The impossible city: short reflections on urbanism, architecture, and violence
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Dec 10, 2015
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urbanism
violence
universality
conflict
contested urbanism
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This contribution aims to offer some reflections around the notion of contested urbanism that characterize the contemporary process of making and inhabiting cities, discussing the intricate relation between architecture and violence at different scales. Grounding in previous international research and in the work of scholars like Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre, and Eyal Weizman, the text wish to reposition contestation at the centre of an architectural and urban research, addressing the intersection of spatial and temporal aspects of conflicts in the production of the city, where intellectual and spatial categories are able to construct new epistemologies, cities and space in a paradoxical tension.
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Boano, C. (2015). The impossible city: short reflections on urbanism, architecture, and violence. Materia Arquitectura, (12), 94–97. https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i12.84
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CACCIARI, M. (2004). La cittá. Villa Verucchio, Italy: Pazzini.
GARDINER, M. (2000). Everyday Utopianism: Lefebvre and his critics. Cultural Studies, 18(2-3), 228-254.
HOU, J., SPENCER, B., WAY, T., & YOCOM, K. (2015). Now Urbanism. The future City is here. London, England: Rutledge.
INTI, I. (2014). Ad Uso Comune. In S. Bianchetti (Ed.), Territori della Condivisione. Una Nuova Cittá (pp. 57-67). Rome, Italy: Quodlibet.
KIPFER, S., SABERI, S., & WIEDITZ, T. (2012). Henri Lefebvre: Debates and controversies. Progress in Human Geography, 7(1), 115-134.
LEFEBVRE, H. (1979). Space: social product and use value. In J. W. Freiberg (Ed.), Critical Sociology: European Perspectives (pp. 285-295). New York, USA: Irvington.
LEFEBVRE, H. (1991). The Production of Space. Oxford, England: Blackwell.
MENDIETA, E. (2006). War the School of Space: The Space of War and the War for Space. Ethics, Place and Environment, 9(2), 207–229.
RATZEL, F. (1923). Politische Geographie. Munich, Germany: R. Oldenbourg.
ROMITO, L. (2015). Walking out of Contemporary. In M. Mitrasinovic (Ed.), Concurrent Urbanities: Designing infrastructures of Inclusion. London, England: Rutledge (Available at: https://walkingoutofcontemporary.com/outofcontemporary/)
STANEK, L., SCHMID, C., & MORAVÁNSZKY, A. (2015). Urban Revolution Now. Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture. London, England: Ashgate.
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WATSON, V. (2009). ‘The planned city sweeps the poor away...’: Urban planning and 21st century urbanisation. Progress in Planning, 72(3), 151–193.
WATSON, V. (2014). African urban fantasies: past lessons and emerging realities. Environment and Urbanization, 26(1), 561-567.
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