Dwelling urbanism : city making through corporeal practice in Mexico City / Christian von Wissel.

Main entry:

Wissel, Christian von, author.

Title & Author:

Dwelling urbanism : city making through corporeal practice in Mexico City / Christian von Wissel.

Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2019]
©2019

Description:

227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.

Series:

Bauwelt Fundamente ; 166

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-227).
Infrastructural practice and the making of city -- Citying, Mexico City and studying the practice of city making -- Providing lives -- Growing houses -- Riding the highway -- City making through corporeal practice.

Summary:

City dwellers are direct agents in the making of cities; yet how do they actually constitute and sustain the urban and its forms? How do they practice the urban and through this practice shape the city-in-the-making that emerges along with them on the backs of their working bodies? City Making re-thinks the urban from this perspective of corporeal making and with regard to the cityness that it bears. It delves into the thick of life in the periphery of Mexico City, uncovering the everyday actions and efforts that practitioners of space accomplish when building houses, creating jobs and putting themselves to work as infrastructure. How are consequential conjunctions, how is access to, and presence in the city actively grown? And what does such thinking the city as a verb, as citying, imply for urban planning?

ISBN:

9783035618228 paperback
3035618224 paperback

Subject:

City planning Mexico Mexico City.
Urbanization Mexico Mexico City.
City and town life Mexico Mexico City.
Urbanisation Mexique Mexico.
Vie urbaine Mexique Mexico.
City and town life.
City planning.
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Urbanization.
Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions.
Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions.
Mexico Mexico City.

Added entries:

Bauwelt Fundamente ; 166.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306901
Call No.: BIB 252443
Status: Available

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