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Forest Urbanisms
New Non-Human and Human Ecologies for the 21st Century
2024 || Paperback || Wim Wambecq e.a. || Leuven University Press
This publication brings together essays by scholars in forestry, urbanism and other disciplines, designers, practitioners and policy makers. It explores the multifaceted notion of forest urbanisms, including a conceptual framing essay; contributions from the sciences such as bioscience engineering, architecture, urbanism and public policy; contemporary forest urbanism projects and explorative essays that make tangible an agenda for the 21st century. With descriptions of both built and non-bui...
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Making Home(s) in Displacement
Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice
2022 || Paperback || Luce Beeckmans e.a. || Leuven University Press
Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabricat...
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Contested Legacies
Critical Perspectives on Post-war Modern Housing
2023 || Paperback || Andrea Migotto e.a. || Leuven University Press
In the light of the current housing and environmental crisis and increasing social inequalities, there is a growing sense of urgency for architecture as a discipline to engage with the transformation in housing evident in the postwar period. Rather than conceiving this task as a technical matter, this book proposes to reassess the conditions and legacy of this large and ubiquitous housing stock. By foregrounding the mismatch between constructed cultural, social and ideological narratives and ...