Urban awakenings : disturbance and enchantment in the industrial city /: disturbance and enchantment in the industrial city. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson.
• Authors: Alexander, Samuel; Gleeson, Brendan, 1964-
• Contents: 1. A disturbed book: bubbles under the throne.- 2. Unsettling the story of disenchantment.- 3. The gentle art of urban tramping.- PART ONE: BC (Before-COVID).- 4. The 'new world' is old: journeying through deep time.- 5. Descent pathways in a city of gold.- 6. Adrift in the devil's playground.- 7. Grave matters: death in the liveable city (Part I).- 8. Cold Lazarus: death in the liveable city (Part II).- 9. Walking the corridors of consumption.- 10. A riverside ramble to the last hotel: lostworlders welcome.- 11. Guardians of Gandolfo Gardens.- 12. Tramping against extinction: counter-friction to the machine.- 13. The monumental army that marches on the spot.- 14. Sisyphus in the suburbs: pushing the rock.- PART TWO: AC (After-COVID).- 15. Virtually tramping through post-normal times.- 16. A time for bad poetry.- 17. Shimmering text: re-reading The Plague in the Coronaverse.- 18. Care-full times: suffer the children.- 19. Rewilding the suburbs: CERES as a site of enchantment.- 20. Sojourning through a quiet city: envisioning a prosperous descent.- 21. Glitter and doom: between naïve optimism and despair.- COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER.- 22. An urban politics of enchantment.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 307.76099451; Sociology, Urban -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811578618
• Related ISBNs: 9789811578601
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• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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