The Routledge handbook of architecture, urban space and politics. Volume I, Violence, spectacle and data / edited by Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bobic, Nikolina, editor.

Haghighi, Farzaneh, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Public spaces--Political aspects.

Public spaces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 610 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite of, or because of, the nexus between politics and space often being theorized as a representation or by-product of politics. As a symbol or an effect, the spatial dimension is depoliticized. Consequently architecture and the urban are halted from fostering any systematic change as they are secondary to the event, and therefore incapable of performing any political role. We can no longer afford to reduce space to a neutral backdrop of political realities. This project explores how architecture and urban space can unsettle the unquestioned construct of the spatial politics of governing. Considering both ongoing and unprecedented global problems - from violence and urban warfare, the refugee crisis, borderization, detention camps, terrorist attacks to capitalist urbanization, inequity, social unrest and climate change - this handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary research focussed on the complex nexus of politics, architecture and urban space. Volume I starts by pointing out the need to explore the politics of spatialization to make sense of the operational nature of spatial oppression in contemporary times. The operative and active political reading of space is disseminated through five thematics: Violence and War Machines; Security and Borders; Race, Identity and Ideology; Spectacle and the Screen; and, Mapping Landscapes and Big Data. This first volume of the handbook frame cutting-edge contemporary debates, and present studies of actual theories and projects that address spatial politics. This handbook provides comprehensive and multidisciplinary research focused on the complex nexus of politics, architecture and urban space"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Part I Introduction

Chapter 1 Spatialization of oppression: Contemporary politics of architecture and the urban

Part II Violence and war machines

Chapter 2 Introduction to violence and war machines

Chapter 3 The rise of zoöpolitics: On urbanism and warfare

Chapter 4 The 2015 Paris terrorist attack: A threat to urban life and territorial integrity

Chapter 5 Whose vision, which city?: Planning and unseeing in urban Asia

Chapter 6 Architecture as infrastructure: The spatial politics of extractivism

Chapter 7 Manus Prison: The brutality of offshore detention

Part III Security and borders

Chapter 8 Introduction to security and borders

Chapter 9 Dialogic dilemmas: Citizen participation in built environment alterations in Malmö, Sweden

Chapter 10 Regenerating Shanghai through urban spatial design?: The limits to experimentalism and participation

Chapter 11 The city and the camp: Destabilizing a spatial-political dichotomy

Chapter 12 Architectures of motion at the US-Mexico border

Chapter 13 Belfast's 'peace walls': How the politics and policy of 1969-1971 shaped the city's contemporary 'interface areas'

Part IV Race, identity and ideology

Chapter 14 Introduction to race, identity and ideology

Chapter 15 The space of labor: Racialization and ethnicization of Port Kembla, Australia

Chapter 16 The audit: Perils and possibilities for contesting oppression in the heritage landscape

Chapter 17 The persistent design-politics of race: Power and ideology in American public housing redevelopment

Chapter 18 The socialist past is a foreign country: Mass housing and uses of heritage in contemporary Eastern Europe.

Chapter 19 Collectivity and privacy in housing: Path dependencies and limited choices

Part V Spectacle and the screen

Chapter 20 Introduction to spectacle and the screen

Chapter 21 A 'crisis' of indeterminacy in the architectural photograph: Architectural spectacle and everyday life in the photography of Lacaton &amp

Vassal's Coutras House

Chapter 22 Mediated spectacles: Urban representation and far-right propaganda in crisis Athens

Chapter 23 Street protest and its representations: Urban dissidence in Iran

Chapter 24 Western fantasy and tropical nightmare: Spectacular architecture and urban warfare in Rio

Chapter 25 The political construction of Medellín's global image: Strategies of replacement, erasure and disconnection via urban and architectural interventions

Part VI Mapping landscapes and big data

Chapter 26 Introduction to mapping landscapes and big data

Chapter 27 The sociocultural construction of urban wasteland: Mapping of the Antwerp Southside

Chapter 28 Brownfields as climate colonialism: Land reuse and development divides

Chapter 29 The bomb, the circle and the drawing undone

Chapter 30 Infrastructures of urban simulation: Digital twins, virtual humans and synthetic populations

Chapter 31 Posthuman urbanism: Datafication, algorithmic governance and Covid-19

Part VII Conclusion

Chapter 32 Intermission: Critical mappings of spatial politics and aesthetics

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-311246-3

1-000-77408-2

1-003-11246-3

1-000-77411-2

9781003112464

OCLC:

1341399462