Fallow - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1948765098 ISBN 13 : 9781948765091

Editeur : Actar Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

The term fallow is borrowed from agriculture as a metaphor to critically examine the role of strategic dormancy in cycles of valorization and devalorization of the built and unbuilt environment.
Rather than a strict binary of fecund or barren, however, New Geographies #10 conceives of fallowness as a rich and complex terrain to provoke a critical examination of the sites, strategies, scales, and imaginaries of the unused, the devalued, and the dormant, and explore modes of revalorization in all its forms: economic, ecological, social, cultural.
Ultimately, it is hoped that this compilation will provide a foundation on which designers can build new lines of questioning regarding processes of urbanization that will illuminate new speculative horizons for the design disciplines, while also demarcating points for cross-disciplinary study of the built and unbuilt environments. Co-published with Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Chieffalo is a doctoral student, architect, and former planning commissioner. His current research engages with processes of agrarian urbanization; socio-environmental dimensions of factory farming; the diverse built environments of industrial agriculture; and the relation between geographies of industrial agriculture and processes of planetary urbanization. This bundled set of concerns is explored using historic and comparative analysis in service of critically analyzing how organizational rationales and spatial patterning of cities and zones of agricultural production evolve over time and in different political-economic contexts. He is finally interested in how human-animal relations have been understood, and species composition in cities been transformed, over time through the industrialization of livestock production.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Actar Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1948765098
• ISBN 13: 9781948765091
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Smachylo Julia, Chieffalo Michael
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible