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Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency
Felicity D. Scott
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Description for Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency
Hardcover. Num Pages: 544 pages, 104 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AMCR; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Revisiting an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations. In Outlaw Territories, Felicity Scott traces the relation of architecture and urbanism to human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and 1970s. Investigating a set of responses to the growing urban unrest in the developed and developing worlds, Scott revisits an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations. She describes architecture's response to the displacement of persons brought on by migration, ... Read more
Revisiting an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations. In Outlaw Territories, Felicity Scott traces the relation of architecture and urbanism to human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and 1970s. Investigating a set of responses to the growing urban unrest in the developed and developing worlds, Scott revisits an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations. She describes architecture's response to the displacement of persons brought on by migration, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zone Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781935408734
SKU
V9781935408734
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About Felicity D. Scott
Felicity D. Scott is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she directs the PhD program in architecture and codirects the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. She is the author of Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism (MIT Press).
Reviews for Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency
[Scott's] new book on architecture and the exercise of biopolitical power in the era of decolonization is excellent, extensive, and indeed urgent-given the vast human unsettlement of our own moment, coming to terms with its longer history is essential for thinking about how architecture might respond to social questions on a territorial scale. -James Graham, Metropolis Magazine ... Read more