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Mount Fuji vs the Megastructures of Tokyo
This chapter traces the relationship between Tokyoites and their borrowed monument Mount Fuji with various lines of flight taking us over the...
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Mountains and Megastructures Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour
This book explores the shared qualities of mountains as naturally-formed landscapes, and of megastructures as manmade landscapes, seeking to unravel...
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Mountains and Megastructures: Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour
At a time when more people are living in cities that are growing ever higher, and when the scale of buildings can resemble vast geologic, landscape...
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A Megastructure and a Mountain: Two Ways of Thinking About Architecture
This chapter examines two ways of thinking about architecture from the post-war era: systems thinking and phenomenology. It reviews two buildings...
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How Old Is the Barcelona Pavilion?
In 1976 Reyner Banham mockingly dismissed megastructures as ‘Dinosaurs of the Modern Movement’, a forlorn attempt to answer present problems with...
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‘Crowding the Stoop’: Climbing the Mega-Structures of Science Fiction
I sit curled up on my sofa, the familiar weight of a science fiction novel balanced on my knees, the bible-thin pages crinkling at the edges from the...
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Scales of Political Practice and Patterns of Power Relations in Prehistory
Political practices are fundamental for co-existence in human groups, yet the systematic investigation of such practices within prehistoric societies...
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Bachelard’s Phenomenology and Verticality
In his book The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard briefly describes lingering in imagination between, on the one hand, felicitous daydream images of...
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Epilogue. Remake Us from Ruins, Collective Memories and Dreams
This epilogue reviews how social groups have imagined better urban futures and other citiesCities in the face of catastrophic situations. The...
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Transit-Oriented Developments and Stratified Public Space Networks
The alarming rate of urban migration with ever-increasing demand for space has put tremendous strain on resources and has led to the exponential...
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Transit-Oriented Developments and Stratified Public Space Networks
The alarming rate of urban migration with ever-increasing demand for space has put tremendous strain on resources and has led to the exponential...
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The Making and Unmaking of Kunanyi
In Australia there lies a State of islands, as close to the South Pole at 43° as one can attain on this particular continental plate. The largest of...
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Japanese Prewar Housing: Missing Context
To a reader who grew up inside or in visual proximity to mass housing in Europe or the United States, living in unit plans of apartment buildings...
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Architects, Planners, and Social Activists as Transformative “Spatial Agents”: Prospects and Limitations
Using American and global examples, the last chapter examines the role of architects, planners, and citizen-activists as “transformative spatial...
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A Theorization of Informal Public Social Life and Interaction in Urban Public Space
This chapter examines established and emerging theories, which describe contemporary informal public social life and interaction in urban public...
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Rabat, Morocco: Sustaining the Historic Urban Landscape of Rabat: Strategies and Implementation
The paradigm of preservation of cultural heritage has significantly shifted in the last decade. It has moved from the conventional preservation of...
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What Are They Thinking?
Picking up from his previous volume, Social Capital in America, Brian Jones here sets out the building blocks of everyday life—voluntary association,...
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Discourses of the Long-Term Future
This chapter continues to present the results of the empirical study informing this book and in so doing considers how individuals imagine the future...
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Dubai as Metaphor: Corporate Entity, Global City, Hope and Mirage
Through four inter-linked yet competing metaphors, this chapter illustrates how Dubai has come to symbolise alternately the neoliberal corporation,...
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Early Humans’ Egalitarian Politics
This paper proposes a model of human uniqueness based on an unusual distinction between two contrasted kinds of political competition and political...
