February 2013 Academic & Specialist University of Minnesota Press

Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field Swati Chattopadhyay


Paperback | Jan 2013 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816679324 | 320pp | 254x178mm | RFB | AUD$54.99, NZD$64.99
Hardback | Jan 2013 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816679317 | 320pp | 254x178mm | RFB | AUD$171.00, NZD$247.00

Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in Unlearning the City, proposing a way of analyzing the materiality of the urban that captures the ever-changing element of human experience.