{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"Imagining a new—human and nonhuman—grammar of urban life.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3387,"description":"“There is always some moment when other-than-human life bursts into presence amid the clamor of urban routine.” —Maan Barua, Lively Cities\n\n\nOne of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. The book Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities, drawing attention to a suite of beings, human and nonhuman, that make up the material politics of city making. From macaques and cattle in Delhi to invasive parakeet colonies in London, author Maan Barua examines the rhythms, paths, and agency of nonhumans across the city. Barua is joined here in conversation with Sandra Jasper.\n\nMaan Barua is a university lecturer in human geography at the University of Cambridge.\n\nSandra Jasper, a geographer and urbanist, is assistant professor of geography and gender at Humboldt University of Berlin.\n\n\nReferences:\nMatthew Gandy\nTom Fry\nGarry Marvin\nVinciane Despret\nAnindya Sinha\nARCH+ exhibit Cohabitation: A Manifesto for the Solidarity of Non-Humans and Humans in Urban Space (https://archplus.net/de/cohabitation-EN/)\nYi-Fu Tuan\nDeleuze\nCharles Elton\nMarx\nLaura Fortunato\nSylvia Federici\n\nLively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology is available from University of Minnesota Press.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}