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Mobs and Microbes

Global Perspectives on Market Halls, Civic Order and Public Health

2023 || Paperback || Leila Marie Farah e.a. || Leuven University Press

Markets and market halls have always been more than about trade and nourishment. A detailed look at the histories of marketplaces provides evidence of the public health concerns they faced, as well as the social commotion, mobilization and, at times, unrest they hosted. This edited volume reappraises the market hall, examining both its architectural and its social and political significance.

Focusing on how these buildings embodied transformations in architecture and urbanism from the mid-nin...

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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 ...