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dead cities and other tales

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 3:05pm.

Just finished reading through Mike Davis's Dead Cities and Other Tales (2002). It gives quite the story both (in the preface) of the fear that mitigates against play and (in Chapter 8) of what Davis terms the "the vast, infinite game of urban design": a "relentless competition between privileged players." Also not the sort of play we have in mind, but probably not a bad idea to @ least acknowledge this background (foreground?). Some reading notes....

Davis's Chapter 17, "Dead Cities: A Natural History," belongs more properly in the planning notes for Eco-Literacy...though I am also beginning to see how very much my urban and eco-courses are imbricated in one another!

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