The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity

The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity

The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity

The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity

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Overview

In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased. Beyond lines on maps, however, borders are spatial zones in which distinctive architectural, graphic, and other design elements are deployed to signal the nature of the space and to guide, if not actually control, behaviour and social relations within it. This volume unpacks how manipulations of space and design in frontier zones, historically as well as today, set the stage for specific kinds of interactions and convey meanings about these sites and the experiences they embody.

Frontier zones organize an array of functions to facilitate the passage of goods, information, and people, and to define and control access. Bringing together studies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and North America, this collection of essays casts a wide net to consider borders of diverse sorts. Investigations of contemporary political frontiers are set within the context of examinations of historical borders, borders that have existed within cities, and virtual borders. This range allows for reflection on shifts in how frontier zones are articulated and the impermanence of border emplacements, as well as on likely scenarios for future frontiers.

This text is unique in bringing together a number of scholarly perspectives in the arts and humanities to examine how spatial and architectural design decisions convey meaning, shape or abet specific social practices, and stage memories of frontier zones that no longer function as such. It joins and expands discussions in social science disciplines, in which considerations of border practices tend to overlook the role of built form and material culture more broadly in representing social practices and meanings.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472419781
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 07/28/2015
Series: Design and the Built Environment
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 18 MB
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About the Author

Carolyn Loeb is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture at Michigan State University, USA and Andreas Luescher is a Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Architecture and Environmental Design at Bowling Green State Univeristy, USA.


Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: the dialectics of borders, Carolyn Loeb and Andreas Luescher. Part I The Border as a Line through Space: Division and enclosure: Frankie Quinn’s peaceline panorama photographs, Conor McGrady; Occupying no man’s land in the Lenné Triangle: space, spectacle, and politics in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, Kristin Poling; Remaking the edges: surveillance and flows in sub-Saharan Africa’s new suburbs, Garth Myers; Imagining and staging an urban border: the role of the Netherbow Gate in early modern Edinburgh, Giovanna Guidicini. Part II Border Buildings: House number 1: the Vienna Hofburg’s multiple borders, Richard Kurdiovsky; Pier 21 and the production of Canadian immigration, David Monteyne; Bordering on peace: spatial narratives of border crossings between Israel, Jordan and Egypt, Eric Aronoff and Yael Aronoff; The view from above: reading reunified Berlin, Julia Walker. Part III Spatial Ambiguity and (Dis)Embodied Memory: Gorizia and Nova Gorica: one town in two European countries, Tina Potočnik; New urban frontiers: periurbanization and (re)territorialization in Southeast Asia, Michael Leaf; Mediterranean frontiers: ontology of a bounded space in crisis, Antonio Petrov; The NSK state and the collective imaginary, Conor McGrady. Index.


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