the first urban centers and continuing to examine the present-day and the future of smart cities, this book explores the changing cultural and domestic character of the metropolis and offers readers a complete historical and theoretical overview of municipal life. The new edition seamlessly integrates issues of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class in its examination of city and suburban life, and further extends the Chicago School of Sociology perspective by combining its traditions with a distinct social psychological orientation derived from symbolic interaction and macro-level examination of social organization, social change, and power in the urban context. With this strong and sweeping interdisciplinary approach, the new edition of Experiencing Cities will continue to enrich students' understandings of urban life and offer new, forward-looking perspective to those working in the fields of urban sociology, history, politics, geography, and the arts"--

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Development of Planned Settlements -- Influential Ideas and Examples -- Howard, Parker and Unwin: Garden City Theory and Planning -- Garden Cities in Practice -- Garden Suburbs and Villages -- Living in Utopia -- Further Reading -- Places to Visit -- Index -- Imprint

An uncommon humanity -- Part I: Cities -- The urban world -- Part II: Life -- Thinking animals -- Animals thinking -- Part III: Death -- The animal city -- The city of surplus death -- Not meat but still dead -- But some animals do adapt to the city -- Part IV: A new settlement -- Dreaming more human cities 1 -- Dreaming more human cities 2 -- There is another world but it is this one.

"First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself. "--Provided by publisher.