Becoming Places: Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power

ISBN-13: 9780415416368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 204 str.

Kim Dovey

Opis

About the practices and politics of place and identity formation - the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are - this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu in a very readable manner. This is a book that takes the social critique of built form another step through detailed fieldwork and analysis in particular case studies. Through a broad range of case studies from nationalist monuments and new urbanist suburbs to urban laneways and avant garde interiors, questions are explored such as: What is neighborhood character? How do squatter settlements work and does it matter what they look like? Can architecture liberate? How do monuments and public spaces shape or stabilize national identity?

This study deals with the nexus of issues surrounding identity, power and place. It is a welcome sequel and complementary volume to Kim Dovey’s seminal text, Framing Places. It provides an intellectual framework for the critique of design projects at both urban and architectural scale for professional designers and policy makers in all these fields.  

The discussion critically examines claims for an architecture and urbanism of emancipation and successfully bridges theory and practice, with international case studies and theory sections.

Spis treści

Part 1: Ideas  1. Making Sense of Place  2. Place as Assemblage  3. Silent Complicities  4. Limits of Critical Architecture  Part 2: Places  5. Slippery Characters: Defending and Creating Place Identities (with Ian Woodcock and Stephen Wood)  6. Becoming Prosperous: Informal Urbanism in Yogyakarta (with Wiryono Rhajo)  7.  Urbanising Architecture: Koolhaas and Spatial Segmentarity  8. Open Court: Transparency and Legitimation in the Courthouse  9. Safety Becomes Danger: Drug-Use in Public Space (with John Fitzgerald)  10. New Orders: Monas and Merdeka Square (with Eka Permanasari)  11. Urban Slippage: Smooth and Striated Streetscapes in Bangkok (with Kasama Polakit)

O autorze

Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. He has published and broadcast widely on issues of place and ideology including the book Fluid City (Routledge, 2005) and Framing Places (Routledge, second edition 2008).