And while there are urgent problems facing the city, the intersection between architecture and anthropology is not where we find solutions, but possibility. At one important juncture – the boundary between architecture and anthropology – we find hybrid forms of investigation, documentation, and representation that encourage humanist urban study. The practices of urban scholars productively gravitate toward ways of thinking together that are as undisciplined as their object. Because the city is undisciplined, it calls for creative practices among unlikely collaborators who not only interpret the past and analyze contemporary circumstances, but, as I will argue, operate with an imperative to speculate about the future. It condemns us to work together.ĢThis essay considers the particular ways in which the city can serve as an object of scholarly investigation. It is a cultural formation, warranting attention from anthropologists along with many others: architects, planners, filmmakers, novelists, artists, philosophers, economists, and sociologists. As such, the city is an object of study, site of practice, material artifact of power, and locus of the imaginary. 1 This definition is drawn from several sources that include Aureli, 2016 Hajer, Reijndorp, 2001 B (.)ġThe city is the political terrain of our collective lives, where we live in geographic proximity to people unlike ourselves, negotiating the varied understandings that comprise our coexistence 1.
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