Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed 0300070160, 0300078153, 9780300070163, 9780300078152
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusiers urban planning theory realized in Bras
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification
Chapter 1. Nature and Space
Chapter 2. Cities, People, and Language
Part 2. Transforming Visions
Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism
Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique
Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis
Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production
Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams
Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization
Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity
Part 4. The Missing Link
Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis
Chapter 10. Conclusion
Notes
Sources for Illustrations
Index
