Landscapes of Mobility

Culture, Politics, and Placemaking
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-24596-9
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world, including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali, Senegal, Japan, Haiti, and Romania, this book focuses on quotidian landscapes of mobility. Despite their seemingly familiar and innocuous appearances, these spaces exert tremendous control over our behavior and activities. By examining and mapping the politics of place and motion, this book analyzes human beings’ embodied engagements with their built world and provides diverse perspectives on the ideological and political underpinnings of landscapes of mobility. In order to describe landscapes of mobility as a historically, socially, and politically constructed condition, the book is divided into three sections-objects, contacts, and flows. The first section looks at elements that constitute such landscapes, including mobile bodies, buildings, and practices across multiple geographical scales. As these variable landscapes are reconstituted under particular social, economic, ecological, and political conditions, the second section turns to the particular practices that catalyze embodied relations within and across such spaces. Finally, the last section explores how the flows of objects, bodies, interactions, and ecologies are represented, presenting a critical comparison of the means by which relations, processes, and exchanges are captured, depicted, reproduced and re-embodied.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johung, Jennifer

Sen, Arijit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Landscapes of Mobility, ArijitSen, JenniferJohung; Part I Objects; Chapter 1 Replaceable Skins, JenniferJohung; Chapter 2 Container Ecology, DouglasHecker; Chapter 3 Zombie Housing for the Displaced in the Aftermath of Disaster, StephenVerderber; Chapter 4 Guerrilla Planning, JamesRojas; Part II Contacts; Chapter 5 Crossing the Milwaukee River, SarahFayen Scarlett; Chapter 6 Re-Inventing the Center, AndreeaMihalache; Chapter 7 Mobility and Property, LynneHoriuchi; Chapter 8 Roads of Joy, Pathways of Anger, MarcusFilippello; Part III Flows; Chapter 9 Out of Place, AnomaPieris; Chapter 10 Map, Mother and Militant, ArijitSen; Chapter 11 Infrastructural Cartography, ClareLyster;

Über Autor(innen)

Arijit Sen, Associate Professor of Architecture; Jennifer Johung, Associate Professor of Art History, both at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.