Embodied Utopias (Architext Series)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of Figures......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Foreword......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Embodied Utopia: Introduction......Page 20
Is There a Built Form for Non-Patriarchal Utopias?......Page 34
CIVILIZATION/DEGENERATION: DESIRE AND REPULSION IN THE MODERN CITY......Page 52
Introduction by......Page 53
Making the City Beautiful: Aesthetic Reform and the  (Dis)placement of Bodies......Page 56
Urban Space, Modernity, and Masculinist Desire:  The Utopian Longings of Le Corbusier......Page 74
Dystopia in Utopia: Exoticism and Degeneration in  Indochina, 1890  1940......Page 98
AT HOME IN PUBLIC......Page 112
Introduction by......Page 113
At Home in Public: The Hull House Settlement and the  Study of the City......Page 118
Utopian Visions and Architectural Designs of  Turn-of-the-Century Social Settlements......Page 135
ESPRIT DE CORPS AND ESPRIT DCOR: DOMESTICITY, COMMUNITY AND CREATIVE AUTONOMY IN THE BUILDING OF FEMALE PUBLIC IDENTITY......Page 152
Introduction by......Page 153
A Women's Berlin: How Female Patrons and Architects in Imperial  Germany Re-Gendered the City......Page 158
Endeavours and Expectations: Housing Washington's Women......Page 175
EMBODYING URBAN DESIGN......Page 186
Introduction by......Page 187
Personal City: Tysons Corner and the Question of Identity......Page 192
Re-Reading Disney's Celebration: Gendered Topography  in a Heterotopian Pleasure Garden......Page 207
Bangkok Simultopia......Page 223
HAUNTING THE CITY......Page 238
Introduction by......Page 239
Networked Interventions: Debugging the Electronic Frontier......Page 244
Frugality and the City: Hanoi Palimpsest......Page 261
Against Utopia: The Romance of Indeterminate Spaces......Page 275
The Time of Architecture......Page 284
Bibliography......Page 298
Index......Page 324