Titlebook: Urban Awakenings; Disturbance and Ench Samuel Alexander,Brendan Gleeson Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under ex

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Sisyphus in the Suburbs: Pushing the Rockof the city’s reach), we reflect gratefully on the activists who had fought to keep the Upfield train line open, a reminder of how cities are saturated with untold histories that are responsible for giving form to the urban landscape and shaping those who pass through them.

Climate

Virtually Tramping Through Post-Normal Timestate of Victoria, exemplified by our first, overly cautious AC saunter through the pixelated woods of ., where the only risk of virus is from some dodgy malware. We soon realise, however, that we have no business being in the woods while our thoughts are in the city.

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Cold Lazarus: Death in the Liveable City (Part II)series ‘Cold Lazarus’ comes to mind. In these frozen ‘urban heads’, we witness frightful scenes which remind us that capital will stop at nothing, even the estates of the dead, to pursue its growth ambitions.

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A Disturbed Book: Bubbles Under the Throne,ty, in this case the metropolis of Melbourne, capital of the State of Victoria, Australia. As outlined in this opening chapter, we were inspired by the thesis presented in Jane Bennett’s book, .. We wanted to apply and extend her analysis to the urban landscape, by walking the city with eyes open to

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The Gentle Art of Urban Trampingf material—that is, .—investigations of our home city Melbourne. A methodology detailed in this chapter, we crafted an idea of ourselves as ‘urban tramps’ who might attempt this critical inquiry. The tramps were to be . of the city, encumbered only with the duty to look through the mindless objectiv

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The ‘New World’ Is Old: Journeying Through Deep Time-boggling depth of Australia’s human history. This is a reminder that the so-called new world cities, like Melbourne, are situated on ancient ground and in relation to ancient cultures. Here we are, the uncivilised children of the industrial order, barely three hundred years old, having driven the w

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Descent Pathways in a City of Goldr ‘city of gold’ from the 88th floor. It is one thing to know facts about fossil fuel consumption. It is quite another to be struck down by an awesome view of an infernal urban landscape, reaching out to the horizons, with the distant representation of its glowing energy services at once beautiful a