Heterotopia And The City: Public Space In A Post Civil Socie

Description:
Heterotopia, literally meaning 'other place', is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. 'Heterotopia and the City' seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets.With theoretical contributions on the concept of heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucault's influential 1967 text, 'Of Other Space' and essays by well-known scholars, the book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and which redirect the debate on the privatization of public space. Wastelands and 'terrains vagues' are studied in detail in a section on urban activism and transgression and the reader gets a glimpse of the extremes of our dualized, postcivil condition through case studies on Jakarta, Dubai, and Kinshasa.'Heterotopia and the City' provides a collective effort to reposition heterotopia as a crucial concept for contemporary urban theory. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to understand the city in the emerging postcivil society and post-historical era. Planners, architects, cultural theorists, urbanists and academics will find this a valuable contribution to current critical argument.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Heterotopia in a Postcivil Society Part 1. Heterotopology: 'a science in the making' Of Other Spaces 'Michel Foucault 'Heterotopia: an Ecology 'James D. Faubion 'Heterotopia: Anamnesis of a Medical Term 'Heidi Sohn' Part 2. Heterotopia Revisited The Many Mirrors of Foucault and their Architectural Reflections 'M. Christine Boyer 'Heterotopias of Difference 'Marco Cenzatti' Hippodamus' Third Sphere. Elements of a General Theory of Heterotopia 'Lieven De Cauter & Michiel Dehaene' Part 3. The Mall as Agora - the Agora as Mall Heterotopia of the Theme Park Street 'Kathleen Kern' Between Shopping Malls and Agoras. A French History of 'Protected Public Space' 'Clement Orillard ''A Kind of Instinct' - The Cinematic Mall as Heterotopia 'Douglas Muzzio & Jessica Muzzio' Part 4. Dwelling in a Postcivil Society The Gated Community as Heterotopia 'Setha Low' A Master-Planned Community as Heterotopia: The Villages, Florida 'Hugh Bartling ' The 'Institutionalization' of Heterotopias in Singapore 'Xavier Guillot' Part 5. Terrains Vagues: Transgression and Urban Activism Public-Space Heterotopias: Heterotopias of Masculinity along the Tel-Aviv Shoreline 'Yael Allweil & Rachel Kallus' '! those marvellous empty zones on the edge of our cities'. Heterotopia and the 'Dead Zone' 'Gil Doron 'Stalker Unbounded. Urban Activism and the Terrain Vague as Heterotopia by Default 'Peter Lang' Part 6. Heterotopia in the Splintering Metropolis 'Rubbing the Magic Lamp'. Heterotopian Strategies in London's Eastern City Fringe 'Maureen Heyns 'Flow Urbanism: the Heterotopia of Flows 'Lee Stickells' Heterotopias of Illusion: From Beaubourg to Bilbao and Beyond 'David Grahame Shane 'Part 7. Heterotopia after the Polis The Heterotopian Divide in Jakarta: from Discourse to Space 'Robert Cowherd 'Dubai Offshore Urbanism 'Alessandro Petti' 'Dead Society' in a 'Cemetery City'. The Transformation of Burial Rites in Kinshasa 'Filip De Boeck' Wrapping up Heterotopia / Heterotopia Unfolded? 'Hilde Heynen'

Author Biography:
Eindhoven University of Technology Katholiek Universitat, Leuven, Belgium