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Resistant City: Histories, Maps And The Architecture Of Development (Hardcover)
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Resistant City: Histories, Maps And The Architecture Of Development (Hardcover)
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This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the
development of architectural practice and the progress in urban
modernization. It is about islands as territories of resistance. It
is about dense places where multitudes dwell in perennial
contestations with the city on every front. It is about the
histories, tactics and spaces of everyday survival within the
hegemonic sway of global capital and unstoppable development. It is
preoccupied with making visible the culture of resistance and
architecture's entanglement with it. It is about urban resilience.
It is about Hong Kong, where uncertainty is status quo.This
interdisciplinary volume explores real and invented places and
identities that are created in tandem with Hong Kong's urban
development. Mapping contested spaces in the territory, it
visualizes the energies and tenacity of the people as manifest in
their daily life, social and professional networks and the urban
spaces in which they inhabit. Embodying the multifaceted nature of
the Asian metropolis, the book utilizes a combination of archival
materials, public data sources, field observations and
documentation, analytical drawings, models, and maps.Related
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