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Post-Traumatic Urbanism
Adrian Lahoud (Guest editor), Charles Rice (Guest editor), Anthony Burke (Guest editor)
9780470744987, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 24 September 2010
144 pages
27.7 x 21.1 x 1 cm, 0.562 kg
POST-TRAUMATIC URBANISM Urban trauma describes a condition where conflict or catastrophe has disrupted and damaged not only the physical environment and infrastructure of a city, but also the social and cultural networks. Cities experiencing trauma dominate the daily news. Images of blasted buildings or events such as Hurricane Katrina exemplify the sense of 'immediate impact'. But how is this trauma to be understood in its aftermath, and in urban terms? What is the response of the discipline to the post-traumatic condition? On the one hand, one can try to restore and recover everything that has passed, or otherwise see the post-traumatic city as a resilient space poised on the cusp of new potentialities. While repair and reconstruction are automatic reflexes, the knowledge and practices of the disciplines need to be imbued with a deeper understanding of the effect of trauma on cities and their contingent realities. This issue will pursue this latter approach, using examples of post-traumatic urban conditions to rethink the agency of architecture and urbanism in the contemporary world. Post-traumatic urbanism demands of architects the mobilisation of skills, criticality and creativity in contexts in which they are not familiar. The post-traumatic is no longer the exception; it is the global condition.
Editorial 5 About The Guest-Editors 6 Spotlight 8 Visual highlights of the issue Introduction 14 Post-Traumatic Urbanism Trauma Within the Walls: Notes Towards a Philosophy of the City 24 The Space-Time of Pre-emption: An Interview with Brian Massumi 32 Making Dubai: A Process in Crisis 38 Changes of State: Slow Motion Trauma in the Gangetic Plains of India 44 After the Event: Speculative Projects in the Aftermath 50 Forensic Architecture 58 The Infrastructure of Stability 64 Post-Apocalypse Now 70 The Eighth Day: God Created the World in Seven Days. 74 Figures in the Sand 78 The Urban Complex: Scalar Probabilities and Urban Computation 86 Project for a Mediterranean Union 92 Fearscapes: Caracas Postcards from a Violent City 102 Energy Territories 108 Architecture, Contingency and Crisis: An Interview with Slavoj iek 112 The Very Mark of Repression: The Demolition Theatre of the Palast der Republik and the New Schloss Berlin 116 On Message: An Interview with Michael Chertoff 124 Borderline Syndrome 126 COUNTERPOINT Rebuilding from Below the Bottom: Haiti 128
Helen Castle
Adrian Lahoud, Charles Rice and Anthony Burke
Adrian Lahoud
Andrew Benjamin
Charles Rice
Todd Reisz
Anthony Acciavatti
Samantha Spurr
Eyal Weizman, Paulo Tavares, Susan Schuppli and Situ Studio
Tarsha Finney
Mark Fisher
This is The Eighth Day
Tony Chakar
Christopher Hight and Michael Robinson
Anthony Burke
Adrian Lahoud
Eduardo Kairuz
Anthony Burke
Adrian Lahoud
Khadija Carroll La
Charles Rice
Ole Bouman
Jayne Merkel and Craig Whitaker
Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
