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How to Hijack Cities

Emanuele Coccia

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Intensification
October 2025










Notes
1

Martin Mittelmeier, Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory, trans. Shelley Frisch (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024).

2

Alfred Sohn-Rethel, “Das Ideal des Kaputten. Über neapolitanische Technik,” in Frankfurter Zeitung vom Sonntag, March 21, 1926. Author’s translation.

3

Sohn-Rethel, “Das Ideal des Kaputten.”

4

Sohn-Rethel, “Das Ideal des Kaputten.”

5

Claude Lévi-Strauss, La Pensée sauvage {The Savage Mind} (Paris: Plon, 1960), 27. Author’s translation.

6

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, A Moratorium on New Construction (London: Sternberg Press, 2025); Houseeurope! website, .

7

Christian Hiller et al., eds., The Great Repair: Politics for a Society of Repair-A Reader (Leipzig, Germany: ARCH+ and Spector Books, 2023).

8

Robert Pogue Harrison stresses the fact that the word is a “juridical term referring to land that had been placed off limits by a royal decree,” in Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 69.

9

Vere Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself (London: Watts and Co., 1936). For an overview of historical and anthropological studies on the origins of agriculture, see: Charles A. Reed, ed., Origins of Agriculture (The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1977); David R. Harris, ed., The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996); Graeme Barker and Candice Goucher, eds., The Cambridge World History, Volume 2: A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE–500 CE (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

10

Jules de Gaultier, Le Bovarysme: la psychologie dans l’œuvre de Flaubert {Bovarysme: Psychology in Flaubert's Work} (Paris: Mercure de France, 1902).

11

Paul Shepard, The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998), 33.

12

James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), 91.

13

Michael J. Heckenberger, “Pre-Columbian Urbanism, Anthropogenic Landscapes, and the Future of the Amazon.” Science 321, no. 5893 (2008): 1214–17.

14

Stéphen Rostain et al., “Two Thousand Years of Garden Urbanism in the Upper Amazon.” Science 383 (2024): 183–89.

15

Eduardo Góes Neves, Sob os tempos do equinócio: oito mil anos de história na Amazônia central {Under the Times of the Equinox: Eight Thousand Years of Central Amazonian History} (São Paulo: Ubu Editora and Edusp, 2022).

16

Darrell Addison Posey “Indigenous Management of Tropical Forest Ecosystems: The Case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon.” Agroforestry Systems 3 (1985): 139–58.

17

See, for example: Clark L. Erickson, “An Artificial Landscape-Scale Fishery in the Bolivian Amazon,” Nature 408 (2000): 190–93; Laura Rival, “Domesticating the Landscape, Producing Crops and Reproducing Society in Amazonia,” in Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 232–78; Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, “Landscaping, Landscape Legacies, and Landesque Capital in Pre-Columbian Amazonia,” in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology, ed. Christian Isendahl and Daryl Stump, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 91–109; Carolina Levis et al., “How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests,” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5, art. 171 (2018).

18

Stephen Budiansky, The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1992); Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, The Process of Animal Domestication (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022).

19

Sánchez-Villagra, The Process of Animal Domestication, 1–2.

20

Clark L. Erickson, “An Artificial Landscape-Scale Fishery in the Bolivian Amazon,” Nature 408 (2000): 193.

21

Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, trans. Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982).

22

Jeanne Gang, The Art of Architectural Grafting (Zurich: Park Books, 2024).

23

Udo Weilacher, Syntax of Landscape. The Landscape Architecture of Peter Latz and Partner (Basel: Birkhäuser 2008), 80.

24

Frédéric Migayrou, ed., L’Enjeu capital(es): Les métropoles de la grande échelle {L'Enjeu Capital(es): Large Scale Metropolis} (Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2009).

25

Angelo Renna, “Andrea Branzi: bringing animals at the centre of the urban project,” Domus, May 31, 2018, .







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