Urbanization without cities

Urbanization Without Urbanization Book Description Today, we live in a world where human relations have begun to separate. The mind stands against the body, thought against matter, the individual against the community, urban areas against cities, cities against the countryside, and humanity against nature, which is seen as wild and difficult to regulate. The nation-state, which has the biggest share in our evolution to such a deprived point, has now taken on a totalitarian character. Politics has been separated from its urban and participatory essence and reduced to the state, and citizens have been neutralized by turning them into taxpayer voters. The once active citizen who had a say in social problems became increasingly inactive, his intellectual skills decreased, his indifference increased; It has started to show all its effectiveness in areas such as shopping, fashion, appearance and career. Neither the state nor its direct extensions, the political parties, have a direct connection with the people anymore. Cities, which witnessed the birth and development of the concept of democracy, have become a homogeneous, mechanical market where the greed for profit takes precedence over everything else in the process of urbanization created by the nation-state. Folk culture has become synthetic; In human relations, marriage has become an investment, child rearing has become a business, life has become a balance sheet, ideals have become purchasable, and settlements have become businesses. It brings into question a local government program against urbanization approaches that strengthen the nation-state by destroying natural life and human communities. Restructuring local government institutions so that they can work in harmony with each other; creativity, which includes solidarity in human relations; local governments based politically on the confederation system instead of the nation-state; establishing a new participatory, non-hierarchical relationship between humanity and nature; It talks about the reconstruction of the city as a new type of ethical unity, the only source of civic culture with a participatory and ecological decision system where the individual is strengthened on a human scale... (From the Promotional Bulletin) Number of Pages: 456Print Year: 2014Language: TurkishPublisher: Sümer Yayıncılık