1st Edition
Planning and the Multi-local Urban Experience The Power of Lifescapes
By Kimmo Lapintie
Copyright 2022
116 Pages
by
Routledge
116 Pages
by
Routledge
116 Pages
by
Routledge
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The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned, and governed ‘reality’ of the state apparatus at both the local and national level.
The book posits multi-locality as an emerging spatial configuration. The author draws from various theoretical sources, such as Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of... Read more
Preface
1. Introduction: Revealing the paradox
2. The epistemology of escape and predator epistemology: Knowing and failing to know multi-local spatiality
3. Modalities of power: What are the many places for their users, and who can use them?
4. Multi-locality as urbanization
5. The politics of territorialism
6. Political topology
7. The logic of presence and absence
8. Heterotopia of the body
9. The city of cyborgs
10. Conclusion: From places to lifescapes
References
Index
Biography
Kimmo Lapintie is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Head of Research at the Department of Architecture, Aalto University, Finland.
