The Routledge handbook of infrastructure design : global perspectives from architectural history /: global perspectives from architectural history. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of infrastructure design; Infrastructure design
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Joseph Heathcott.
• Editors: Heathcott, Joseph, 1968-
• Contents: Infrastructure Designs: Dreaming and Building Worlds Part 1 Materialities 1 Kingship and the Rocks: Infrastructure and the Materiality of Empire 2 In Between Technology and Architecture: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the French Royal Saline 3 Cement as Weapon: Meta-Infrastructure in the "World’s Last Cement Frontier" 4 Notes from the Underworld: Excavation as Architectural Counter-History Part 2 Embodiments 5 Virtual Gardens: Gendered Space in the History of Afghanistan’s Telecommunications 6 Mobilizing Labor for Infrastructure in Northeast Brazil, 1915–1932 7 Everyday Living in Cairo’s City of the Dead Part 3 Natures 8 Dams, Lakes, and Water Sports: Building a Hybrid Landscape in Belgium’s Eau d’Heure Valley, 1933–1987 9 Pedagogic Landscapes: Recreation, Play, and Danish Infrastructure Design 10 A Vast Demographic Void: Infrastructure, Ecology, and the Amazon Part 4 Flows 11 Visualizing the Valens Aqueduct in Early Modern Istanbul 12 The Airport Terminal: Circulation and Soft Power 13 The Porous Infrastructures of Somali Malls in Cape Town Part 5 City Making 14 Bridging the Bosporus: Mobility, Geopolitics, and Urban Imaginary in Istanbul, 1933–1973 15 Brasilia, a Story Seen from the Roadside: Narratives of Landscape Transformation and the Technological Sublime 16 More than a "Circulation Machine": Recasting the Geographies of Infrastructure in Modernist Urbanism 17 Infrastructure as a Political Tool of Regime Legitimization in Doha, Qatar Part 6 The Long Road 18 The Global Spread of Street Pavement Materials and Technology, 1820–1920 19 Parallel Lines: Urban Expressways in the United States 20 Good Neighbors and Automovilistas : Imaginaries of Hemispheric Travel along the Pan-American Highway, 1936–1942 Part 7 Power Fields 21 Nuclear Power Stations in Post-War Britain: Picturesque Landscapes for the Masses 22 TVA in the Desert: U.S. Development Projects in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1951–1961 23 Shaped from Above: Cartographic Domination and U.S. Military Infrastructure in 1950s Spain Part 8 Liquid Worlds 24 Water and Infrastructure in Late Colonial Guanajuato 25 Land Reclamation in the Making of Hong Kong 26 Bombay/Mumbai Waterfronts in the Hindi Film Deewaar [The Wall ] (1975)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 624; Public works; Architecture and society
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000528633; 9781000528619; 9781003093756
• Related ISBNs: 9780367554910
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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