{"product_id":"cities-made-differently-isbn-9780262549332","title":"Cities Made Differently","description":"\u003cb\u003eFull of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika’s then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book \u003ci\u003eCities Made Differently\u003c\/i\u003e opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth, science and imagination, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit—because we can, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith inspired pictures and prompts, \u003ci\u003eCities Made Differently\u003c\/i\u003e asks what a city is, or could be, or once was. Sleeping at the bottom of the ocean? Buried in lava? What were those cities of long ago, and what will the cities of the future be? They might be virtual, ruled by AI, or islands of beautiful architecture afloat in seas of greenery. They might be utopian places of refuge or refugee camps as far as the eye can see. On land, underground or aloft, excavated or imagined, cities, this book tells us in provocative and funny ways, can be anything we want them to be—and what we want them to be can tell us something about who we are, what it is to be human, and what’s possible when we make way for wonder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCities Made Differently\u003c\/i\u003e exists in two versions, one for reading and thinking, the other, downloadable at a4kids.org, for drawing and dreaming.1 Flying Сity\u003cbr\u003e2 The City that always sleeps\u003cbr\u003e3 City in the clouds\u003cbr\u003e4 A city of fighters: Citizens who are ever ready to attack and defend.\u003cbr\u003e5 City of freedom\u003cbr\u003e6 The City of Play\u003cbr\u003e7 City of greed\u003cbr\u003e8 City as a Family\u003cbr\u003e9 City in the desert\u003cbr\u003e12 Surveillance City\u003cbr\u003e13 Transparent City\u003cbr\u003e14 City of Masks\u003cbr\u003e15 Invisible City\u003cbr\u003e16 Priceless solitude\u003cbr\u003e18 Ghost town\u003cbr\u003e19 A city of runners\u003cbr\u003e20 Underground city\u003cbr\u003e21 City in the Ocean\u003cbr\u003e22 City of Punishment\u003cbr\u003e23 Trash city\u003cbr\u003e24 Noah’s ark\u003cbr\u003e25 Model city\u003cbr\u003e26 City Under Siege\u003cbr\u003e27 Sun City\u003cbr\u003e28 School City\u003cbr\u003e29 City of Care“An entertaining introduction to the conceptual common in contemporary architecture training. It encourages everyone, including children, to ask intelligent questions about where they live and how power is structured.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The four most terrifying words in the English language are ‘there is no alternative.’ There’s always an alternative, and Graeber and Dubrovsky prove it in this imagination-fueling tour of all the ways we do live, have lived, and \u003ci\u003emight\u003c\/i\u003e live. Dreaming is a truly subversive act, and this book will turn you into a revolutionary urbanist with your feet firmly planted in true history and your mind set free into the infinite universe of possible futures.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Cory Doctorow, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Internet Con\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Brother\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRed Team Blues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A mind-spinning exploration of the glorious, multidimensional spectrum of human imagination. This is one of those books you’ll want all your friends to read—it makes sci-fi look conservative.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Brian Eno\u003c\/b\u003eDavid Graeber (1961-2020) was an anthropologist, activist, and author of several bestselling books, including \u003ci\u003eDebt: The First 5,000 Years\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBullshit Jobs\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e. He was involved in the Global Justice Movement and Occupy Wall Street. His latest book was \u003ci\u003ePirate Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eNika Dubrovsky is an artist and writer who works in the style of the visual essays featured in the series of books \"Made differently\" and others. She is the founder of the David Graeber Institute and the editor of Graeber books.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304142754021,"sku":"NP9780262549332","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262549332.jpg?v=1767723752","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cities-made-differently-isbn-9780262549332","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}