| Description |
1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Series |
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Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Splintering towers of Babel: paradoxical architectures and urban infrastructures -- Introducing the splintering towers of Babel -- Book structure -- Chapter 2: Ethical infrastructure: Rethinking the relationship between the garden and the home -- Introduction: On placing and planting the garden -- Philosophical gardens -- Where are you? The question of the ethical place -- Boundaries of the garden |
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Studio: The garden space as pre-home -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The dissemination of power infrastructure in Africa through visuals of small Babel towers -- Prelude: small Babel towers of ambiguous infrastructures -- Introduction: the (in)visibility of infrastructures -- The fragility of electric power in Africa -- The flashing small Babel towers of Brazzaville -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: an interview with Baudouin Mouanda in light of the Babel tower -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Babel as paradoxical superstructures: A photography exhibition |
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The things that matter: a comment on women's bodies -- Concluding note -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Between Be'er-Sheva and Bruegel's Babel: Recollection as architectural indicator -- Introductory note: architecture, time and the city -- Temporality and place memory -- Back to Be'er-Sheva: architectural temporalities -- From Be'er-Sheva to Bruegel's Babel: recollection for sustainable urban futures -- Notes -- Chapter 8: The splendor and decline of socio-engineering projects: From Babel to colonial railways in Africa -- Preface: macro-engineering from Babel to railway projects in Africa |
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Introduction: colonial railways in Africa in historiographic view -- Setting the stage: the Lagosian context -- Tracking the route of the Lagos tram -- Lagos's ethnic composition before the tram -- Lagos's urban morphology before the tram -- The effects of the Lagos tram on urban morphology and ethnic structure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Traversing towers: A spatial reading of Emmanuel Levinas -- Introduction: multidirectional movement in the spatial thought of Levinas -- Finite and infinite movement: other than nostalgia -- Circular and open-ended movement: Odysseus versus Abraham |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Movement toward the other: between two walks |
| Subject |
Infrastructure (Economics)
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City planning
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Architecture -- Philosophy
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Space and time -- Philosophy
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Architecture -- Philosophy.
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City planning.
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Space and time -- Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Langenthal, Edna
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| ISBN |
9781000916911 |
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100091691X |
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