An edition of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)

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An edition of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)

Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)

New Ed edition

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  • 5 Currently reading
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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.

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Yale University Press
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Subjects
Central planning, Social engineering, Social aspects of Central planning, Social aspects, Authoritarianism, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Economic assistance, domestic, Social problems, Human services, State, the, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Government & Business, Development, Economic Development, Business Development, Structural Adjustment, General, Pays en développement, Pays de l'Est, Economie dirigée, Régimes totalitaires, Aspects sociaux, Autoritarisme, Planeconomie, Utopieën, Maatschappijverbetering, PLANEJAMENTO ECONÔMICO (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS), AUTORITARISMO (SISTEMAS DE GOVERNO), ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL E SOCIAL, PLANEJAMENTO TERRITORIAL (AVALIAÇÃO), Planification économique, Aspect social, Ingénierie sociale
People
V. I. Lenin, Jules Nyerere, Le Corbusier, Baron Haussmann
Places
Tanzania, Soviet Russia, Brasilia

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First Sentence

"Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Page ix
Introduction. Page 1 Part 1. STATE PROJECTS OF LEGIBILITY AND SIMPLIFICATION Page 9 Chapter 1. Nature and Space Page 11 Chapter 2. Cities, People, and Language Page 53 Part 2. TRANSFORMING VISIONS Page 85 Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism Page 87 Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique Page 103 Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis Page 147 Part 3. THE SOCIAL ENGINEERING OF RURAL SETTLEMENT AND PRODUCTION Page 181 Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams Page 193 Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization Page 223 Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity Page 262 PART 4. THE MISSING LINK Page 307 Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Métis Page 309 Chapter 10. Conclusion Page 342 Notes. Page 359 Sources for Illustrations. Page 433 Index. Page 435

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HD87.5.S365 1998

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Number of pages
464
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9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
Weight
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9780300078152
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