Dwelling urbanism : city making through corporeal practice in Mexico City /

City dwellers are direct agents in the making of cities; yet how do they actually constitute and sustain the urban and its forms? How do they practice the urban and through this practice shape the city-in-the-making that emerges along with them on the backs of their working bodies? Dwelling Urbanism...

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Main Author: Wissel, Christian von (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser, 2019
Series:Bauwelt Fundamente ; 166.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Infrastructural Practice and the Making of City
  • 2. Citying, Mexico City and Studying the Practice of City Making
  • 3. Providing Lives
  • 4. Growing Houses
  • 5. Riding the Highway
  • 6. City Making through Corporeal Practice
  • References