The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation...

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Nikolina Bobic (Plymouth University, UK) Farzaneh Haghighi

The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II

Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities

Nikolina Bobic (Plymouth University, UK), Farzaneh Haghighi

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Routledge
22 November 2024

Theory of architecture; Human geography; The environment; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. The first volume of this handbook extensively explored these oppressive roles. This second volume illustrates that escaping the corporatized and bureaucratized orders of power, techno-managerial and consumer-oriented capitalist economic models is more urgent and necessary than ever before. Herein lies the political role of architecture and urban space, including the ways through which they can be transformed and alternative political realities constituted. The volume explores the methods and spatial practices required to activate the political dimension and the possibility for alternative practices to operate in the existing oppressive systems while not being swallowed by these structures. Fostering new political consciousness is explored in terms of the following themes: Events and Dissidence; Biopolitics, Ethics and Desire; Climate and Ecology; Urban Commons and Social Participation; Marginalities and Postcolonialism. Volume II embraces engagement across disciplines and offers a wide range of projects and critical analyses across the so-called Global North and South. This multidisciplinary collection of 36 chapters provides the reader with an extensive resource of case studies and ways of thinking for architecture and urban space to become more emancipatory.

Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Edited by: Nikolina Bobic (Plymouth University UK), Farzaneh Haghighi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9780367629182
ISBN 10: 0367629186
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 700
Publication Date: 22 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Nikolina Bobic is an academic and an architect currently based at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her research is preoccupied with political constructs of architecture and urban space. Within this domain, and engaging with the two disciplines in which she is trained (architecture and sociology), she addresses the intersections of power, politics, and space in their oppressive and liberatory mechanisms. Farzaneh Haghighi is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests revolve around the political role of space by drawing upon the intersection of political philosophy, architecture and urbanism.

Reviews for The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities

“Driven by a remarkable roster of emerging and established voices, this is a tremendous and definitive collection that seeks to make sense of how architecture can deliver positive outcomes for human experience, public urban life and improved social conditions in complex and subtly varying built environments. A massive new reference work, this is a dynamic and playful collection that weaves state of the art contributions across the fields of architecture, urban studies with others from related disciplines as they are brought into dialogue with questions of social vulnerability, interstitality and the accommodation of social fragility. This is a timely and enduring gift to students of the urban-social and physical condition.” Prof. Rowland Atkinson, Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield, UK