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Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.
As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic, the future trajectories for living environments, city-making processes, and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners, positioning the Arctic as a dynamic, diverse, and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socioenvironmental transformations. The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; similarities and differences in the development of design and planning approaches responsive to specific climatic and cultural conditions; and historical and geographic case studies that provide unique perspectives for the management of the built environment, from the scales of a building and infrastructure to cities and territories. Altogether, the contributions expand regional Arctic design scholarship to understand how the variability of the Arctic context influences the designed urban, architecture, and landscape systems, and offer numerous lessons for design and other forms of spatial practice both within and beyond the Arctic.
This is a unique resource for researchers, creative practitioners, policymakers, and community decision-makers, as well as for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
List of contents
Introduction: Grounding Design in the Arctic 1. The Heterogeneity of Arctic Cities 2. Infrastructural Urbanization of the Arctic 3. Comfort and Discomfort: Conflicting Concerns in Arctic Urban Planning and Design 4. Reframing Urban Relocation in Kiruna, Sweden: An Integrative Ownership Model for Resident-Led Transformations 5. Airport Landscapes: The Case of Qaqortoq Airport, South Greenland 6. Green Spaces in the Context of Changing Human-Environment Relations in Siberian Cities 7. Principles of Northern Housing Design with Examples from Alaska 8. Doing Things Differently: Design Research in Partnership with Innu and Inuit Communities in Northern Québec, Canada 9. Love and Care for Place in an Arctic Community: Place Development in Vardø, Norway 10. Land Inside
About the author
Leena Cho is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, co-director of Arctic Design Group (ADG), and co-principal of the design practice Kutonotuk. Her research centers on material agencies, urban landscapes, and scientific sites in the Arctic environments.
Matthew Jull, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, co-director of Arctic Design Group (ADG), and co-principal of the design practice Kutonotuk. Merging backgrounds in both architecture and as a research scientist in geophysics, his work examines the design of cities and buildings in extreme environments.
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Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.
