Hybrid cities
Vernacular ecologies in/for a convivial city: lessons from Bristol (pdf)
Sarah Whatmore, Monica Degen, Steve Hinchliffe and Matthew Kearnes
This article critically investigates the practices and politics of everyday urban life, specifically with the intent of drawing out a sense of collectivity - or what the authors call conviviality - between humans and non-humans. In “working towards more-than-human accounts of the everyday attachments and practices of city living” the authors investigate the people, things and practices that make up Royale Hill, or the performance of place, in inner-city Bristol. In doing so, they diagram (in the Deleuzian sense) vernacular ecologies, “space-times of everyday life co-fabricated between human and nonhuman practices and pathways” and the politics of conviviality, or “civic attachments and identities performed through associational activities of diverse city inhabitants.”
Really good stuff.
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Great post on hybrids. Check out our hybrid page when you get the chance http://www.thecarconnection.com/style/green