Many norths
Subtitle: spatial practice in a polar territory
By: Lateral Office, Lola Sheppard, & Mason White
Contributors: White, Mason, author
Publisher: Actar Publishers; Actar
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9781940291314
Subjects: Maps; Architecture; Urbanization; Natural resources; Research
Description: 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.
Notes: Technology index: pages 462-471.
Table of contents: title: The (new) idea of North(s); title: Urbanism : Urbanism timeline ; Urbanism below zero ; Transition and assimilation / Frank Tester; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Technology index : From Aircraft to Wooden posts.