Proposing a renovation of the metaphor of the urban fabric, Interwoven Cities develops an analysis of how cities might be woven into alternative patterns, to better sustain social and ecological life.

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Western Sydney University, Australia

Liam Magee

About the author

Liam Magee is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His previous publications include Towards A Semantic Web (with W. Cope and M. Kalantzis, 2011), examining the organization of knowledge in an era of linked data and computational reasoning.

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Book Title: Interwoven Cities
Authors: Liam Magee
Series Title: Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137546166
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54615-9Published: 05 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54616-6Published: 09 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3459
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3467
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 156
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Social Policy, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Studies/Sociology, Administrative Law

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Threads

Frictions in the Urban Fabric

Spreading Out the Fabric: Urban, Rural, Global

Upholding the Urban Fabric

Refabricating the City

Sensing the Urban Fabric

Conclusion: Reweaving the Global Urban Fabric

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