Spatial Violence: Studies in Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780367028787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 152 str.

Andrew Herscher; Anooradha Siddiqi

Opis

This book poses "spatial violence" as a means to explore histories of and through architecture at sites across the world. Regarding space and violence as co-constitutive, the book’s collected 3 essays critique modernization and capitalist accumulation as naturalized modes for the extraction of violence from everyday life.

Spis treści

1. Spatial Violence 2. On "Revolutionary Vandalism" 3. Architecture During Wartime: The Mostra d’Oltremare and Esposizione Universale di Roma 4. Sentenced: Architecture of Solitary Confinement 5. The Economy of Fear: Oscar Newman Launches Crime Prevention through Urban Design (1969 – 197x) 6. New Belgrade After 1999: Spatial Violence as De-Socialisation, De-Romanisation, and De-Historisation 7. Mud, Dust, and Marouge´: Precarious Construction in a Congolese Refugee Camp 8. Encampments: Spatial Taxonomies of Sri Lanka’s Civil War