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The ambivalence of urban obsolescence: questioning emancipatory design practices in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The research draws on the transdisciplinary debate, emerging within urban studies, which highlights the proliferation of fenced environments in the contemporary city. The research considers such environments to be tangible manifestations of dynamics of securitisation, control, privatisation, commodification, exclusion, depoliticisation. The research analyses therefore the production of the fenced city as essentially revolving around two archetypes: the gated community and the camp, as expressions respectively of phenomena of voluntary seclusion and forced confinement. The research interprets such archetypes from a twofold perspective: drawing, on one side, from governmental studies; and on the other side, from urban design studies. Expanding the trans-disciplinary character of the research (drawing from disciplines such as urban history, political economy, gender studies, performative arts), the research constructs a debate on urbanisms characterised by obsolescing phenomena: spaces of abandonment and dereliction, but also apparently leftover spaces, or interstitial and marginal ones. The analysis of such debate highlights a latent ambivalence: on one side, obsolescence is seen to partake into the production of the fenced city, through cycles of ruination, demolition, displacement; on the other side, obsolescence is read as emancipating from such production, creating the conditions for opening up, decommodifying, repoliticising the contemporary fenced city. Do camp-like or gated-community-like dynamics emerge even within obsolescing urbanisms? Or, conversely, do emancipatory practices emerge? The research attempts to answer such questions, challenging both sides of the debate. It does so investigating, at multiple scales, the reality of several obsolescing urbanisms in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The research concludes suggesting an epistemological shift, that would place obsolescence at the centre of the understanding of the current dynamics of urban transformation. In so doing, the research questions the relevance ...
The ambivalence of urban obsolescence: questioning emancipatory design practices in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The research draws on the transdisciplinary debate, emerging within urban studies, which highlights the proliferation of fenced environments in the contemporary city. The research considers such environments to be tangible manifestations of dynamics of securitisation, control, privatisation, commodification, exclusion, depoliticisation. The research analyses therefore the production of the fenced city as essentially revolving around two archetypes: the gated community and the camp, as expressions respectively of phenomena of voluntary seclusion and forced confinement. The research interprets such archetypes from a twofold perspective: drawing, on one side, from governmental studies; and on the other side, from urban design studies. Expanding the trans-disciplinary character of the research (drawing from disciplines such as urban history, political economy, gender studies, performative arts), the research constructs a debate on urbanisms characterised by obsolescing phenomena: spaces of abandonment and dereliction, but also apparently leftover spaces, or interstitial and marginal ones. The analysis of such debate highlights a latent ambivalence: on one side, obsolescence is seen to partake into the production of the fenced city, through cycles of ruination, demolition, displacement; on the other side, obsolescence is read as emancipating from such production, creating the conditions for opening up, decommodifying, repoliticising the contemporary fenced city. Do camp-like or gated-community-like dynamics emerge even within obsolescing urbanisms? Or, conversely, do emancipatory practices emerge? The research attempts to answer such questions, challenging both sides of the debate. It does so investigating, at multiple scales, the reality of several obsolescing urbanisms in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The research concludes suggesting an epistemological shift, that would place obsolescence at the centre of the understanding of the current dynamics of urban transformation. In so doing, the research questions the relevance ...
The ambivalence of urban obsolescence: questioning emancipatory design practices in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Talocci, Giorgio (author) / Boano, C / Fiori, J
2020-02-28
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
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