Urban Walls (eBook, PDF)

Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces
Redaktion: Brighenti, Andrea Mubi; Kärrholm, Mattias

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection invites inquiry into the complexities of the social life of walls, observing urban spaces as veritable laboratories of wall-making - places where their consequences become most visible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351397261
• Artikelnr.: 54142355

Autorenporträt

Andrea Mubi Brighenti is Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy. Mattias Kärrholm is Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at Lund University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Introduction: The Life of Walls - In Urban, Spatial and Political Theory (
Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm)
1. On Walls in the Open City (Alison Young)
2. Dismantling Belfast Peace Walls: New material arrangements for improving
community relations (Florine Ballif)
3. Walling Through Seas: The Indian Ocean, Australian border security, and
the political present (Peter Chambers)
4. Walls, walling and the immunitarian imperative (Claudio Minca and
Alexandra Rijke)
5. Screening Brazil: Footnotes on a Wall (Pedro Victor Brandão and Andrea
Pavoni)
6. Warsaw Afterimages: Of Walls and Memories (Ella Chmielewska)
7. Wall Terrains. Architecture, body culture and parkour (Emma Nilsson)
8. Gating housing in Sweden: Walling in the privileged, walling out the
public (Karin Grundström)
9. The Right to the City Is the Right to the Surface: A Case for a Surface
Commons (in 8 Arguments, 34 Images and some Legal Provisions) (Sabina
Andron)
10. The Multiple Walls of Graffiti Removal. Maintenance and Urban
Assemblage in Paris (Jérôme Denis and David Pontille)
11. Walls as Fleeting Surfaces. From Bricks to Pixels, Trains to Instagram
(Lachlan MacDowall)
Index