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The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being
studied across many fields. This book investigates ongoing changes
in the Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines settlements
and territories of the Barents Sea Coast, Northern Norway, the
Russian Kola Peninsula, Svalbard and Greenland from an
interdisciplinary, design-based and future-oriented perspective.
The Future North project has travelled Arctic regions since 2012,
mapped landscapes and settlements, documented stories and
practices, and discussed possible futures with local actors.
Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the project, the authors
in this book look at political and economic strategies, urban
development, land use strategies and local initiatives in specific
locations that are subject to different forces of change. This book
explores current material conditions in the Arctic as effects of
industrial and political agency and social initiatives. It provides
a combined view on the built environment and urbanism, as well as
the cultural and material landscapes of the Arctic. The chapters
move beyond single-disciplinary perspectives on the Arctic, and
engage with futures, cultural landscapes and communities in ways
that build on both architectural and ethnographic participatory
methods.
Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of
city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning
northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to
Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar
account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in
the Arctic - and it shows how the Arctic city offers valuable
lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban
planning history elsewhere. Examining architects' and planners'
designs for Arctic urban futures, it considers the impact of
20th-century models of urban design and planning in Arctic cities,
and reveals how contemporary architectural approaches continue to
this day to essentialize 'extreme' climate conditions and disregard
the agency of Arctic city-dwellers - a critical perspective that is
vital to the formulation of future design and planning practices in
the region.
The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being
studied across many fields. This book investigates ongoing changes
in the Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines settlements
and territories of the Barents Sea Coast, Northern Norway, the
Russian Kola Peninsula, Svalbard and Greenland from an
interdisciplinary, design-based and future-oriented perspective.
The Future North project has travelled Arctic regions since 2012,
mapped landscapes and settlements, documented stories and
practices, and discussed possible futures with local actors.
Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the project, the authors
in this book look at political and economic strategies, urban
development, land use strategies and local initiatives in specific
locations that are subject to different forces of change. This book
explores current material conditions in the Arctic as effects of
industrial and political agency and social initiatives. It provides
a combined view on the built environment and urbanism, as well as
the cultural and material landscapes of the Arctic. The chapters
move beyond single-disciplinary perspectives on the Arctic, and
engage with futures, cultural landscapes and communities in ways
that build on both architectural and ethnographic participatory
methods.
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