Seeing Like a City Amin Ash
Seeing Like a City Amin Ash Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Within their density,…
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Seeing Like a City Amin Ash
Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone.
More than the silent stage on which other powers perform, such networks represent the essence of the city. It is the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city.Such a view locates urban outcomes and influences in the character of these networks, which together power urban life, allocating resources, shaping social opportunities, maintaining order and simply enabling life. They also form an important political project, a politics of small