Embodied Utopias

Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis

334 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private spaces. The essays in Embodied Utopias argue that the gendered body is the crux of the hopes and disappointments of modern urban and suburban utopias of the Americas, Europe and Asia. They reassess utopian projects - masculinist, feminist, colonialist, progressive - of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; they survey the dystopian landscapes of the present; and they gesture at the potential for an embodied approach to the urban future, to the changing spaces of cities and virtual landscapes.

• Themen: Kunst Architektur Landschaftsarchitektur und -gestaltung Stadtplanung und Architektur
• ISBN: 9780415248143
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2001
• Größe: 246 x 175 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Herausgegeben von: Lise Sanders, Rebecca Zorach, Amy Bingaman