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Heterotopia and the City
Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. Heterotopia and the City seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets. With theoretical contributions on the concept of hete...
Ruralités post-carbone
L'évolution du fonctionnement de notre système social et économique vers la production d'énergie décarbonée constitue aujourd'hui un enjeu d'ampleur planétaire. Il concerne autant les populations urbaines que rurales, imposant ainsi une réflexion globale sur les relations qu'entretiennent nos établissements humains avec les ressources renouvelables du territoire. Cet ouvrage explore les modalités de transition vers un modèle énergétique, dans lequel la recomposition des rapports entre ressource et territoires laisse entrevoir un nouveau rôle pour les espaces ruraux, lieu de nouvelles alliances humaines et économique. Sur la base de travaux d'acteurs territoriaux, de concepteur...
Cross-Cultural Urban Design
Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice? explores how urban design has responded to recent trends towards global standardisation. Following analysis of its practice in the local domain, the book looks at how urban planning and design should be repositioned for the future. It looks at:population movement urb
Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore
This book analyses and provides an insight to Singapore’s planning system and practices associated with sustainable development. It takes a reflective approach in reviewing the direction, impact and significance of sustainable development in Singapore planning and the future challenges facing the city-state, which is often looked upon by many developing countries as a model.
Architecture for a Free Subjectivity
Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them. For Deleuze and his Lacanian collaborator Félix Guattari, subjectivity does not refer to a person, but to the potential for and event of matter becoming subject, and the myriad ways for this to take place. By extension, this book theorizes architecture as a self-actuating or creative agency for the liberation of purely "impersonal effects." Imagine a chemical reaction, a riot in the banlieues, indeed a walk through a city. Simone Brott declares that the architectural...
Ruralities in action and empowerment
« Les territoires ruraux connaissent un foisonnement d'initiatives citoyennes qui, toutes, explorent de nouveaux modes de décision et d'action. Cet ouvrage vient interroger les formes de pouvoir d'agir produites par ces initiatives, et leur capacité à faire émerger de nouvelles territorialités. La question de la transition est ici posée par le changement de modèle qu'incarnent ces modes d'action, à partir d'expériences situées, en France, au Japon et en Amérique latine. Les diverses conditions de mise en œuvre de ces initiatives font émerger trois figures du pouvoir d'agir); elles sont identifiées en termes de résistance, d'expertise et de coopération avec les acteurs locaux...
The Mistaken Wife
Heroic spy Mary Finch returns once again as she takes on the dangerous task of secretly traveling to Paris to interrupt Franco-American negotiations in this thrilling historical fiction from Rose Melikan. It is the autumn of 1797. The war between the British and the French is being fought not just openly but also in secret by a network of spies. Reluctant heiress Mary Finch is no stranger to adventure, but even she hesitates before accepting this assignment: to travel secretly to Paris and disrupt vital Franco-American negotiations. She must rely wholly upon a stranger while deceiving her "dearest friend," Captain Robert Holland. Once in France, Mary’s safety rests on a knife-edge, and her colleague has secrets of his own. Undaunted, she sets about her task with wit, stealth, and determination. But she is not the only spy in Paris, and there is more than one British life in jeopardy if she fails. As implacable enemies join forces against her, Mary may lose everything.
Tourism in the Middle East
'Tourism in the Middle East' embodies a multi-discursive approach to the study of tourism in the region, offering not only different perspectives but qualifying local knowledge and realities.
The Housing Project
Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation – from domestic space to urban visions – this volume investigates a set of unexplored events devoted to housing and dwelling, organised by technical, professional, cultural or governmental institutions from the interwar years to the Cold War. The book offers a first critical assessment of twentieth-century housing exhibits and explores the role of exhibitions in the codification of notions of domesticity, social models, policies, and architectural and urban discourse. At the intersection of housin...
