Urban Dystopias
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Urban Dystopias Lofty Ideals To Shocking Realities
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Author : Jane Burry
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2023-01-04
Urban Dystopias Lofty Ideals To Shocking Realities written by Jane Burry and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-04 with Architecture categories.
Guest-edited by Marcus White and Jane Burry Cities are facing several coinciding global crises. There is the dominant existential narrative of the impact of and adaptation to climate change, itself powered by cities. In a time of unprecedented urbanisation and growth, resilient architecture and urbanism is needed in response. New modes of transport, renewed anxiety about robots taking jobs, AI, and the humbling recent experience of a global pandemic are all challenging norms and expectations. All of these are forces of social division, all are changing life experience, evoking strong-arm politics, and giving a sense of teetering between radically different possible futures. This is a story about reclaiming the urban design narrative and being alert to the potential impacts of socio-technical decision-making and design in cities. It is a story for its time. The issue explores the dichotomy of idealised visions for the design of urban settlements and the potentially shocking realities that may emerge from the same impulses and intentions. It examines the slippery territory between utopias and some of the ensuing dystopias that may unfold. Contributors: Tridib Banerjee, Daniele Belleri and Carlo Ratti, Steve Glackin, Justyna Karakiewicz, Nano Langenheim and Kongjian Yu, Mehrnoush Latifi, Andong Lu, Dan Nyandega, Jordi Oliveras, Kas Oosterhuis, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, Ian Woodcock, and Tianyi Yang. Featured architects: Carlo Ratti Associati, ecoLogicStudio, Harrison and White, and Turenscape.
Urban Dystopias
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Author : Jane Burry
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2023-01-19
Urban Dystopias written by Jane Burry and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-19 with Architecture categories.
Guest-edited by Marcus White and Jane Burry Cities are facing several coinciding global crises. There is the dominant existential narrative of the impact of and adaptation to climate change, itself powered by cities. In a time of unprecedented urbanisation and growth, resilient architecture and urbanism is needed in response. New modes of transport, renewed anxiety about robots taking jobs, AI, and the humbling recent experience of a global pandemic are all challenging norms and expectations. All of these are forces of social division, all are changing life experience, evoking strong-arm politics, and giving a sense of teetering between radically different possible futures. This is a story about reclaiming the urban design narrative and being alert to the potential impacts of socio-technical decision-making and design in cities. It is a story for its time. The issue explores the dichotomy of idealised visions for the design of urban settlements and the potentially shocking realities that may emerge from the same impulses and intentions. It examines the slippery territory between utopias and some of the ensuing dystopias that may unfold. Contributors: Tridib Banerjee, Daniele Belleri and Carlo Ratti, Steve Glackin, Justyna Karakiewicz, Nano Langenheim and Kongjian Yu, Mehrnoush Latifi, Andong Lu, Dan Nyandega, Jordi Oliveras, Kas Oosterhuis, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, Ian Woodcock, and Tianyi Yang. Featured architects: Carlo Ratti Associati, ecoLogicStudio, Harrison and White, Turenscape, and Anton Markus Pasing, Remote Control Studio.
Hidden Topographies
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Author : Raphael Zähringer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-04-24
Hidden Topographies written by Raphael Zähringer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines dystopian fiction’s recent paradigm shift towards urban dystopias. It links the dystopian tradition with the literary history of the novel, spatio-philosophical concepts against the backdrop of the spatial turn, and systems-theory. Five dystopian novels are discussed in great detail: China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station (2000) and The City & The City (2009), City of Bohane (2011) by Kevin Barry, John Berger’s Lilac and Flag (1992), and Divided Kingdom (2005) by Rupert Thomson. The book includes chapters on the literary history of the dystopian tradition, the referential interplay of maps and literature, urban spaces in literature, borders and transgressions, and on systems-theory as a tool for charting dystopian fiction. The result is a detailed overview of how dystopian fiction constantly adapts to – and reflects on – the actual world.
Noir Urbanisms
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Author : Gyan Prakash
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-27
Noir Urbanisms written by Gyan Prakash and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-27 with History categories.
Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic representation--because the history of the modern city is inseparable from the production and circulation of images--and examines their strengths and limits as urban criticism. Contributors explore dystopic images of the modern city in Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, South Africa, China, and the United States. Their topics include Weimar representations of urban dystopia in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis; 1960s modernist architecture in Mexico City; Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and 1950s; the recurring fictional destruction of Tokyo in postwar Japan's sci-fi doom culture; the urban fringe in Bombay cinema; fictional explorations of urban dystopia in postapartheid Johannesburg; and Delhi's out-of-control and media-saturated urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges in Noir Urbanisms is the unsettling and disorienting alchemy between dark representations and the modern urban experience. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David R. Ambaras, James Donald, Rubén Gallo, Anton Kaes, Ranjani Mazumdar, Jennifer Robinson, Mark Shiel, Ravi Sundaram, William M. Tsutsui, and Li Zhang.
Dystopia
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Author : Archimedes Muzenda
language : en
Publisher: Glensburg Press
Release Date : 2020-07-21
Dystopia written by Archimedes Muzenda and has been published by Glensburg Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with Architecture categories.
A revelation of the spatial atrocities committed by specialists in development of African cities. For more than fifty centuries, cities were planned and developed by generalists. The town planners were Jacks of all trades yet masters of none. In the last fifty years however, this all changed. Town planning dismantled into various specialists – masters of a single trade. Traffic engineers, urban environmentalists, modernist architects, town planning regulators, Marxist and postmodern scholars. As these specialists focus on their specialities, governed by ideological loyalty and possessiveness, they work in isolations a practice that is pushing African cities off the cliff. In Dystopia, Archimedes Muzenda reveals the destruction that specialists are creating in cities across Africa. He reveals how the in their tyrannical nature specialists are committing spatial atrocities, turning African cities into dystopias. In doing so, Muzenda sets basis for specialists to find one another if they are to create prosperous, sustainable and just cities – cities that are liveable.
Dystopian Cities
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Author : Archimedes Muzenda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-29
Dystopian Cities written by Archimedes Muzenda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with Political Science categories.
In Dystopian Cities, Archimedes Muzenda reveals how specialist approaches to urban development are destroying cities, committing spatial atrocities that turn African cities into dystopia.
Dystopian Cities
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Author : Archimedes Muzenda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Dystopian Cities written by Archimedes Muzenda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with City planning categories.
Utopia Dystopia
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Author : Michael D. Gordin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-23
Utopia Dystopia written by Michael D. Gordin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-23 with History categories.
The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950s, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930s served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White.
Urban Dystopia Series 001
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Author : Bliem/Ritscher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-27
Urban Dystopia Series 001 written by Bliem/Ritscher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with categories.
Dystopian Decibels The Illusion Of Urban Utopia And The Peculiar Allure Of Chaos
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Author : Johana Willa
language : en
Publisher: Johana Willa
Release Date : 2022-10-31
Dystopian Decibels The Illusion Of Urban Utopia And The Peculiar Allure Of Chaos written by Johana Willa and has been published by Johana Willa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-31 with categories.
"Dystopian Decibels: The Illusion of Urban Utopia and the Peculiar Allure of Chaos" invites readers into a thought-provoking exploration of a world where the urban landscape teeters on the brink of dystopia. This gripping narrative serves as a cautionary tale, unraveling the seemingly enchanting façade of a metropolis to expose the discordant symphony that echoes within its walls. The book delves into the heart of a society that has succumbed to the allure of chaos, where the relentless cacophony of urban life masks the underlying disquiet. As the narrative unfolds, the illusion of an idealized urban existence is peeled away, revealing the underbelly of societal discord. The city, once envisioned as a haven of progress and prosperity, becomes a battleground for the clash of ideologies, the struggle for power, and the inherent chaos that arises from the pursuit of unchecked desires. The metaphorical "decibels" symbolize not just the literal noise but also the societal uproar, the political discord, and the psychological tumult that characterizes this disconcerting world. The book prompts readers to question their own perceptions of urbanity, inviting reflection on the trade-offs between progress and the potential pitfalls of unchecked ambition. "Dystopian Decibels" is not merely a work of fiction; it serves as a mirror to contemporary society, urging readers to scrutinise the choices and compromises made in the pursuit of an idealised urban utopia. Through its pages, readers embark on a journey that challenges assumptions, navigates the complexities of societal structures, and forces a reconsideration of the boundaries between order and chaos. Intricately woven and richly detailed, "Dystopian Decibels" stands as a cautionary tale that reverberates with relevance, encouraging readers to question the true cost of an urban utopia built on the peculiar allure of chaos
