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Pyrotechnic Cities - Architecture, Fire-Safety and Standardisation (Hardcover)
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Pyrotechnic Cities - Architecture, Fire-Safety and Standardisation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
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This book explores the relationship between architecture,
government and fire. It posits that, through the question of
fire-safety standardisation, building design comes to be both a
problem for, and a tool of, government. Through a close study of
fire-safety standards it demonstrates the shaping effect that
architecture and the city have on the way we think about governing.
Opening with an investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire and the
political actors who sought to enrol it in programmes of
governmental reform before contextualising the research in current
literature, the book takes four city studies, each beginning with a
specific historic fire: The 1654 Great Fire of Meirecki, Edo; the
1877 town fire of Lagos; the 1911 Empire Palace Theatre fire,
Edinburgh; and the 2001 World Trade Centre attack, New York. Each
study identifies the governmental response to the fire, safety
standards and codes designed in its wake and how these new
processes spread and change. Drawing on the work of sociologists
John Law and Anne Marie Mol and their concept of 'Fire Space', it
describes the way that architectural design, through the medium of
fire, is an instrument of political agency. Pyrotechnic Cities is a
critical investigation into these political implications, written
for academics, researchers and students in architectural history
and theory, infrastructure studies and governance.
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