Heterotopia and the City

Heterotopia, literally meaning 'other place', is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. "Heterotopia and the City" seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets.With theoretical contributions on the concept of heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucault's influential 1967 text, "Of Other Space" and essays by well-known scholars, the book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and which redirect the debate on the privatization of public space. Wastelands and "terrains vagues" are studied in detail in a section on urban activism and transgression and the reader gets a glimpse of the extremes of our dualized, postcivil condition through case studies on Jakarta, Dubai, and Kinshasa."Heterotopia and the City" provides a collective effort to reposition heterotopia as a crucial concept for contemporary urban theory. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to understand the city in the emerging postcivil society and post-historical era. Planners, architects, cultural theorists, urbanists and academics will find this a valuable contribution to current critical argument.

ISBN 0415422884   Pages 360 ISBN13 9780415422888 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 726 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 13 May 2008   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2007018246   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 307.1216   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction		1
		Heterotopia in a postcivil society by Michiel Dehaene and Lieven de Cauter		3
Pt. 1		Heterotopology: 'a science in the making'		11
		Of other spaces (1967) by Michel Foucault		13
		Heterotopia: an ecology by James D. Faubion		31
		Heterotopia: anamnesis of a medical term by Heidi Sohn		41
Pt. 2		Heterotopia revisited		51
		The many mirrors of Foucault and their architectural reflections by M. Christine Boyer		53
		Heterotopias of difference by Marco Cenzatti		75
		The space of play: towards a general theory of heterotopia by Lieven de Cauter and Michiel Dehaene		87
Pt. 3		The mall as agora - the agora as mall		103
		Heterotopia of the theme park street by Kathleen Kern		105
		Between shopping malls and agoras: a French history of 'protected public space' by Clement Orillard		117
		'A kind of instinct': the cinematic mall as heterotopia by Douglas Muzzio and Jessica Muzzio-Rentas		137
Pt. 4		Dwelling in a postcivil society		151
		The gated community as heterotopia by Setha Low		153
		A master-planned community as heterotopia: The Villages, Florida by Hugh Bartling		165
		The 'institutionalization' of heterotopias in Singapore by Xavier Guillot		179
Pt. 5		Terrains vagues: transgression and urban activism		189
		Public-space heterotopias: heterotopias of masculinity along the Tel Aviv shoreline by Yael Allweil and Rachel Kallus		191
		"...those marvellous empty zones on the edge of our cities": heterotopia and the 'dead zone' by Gil Doron		203
		Stalker unbounded: urban activism and the terrain vague as heterotopia by default by Peter Lang		215
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