Overview

Founded in the late 1960s on Chile’s Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge architectural experimentation. Yet with a global reputation as an apolitical collective, little has been discussed about the Open City’s relationship with Chilean history and politics. Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.

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Author:   Maxwell Woods
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   19
ISBN:  

9781789209013

ISBN 10:   1789209013
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   01 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. On So-Called Non-Political Urban Environmentalism: The Architecture of the Open City, Politics, and the Political Chapter 2. Refashioning Latin Americanism: The Foundations of the Environmental Urbanism of the Open City Chapter 3. The Eruption of the Political?: Politics, the Political, Hospitality, and the Foundation of the Open City Chapter 4. Thinking Otherwise: Keeping the Open City Open in the Dictatorship Chapter 5. On Subaltern Historiography: Thinking the Open City Historically Chapter 6. Towards a Decolonial Environmentalism: The Limits and Openings of the Open City’s Environmental Urbanisms Conclusion: Socialities, New Openings, and the Lingering Question of Capital References Index Figures follow p. 190

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With intelligence, intuition, and clarity the author makes an argument for revisiting long-established assumptions about the Open City, in favor of a nuanced reading that intertwines matters of architecture and urbanism, environmentalism, decolonial studies, and critical theory . Andreea Mihalache, Clemson University This is a highly valuable addition to the scholarship around the Open City, and for those who are interested in alternate models of social cohesion around living, work and learning . Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Knowlton School of Architecture

With intelligence, intuition, and clarity the author makes an argument for revisiting long-established assumptions about the Open City, in favor of a nuanced reading that intertwines matters of architecture and urbanism, environmentalism, decolonial studies, and critical theory . * Andreea Mihalache, Clemson University This is a highly valuable addition to the scholarship around the Open City, and for those who are interested in alternate models of social cohesion around living, work and learning . * Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Knowlton School of Architecture

Author Information

Maxwell Woods is a member of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Viña del Mar, Chile. His work has appeared in Social and Cultural Geography, Cultural Dynamics, Cultural Politics, and Literary Geographies.

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