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An Address in Paris
After West African migrants arrived in France in the 1960s, the authorities opened residences for them known as “foyers.” Initially intended to contain the West African population, these hostels for single men fostered the emergence of Black communities in the heart of Paris and other cities. More recently, however, a nationwide renovation program sought to replace the collective living arrangements of foyers with more individualized spaces by constructing new buildings or drastically reshaping existing ones—and casting the West African presence as a threat to French identity. Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West ...
Henri Lefebvre on Space
Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.
Contemporary Co-housing in Europe
This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social, economic, political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising co-housing and related housing forms. With focus on Denmark, Sweden, Hamburg and Barcelona, the book presents general analyses of co-housing in these contexts and provides specific discussions of co-housing in relation to local government, urban activism, family life, spatial logics and socio-ecology. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a broad range of social-scientific fields concerned with housing, urban development and sustainability, as well as to planners, decision-makers and activists.
Laughing at Architecture
In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural and urban culture. Whether illuminating the ambivalences of metropolitan life or exposing the shock of modernisation, cartoons, caricature, and parody have long been potent agents of architectural criticism, protest and opposition. In a novel contribution to the field of architectural history, this book outlines a survey of visual and textual humour as applied to architecture, its artefacts and leading professionals. Employing a wide variety of visual and literary sources (prints, the illustrated press, advertisements, theatrical repre...
The Growing Trend of Living Small
This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds. Small spaces have become big business. Reducing the size of our homes, and the amount of stuff within them, is increasingly sold as a catch-all solution to the stresses of modern life and the need to reduce our carbon footprint. Shrinking living space is being repackaged in a neoliberal capitalist context as a lifestyle choice rather than the consequence of diminishing choice in the face of what has become a long-term housing ‘crisis’. What does this mean for how we live in the long term, and is there a dark side to the promise of a simpler, more sustainable home life? Shrinking Domesticities brings together research from across the social sciences, planning and architecture to explore these issues. From co-living developments to the Tiny House Movement, self-storage units to practices of ‘de-stuffification’, and drawing on examples from across Europe, North America and Australasia, the authors of this volume seek to understand both what micro-living is bringing to our societies, and what it may be eroding
L'empreinte des lieux culturels sur les territoires
Cet ouvrage collectif explore la question des relations entre institutions culturelles et territoires, et interroge les effets multidimensionnels des projets artistiques sur les sociétés et leurs espaces. Dans le prolongement d’un colloque venant clore une recherche-action consacrée à l’évaluation de l’empreinte civique de deux scènes nationales, il propose les contributions de praticiens, d’artistes et de chercheurs issus de disciplines variées (géographie, sociologie, gestion, information-communication, esthétique) qui observent, construisent et cherchent à évaluer les dynamiques sociospatiales associées aux lieux culturels. Il rend ainsi compte de la richesse des réflexions et des débats suscités par la recherche de nouveaux modèles culturels en réponse aux grands enjeux politiques, sociétaux et environnementaux contemporains.
Pratiques d'émancipation urbaine
L’émancipation ou plutôt les pratiques d’émancipation, ici et maintenant, dans les sociétés urbaines qui sont les nôtres, voilà ce que cet ouvrage voudrait exposer. L’enjeu n’est pas tant de montrer qu’un autre monde est possible, mais que cet « autre monde », ou ces autres mondes, relèvent de processus qui sont d’ores et déjà mis en œuvre, au quotidien, dans des territoires et contextes urbains variés, par des individus et des groupes eux-mêmes très divers. L’ouvrage donne à voir des pratiques qui échappent aux logiques classiques de la mobilisation politique, mais qui permettent néanmoins à ces acteurs de retrouver prise dans le monde et de recréer des marges de manœuvre. Souvent invisibilisées ou renvoyées au registre du banal ou de l’ordinaire, ces pratiques qui se jouent à bas bruit se révèlent émancipatrices.
Ville, espace, langage
Bien qu’il existe encore d’importantes différences selon les régions du monde, le taux d’urbanisation est partout à la hausse : le xxie siècle sera le siècle de l’urbanisation de la planète. Ville, espace, langage offre au lecteur un ensemble de textes écrits par des chercheurs en sciences du langage ou en sciences sociales qui ont comme point d’intérêt commun la ville. Certains s’intéressent aux apports antérieurs de la réflexion sur la ville, à la façon dont ils persistent, sont remis en cause ou se renouvellent dans les travaux plus récents. D’autres présentent des études de cas à partir des terrains différents, en abordant la ville par/dans ses manifestations multiples : la musique, la chanson, les dessins, les textes, les paysages ou les politiques linguistiques. Concevant la ville comme un espace physique, politique ou comme une construction sociale et subjective, les contributeurs mettent en lumière l’intrication du langage et de l’espace dans l’analyse de rapports de pouvoir, de tensions et d’inégalités sociales et politiques ou les aspects créatifs, voire revendicatifs du phénomène urbain.
Architecture for Housing
New fundamentals for designing future-oriented housing This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial antonyms: the individual and communal, the interior and exterior, and the determined and undetermined, to create a resource for future architectural practice. The book concentrates on design decisions and incorporates rich illustrations and conversations with architects and residents. It follows a series of talks curated by the Melbourne School of Design to extend the debate on the missing links between architectural practice and housing research. New fundamentals for designing future-oriented housing In-detail portraits of 14 impactful multi-unit dwelling projects by international architecture offices A rich set of illustrations created exclusively for this book
