1st Edition

Landscapes of Mobility Culture, Politics, and Placemaking

By Jennifer Johung, Arijit Sen Copyright 2013
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world, including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali, Senegal, Japan, Haiti, and Romania, this book focuses on quotidian landscapes of mobility. Despite their seemingly familiar and innocuous appearances,... Read more
Introduction Landscapes of Mobility, ArijitSen, JenniferJohung; Part I Objects; Chapter 1 Replaceable Skins, JenniferJohung; Chapter 2 Container Ecology, DouglasHecker; Chapter 3 Zombie Housing for the Displaced in the Aftermath of Disaster, StephenVerderber; Chapter 4 Guerrilla Planning, JamesRojas; Part II Contacts; Chapter 5 Crossing the Milwaukee River, SarahFayen Scarlett; Chapter 6 Re-Inventing the Center, AndreeaMihalache; Chapter 7 Mobility and Property, LynneHoriuchi; Chapter 8 Roads of Joy, Pathways of Anger, MarcusFilippello; Part III Flows; Chapter 9 Out of Place, AnomaPieris; Chapter 10 Map, Mother and Militant, ArijitSen; Chapter 11 Infrastructural Cartography, ClareLyster;

Biography

Arijit Sen, Associate Professor of Architecture; Jennifer Johung, Associate Professor of Art History, both at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.