TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bigon,Liora
AU  - Langenthal,Edna
TI  - Splintering towers of Babel: paradoxical architectures and urban infrastructures 
T2  - Routledge studies in urbanism and the city
SN  - 9781003408420
U1  - 363 23/eng/20230616
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
KW  - Infrastructure (Economics)
KW  - City planning
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Space and time
N2  - Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy, and ethics. The book combines transdisciplinary perspectives on the key historical, philosophical, and political issues associated with urban experiences, built forms, and infrastructure networks. It explores uneven dimensions in contemporary urbanisms and develops spatial phenomenological thinking with reference to the northern and southern hemispheres. This book connects the past and the present, in addition to Western and global South geographies, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Its main contribution is to broaden readers' understanding of infrastructure through the lens of the humanities and to engage with political, poetical, and ethical perspectives. This book is tailored to scholars working in the fields of urban planning, urban geography, architectural history, urban design, infrastructure studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, African studies, and philosophy
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003408420
ER  -