Fragments of the City McFarlane Colin
Fragments of the City McFarlane Colin Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? Fragments of…
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Fragments of the City McFarlane Colin
Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? Fragments of the City examines the fragments themselves, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities.
Much of what low-income residents deal with on a daily basis is fragments of stuff, made and remade with and through urban density, social infrastructure, and political practice. For those living on the economic margins, the city is often known as a set of fragments. From broken toilets to artistic output and forms, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for change.
Fragments of the City considers infrastructure in Mumbai, Kampala, and Cape Town; artistic montages in Los Angeles and Dakar; refugee struggles in Berlin; and the repurposing of fragments in Hong