Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
c1998.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Nature and space
- 2. Cities, people, and language
- 3. Authoritarian high modernism
- 4. The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique
- 5. The revolutionary party : a plan and a diagnosis
- 6. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams
- 7. Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization
- 8. Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity
- 9. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : mētis
- 10. Conclusion.