عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
T655
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The Urban (in)Formal Reinterpreting the Globalized City through Deleuze and Guattari
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor: McLaren, Brian L.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Washington: United States -- Washington
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
140 Pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Master's
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This thesis provides a new definition of globalization within the social and spatial terrains of cities, one that is intricately linked to the growth of "informal urbanism," sub-market economies and the ad-hoc construction of slums. It argues that informality is not anomalous to the otherwise homogenized image of the contemporary global city, but rather forms a crucial part of an urban terrain created from a configuration of opposing forces, the formal and the informal, which are in a constant state of exchange. In support of these arguments, this thesis draws upon Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus . The theoretical source is crucial as it offers an interpretation of the city as an assemblage of disparate pieces, their relationships being a negotiation of "the smooth and the striated," the whole being a body like the "rhizome." These theorists supply this thesis' vocabulary and conceptualization, used as new tools for interpretation and description. This thesis then uses multi-scalar case studies informed by these writings in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Caracas, Venezuela, to reinterpret the globalized city. It considers each city's historical narrative, as well as the role of informality on the urban and neighborhood scales, to demonstrate complexity within the socio-spatial terrain of the city, developed from a interplay between many seemingly incongruous segments.. Reinterpreting the contemporary global city through the dynamic exchange between these informal and formal geographies, this thesis asserts that informality is merely a different expression of the forces that accompany globalization and in so doing it advocates for a more holistic view. It questions the bases of contemporary urban analysis and challenges prior research to reevaluate the very nature of how cities are considered. Informality is one piece of the urban terrain - a layering of disparate elements. It is a condition not yet adequately understood in the discourses of modern Western urban theory, but one that will offer some insight into the future of the metropolis.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Architecture
Urban planning
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences
Subject Term
Communication and the arts
Subject Term
Deleuze
Subject Term
Guattari
Subject Term
Informality
Subject Term
Urbanism
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Co, Allan Villanueva
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
McLaren, Brian L., supervisor
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TL655.pdf
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