Explore the transformative urban landscape with 'Improvised Lives', a thought-provoking book by AbdouMaliq Simone. This brand new edition (ISBN: 9781509523368) published by John Wiley & Sons (UK) in 2018 delves deep into the complex lives of poor and working people in Southern cities. Rather than viewing urban areas as mere spaces of residence, Simone invites readers to understand them as vibrant ecosystems where unforeseen alliances form among diverse individuals and objects. As you navigate through its 120 pages, you'll uncover how these popular districts harbor hidden operations that thrive beneath the surface, fostering an urban sensorium alive with creativity and resilience. This compelling narrative highlights the continuous transformations that encapsulate the endurance of these communities, revealing how they adapt and strive for connectivity amidst societal challenges. Embrace the narrative of survival and aspiration that defines urban life and gain insight into the rhythms that shape our cities. This product ships free, and delivery may take up to 6 weeks. Once your order is confirmed, please note that it cannot be canceled.

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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781509523368
Year: 2018
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 120


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The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in more expansive ways that capture what really goes on within them? In such cities, popular districts are the settings of more uncertain operations that take place under the cover of darkness, generating uncanny alliances among disparate bodies, materials and things and expanding the urban sensorium and its capacities for liveliness.


In this important new book AbdouMaliq Simone explores the nature of these alliances, portraying urban districts as sites of enduring transformations through rhythms that mediate between the needs of residents not to draw too much attention to themselves and their aspirations to become a small niche of exception. Here we discover an urban South that exists as dense rhythms of endurance that turn out to be vital for survival, connectivity, and becoming.