Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Remaking: the project of metrofitting -- Repair and metrofitting -- Environmental impacts -- Contexts: time, space, image -- Perspectives -- Change and a return to metrofitting -- PART ONE Contexts of Change The Limits of How We See Cities Today -- 1 Cities now -- Seeing the city -- The fate of cities: seeing dangers -- Danger and uncertain futures -- City of fear -- 2 Understanding the city as a designing event -- The event -- Ungrounding the event of the city -- Unsettlement returns -- Thinking towards a metabolic event -- Metrofitting, metabolism and event -- 3 What designs a city? -- Design in a context of failed foresight -- The top ten -- So what has really designed the city? -- Beyond history: what will now design the city? -- Metrofitting: the space is everywhere -- Ontological space -- Metrofitting spaced -- 4 The city, humanity and time -- In the first place there was Uruk -- Colonial cities, the colonial matrix and the future -- Space, power and the colonial city -- Metrofitting: a reconnecting -- 5 Urban imperatives in the face of change -- Megaregions: the inside and the outside -- Megacities -- Questions of fear, questions of defence -- The megacity battleground in the age of unwinnable wars -- The geopolitical drift -- 6 New imaginaries and the city -- There is something wrong out there! -- Buildings as image -- Where can thinkers of imagination take us now? -- Imagination, imaginaries and the city -- 7 Other worlds are coming -- Destruction -- Protection in the face of destruction -- A conviviality: rediscovery and recreation -- 8 Post-sustainability -- The education of education -- The future, the Sustainment, culture -- The Sustainment and the future of cities -- PART TWO Contexts of Action.

9 Metrofitting: Take two -- Framings -- The 'hard' edge: metrofitting and the instrumental perspective -- The 'soft' edge: metrofitting, culture and perception -- 10 Metrofitting, thinking otherwise and a new foundation of change -- On design -- Practice and the agency of the visible invisible -- Bourdieu, technology and habitus -- Metrofitting, habitus and time -- 11 Unlearning and learning -- Learning in the shadow of teaching -- Anthropocentrism: learning for unlearning -- Breaking out of striated space and the borderlands -- 12 Metrofitting and the de-signing of design -- Ontological design -- Design in time: a developed reiteration -- Elimination by design7 -- Design intelligence8 -- Convergence -- Technological unthinking -- 13 Metrofitting and urban design fictions -- Prospects and possibilities -- Against utopias/dystopias -- Seeing cities, design and fiction -- The city, being and time -- Design fiction and the imperatives -- Frames of fictions -- Fictions, writing and remaking -- 14 Space, time, dwelling and movement -- The re-marking of space and ways it is understood -- Reconfigured notions of 'the event' of space and the city -- Matter in time -- Time, city and world -- 15 Metrofitting and being in the city -- Being in the City -- PART THREE Introduction to the Case Studies -- 16 Cincinnati case study -- Introducing Cincinnati -- Why Cincinnati? -- Understanding local contextual complexity -- The workshop -- Final focus of the event: what is resilience? -- On reflection: what was learnt at the workshop? -- Appendix -- 17 New Cairo case study -- New Cairo in context -- Forces of change -- Introducing New Cairo -- Of place -- Traffic without enforced law, transport and the people -- The women, the young and the old -- What is broken? -- New Cairo and metrofitting -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

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