Visualizing the Invisible Towards an Urban Space

✍ Scribed by Stephen Read, Camilo Pinilla

• Publisher: Techne Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Series: Spacelab Books
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Visualizing the Invisible explores a possible nature of the contemporary urban, drawing on structuralist, post-structuralist and ‘organic’ philosophy (Whitehead, Gregory Bateson, Lefebvre, Foucault, Bergson, Deleuze, Latour, and others). It also looks at the city itself – in its origins as polis, in its spatial evolution, and in the hybridizing properties of network.

With contributions from: Patrick Healy, Gerhard Bruyns, Deborah Hauptmann, Stephen Read, and John Law.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Towards an Urban Space......Page 8
Pollachos Polis Legetai (There are many ways to say polis); or: Community and the Visible of the City......Page 22
Problematizing the Virtual: on Lefebvre and the Urban Problematic......Page 34
The Urban Machine......Page 54
A Brief History of Flights to the Periphery and Other Movement Matters......Page 70
Networks, Relations, Cyborgs: on the Social Study of Technology......Page 86
Ubuntu: Post-Colonial Urban Tribe Space......Page 100
Urban Re-vision: The Market Supply Facility of Bogotá......Page 110
In-Between Spaces......Page 120
Exchange Request: Urban Interactions at Los Héroes Junction, Bogotá......Page 130
Hafencity Hamburg: Constructing an Active Waterfront......Page 140
Edge in Transition......Page 148
Urban Compressor: Urban Transformation Plan for Plaza Venezuela Area, Caracas......Page 156
Re-Thinking the Border: Between Reykjavik City Centre and Harbor......Page 164
Living Fossils: The Integrative Re-habitation of the Qianhai Area, Shichahai, Beijing......Page 172
Spaces in Transition: Renewal Strategy for a 'Mega-structure' in Seoul......Page 180
Hidden Places, Hidden Powers......Page 188