Splintering Towers of Babel

Splintering Towers of Babel

Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures

Bigon, Liora; Langenthal, Edna

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11/2024

198

Mole

9781032527987

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Foreword by Grey Gundaker

Preface






Introduction: splintering towers of Babel: paradoxical architectures and urban infrastructures



Ethical infrastructure: rethinking the relationship between the garden and the home



The dissemination of power infrastructure in Africa through visuals of small Babel towers



Babel as paradoxical superstructures: a photography exhibition



Agon - ???? as the essence of urbanity



A Babylonia of heritage and destruction: gendered architecture and gender-based violence in Timbuktu



Between Be'er-Sheva and Bruegel's Babel: recollection as architectural indicator



The splendor and decline of socio-engineering projects: from Babel to colonial railways in Africa



Traversing towers: a spatial reading of Emmanuel Levinas



Revealing the polyvocality of street names: Babel as a parable



Conclusion: Urban and infrastructural experiences beyond the confusion of Babel

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Urban Studies;Area Studies;Architecture;infrastructure;philosophy;Tower of Babel;cities;ethical infrastructure;Mesopotamia;soft infrastructure;infrastructure theory;Jihadist Terrorist Activity;Ram Karmi;Infrastructural Visibility;Street Lighting Conditions;Pieter Bruegel;Aga Khan Foundation;Creation Of The World;Tel Aviv;Wander;Urban Existence;Transportation Networks;Lighthouse;Held;Lagos Island;Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen;Metaphysical Desire;Street Naming;Splintering Urbanism;Ancient Greek Polis;Street Morphology;Hanging Gardens;Labelle Prussin;Colonial Administration;Architectural Indicator