Cities Made Differently

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently"--Cover.

Publisher Marketing: 1 Flying Сity 2 The City that always sleeps 3 City in the clouds 4 A city of fighters: Citizens who are ever ready to attack and defend. 5 City of freedom 6 The City of Play 7 City of greed 8 City as a Family 9 City in the desert 12 Surveillance City 13 Transparent City 14 City of Masks 15 Invisible City 16 Priceless solitude 18 Ghost town 19 A city of runners 20 Underground city 21 City in the Ocean 22 City of Punishment 23 Trash city 24 Noah's ark 25 Model city 26 City Under Siege 27 Sun City 28 School City 29 City of Care Brief Description : "This is a book about cities - how unexpectedly different they were in various countries and times, and cities that never existed, but someone dreamed of them or feared them. The project uses examples from a wide spectrum of different cultures, it researches the existential and universal question of what means to be human - as a child and as an adult - in order to explore the diversity of how people live globally and throughout history"-- Commendation Quotes : "The four most terrifying words in the English language are 'there is no alternative.' There's always an alternative, and Graeber and Dubrovsky prove it in this imagination-fueling tour of all the ways we do live, have lived, and might live. Dreaming is a truly subversive act, and this book will turn you into a revolutionary urbanist with your feet firmly planted in true history and your mind set free into the infinite universe of possible futures." --Cory Doctorow, author of The Internet Con , Little Brother , and Red Team Blues "A mind-spinning exploration of the glorious, multidimensional spectrum of human imagination. This is one of those books you'll want all your friends to read--it makes sci-fi look conservative." --Brian Eno Biographical Note : David Graeber (1961-2020) was an anthropologist, activist, and author of several bestselling books, including Debt: The First 5,000 Years , Bullshit Jobs , and The Dawn of Everything . He was involved in the Global Justice Movement and Occupy Wall Street. His latest book was Pirate Enlightenment . Nika Dubrovsky is an artist and writer who works in the style of the visual essays featured in the series of books "Made differently" and others. She is the founder of the David Graeber Institute and the editor of Graeber books. Review Quotes : "An entertaining introduction to the conceptual common in contemporary architecture training. It encourages everyone, including children, to ask intelligent questions about where they live and how power is structured." -- The Spectator Publisher Marketing : Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book Cities Made Differently opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth, science and imagination, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit--because we can, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true. With inspired pictures and prompts, Cities Made Differently asks what a city is, or could be, or once was. Sleeping at the bottom of the ocean? Buried in lava? What were those cities of long ago, and what will the cities of the future be? They might be virtual, ruled by AI, or islands of beautiful architecture afloat in seas of greenery. They might be utopian places of refuge or refugee camps as far as the eye can see. On land, underground or aloft, excavated or imagined, cities, this book tells us in provocative and funny ways, can be anything we want them to be--and what we want them to be can tell us something about who we are, what it is to be human, and what's possible when we make way for wonder. Cities Made Differently exists in two versions, one for reading and thinking, the other, downloadable at a4kids.org, for drawing and dreaming.

Format: Paperback | Pages: 120 | Publication Date: 2024-11-19