UID:
almahu_9949419996902882
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 610 pages) :
,
illustrations (some color), maps.
ISBN:
9781003112464
,
1003112463
,
9781000774085
,
1000774082
,
1000774112
,
9781000774115
Series Statement:
Routledge international handbooks
Content:
"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"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Routledge handbook of architecture, urban space and politics New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9780367631932
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003112464
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003112464
