Lineages of the Global City by Shiben Banerji
The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early-twentieth-century global city.
This is a beautifully researched and realized work of scholarship, which unveils a remarkable archive of urban images that connect occultism, modernism, globality, and architectureIt will be of great value to historians, architects, planners, and scholars of cultural modernity due to its powerful argument for the cosmological underpinnings of modern urban thought. - Arjun Appadurai, New York University, author of The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition In the contemporary era of climate crisis, growing concerns about the exploitation of nature, resurgent nationalism, and what is looking to be a new global political and economic order that will impact not just nations but also cities, this provocative book will spark considerable debate about what kinds of urban habitats we want to build and whether historical models relegated to the dustbin of twentieth-century architectural history can indeed offer new food for thought in these turbulent times. - Diane E. Davis, Harvard Graduate School of Design; CIFAR Fellow and Project Co-Director, Humanity's Urban Future
Shiben Banerji is an associate professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781477331408 |
| ISBN 10 | 1477331409 |
| Title | Lineages of the Global City |
| Author | Shiben Banerji |
| Series | Lateral Exchanges: Architecture Urban Development And Transnational Practices |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press |
| Year published | 2025-07-08 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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