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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph HeathcottPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 1.120kg ISBN: 9781032188393ISBN 10: 1032188391 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 25 September 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Infrastructure Designs: Dreaming and Building Worlds Part 1 Materialities 1 Kingship and the Rocks: Infrastructure and the Materiality of Empire 2 In Between Technology and Architecture: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the French Royal Saline 3 Cement as Weapon: Meta-Infrastructure in the ""World’s Last Cement Frontier"" 4 Notes from the Underworld: Excavation as Architectural Counter-History Part 2 Embodiments 5 Virtual Gardens: Gendered Space in the History of Afghanistan’s Telecommunications 6 Mobilizing Labor for Infrastructure in Northeast Brazil, 1915–1932 7 Everyday Living in Cairo’s City of the Dead Part 3 Natures 8 Dams, Lakes, and Water Sports: Building a Hybrid Landscape in Belgium’s Eau d’Heure Valley, 1933–1987 9 Pedagogic Landscapes: Recreation, Play, and Danish Infrastructure Design 10 A Vast Demographic Void: Infrastructure, Ecology, and the Amazon Part 4 Flows 11 Visualizing the Valens Aqueduct in Early Modern Istanbul 12 The Airport Terminal: Circulation and Soft Power 13 The Porous Infrastructures of Somali Malls in Cape Town Part 5 City Making 14 Bridging the Bosporus: Mobility, Geopolitics, and Urban Imaginary in Istanbul, 1933–1973 15 Brasilia, a Story Seen from the Roadside: Narratives of Landscape Transformation and the Technological Sublime 16 More than a ""Circulation Machine"": Recasting the Geographies of Infrastructure in Modernist Urbanism 17 Infrastructure as a Political Tool of Regime Legitimization in Doha, Qatar Part 6 The Long Road 18 The Global Spread of Street Pavement Materials and Technology, 1820–1920 19 Parallel Lines: Urban Expressways in the United States 20 Good Neighbors and Automovilistas: Imaginaries of Hemispheric Travel along the Pan-American Highway, 1936–1942 Part 7 Power Fields 21 Nuclear Power Stations in Post-War Britain: Picturesque Landscapes for the Masses 22 TVA in the Desert: U.S. Development Projects in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1951–1961 23 Shaped from Above: Cartographic Domination and U.S. Military Infrastructure in 1950s Spain Part 8 Liquid Worlds 24 Water and Infrastructure in Late Colonial Guanajuato 25 Land Reclamation in the Making of Hong Kong 26 Bombay/Mumbai Waterfronts in the Hindi Film Deewaar [The Wall] (1975)"ReviewsAuthor InformationJoseph Heathcott is Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at The New School in New York. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University School of Architecture, the London School of Economics, the University of Vienna, and Sciences Po, Paris. His most recent book is Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis (2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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