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Architecture in Times of Multiple Crises
Under the premise that architecture makes life ›better‹, architecture is often presented as the ›solution‹ to social problems, made ›green‹ when promising sustainable futures, or fetishised as a cultural object for the creation of urban identities. Yet, what is it exactly that links architecture so closely to the pursuit of a good life? How is this link interrelated with crisis and crisis thinking? To what extent do belief systems in architecture influence its capacity to deal with crises? Carolina Crijns not only explores the transformative potential in radically rethinking architecture's central concepts but introduces a method of utopian speculation for practices ambitious of social change. With a preface by Sabine Knierbein.
Care and the City
Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and practices. This book provides a pathway for urban scholars to start engaging with approaches to conceptualize care in the city through a critical-reflexive analysis of processes of urbanization. It pursues a systematic integration of empirical, methodological, theoretical, and ethical approaches to...
City Unsilenced
What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the implications of urban resistance for the remaking of public space in the "age of shrinking democracy"? To what extent do these resistances move from anti- to alter-politics? City Unsilenced brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and scholar-activists to examine the spaces, conditions, and processes in which neoliberal practices have profoundly impacted the everyday social, economic, and political life of citizens and communities around the globe. They explore the commonalities and specificities of urban resistance movements that resp...
Unsettled Urban Space
While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis. The analytical prism of unsettled renders urban space an indeterminate ground unfolding through routines, temporalities and contestations in constant tension between settling and unsettling. Such contrasting experiences are contingent on how urban soci...
Public Space Unbound
Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space. This suggests democracy is a spatial practice rather than an abstract professional field organized by institutions, politicians and movements. Public Space Unbound brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to examine spaces, conditions and circumstances in which emancipatory practices impact the everyday life of citizens. We ask: How do emancipatory practices relate with public space under ‘post-political conditions’? In a time when democracy, solidarity and utopias are in crisis, we argue that productive emancipatory claims already exist in the lived space of everyday life rather than in the expectation of urban revolution and future progress.
Public Space Reader
Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism, public uprising, and political protest have brought back democratic values, beliefs, and practices that have been historically associated with cities. Given the aggressive commodification of public re- sources, public space is critically important due to its capacity to enable forms of public dis- course and social practice which are fundamental for the well-being of democratic societies. Public Space Reader brings together public space scholarship by a cross-disciplinary group of academics and specialists whose essays consider fundamental questions: What is public space and how does it manifest larger cultural, social, an...
The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II
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...
Öffentlicher Raum!
Demokratie und soziale Teilhabe können nur gelingen, wenn wir öffentliche Räume neu entdecken und beleben. Dabei geht es neben Plätzen und Parks um all jene Räume, in denen Begegnung und Integration stattfindet: analoge Räume wie Kitas, Schulen, Bibliotheken, Sportplätze oder Eckkneipen und digitale Räume wie die sozialen Medien. Das Buch liefert Ansätze für eine neue Strategie der öffentlichen Räume. Es sucht nach Auswegen aus der gesellschaftlichen Segregation in Stadt und Land, in der Digitalisierung, in der Bildung und in den ästhetischen Räumen von Kunst und Sport. Denn ohne funktionierende öffentliche Räume kann eine sozial durchlässige Gesellschaft nicht gelingen! Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Heinz Bude, Marius R. Busemeyer, Sabine Meier, Barbara Thomaß, Michael Thöne und Gesa Ziemer.
Cohabitons !
La Californie en feu, l’Andalousie asséchée, un système urbain dont on réalise la vulnérabilité lors de l’épidémie de Covid… Les signes d’une crise d’habitabilité de la Terre se multiplient. Les modes de consommation mondialisés et les actes des « géopouvoirs » prédateurs en sont des causes évidentes. Comment dès lors habiter autrement ? Le géographe Michel Lussault réexamine cette question que l’anthropocène oblige à penser de façon nouvelle. À rebours des fantasmes de retour « à la nature », il prend acte des effets de l’urbanisation généralisée, qui rend les espaces de vie interdépendants. Toute recherche d’autonomie est donc aujourd’hui une ...
