Deleuze and the City - Paperback

by Hélène Frichot (Editor), Catharina Gabrielsson (Editor), Jonathan Metzger (Editor)

Defining the lives of a majority of the world's population, the question of 'the city' has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time - uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute 'the city' today. Case studies range from the 'laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a 'sustainable' Swedish shopping mall to the 'urbicidal' refurbishments of Haifa.

Front Jacket

Author approved Add endorsement Dispels the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can do Defining the livelihood of a majority of the world's population, the question of 'the city' has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time - uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute 'the city' today. Dispelling the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can do, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the 'laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort to a 'sustainable' Swedish shopping mall. Hélène Frichot is Associate Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture. Catharina Gabrielsson is Assistant Professor in Urban Theory and Jonathan Metzger is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Studies. They are all based at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden.

Author Biography

Hélène Frichot is Assistant Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden. She has co-curated the Architecture+Philosophy public lecture series in Melbourne, Australia (http: //architecture.testpattern.com.au) since 2005. Between 2004-2011 she held an academic position in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. While her first discipline is architecture, she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney (2004).

Catharina Gabrielsson is Assistant Professor in Urban Theory at the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm. She has published extensively on architecture, art and urban issues, with some of her work appearing in Field/Work (Routledge, 2010), Curating Architecture and the City (Routledge, 2009) and Deleuze and Architecture (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

Jonathan Metzger is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Studies at the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm. He is co-editor of Planning Against the Political (Routledge, 2014) and Sustainable Stockholm: Exploring Urban Sustainability in Europe's Greenest City (Routledge, 2013).