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Splintering Towers of Babel: Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures

Splintering Towers of Babel: Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures

Bigon, Liora
Langenthal, Edna

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

General SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 1032527978
ISBN13: 9781032527970
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 21 2023
Pages: 198
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy, and ethics.

The book combines transdisciplinary perspectives on the key historical, philosophical, and political issues associated with urban experiences, built forms, and infrastructure networks. It explores uneven dimensions in contemporary urbanisms and develops spatial phenomenological thinking with reference to the northern and southern hemispheres. This book connects the past and the present, in addition to Western and global South geographies, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Its main contribution is to broaden readers' understanding of infrastructure through the lens of the humanities and to engage with political, poetical, and ethical perspectives.

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