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Pyrotechnic Cities
- Architecture, Fire-Safety and Standardisation
Af: Liam Ross
Engelsk
Bogcover for Pyrotechnic Cities af Liam Ross, 9781032214740
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
228
ISBN-13:
9781032214740
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032214740
Udg. Dato:
29 jan 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
29 jan 2024
Forfatter(e):

Pyrotechnic Cities

- Architecture, Fire-Safety and Standardisation
Af: Liam Ross
Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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This book explores the relationship between architecture, government and fire. It posits that, through the question of fire-safety standardisation, building design comes to be both a problem for, and a tool of, government. Through a close study of fire-safety standards it demonstrates the shaping effect that architecture and the city have on the way we think about governing.

Opening with an investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire and the political actors who sought to enrol it in programmes of governmental reform before contextualising the research in current literature, the book takes four city studies, each beginning with a specific historic fire: The 1654 Great Fire of Meirecki, Edo; the 1877 town fire of Lagos; the 1911 Empire Palace Theatre fire, Edinburgh; and the 2001 World Trade Centre attack, New York. Each study identifies the governmental response to the fire, safety standards and codes designed in its wake and how these new processes spread and change.

Drawing on the work of sociologists John Law and Anne Marie Mol and their concept of ‘Fire Space’, it describes the way that architectural design, through the medium of fire, is an instrument of political agency. Pyrotechnic Cities is a critical investigation into these political implications, written for academics, researchers and students in architectural history and theory, infrastructure studies and governance.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
228
ISBN-13:
9781032214740
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032214740
Udg. Dato:
29 jan 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
29 jan 2024
Forfatter(e):
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