The Social (Re)Production of Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social (Re)Production of Architecture write by Doina Petrescu. This book was released on 2017-07-14. The Social (Re)Production of Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the ‘right to the city’ into today’s context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s’ discussions about the ‘production of space’, which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of relations that are produced in the process. In the emerging post-capitalist era, this book addresses urgent social and ecological imperatives for change and opens up questions around architecture’s engagement with new forms of organization and practice. The book asks what (new) kinds of ‘social’ can architecture (re)produce, and what kinds of politics, values and actions are needed. The book features 24 interdisciplinary essays written by leading theorists and practitioners including social thinkers, economic theorists, architects, educators, urban curators, feminists, artists and activists from different generations and global contexts. The essays discuss the diverse, global locations with work taking different and specific forms in these different contexts. A cutting-edge, critical text which rethinks both practice and theory in the light of recent crises, making it key reading for students, academics and practitioners.
Disasters and Social Reproduction
Disasters and Social Reproduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disasters and Social Reproduction write by Peer Illner. This book was released on 2020. Disasters and Social Reproduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Marxist-feminist approach examining disaster relief in the US.
A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time
A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time write by Linda Peake. This book was released on 2021-07-30. A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does a feminist urban theory look like for the twenty first century? This book puts knowledges of feminist urban scholars, feminist scholars of social reproduction, and other urban theorists into conversation to propose an approach to the urban that recognises social reproduction both as foundational to urban transformations and as a methodological entry-point for urban studies. Offers an approach feminist urban theory that remains intentionally cautious of universal uses of social reproduction theory, instead focusing analytical attention on historical contingency and social difference Eleven chapters that collectively address distinct elements of the contemporary crisis in social reproduction and the urban through the lenses of infrastructure and subjectivity formation as well as through feminist efforts to decolonize urban knowledge production Deepens understandings of how people shape and reshape the spatial forms of their everyday lives, furthering understandings of the 'infinite variety' of the urban Essential reading for academics, researchers and scholars within urban studies, human geography, gender and sexuality studies, and sociology
The Production of Space
The Production of Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Production of Space write by Henri Lefebvre. This book was released on 1992-04-08. The Production of Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.
Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment
Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment write by Henri Lefebvre. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He calls for an architecture of jouissance—of pleasure or enjoyment—centered on the body and its rhythms and based on the possibilities of the senses. Examining architectural examples from the Renaissance to the postwar period, Lefebvre investigates the bodily pleasures of moving in and around buildings and monuments, urban spaces, and gardens and landscapes. He argues that areas dedicated to enjoyment, sensuality, and desire are important sites for a society passing beyond industrial modernization. Lefebvre’s theories on space and urbanization fundamentally reshaped the way we understand cities. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment promises a similar impact on how we think about, and live within, architecture.
