{"title":"Nigel Thrift","description":"\u003cp\u003eNigel Thrift’s works explore the complex dynamics of urban life and human geography, inviting readers to reconsider how cities are experienced and understood. His writings blend insightful analysis with a thoughtful approach to the spatial and social fabric of urban environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those interested in education and reference, Thrift’s books offer a nuanced perspective on contemporary urban studies, bridging theory and real-world observation with clarity and depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cities-by-ash-amin-9780745624143","title":"Cities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanisation as a way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey outline an innovative sociology of the city that scatters urban life along a series of sites and circulations, reinstating previously suppressed areas of contemporary urban life: from the presence of non-human activity to the centrality of distant connections. The implications of this viewpoint are traced through a series of chapters on power, economy and democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis concise and accessible book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, geography, urban studies, cultural studies and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCities\u003c\/em\u003e by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift offers insightful perspectives that challenge traditional urban theories and highlight the complexities of modern urban life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460533633260,"sku":"9780745624143","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745624143-cities.jpg?v=1774948769"},{"product_id":"seeing-like-a-city-by-ash-amin-9780745664255","title":"Seeing Like a City","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeeing Like a City\u003c\/em\u003e means recognising that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organisation alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuch a view locates urban outcomes and influences in the character of these networks, which together power urban life, allocating resources, shaping social opportunities, maintaining order and simply enabling life. More than the silent stage on which other powers perform, such networks represent the essence of the city. They also form an important political project, a politics of small interventions with large effects. The increasing evidence for an Anthropocene bears out the way in which humanity has stamped its footprint on the planet by constructing urban forms that act as systems for directing life in ways that create both immense power and immense constraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464198111468,"sku":"9780745664255","price":119.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745664255-seeing-like-a-city.jpg?v=1775041978"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/nigel-thrift.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}