Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.

Chapter 1: An uncommon humanity
Part I: Cities
Chapter 2: The Urban World
Part II: Life
Chapter 3: Thinking Animals
Chapter 4: Animals Thinking
Part III: Death
Chapter 5: The Animal City
Chapter 6: The City of Surplus Death
Chapter 7: Not Meat but Still Dead
Chapter 8: But Some Animals Do Adapt to the City
Part IV: A New Settlement
Chapter 9: Dreaming More Human Cities 1
Chapter 10: Dreaming More Human Cities 2
Chapter 11: There is Another World but It Is This One
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