Cities made differently / David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graeber, David, author.

Dubrovsky, Nika, author.

Series:

Made Differently Series

Made Differently series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2024]

Summary:

Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. What makes a city a city Who says Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book Cities Made Differently opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth, science and imagination, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit -- because we can, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true. With inspired pictures and prompts, Cities Made Differently asks what a city is, or could be, or once was. Sleeping at the bottom of the ocean Buried in lava What were those cities of long ago, and what will the cities of the future be They might be virtual, ruled by AI, or islands of beautiful architecture afloat in seas of greenery. They might be utopian places of refuge or refugee camps as far as the eye can see. On land, underground or aloft, excavated or imagined, cities, this book tells us in provocative and funny ways, can be anything we want them to be -- and what we want them to be can tell us something about who we are, what it is to be human, and what's possible when we make way for wonder. Cities Made Differently exists in two versions, one for reading and thinking, the other, downloadable at a4kids.org, for drawing and dreaming.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Contents

1 Flying City

2 The City that Always Sleeps

3 City in the Clouds

4 Military Town

5 City of Freedom

6 The City of Play

7 City of Greed

8 City as a Family

9 City in the Desert

10 Sanctuary City

11 Leader City

12 City of the Watched

13 Transparent City

14 City of Masks

15 Invisible City

16 Solitude City

17 One-Man City

18 Ghost Town

19 A City оf Runners

20 Underground City

21 City in the Ocean

22 City of Punishment

23 Trash City

24 Noah's Ark

25 Мodel City

26 City Under Siege

27 Sun City

28 School City

29 City of Care

30 Afterword

Study Materials

Index

Glossary.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262380096

0262380099

9780262380089

0262380080

OCLC:

1430359566