This book is about the love and hate relations that humans
establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning
modern thinkers as topophilia and topophobia. Whilst such
affiliations with the topos, our manmade as well as natural
habitat, have been traced back to antiquity, a wide range of
twentieth-century cases are studied here and reflected upon by
dwelling on this framework. The book provides a timely reminder
that the qualitative aspects of the topos, sensual as well as
intellectual, should not be disregarded in the face of rapid
technological development and the mass of building that has
occurred since the turn of the millennium.
Topophilia and Topophobia offers speculative and historical
reflections on the human habitat of the century that has just
passed, authored by some of the world s leading scholars and
architects, including Joseph Rykwert, Yi-Fu Tuan, Vittorio Gregotti
and Jean-Louis Cohen. Human habitats, ranging broadly from the
cities of the twentieth century, highbrow modern architecture both
in Western countries and in Asia, to non-architect/planner designed
vernacular settlements and landscapes are reviewed under the themes
of topophilia and topophobia across the disciplines of
architecture, landscape studies, philosophy, human geography and
urban planning.
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