num_pages: 300
description: A sweeping historical analysis of the complex relationship between social criticism and built form, Emancipating Space examines the interconnections of architecture and social climate. Including 45 black-and-white illustrations of buildings and public spaces, the book argues that those concerned with urban design and social change should make their contribution to bringing about a better world by designing spaces based in utopian or emancipatory theories. Author Ross King presents theories of social improvement and architecture since the enlightenment with an eye toward developing new urban design ideas for the postmodern era. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.1. Introduction: The Design of the City, The Progress of Modernity, and the Crisis of Postmodernity2. Space and Power:The Enlightenment3. Space and the Commodity: The Nineteenth Century and the Rise of Modernity4. The Space of Revolution: 1900 and the Maelstrom5. The 1920s as Crucible: Translation, Vkhutemas, and the Bauhaus6. The Universal Space of the Twentieth Century: Voyages Against the Ebb7. The Space of Signs: 1968, Modernity, and Postmodernity8. "Postmodern"9. Space and Deconstruction: Map as Myth10. Conclusion: New Geography11. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity versus Postmodernity12. Conclusion: New Architecture, New Urban Design
language: English
title: Emancipating Space: Geography, Architecture, and Urban Design
publisher: The Guilford Press/Guilford Publications, Inc.