RESISTANT CITY : Histories, Maps and The Architecture of Development /
"This book is an inquiry into the space between the slowness of architecture and the speed of the city, between the skyline and the underground. It is a critical mapping of islands as territories of resistance. It explores the histories, identities, and places that are created in tandem with ur...
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| description | "This book is an inquiry into the space between the slowness of architecture and the speed of the city, between the skyline and the underground. It is a critical mapping of islands as territories of resistance. It explores the histories, identities, and places that are created in tandem with urban development. It endeavors to make visible the culture of resistance and architecture's complicit role in these contestations. It is about imagining the future for the reconstitution of society as a form of resistance for the present. It is about urban resilience. It is about Hong Kong, where uncertainty is the status quo"-- |
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| spelling | KOHA-OAI-TEST:5999542022-08-22T07:24:25ZRESISTANT CITY : Histories, Maps and The Architecture of Development / Seng, Eunice, author 643315 textNew Jersey : World Scientific,[2020]@2020eng"This book is an inquiry into the space between the slowness of architecture and the speed of the city, between the skyline and the underground. It is a critical mapping of islands as territories of resistance. It explores the histories, identities, and places that are created in tandem with urban development. It endeavors to make visible the culture of resistance and architecture's complicit role in these contestations. It is about imagining the future for the reconstitution of society as a form of resistance for the present. It is about urban resilience. It is about Hong Kong, where uncertainty is the status quo"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue : islandness and resistance -- Maps : territories of contestation -- Noirs : the city, the woman and other spaces -- Towers : technologies, Jardine House and metropolitan visions -- Composites : the city in a building -- Narratives : composite building studies -- Excursus : mapping toilet architecture -- Manuals : resistance in praxis -- Epilogue : resistant domestiCities -- Afterword : utopia to realization."This book is an inquiry into the space between the slowness of architecture and the speed of the city, between the skyline and the underground. It is a critical mapping of islands as territories of resistance. It explores the histories, identities, and places that are created in tandem with urban development. It endeavors to make visible the culture of resistance and architecture's complicit role in these contestations. It is about imagining the future for the reconstitution of society as a form of resistance for the present. It is about urban resilience. It is about Hong Kong, where uncertainty is the status quo"--PSZJBLArchitecture and societyOccupy movementURN:ISBN:9789811204616 |
| spellingShingle | Architecture and society Occupy movement Seng, Eunice, author 643315 RESISTANT CITY : Histories, Maps and The Architecture of Development / |
| title | RESISTANT CITY : Histories, Maps and The Architecture of Development / |
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