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Provisional Cities

Cautionary Tales for the Anthropocene

By: Renata Tyszczuk

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Provisional Cities

Cautionary Tales for the Anthropocene

By: Renata Tyszczuk

This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene – the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the Earth system. It charts an environmental history of curfews, admonitions and alarms about dwelling on Earth. ‘Provisional cities’ are explored as exemplary sites for thinking about living in this unsettled time. Each chapter focuses on cities, settlements or proxy urbanisations, including past disaster zones, remote outposts in the present and future urban fossils. The book explores the dynamic, changing and contradictory relationship between architecture and the global environmental crisis and looks at how to re-position architectural and urban practice in relation to wider intellectual, environmental, political and cultural shifts. The book argues that these rounder and richer accounts can better equip humanity to think through questions of vulnerability, responsibility and opportunity that are presented by immense processes of planetary change. These are cautionary tales for the Anthropocene. Central to this project is the proposition that living with uncertainty requires that architecture is reframed as a provisional practice. This book would be beneficial to students and academics working in architecture, geography, planning and environmental humanities as well as professionals working to shape the future of cities.

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The Story of an Architect King

Stanislas Leszczynski in Lorraine 1737-1766

By: Renata Tyszczuk

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The Story of an Architect King

Stanislas Leszczynski in Lorraine 1737-1766

By: Renata Tyszczuk

In this book the author explores the representational strategies of the modern period and their relation to political life through the story of Stanislas Leszczynski, architect king and roi bienfaisant, 'a king that does good'. The ingredients of his story are compelling. They include: an exiled king (who makes a cameo appearance in Voltaire's Candide and corresponds with Rousseau); a collection of writings that include aphorisms, political treatises, and a utopian novel; gardens that include a grotto of eighty-six life-size automata and an experimental village of courtiers; and architecture and landscapes that traverse the contested boundaries of central Europe, imaginary constructions of the orient, and the borderlines between fact and fiction. These come together to make a distinctive account of the transitional period in eighteenth-century culture. Stanislas' architectural and literary works were rooted in an acceptance of the uncertainty of the world more characteristic of the story. His 'hope of a better age' emerges as an endeavour - through the writing and the architecture - to find one's own meaning in history as well as a model for the good life. His story suggests a way of exploring what this struggle still entails today.

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Peter Lang

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Provisional Cities

Cautionary Tales for the Anthropocene

By: Renata Tyszczuk

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Cautionary Tales for the Anthropocene

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The Story of an Architect King

Stanislas Leszczynski in Lorraine 1737-1766

By: Renata Tyszczuk

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Stanislas Leszczynski in Lorraine 1737-1766

By: Renata Tyszczuk

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Provisional Cities

Provisional Cities

The Story of an Architect King

The Story of an Architect King

Provisional Cities

Provisional Cities

The Story of an Architect King

The Story of an Architect King

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