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OverviewAcross the global South, the rapid urbanisation and uneven development that have occurred over the past few decades have brought to the surface a tight connection between social conflicts and urban space. Indeed, the physical conformation of urban space is one of the primary factors that trigger social tensions, with repercussions at the metropolitan, regional and national scales. Such tensions are related to the conditions of social and spatial inequality which characterise many urban areas across the South; they can also be connected to contingent political and institutional orders which find in the materiality of space both the means and the cause of conflicts among different groups, amidst diverging territorial demands and the overlapping of competing struggles for power. At the same time, new possibilities arise in the concreteness of space, including innovative forms of local activism, adapting strategies of self-organisation, and unconventional relations between the 'formal' and the 'informal' city. On acknowledging the multifaceted nature of the urban space, there arises a question which constitutes the core problem addressed by the book: are cities to be tamed?This volume gathers a series of cross-disciplinary contributions on these topics, spanning from architecture and urban design, to planning, social theory and geography. These contributions revolve around two core themes. The first concerns the agency of design in contexts of 'informality' and centres on the missing/unexpected/pursued exchange between projects and realities. The second concerns the complex relationship between spatial planning, politics, and conflicts in contexts characterised by marked ethnic, political, and social tensions.Contributors: Alessandro Balducci, Scott A. Bollens, Jeffrey Chan Kok Hui, Francesco Chiodelli, Laure Criqui, Viviana d'Auria, Beatrice De Carli, Bruno De Meulder, Annalies De Nijs, Maddalena Falletti, Nabeel Hamdi, Joud M.I. Khasawneh, Hamed Khosravi, Olivier Legrand, Colin Marx, Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo, Lina Scavuzzo, Erez Tzfadia, Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, Faith Wong and Oren Yiftachel. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Beatrice De Carli , Francesco Chiodelli , Maddalena Falletti , Lina ScavuzzoPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9781443852302ISBN 10: 1443852309 Pages: 295 Publication Date: 23 December 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationFrancesco Chiodelli is Research Fellow at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L'Aquila, Italy, where he teaches on the international doctoral programme in Urban Studies. Beatrice De Carli is Postgraduate Design Tutor at the University of Sheffield, School of Architecture, and an Associate at Architecture Sans Frontieres UK. Maddalena Falletti is Teaching Fellow in Urban Design at MaHS/MaUSP, KU Leuven, Belgium, and Tutor on the PhD Programme in Territorial Government and Design at DAStU, Politecnico di Milano. Lina Scavuzzo is Associate Lecturer at the Politecnico di Milano, School of Architecture and Society, and an Associate of Architects without Borders - Italy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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