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Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Arctic - and it shows how the Arctic city offers valuable lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban planning history elsewhere.
Examining architects' and planners' designs for Arctic urban futures, it considers the impact of 20th-century models of urban design and planning in Arctic cities, and reveals how contemporary architectural approaches continue to this day to essentialize 'extreme' climate conditions and disregard the agency of Arctic city-dwellers - a critical perspective that is vital to the formulation of future design and planning practices in the region.
List of contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Framing the Arctic City
1. Introducing the Arctic
2. Building cities in the Arctic
3. Studying Arctic cities
Part Two: Arctic urban development
4. Developing Russia's Arctic cities
5. Developing Canada's Arctic cities
6. Developing Greenland's cities
Part Three: Constructing the Arctic city
7. Defining Arctic urbanism
8. The architects of the Arctic city
9. Learning from the Arctic city
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Peter Hemmersam is Professor in Urban Design at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Director of the Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway.
Summary
Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Arctic – and it shows how the Arctic city offers valuable lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban planning history elsewhere.
Examining architects’ and planners’ designs for Arctic urban futures, it considers the impact of 20th-century models of urban design and planning in Arctic cities, and reveals how contemporary architectural approaches continue to this day to essentialize ‘extreme’ climate conditions and disregard the agency of Arctic city-dwellers – a critical perspective that is vital to the formulation of future design and planning practices in the region.
Foreword
The first book to uncover the hidden post-colonial history of architecture and urban planning in the Arctic.
Additional text
To understand the mechanisms of Arctic urbanism, the publication Making the Arctic City by Peter Hemmersam is very recommended.
