Overview

POST-TRAUMATIC URBANISM Urban trauma describes a condition where conflict or catastrophe has disrupted and damaged not only the physical environment and infrastructure of a city, but also the social and cultural networks. Cities experiencing trauma dominate the daily news. Images of blasted buildings or events such as Hurricane Katrina exemplify the sense of 'immediate impact'. But how is this trauma to be understood in its aftermath, and in urban terms? What is the response of the discipline to the post-traumatic condition? On the one hand, one can try to restore and recover everything that has passed, or otherwise see the post-traumatic city as a resilient space poised on the cusp of new potentialities. While repair and reconstruction are automatic reflexes, the knowledge and practices of the disciplines need to be imbued with a deeper understanding of the effect of trauma on cities and their contingent realities. This issue will pursue this latter approach, using examples of post-traumatic urban conditions to rethink the agency of architecture and urbanism in the contemporary world. Post-traumatic urbanism demands of architects the mobilisation of skills, criticality and creativity in contexts in which they are not familiar. The post-traumatic is no longer the exception; it is the global condition.

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Author:   Adrian Lahoud (University of Technology Sydney) ,  Charles Rice (University of Technology Sydney) ,  Anthony Burke (University of Technology Sydney)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   Academy Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.10cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780470744987

ISBN 10:   0470744987
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   24 September 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Editorial 5 Helen Castle About The Guest-Editors 6 Adrian Lahoud, Charles Rice and Anthony Burke Spotlight 8 Visual highlights of the issue Introduction 14 Post-Traumatic Urbanism Adrian Lahoud Trauma Within the Walls: Notes Towards a Philosophy of the City 24 Andrew Benjamin The Space-Time of Pre-emption: An Interview with Brian Massumi 32 Charles Rice Making Dubai: A Process in Crisis 38 Todd Reisz Changes of State: Slow Motion Trauma in the Gangetic Plains of India 44 Anthony Acciavatti After the Event: Speculative Projects in the Aftermath 50 Samantha Spurr Forensic Architecture 58 Eyal Weizman, Paulo Tavares, Susan Schuppli and Situ Studio The Infrastructure of Stability 64 Tarsha Finney Post-Apocalypse Now 70 Mark Fisher The Eighth Day: God Created the World in Seven Days. 74 This is The Eighth Day Tony Chakar Figures in the Sand 78 Christopher Hight and Michael Robinson The Urban Complex: Scalar Probabilities and Urban Computation 86 Anthony Burke Project for a Mediterranean Union 92 Adrian Lahoud Fearscapes: Caracas Postcards from a Violent City 102 Eduardo Kairuz Energy Territories 108 Anthony Burke Architecture, Contingency and Crisis: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek 112 Adrian Lahoud The Very Mark of Repression: The Demolition Theatre of the Palast der Republik and the New Schloss Berlin 116 Khadija Carroll La On Message: An Interview with Michael Chertoff 124 Charles Rice Borderline Syndrome 126 Ole Bouman COUNTERPOINT Rebuilding from Below the Bottom: Haiti 128 Jayne Merkel and Craig Whitaker

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Adrian Lahoud is a practicing architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at The University of Technology Sydney. His current research addresses issues of conflict with regards to urbanism in the Middle East. Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. Anthony Burke is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Digital Architecture course at the University of Technology Sydney, and Director of Offshorestudio.net, a Sydney-based design practice specializing in design and theory related to new media and advanced computational methods.

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