Peter Hemmersam

Making the Arctic City (eBook, ePUB)

The History and Future of Urbanism in the Circumpolar North

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Arctic - and it shows how the Arctic city offers valuable lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban planning history elsewhere.

Examining architects' and planners' designs for Arctic urban futures, it considers the impact of 20th-century models of urban design and planning in Arctic cities, and reveals how contemporary architectural approaches continue to this day to essentialize 'extreme' climate conditions and disregard the agency of Arctic city-dwellers - a critical perspective that is vital to the formulation of future design and planning practices in the region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350235885
• Artikelnr.: 62017491

Autorenporträt

Peter Hemmersam is Professor in Urban Design at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Director of the Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Maps Preface Introduction Part One: Framing the
Arctic City 1. Introducing the Arctic 2. Building cities in the Arctic 3.
Studying Arctic cities Part Two: Arctic urban development 4. Developing
Russia's Arctic cities 5. Developing Canada's Arctic cities 6. Developing
Greenland's cities Part Three: Constructing the Arctic city 7. Defining
Arctic urbanism 8. The architects of the Arctic city 9. Learning from the
Arctic city Notes Bibliography Index