The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities

Nikolina Bobic (Editor), Farzaneh Haghighi (Editor), Sabine Knierbein, Iain Borden, Gerhard Bruyns, Stavros Kousoulas, Peggy Deamer, Javier Arbona-Homar, Julie Sze, Hans Pruijt, Andres Kurg, Andrew Ballantyne, Stephen Loo, Chris L. Smith, Simon Weir, Niko Tiliopoulos, Jane Rendell, Yael Padan, David Roberts, Ariana MarkowitzEmmanuel Osuteye, Abdoumaliq Simone, Daniel Ryan, Mimi Sheller, C. Greig Crysler, Yanin Kramsky, Chandra M. Laborde, Stathis G. Yeros, Sabine Lettmann, Sarah Breen Lovett, Cathy Fitzgerald, Harrison Gardner, Duncan Maxwell, Nikos Patedakis, Cathy Smith, Lucy Weir, Rachel Armstrong, Christopher Tweed, Joanne Patterson, Stavros Stavrides, Tom Critchley, Jakub Novotný, Mark Hammond, Christopher Phillipson, Scott Burnett, Aylwyn M. Walsh, Loren Adams, Pablo Sendra, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Albert L. Refiti, Rau Hoskins, Tina Engels Schwarzpaul, Murray Fraser, Kavita Gonsalves, Marcus Foth, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Nishat Naz Awan, Makau Kitata, Kenny Cupers, Kim Trogal, Anna Wakeford Holder, Mark R. O. Olweny, Dagmar Reinhardt

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Abstract

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. The first volume of this handbook extensively explored these oppressive roles. This second volume illustrates that escaping the corporatized and bureaucratized orders of power, techno-managerial and consumer-oriented capitalist economic models is more urgent and necessary than ever before. Herein lies the political role of architecture and urban space, including the ways through which they can be transformed and alternative political realities constituted. The volume explores the methods and spatial practices required to activate the political dimension and the possibility for alternative practices to operate in the existing oppressive systems while not being swallowed by these structures. Fostering new political consciousness is explored in terms of the following themes: Events and Dissidence; Biopolitics, Ethics and Desire; Climate and Ecology; Urban Commons and Social Participation; Marginalities and Postcolonialism. Volume II embraces engagement across disciplines and offers a wide range of projects and critical analyses across the so-called Global North and South. This multidisciplinary collection of 36 chapters provides the reader with an extensive resource of case studies and ways of thinking for architecture and urban space to become more emancipatory.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages700
ISBN (Print)9780367629182
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2024

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