Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book
Cities Made Differently opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth, science and imagination, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit--because we can, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true.
With inspired pictures and prompts,
Cities Made Differently asks what a city is, or could be, or once was. Sleeping at the bottom of the ocean? Buried in lava? What were those cities of long ago, and what will the cities of the future be? They might be virtual, ruled by AI, or islands of beautiful architecture afloat in seas of greenery. They might be utopian places of refuge or refugee camps as far as the eye can see. On land, underground or aloft, excavated or imagined, cities, this book tells us in provocative and funny ways, can be anything we want them to be--and what we want them to be can tell us something about who we are, what it is to be human, and what's possible when we make way for wonder.
Cities Made Differently exists in two versions, one for reading and thinking, the other, downloadable at a4kids.org, for drawing and dreaming.
這本書充滿了有趣的圖形、挑釁性的問題和好奇的事實，探討了什麼使一個城市成為城市，以及我們如何能以不同的方式來建造城市。
什麼使城市成為城市？誰來決定？這本令人愉悅且具挑釁性的書籍《Cities Made Differently》是經過數十年的對話而成，參與者包括藝術家兼作者Nika Dubrovsky、已故人類學家David Graeber，以及Nika當時四歲的兒子。這本書為創新和合作開闢了一個空間。融合了人類學、文學、遊戲和繪畫，這本書本質上是一篇視覺散文，邀請我們重新思考對城市及其居民的看法。Graeber和Dubrovsky將我們帶入歷史與神話、科學與想像的世界，邀請我們重新思考我們所居住的世界——因為我們可以，且沒有什麼是太奇怪或太美妙而不可能的。
透過靈感滿滿的圖片和提示，《Cities Made Differently》探討了城市是什麼，或可能是什麼，或曾經是什麼。沉睡在海洋底部？埋在熔岩中？那些遙遠的城市是什麼樣子，未來的城市又會是什麼？它們可能是虛擬的，由AI統治，或是漂浮在綠意盎然海洋中的美麗建築島嶼。它們可能是烏托邦式的避難所，或是眼前所見的難民營。在陸地上、地下或高空中，無論是挖掘出來的還是想像中的，這本書以挑釁且幽默的方式告訴我們，城市可以是我們想要的任何樣子——而我們想要的樣子可以告訴我們一些關於我們是誰、成為人類是什麼樣的，以及當我們為奇蹟讓路時，什麼是可能的。
《Cities Made Differently》有兩個版本，一個是用來閱讀和思考的，另一個可在a4kids.org下載，用來繪畫和做夢。
David Graeber (1961-2020) was an anthropologist, activist, and author of several bestselling books, including Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything. He was involved in the Global Justice Movement and Occupy Wall Street. His latest book was Pirate Enlightenment.
Nika Dubrovsky is an artist and writer who works in the style of the visual essays featured in the series of books "Made differently" and others. She is the founder of the David Graeber Institute and the editor of Graeber books.
大衛·格雷伯（David Graeber，1961-2020）是一位人類學家、活動家及多本暢銷書的作者，包括《債務：前五千年》、《廢物工作》和《一切的曙光》。他參與了全球正義運動和佔領華爾街運動。他的最新著作是《海盜啟蒙》。
尼卡·杜布羅夫斯基（Nika Dubrovsky）是一位藝術家和作家，作品風格類似於系列書籍《以不同方式製作》（Made differently）中的視覺散文。她是大衛·格雷伯研究所的創始人，也是格雷伯書籍的編輯。
