
- 220 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Landscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called 'Urban Age, ' understanding the notion of 'territory' as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced.Territory, understood as a 'political technology, ' has the capacity to involve architects and designers into complex social, political, technical, legal, strategic and economic processes that are both historical and geographical engines of contemporary urbanization. Islands in Northern Norway.Territorial praxis is interrogated in a collection of threaded theory and design contributions where essays pose key questions that are addressed through projective cartographies, unfolding arguments related to three sections: (1) territory, (2) critical cartographies and (3) agency.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- TERRITORY
- Territory: Political technology, volume, terrain
- Odyssean terrains
- Arenado re-territorialisation
- The "volu-metrics" of gold extraction
- CARTOGRAPHY
- Is the earth curved or flat?
- Making maps: Cartography, territory, modernity
- Nomadic agriculture for dislocation
- Mapping the ocean
- Dislodging land-ocean binaries: The politics of littoral sediments
- AGENCY
- Going to ground: Agency, design and the problem of Bruno Latour
- Letting the coast speak?
- Agencies "outside territory"
- Sharing agencies?
- Conclusions
- Bibliography and credits