Lopez Dreams of disconnection

From the autonomous house to self-sufficient territories
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4690-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester University Press

This book offers a history of energy autonomy and small infrastructures in the field of architecture and urbanism from the end of the 19th century to the present day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lopez, Fanny

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Connection versus disconnection
1 Capturing territories through energy distribution
2 Being disconnected: genesis of a new technical utopia
3 Toward energy emancipation

Part II: The energy autonomy movement, 1970–80
4 Counterculture radicalism
5 Alexander Pike and the Autonomous Housing Project, 1971–79
6 The self-sufficient city
7 Critical technology: a problematic development
8 Electricity micro-networks: a tool for the energy transition?

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fanny Lopez is Associate Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at the School of Architecture Paris-Est, University Gustave Eiffel