Killer Cities
eBook - ePub

Killer Cities

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Killer Cities

About this book

Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is  an attempt to navigate out of this mess of planned and unplanned violence towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers but become aligned with the lives of other beings. It offers pragmatic ways of diminishing the death toll and changing mindsets without ever minimizing the dilemmas that inevitably will have to be faced. Killer cities can be rehabilitated so that they offer brighter paths towards the future - for animals, for human beings, and for the planet. A new urban geography could be within our grasp. Indeed, it has to be, for all of our sakes.

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Yes, you can access Killer Cities by Nigel Thrift,SAGE Publications Ltd in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Human Geography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Theory, Culture & Society
  4. Series Editorial Board
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Contents
  10. About the Author
  11. Preface and Acknowledgements
  12. 1 An Uncommon Humanity
  13. Part I Cities
  14. 2 The Urban World
  15. Part II Life
  16. 3 Thinking Animals
  17. 4 Animals Thinking
  18. Part III Death
  19. 5 The Animal City
  20. 6 The City of Surplus Death
  21. 7 Not Meat But Still Dead
  22. 8 But Some Animals Do Adapt to the City
  23. Part IV A New Settlement
  24. 9 Dreaming More Human Cities 1
  25. 10 Dreaming More Human Cities 2
  26. 11 There Is Another World But It Is This One1
  27. References
  28. Index