318 Pages
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Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
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To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is focussed on the interaction of two elements within this contemporary situation. The first is the very idea... Read more
Preface Introduction 1. Drifting: Architecture / Migrancy 2. On Cosmopolitanism 3. Architecture as Evidence 4. Mythforms: Techniques of Migrant Place-Making 5. Why Architecture is Neither Here nor There 6. Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination 7. Building Hong Kong: from Migrancy to Disappearance 8. Conflicting Landscapes of Dwelling and Democracy in Canada 9. Too Many Houses for a Home: Narrating the House in the Chinese Diaspora 10. Emigration / Immigration: Maps, Myths and Origins 11. Earthquake Weather 12. Pacific Migration 13. La Frontera's Siamese Twins 14. Screening Los Angeles: Architecture, Mobility and Migrancy 15. By the Bitstream of Babylon: Cyberfrontiers and Diaspora Vistas
Biography
Stephen Cairns teaches architecture theory and design at the University of Edinburgh. He works on contemporary architecture and urbanism often in the context of postcolonial criticism, cross-cultural and transnational studies, and with a particular empirical focus on Southeast Asia.
'Nicely captures the enormous and "unaccounted" urban significance of the population that migrates between countries and into cities globally.' - Space and Culture
