Main entry:

Seng, Eunice, author.

Title & Author:

Resistant city : histories, maps and the architecture of development / Eunice Seng.

Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2020]

Description:

350 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maps : territories of contestation -- Noirs : the city, the woman and other spaces -- Towers : technologies, Jardine House and metropolitan visions -- Composites : the city in a building -- Narratives : composite building studies -- Excursus : mapping toilet architecture -- Manuals : resistance in praxis -- Epilogue -- resistant domestiCities -- Afterword : utopia to realization.

Summary:

"This book is an inquiry into the space between the slowness of architecture and the speed of the city, between the skyline and the underground. It is a critical mapping of islands as territories of resistance. It explores the histories, identities, and places that are created in tandem with urban development. It endeavors to make visible the culture of resistance and architecture's complicit role in these contestations. It is about imagining the future for the reconstitution of society as a form of resistance for the present. It is about urban resilience. It is about Hong Kong, where uncertainty is the status quo"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9789811204616 hardcover
9811204616 hardcover
electronic book
9789811211690

Subject:

Architecture and society China Hong Kong.
Occupy movement China Hong Kong.
Architecture et société Chine Hongkong.
Mouvement des indignés Chine Hongkong.
Architecture and society.
Occupy movement.
Social conditions.
Hong Kong (China) Social conditions 21st century.
China Hong Kong.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308165
Call No.: BIB 253597
Status: Available