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Topothesia : planning, colonialism, and places in excess / Ameeth Vijay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vijay, Ameeth, author.
- Series:
- Fordham scholarship online.
- Fordham scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Urban--Great Britain--History.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- 'Topothesia' reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain - sharply unequal and marked by racial division - continues ideologies of place established in colonial contexts. Specifically, planning allows for the speculative construction of future places that are both utopian in their ability to resolve political disagreement and at the same tantalizingly realizable, able to be produced in concrete reality.
- Contents:
- Part I. Improving places: liberal colonialism and the speculative imaginary of early
- Planning garden cities: the art and craft of making place in Edwardian Britain
- Planning as imperial cultivation in the work of Patrick Geddes
- Part II. Diminishing horizons: the ambivalent temporalities of development
- Capturing the city: regeneration, policing, and the ghosts of postcolonial Britain
- The end of London: temporalities of the gentrified city
- Leveling up: Zadie Smith's NW and the development of the planned self
- Geographies of discontent: brexit and the politics of abandonment.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2023.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 1, 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781531504274
- 1531504272
- 9781531503192
- 1531503195
- OCLC:
- 1411754134
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