{"product_id":"a-map-and-other-parts-by-timmah-ball-9781764555876","title":"A Map and Other Parts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘I imagined watching every planning zone burn, the bureaucratic skeleton of the city, in the hope that I’d find something in the ashes to build something new.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVacant food courts, sustainability policies, a maze of planning zones and mixed-use apartment complexes. \u003cem\u003eA Map and Other Parts\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to the shadows that haunt city life in an era desperate for First Nations empowerment. Writer and urban planner Timmah Ball sardonically documents and dissects urban spaces under colonial capitalism, asking what our cities are – and what they could be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an expansive blend of fiction and poetry, \u003cem\u003eA Map and Other Parts\u003c\/em\u003e critiques planning policy, examines urban history and asks vital and unnerving questions about how we might finally make cities work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68068849582316,"sku":"9781764555876","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781764555876-a-map-and-other-parts-1.jpg?v=1793819273","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-map-and-other-parts-by-timmah-ball-9781764555876","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}