Sisyphus in the Suburbs: Pushing the Rock
Our final excursion before-COVID is in Upfield, where we push a Sispyphian rock around the suburbs, up its dark mountain of carbon-based culture, infrastructure, and underlying political economy, only to watch the rock fall down the other side. We are tol
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Urban Awakenings
Samuel Alexander · Brendan Gleeson
Urban Awakenings Disturbance and Enchantment in the Industrial City
Samuel Alexander Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute University of Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Brendan Gleeson Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute University of Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-981-15-7860-1 ISBN 978-981-15-7861-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7861-8
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Contents
1
A Disturbed Book: Bubbles Under the Throne
Part I
1
Sleepers, Wake!
2
Unsettling the Story of Disenchantment
13
3
The Gentle Art of Urban Tramping
31
Part II 4
BC (Before-COVID)
The ‘New World’ Is Old: Journeying Through Deep Time
47
5
Descent Pathways in a City of Gold
57
6
Adrift in the Devil’s Playground
67
7
Grave Matters: Death in the Liveable City (Part I)
77
8
Cold Lazarus: Death in the Liveable City (Part II)
85 v
vi
Contents
9
Walking the Corridors of Consumption
10
A Riverside Ramble to the Last Hotel: Lostworlders Welcome
105
Guardians of Gandolfo Gardens
115
11
93
12 Tramping Against Extinction: Counter-Friction to the Machine
127
13 The Monumental Army that Marches on the Spot
137
14
147
Sisyphus in the Suburbs: Pushing the Rock
Part III
AC (After-COVID)
15 Virtually Tramping Through Post-Normal Times
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