City of Repair : Street Choreographies of Urban Futures
City of Repair : Street Choreographies of Urban Futures
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Author(s): Boudreau, Julie-Anne
ISBN No.: 9780520429390
Pages: 264
Year: 202703
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 146.90
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

City of Repair stems from a suspicion that the foundations of urban life rely not on grand solutions but rather on small, improvised, and persistent actions: a staircase rebuilt by a neighbor, a market that reorganizes traffic, an altar that cares for otherwise neglected items. In these often-unnoticed practices, something fundamental is at stake: the possibility that the city will continue. In this context, the idea of "future" is transformed. Every repair, no matter how small, contains the anticipation of sustaining life under uncertain conditions. Through fragmented explorations of Mexico City, this book constructs an unstable cartography built on detours and discoveries. It does not seek to explain the city in its entirety (an impossible undertaking) but rather to inhabit that impossibility. From this emerges what Julie-Anne Boudreau names an epistemology of the street--a form of knowledge that orients itself not around metrics of control or distance but from the body's own wanderings and wonder.


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