The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design: Global Perspectives from Architectural History

ISBN-13: 9780367554910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 332 str.

Joseph Heathcott

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history.

Spis treści

Infrastructure Designs: Dreaming and Building Worlds  Part 1 Materialities  1 Kingship and the Rocks: Infrastructure and the Materiality of Empire  2 In Between Technology and Architecture: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the French Royal Saline  3 Cement as Weapon: Meta-Infrastructure in the "World’s Last Cement Frontier"  4 Notes from the Underworld: Excavation as Architectural Counter-History  Part 2 Embodiments  5 Virtual Gardens: Gendered Space in the History of Afghanistan’s Telecommunications  6 Mobilizing Labor for Infrastructure in Northeast Brazil, 1915–1932  7 Everyday Living in Cairo’s City of the Dead  Part 3 Natures  8 Dams, Lakes, and Water Sports: Building a Hybrid Landscape in Belgium’s Eau d’Heure Valley, 1933–1987  9 Pedagogic Landscapes: Recreation, Play, and Danish Infrastructure Design  10 A Vast Demographic Void: Infrastructure, Ecology, and the Amazon  Part 4 Flows  11 Visualizing the Valens Aqueduct in Early Modern Istanbul  12 The Airport Terminal: Circulation and Soft Power  13 The Porous Infrastructures of Somali Malls in Cape Town  Part 5 City Making  14 Bridging the Bosporus: Mobility, Geopolitics, and Urban Imaginary in Istanbul, 1933–1973  15 Brasilia, a Story Seen from the Roadside: Narratives of Landscape Transformation and the Technological Sublime  16 More than a "Circulation Machine": Recasting the Geographies of Infrastructure in Modernist Urbanism  17 Infrastructure as a Political Tool of Regime Legitimization in Doha, Qatar  Part 6 The Long Road  18 The Global Spread of Street Pavement Materials and Technology, 1820–1920  19 Parallel Lines: Urban Expressways in the United States  20 Good Neighbors and Automovilistas: Imaginaries of Hemispheric Travel along the Pan-American Highway, 1936–1942  Part 7 Power Fields  21 Nuclear Power Stations in Post-War Britain: Picturesque Landscapes for the Masses  22 TVA in the Desert: U.S. Development Projects in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1951–1961  23 Shaped from Above: Cartographic Domination and U.S. Military Infrastructure in 1950s Spain  Part 8 Liquid Worlds  24 Water and Infrastructure in Late Colonial Guanajuato  25 Land Reclamation in the Making of Hong Kong  26 Bombay/Mumbai Waterfronts in the Hindi Film Deewaar [The Wall] (1975)

O autorze

Joseph Heathcott is Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at The New School in New York. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University School of Architecture, the London School of Economics, the University of Vienna, and Sciences Po, Paris. His most recent book is Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis (2016).