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Heterotopia and the City - Public Space in a Postcivil Society (Hardcover)
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Heterotopia and the City - Public Space in a Postcivil Society (Hardcover)
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Heterotopia, literally meaning 'other place', is a rich concept in
urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of
ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple,
fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an
impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by
Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of
confusion and debate since. Heterotopia and the City seeks to
clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist
throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls,
holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival
markets. With theoretical contributions on the concept of
heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucault's influential
1967 text, Of Other Space and essays by well-known scholars, the
book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to
Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and
which redirect the debate on the privatization of public space.
Wastelands and terrains vagues are studied in detail in a section
on urban activism and transgression and the reader gets a glimpse
of the extremes of our dualized, postcivil condition through case
studies on Jakarta, Dubai, and Kinshasa. Heterotopia and the City
provides a collective effort to reposition heterotopia as a crucial
concept for contemporary urban theory. The book will be of interest
to all those wishing to understand the city in the emerging
postcivil society and post-historical era. Planners, architects,
cultural theorists, urbanists and academics will find this a
valuable contribution to current critical argument.
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