Growing Better Cities: Urban Agriculture For Sustainable Development by Luc J.A. Mougeot
8vo. pp. xix, 97. CD Rom in sleeve. paperback (near fine - front cover scuffed). Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, [2006].
ISBN-10: 1552502260 / ISBN-13: 9781552502266
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In his richly perceptive essay, Corboz takes to task previous European analyses of the American city which, he suggests, are little more than reflections of their own old-world bad faith. Using post-modern Los Angeles―the L.A. of contemporary cultural theorists Frederic Jameson and Mike Davis―as the terrain upon which his argument advances, he makes the case for a new city without a center yet united by what he sees as a typically American gregarious individualism.