Seeing Like a City means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors.
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It is the machine-Like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city.
Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures.
Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone.
Seeing Like a City means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors