"Urbanities are the intersection and always provisional conjunctions of multiple inhabitations negotiated across a heterogeneity of agencies and forces--engendering dispositions always unsettled in their everyday encounters and unruly ecologies. This text is an unparalleled exploration of the liveliness that other-than-human beings infuse into a sociality extended beyond biopolitical conceptualization and control, underlining an urban economy more attuned to its natural surrounds. An essential excursion across the shifting landscapes of incipient sustenance."--AbdouMaliq Simone, author of The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture "Barua's ambitious and poetic account will undoubtedly become a touchstone text in several fields."-- Urban Studies "A phenomenal work that exhorts the reader to reconceptualize the urban environment as a lively meshwork of human and other-than-human entities."-- H-Net "[ Lively Cities] provides a new perspective on the continuous formation of urban ecologies."-- Social Anthropology "A rich and evocative theoretical framework for thinking the city in a minor key."-- Humanimalia "Ecological formations inhere in the fabric of the urban, and yet [.

] they have been marginalized as objects of concern by major strands of urban theory. Lively Cities remedies this absence. "-- City "Expands the debate significantly and productively."-- Urban Geography " Lively Cities is an important extension to urban theory and other-than-human geographies as it acknowledges the aliveness that is often invisiblized by major approaches to the urban."-- Geographical Review "The fascinating case studies are underpinned with photographs and include diligent studies of gray literature and original documents."-- Anthropos.