Main entry:

Sheppard, Lola, 1972- author.

Title & Author:

Many norths : spatial practice in a polar territory / Lateral Office, Lola Sheppard, & Mason White.

Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers, [2017]
©2017

Description:

xii, 471 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Technology index: pages 462-471.
Includes bibliographical references.
The (new) idea of North(s) -- Urbanism : Urbanism timeline ; Urbanism below zero ; Transition and assimilation / Frank Tester -- Migration and permanence ; Inuit diaspora ; Wasting space / Jack Kobayashi ; Built form and land form ; Growth of a city ; Utility of the north / Peter Clarkson ; Utility infrastructure ; Snow fences -- Architecture : Architecture timeline ; Impermanence: building at an edge ; Constructing communities / Harold Strub ; Inuit architecture ; Government housing ; Fabricating a northern vernacular / Guy Gérin-Lajoie ; Climatic factors ; Nakasuk School ; Beauty and constraints / Gino Pin ; Foundations ; East Three School -- Mobility : Mobility timeline ; Connectivity and diffusion ; Wayfinding on the land / Claudio Aporta ; Inuit navigation and trails ; Dempster Highway ; Shipping logistics / Thomas Paterson ; Deep-sea ports ; Sealifting ; Making a winter road / Tim Tattrie ; Winter roads ; Aerial connectivity -- Monitoring : Monitoring timeline ; Monitoring the remote ; Space of sovereignty / Shelagh Grant ; Sea ice ; DEW line ; Agency in high Arctic modernization / P. Whitney Lackenbauer ; Northern patrolling ; Search and rescue ; Observing the North / David J. Scott ; Hight Arctic research ; Mars simulation -- Resources : Resources timeline ; Surface and subsurface ; Hunting big food / Charlie Qumuatuq ; Bowhead whale hunt ; Icebergs ; Under the ice / Aloupa Kulula ; Mussel harvest ; Fur trade ; In-town resources / Jim R. Brown ; Gold rush ; Extraction -- Technology index : From Aircraft to Wooden posts.

Summary:

Next North charts unique, often surreal spatial realities of Canada's arctic regions, documenting the geospatial, infrastructural, techno-cultural, and architectural innovations that have enabled modern life in this territory of climatic and cultural extremes. It is a region where the reality of daily life is often stranger and more extraordinary than any fiction one could envision. This unprecedented book documents the region through five themes: settlements, architecture, mobility, monitoring, and resources. Next North reveals the challenges and opportunities of building, mobility, and culture in the dispersed communities of the Canadian North, and speculates the emergence of a contemporary northern, or arctic, vernacular. Next North offers a unique look at Canada's "many norths," uncovering the compelling story of northern inhabitation and cultural adaptation through architecture, landscape, and infrastructure development over the past 100 years.

ISBN:

9781940291314 (hardback)
1940291313 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture Canada, Northern.
Urbanization Canada, Northern.
Natural resources Canada, Northern.
Architecture Arctic regions.
Natural resources Arctic regions.
Urbanisation Canada (Nord)
Ressources naturelles Canada (Nord)
Architecture Arctique.
Ressources naturelles Arctique.
Architecture.
Natural resources.
Research.
Urbanization.
Canada, Northern.
Canada, Northern Maps.
Arctic regions.
Arctic regions Maps.
Arctic regions Research.
Canada (Nord)
Canada (Nord) Cartes.
Arctique.
Arctique Cartes.
Arctique Recherche.
Arctic Regions.
Northern Canada.

Form/genre:

Maps.
Cartes géographiques.

Added entries:

White, Mason, author.
Lateral Office (Firm), issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294368
Call No.: BIB 239917
Status: Available