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At a time when more people are living in cities that are growing ever higher, and when the scale of buildings can resemble vast geologic, landscape formations, this book proposes ideas from the natural world as a means to explore these conditions. If modernity unleashed social, economic and technological forces capable of destabilising established understandings of ‘home’ and ‘nature’, at the same time it provided the conceptual apparatus to reinvent them. Far from leaving these disturbed categories in ruins, modernity fostered the means by which alienation and absence might become catalysts for change.
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Beattie, M., Kakalis, C., Ozga-Lawn, M. (2021). Mountains and Megastructures: Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour. In: Beattie, M., Kakalis, C., Ozga-Lawn, M. (eds) Mountains and Megastructures. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7110-7_1
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