Many norths : spatial practice in a polar territory / Lateral Office, Lola Sheppard, & Mason White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheppard, Lola, 1972- author.

White, Mason, author.

Contributor:

Lateral Office (Firm), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Canada, Northern.

Architecture.

Urbanization--Canada, Northern.

Urbanization.

Natural resources--Canada, Northern.

Natural resources.

Architecture--Arctic regions.

Arctic Regions.

Natural resources--Arctic regions.

Research.

Canada, Northern.

Northern Canada.

Canada, Northern--Maps.

Arctic regions.

Arctic regions--Maps.

Arctic regions--Research.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

xii, 471 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

Next North charts unique, often surreal spatial realities of Canada's arctic regions, documenting the geospatial, infrastructural, techno-cultural, and architectural innovations that have enabled modern life in this territory of climatic and cultural extremes. It is a region where the reality of daily life is often stranger and more extraordinary than any fiction one could envision. This unprecedented book documents the region through five themes: settlements, architecture, mobility, monitoring, and resources. Next North reveals the challenges and opportunities of building, mobility, and culture in the dispersed communities of the Canadian North, and speculates the emergence of a contemporary northern, or arctic, vernacular. Next North offers a unique look at Canada's "many norths," uncovering the compelling story of northern inhabitation and cultural adaptation through architecture, landscape, and infrastructure development over the past 100 years.

Contents:

The (new) idea of North(s)

Urbanism : Urbanism timeline ; Urbanism below zero ; Transition and assimilation / Frank Tester

Migration and permanence ; Inuit diaspora ; Wasting space / Jack Kobayashi ; Built form and land form ; Growth of a city ; Utility of the north / Peter Clarkson ; Utility infrastructure ; Snow fences

Architecture : Architecture timeline ; Impermanence: building at an edge ; Constructing communities / Harold Strub ; Inuit architecture ; Government housing ; Fabricating a northern vernacular / Guy Gérin-Lajoie ; Climatic factors ; Nakasuk School ; Beauty and constraints / Gino Pin ; Foundations ; East Three School

Mobility : Mobility timeline ; Connectivity and diffusion ; Wayfinding on the land / Claudio Aporta ; Inuit navigation and trails ; Dempster Highway ; Shipping logistics / Thomas Paterson ; Deep-sea ports ; Sealifting ; Making a winter road / Tim Tattrie ; Winter roads ; Aerial connectivity

Monitoring : Monitoring timeline ; Monitoring the remote ; Space of sovereignty / Shelagh Grant ; Sea ice ; DEW line ; Agency in high Arctic modernization / P. Whitney Lackenbauer ; Northern patrolling ; Search and rescue ; Observing the North / David J. Scott ; Hight Arctic research ; Mars simulation

Resources : Resources timeline ; Surface and subsurface ; Hunting big food / Charlie Qumuatuq ; Bowhead whale hunt ; Icebergs ; Under the ice / Aloupa Kulula ; Mussel harvest ; Fur trade ; In-town resources / Jim R. Brown ; Gold rush ; Extraction

Technology index : From Aircraft to Wooden posts.

Notes:

Technology index: pages 462-471.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781940291314

1940291313

OCLC:

993009435