TY - BOOK AU - Barua,Maan TI - Lively cities: reconfiguring urban ecology SN - 9781517912567 (pbk.) U1 - 307.126 BAR 23 PY - 2023/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - City planning KW - Social ecology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; A Minor Ecology of Infrastructure -- The Politics of Commensality -- Lively Capital and Recombinant Urbanisms -- The Micropolitics of Ferality -- Pastoral Formations -- Surplus Ecologies N2 - "Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities-human and nonhuman-that make up the material politics of city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, Barua reveals how these actors shape, integrate, subsume, and relate to urban space in fascinating ways"-- ER -