In an era of globalisation, there is an unprecedented scale and nature of contemporary migrant flows, as well as the flow of goods, capital, ideas, images and technology. This sheer number and mobility of contemporary migrants clearly has massively disruptive effects on traditional modes of dwelling however they were manifest in everyday life. But contemporary migrancy also has important consequences for the way dwelling is conceptualised more generally. This book is concerned with the modes of dwelling that emerge through migrancy; it is also concerned with the effects these modes of...
In an era of globalisation, there is an unprecedented scale and nature of contemporary migrant flows, as well as the flow of goods, capital, ideas, im...
The contributors to this volume inspect the intersections between architectures of place and flows of migrancy. It is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place.
The contributors to this volume inspect the intersections between architectures of place and flows of migrancy. It is an exploration of the often comp...
This book, the first in a planned series, reports on the Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious mission to shape sustainable future cities through science, by design, in place. It offers a global perspective on cities from the vantage point of Asia, where the laboratory is based. This view has particular significance today as the fortunes of Asia, the world's most populous and rapidly urbanizing continent, will also delineate the prospects of the planet. The series as a whole will assemble the necessary indicia--indications, clues, evidence--on how cities grow and flourish, produce and...
This book, the first in a planned series, reports on the Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious mission to shape sustainable future cities through...
