Architecture and collective life
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Architecture and collective life
（AHRA critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities / series editor, Jonathan Hale, v. 16）
Routledge, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Addresses the changing nature of public life alongside an analysis of changes in the architectural profession.
Contains thought-provoking chapters from some of the disciplines' leading thinkers and draws together new research that helps us to look again at the question of urban development.
Focuses on the link between architecture, urban theory and societal ideas.
Table of Contents
Part I: Contradictions in a common world 1. Introduction 2. A tale of two villages: Jane Jacobs, Marshall McLuhan and their visions of collective life 3. Interview with Reinier de Graaf 4. Neofeudalism: The end of capitalism? 5. Alternative models of tenure: Recovering the radical proposal of collective housing Part II: New geography and the planners 6. A proprietary polis: Silicon Valley architecture and collective life 7. Hyper-gentrification and the urbanisation of suburbia 8. The dubious high street: Distinctiveness, gentrification and social value 9. Zero-institution culture Part III: Authority 10. Authorship and political will in Aldo Rossi's theory of architecture 11. The heterotopias of Tafuri and Teyssot: Between language and discipline 12. Interruptions: A form of questionable fidelity Part IV: The welfare state 13. Constructed landscapes for collective recreation: Victor Bourgeois's open-air projects in Belgium 14. Vienna's Hofe: How housing builds the collective 15. Learning from Loutraki: Thermalism, hydrochemistry and the architectures of collective wellness 16. BiG: Living and working together Part V: Autonomy and organisation 17. Design precepts for autonomy: A case study of Kelvin Hall, Glasgow 18. Calcutta, India: Dover Lane - a cosmo-ecological collective life of Indian modernity 19. The city of ragpickers: Shaping a faithful collective life during les trente glorieuses 20. Visions of Ecotopia Part VI: Practice and life 21. Intraventions in flux: Towards a modal spatial practice that moves and cares 22. Ethics of open types 23. The Age of Ecology in the UK 24. Opinions - or, from dialogue to conversation 25. Epilogue The Wally Close Tenement: The collective close
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