Architecture and space re-imagined : learning from the difference, multiplicity, and otherness of development practice / Richard Bower.

Main entry:

Bower, Richard, 1984- author.

Title & Author:

Architecture and space re-imagined : learning from the difference, multiplicity, and otherness of development practice / Richard Bower.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2017.

Description:

viii, 252 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dialectical Materialism and Participatory Housing -- Spatial Relations, Difference, and Multiplicity -- Geometries of Power, Hegemony, and Small Changes -- Identity and Practice -- Unknown Space and Open Values: Coevalness, textuality, and critical spatial practice -- Architecture and Space Reimagined.

Summary:

A s with so many facets of contemporary western life, architecture and space are often experienced and understood as a commodity or product. The premise of this book is to offer alternatives to the practices and values of such westernised space and Architecture (with a capital A), by exploring the participatory and grass-roots practices used in alternative development models in the Global South. This process re-contextualises the spaces, values, and relationships produced by such alternative methods of development and social agency. It asks whether such spatial practices provide concrete realisations of some key concepts of Western spatial theory, questioning whether we might challenge the space and architectures of capitalist development by learning from the places and practices of others. Exploring these themes offers a critical examination of alternative development practices methods in the Global South, re-contextualising them as architectural engagements with socio-political space. The comparison of such interdisciplinary contexts and discourses reveals the political, social, and economic resonances inherent between these previously unconnected spatial protagonists.0tial and political of learning from the difference, multiplicity, and otherness of development practice in order to re-imagine architecture and space.

ISBN:

9781138934146 (hardback)
1138934143 (hardback)
(e-book)
9781315678146

Subject:

Space (Architecture) Social aspects Southern Hemisphere.
Space (Architecture) Political aspects Southern Hemisphere.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect social Hémisphère sud.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect politique Hémisphère sud.
Space (Architecture) Social aspects.
Southern Hemisphere.

Added entries:

Routledge research in place, space, and politics series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295427
Call No.: BIB 241648
Status: Available

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