Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis

by Bingaman,Amy; Bingaman,Amy

• ISBN13: 9780415248136
• ISBN10: 0415248132
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134537563
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Utopia has been considered a dirty word in recent architectural scholarship. The essays in this volume reassess utopian projects - masculinist, feminist, colonist and progressive - of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they survey the present dystopian landscape and look at the future potential of the embodied approach to the urban landscape. With contributors from a wide range of fields including architecture, urban planning, art, art history, philosophy and gender studiesEmbodied Utopiasmakes important contributions to the ongoing dialogue between the theory, history and practice of architecture and urban design.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Notes on Contributors	x
Foreword	xiv
Acknowledgements	xvii
Embodied Utopia: Introduction	1	(12)
Amy Bingaman
Lise Sanders
Rebecca Zorach
PART I	13	(20)
Is There a Built Form for Non-Patriarchal Utopias?	15	(18)
Thomas A. Markus
PART II: CIVILIZATION/DEGENERATION: DESIRE AND REPULSION IN THE MODERN CITY	33	(60)
Introduction	34	(3)
Lise Sanders
Making the City Beautiful: Aesthetic Reform and the (Dis)placement of Bodies	37	(18)
Margaret E. Farrar
Urban Space, Modernity, and Masculinist Desire: The Utopian Longings of Le Corbusier	55	(24)
Barbara Hooper
Dystopia in Utopia: Exoticism and Degeneration in Indochina, 1890-1940	79	(14)
Hazel Hahn
PART III: AT HOME IN PUBLIC	93	(40)
Introduction	94	(5)
Peg Birmingham
At Home in Public: The Hull House Settlement and the Study of the City	99	(17)
Sharon Haar
Utopian Visions and Architectural Designs of Turn-of-the-Century Social Settlements	116	(17)
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
PART IV: ESPRIT DE CORPS AND ESPRIT DECOR: DOMESTICITY, COMMUNITY AND CREATIVE AUTONOMY IN THE BUILDING OF FEMALE PUBLIC IDENTITY	133	(34)
Introduction	134	(5)
Amy Bingaman
A Women's Berlin: How Female Patrons and Architects in Imperial Germany Re-Gendered the City	139	(17)
Despina Stratigakos
Endeavours and Expectations: Housing Washington's Women	156	(11)
Kelly Quinn
PART V: EMBODYING URBAN DESIGN	167	(52)
Introduction	168	(5)
Anthony Raynsford
Personal City: Tysons Corner and the Question of Identity	173	(15)
Brent Stringfellow
Re-Reading Disney's Celebration: Gendered Topography in a Heterotopian Pleasure Garden	188	(16)
Andrew Wood
Bangkok Simultopia	204	(15)
Brian P. McGrath
PART VI: HAUNTING THE CITY	219	(60)
Introduction	220	(5)
Rebecca Zorach
Networked Interventions: Debugging the Electronic Frontier	225	(17)
Christa Erickson
Frugality and the City: Hanoi Palimpsest	242	(14)
May Joseph
Against Utopia: The Romance of Indeterminate Spaces	256	(9)
Elizabeth Wilson
PART VII
The Time of Architecture	265	(14)
Elizabeth Grosz
Bibliography	279	(26)
Index	305