Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology

by Maan Barua

Book Overview

A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban

One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the planet, and cities are replete with nonhuman life. Yet current accounts of the urban remain resolutely anthropocentric. Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517912563
• ISBN13: 9781517912567
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"