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The view from above :

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0262312646

(Number (ISBN

9780262312646

Erroneous ISBN

0262018799

Erroneous ISBN

9780262018791

Title Proper

The view from above :

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[Book]

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the science of social space /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jeanne Haffner.

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Cambridge, Mass. :

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MIT Press,

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©2013.

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1 online resource

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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From enthusiasm to expertise : aerial vision from before the airplane to the aftermath of World War I -- The politics of spatial form : aerial photography in social scientific research, architecture, and urban planning, 1920s-1930s -- The opportunity of war -- Modeling the social and the spatial : "social space" in postwar French social scientific research -- From distanced observation to active participation : social space, participatory planning, and the demise of vision in 1960s France.

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In mid-twentieth century France, the term "social space" (l'espace social) -- the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked -- emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also came to inform the practice of urban planning. In The View from Above, Jeanne Haffner traces the evolution of the science of social space from the interwar period to the 1970s, illuminating in particular the role of aerial photography in this new way of conceptualizing socio-spatial relations. As early as the 1930s, the view from above served for Marcel Griaule and other anthropologists as a means of connecting the social and the spatial. Just a few decades later, the Marxist urban sociologist Henri Lefebvre called the perspective enabled by aerial photography -- a technique closely associated with the French colonial state and military -- "the space of state control." Lefebvre and others nevertheless used the notion of social space to recast the problem of massive modernist housing projects (grands ensembles) to encompass the modern suburb (banlieue) itself -- a critique that has contemporary resonance in light of the banlieue riots of 2005 and 2007. Haffner shows how such "views" permitted new ways of conceptualizing the old problem of housing to emerge. She also points to broader issues, including the influence of the colonies on the metropole, the application of sociological expertise to the study of the built environment, and the development of a spatially oriented critique of capitalism.

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JSTOR

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MIT Press

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MIT Press

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22573/ctt5dfhcm

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7878

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9780262312646

Title

View from above.

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9780262018791

Space-- Social aspects.

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PHOTOGRAPHY-- History.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Human Geography.

Sozialraum

Visualisierung

PHO010000

SCI034000

SOC-- 015000

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Haffner, Jeanne,1973-

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20200822104538.0

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[Book]

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