
Many Norths
Spacial Practice in a Polar Territory
- 472 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Many Norths
Spacial Practice in a Polar Territory
About this book
"There are many norths in this North." – Louis-Edmond Hamelin, 1975Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory charts the unique spatial realities of Canada's Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities. The region has undergone dramatic transformations in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, resources, and trade, among others. For most of the Arctic's modern history, architecture, infrastructure, and settlements have been the tools of colonialism. Today, tradition and modernity are intertwined. Northerners have demonstrated remarkable adaptation and resilience as powerful climatic, social, and economic pressures collide. This unprecedented book documents—through the themes of urbanism, architecture, mobility, monitoring, and resources—the multiplicity of norths that appear and the spatial practices employed to negotiate it. Using innovative drawings, maps, timelines, as well as essays and interviews, Many Norths reveals a distinct northern vernacular.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- The (New) Idea of North(s)
- URBANISM
- Urbanism Timeline
- Urbanism below Zero
- Transition and Assimilation
- Migration and Permanence
- Inuit Diaspora
- Wasting Space
- Built Form and Landform
- Growth of a City
- Utility of the North
- Utility Infrastructure
- Snow Fences
- ARCHITECTURE
- Architecture Timeline
- Impermanence: Building at an Edge
- Constructing Communities
- Inuit Architecture
- Government Housing
- Fabricating a Northern Vernacular
- Climatic Factors
- Nakasuk School
- Beauty and Constraints
- Foundations
- East Three School
- MOBILITY
- Mobility Timeline
- Connectivity and Diffusion
- Wayfinding on the Land
- Inuit Navigation and Trails
- Dempster Highway
- Shipping Logistics
- Deep-Sea Ports
- Sealifting
- Making a Winter Road
- Winter Roads
- Aerial Connectivity
- MONITORING
- Monitoring Timeline
- Monitoring the Remote
- Space of Sovereignty
- Sea Ice
- DEW line
- Agency in High Arctic Modernization
- Northern Patrolling
- Search and Rescue
- Observing the North
- High Arctic Research
- Mars Simulation
- RESOURCES
- Resources Timeline
- Surface and Subsurface
- Hunting Big Food
- Bowhead Whale Hunt
- Icebergs
- Under the Ice
- Mussel Harvest
- Fur Trade
- In-Town Resources
- Gold Rush
- Extraction
- TECHNOLOGY INDEX
- From Aircraft to Wooden Posts