Seeing like a state how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
Publication details: 1998 New Haven & London Yale Uni. PressDescription: xiv,445,ipISBN:- 9780300078152
- 301 SCO
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CONTENTS
Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification 9
Chapter 1. Nature and Space 11
Chapter 2. Cities, People, and Language 53
Part 2. Transforming Visions 85
Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism 87
Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a 103
Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis 147
Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production 181
Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams 193
Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization 223
Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity 262
Part 4. The Missing Link 307
Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis 309
Chapter 10. Conclusion 342
Notes 359
Sources for Illustrations 433
Index 435
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