Nigel Thrift's strictures against reading technological change and the emergence of information space as evidence for increased urban dehumanisation are well founded. Throughout the Modern period, distrust of the performative aspects of urban life has characterised puritan criticism and is...

Recent claims that the environmentalist thinking and politics that dominated the last years of the past century were based on outmoded, ‘Modernist’ categories jibe with academic criticism of dualistic thinking about ‘culture’ and ‘nature’, and with attempts to acknowledge the roles...