Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is an attempt to navigate out of this mess of planned and unplanned violence towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers but become aligned with the lives of other beings. It offers pragmatic ways of dimin...
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Chapter 1: An uncommon humanity
Part I: Cities
Chapter 2: The Urban World
Part II: Life
Chapter 3: Thinking Animals
Chapter 4: Animals Thinking
Part III: Death
Chapter 5: T...
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Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the Univer...
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