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OverviewFull of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book Cities Made Differently opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth, science and imagination, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit-because we can, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true. With inspired pictures and prompts, Cities Made Differently asks what a city is, or could be, or once was. Sleeping at the bottom of the ocean? Buried in lava? What were those cities of long ago, and what will the cities of the future be? They might be virtual, ruled by AI, or islands of beautiful architecture afloat in seas of greenery. They might be utopian places of refuge or refugee camps as far as the eye can see. On land, underground or aloft, excavated or imagined, cities, this book tells us in provocative and funny ways, can be anything we want them to be-and what we want them to be can tell us something about who we are, what it is to be human, and what's possible when we make way for wonder. Cities Made Differently exists in two versions, one for reading and thinking, the other, downloadable at a4kids.org, for drawing and dreaming. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Graeber , Nika DubrovskyPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Weight: 0.369kg ISBN: 9780262549332ISBN 10: 0262549336 Pages: 120 Publication Date: 19 November 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationDavid Graeber (1961-2020) was an anthropologist, activist, and author of several bestselling books, including Debt- The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything. He was involved in the Global Justice Movement and Occupy Wall Street. His latest book was Pirate Enlightenment. Nika Dubrovsky is an artist and writer who works in the style of the visual essays featured in the series of books ""Made differently"" and others. She is the founder of the David Graeber Institute and the editor of Graeber books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |