Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private spaces. The essays in Embodied Utopias argue that the gendered body is the crux of the hopes and disappointments of modern urban and suburban utopias of the Americas, Europe and Asia. They reassess utopian projects - masculinist, feminist, colonialist, progressive - of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; they survey the dystopian landscapes of the present; and they gesture at the potential for an embodied approach to the urban future, to the changing spaces of cities and virtual landscapes.
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'Stimulating ... breaks new ground in trying to draw together themes of space, gender and utopia.' - Ruth Levitas, Urban Studies, 2003
List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors x Foreword xiv Acknowledgements xvii Embodied Utopia: Introduction 1(14) Amy Bingaman Lise Sanders Rebecca Zorach PART I Is There a Built Form for Non-Patriarchal Utopias? 15(18) Thomas A. markus PART II: CIVILIZATION/DEGENERATION: DESIRE AND REPULSION IN THE MODERN CITY 33(60) Introduction 34(3) Lise Sanders Making the City Beautiful: Aesthetic Reform and the (Dis)placement of Bodies 37(18) Margaret E. Farrar Urban Space, Modernity, and Masculinist Desire: The Utopian Longings of Le Corbusier 55(24) Barbara Hooper Dystopia in Utopia: Exoticism and Degeneration in Indochina, 1890-1940 79(14) Hazel Hahn PART III: AT HOME IN PUBLIC 93(40) Introduction 94(5) Peg Birmingham At Home in Public: The Hull House Settlement and the Study of the City 99(17) Sharon Haar Utopian Visions and Architectural Designs of Turn-of-the-Century Social Settlements 116(17) Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood PART IV: ESPRIT DE CORPS AND ESPRIT DECOR: DOMESTICITY, COMMUNITY AND CREATIVE AUTONOMY IN THE BUILDING OF FEMALE PUBLIC IDENTITY 133(34) Introduction 134(5) Amy Bingaman A Womens Berlin: How Female Patrons and Architects in Imperial Germany Re-Gendered the City 139(17) Despina Stratigakos Endeavours and Expectations: Housing Washingtons Women 156(11) Kelly Quinn PART V: EMBODYING URBAN DESIGN 167(52) Introduction 168(5) Anthony Raynsford Personal City: Tysons Corner and the Question of Identity 173(15) Brent Stringfellow Re-Reading Disneys Celebration: Gendered Topography in a Heterotopian Pleasure Garden 188(16) Andrew Wood Bangkok Simultopia 204(15) Brian P. McGrath PART VI: HAUNTING THE CITY 219(44) Introduction 220(5) Rebecca Zorach Networked Interventions: Debugging the Electronic Frontier 225(17) Christa Erickson Frugality and the City: Hanoi Palimpsest 242(14) May Joseph Against Utopia: The Romance of Indeterminate Spaces 256(7) Elizabeth Wilson PART VII 263(16) The Time of Architecture 265(14) Elizabeth Grosz Bibliography 279(26) Index 305
Rebecca Zorach, Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders
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