reading socio-spatial interplay - contents
Contents
ZOOMING IN 1
PART 1:
1. HUNTING IN THEORETICAL LANDSCAPES
An empirical reference analysis in Oslo 19
Dag Østerberg: Architecture and sociology in Oslo 19
Critical deliberations on Østerberg’s approach 21
An excursion: dialectical perspectives on power, spaces and production 33
Deleuze and Guattari: space striation vs. making smooth space 34
Michel De Certeau: Strategies and tactics 42
Approaches to transformation of socio-spatial or socio-material structures49
Lefebvre’s production of social space vs.Rossi’s production of architectural space 49
Corresponding analytical concepts for investigation of dynamic
interrelations 58
Lefebvre’s triad of socio-spatial dialectics 63
Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis 66
Bourdieu and issues of architecture 72
Social space and its transformation – according to Bourdieu 75
Lefebvre and Bourdieu combined 78
Summary remarks 78
2. AN APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURAL DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL SPACE
PRODUCTION 81
Introduction 81
To relate urban practices to patterns of material and
cultural consumption 84
The material (object) and its use value 85
Architecture and urban areas as objects of taste and consumption 86
The relevance of Lefebvre’s perspective 88
Urban social space: not only homologies and distinctions,
but encounters of differences 88
Rhythmanalysis revisited – a triadic approach to encounters
and differences 89
Summary remarks 100
3. A METHOD FOR ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS OF INTERRELATED
PATTERNS 101
Introduction 101
Meaning and socio-material complexity 103
Analysis of differences in complex and dynamic landscapes 108
A method for analysis of function and “meaning” related to
architectural differences 111
Architectural systems and primary elements (a + b) 113
Iconographic analysis of architectural uses of visual means (c) 123
Rhythmic, relational patterns in architecture (“syntagms”) 126
The architectural case study analysis 131
First step: a diachronic study of the production of differentiated
architectural landscapes in Oslo 131
Second step: Recent patterns in architectural transformation 132
PART 2:
4. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL
PATTERNS
Introduction 135
The architectural structure before 1850 136
Primary elements from before 1850 136
Architectural systems and environmental types from before 1850 138
Parks and public accessible gardens before 1850 140
The 1850-1900 industrial growth belt 141
Primary elements 141
The architectural system of urban blocks from 1850 - 1900 143
Parks, squares and open spaces 144
The 19th century urban apartment block 145
The 1900-50 early modernist growth belt 150
Primary elements and the architectural system 152
Sport parks, playgrounds, lawns for use 155
Environmental types in the reformed urban block system of 1900-1945 157
The 1950 – 1980 general plan growth belt 161
Primary elements and planning principles 161
Typological evolution and 3 generations of satellite towns170
Summary remarks187
5. PATTERNS IN ARCHITECTURAL TRANSFORMATION 1980 – 2007
Introduction190
Counter-reactions against modernist architecture in general and urban clearance plans in particular 190
Morphological transformation at Grønland & Grünerløkka192
Modernized apartments and changes in the system of outdoor spaces 192
Iconographical and micro-morphological streetscape transformations197
Tendencies197
Hairdressers 203
Specialist food stores 208
Cafés, pubs and eateries 214
Introduction of new types of buildings 229
Grünerløkka and Grønland: New apartment block types 229
New specialized building types introducing oriental iconography 233
Stability and dynamics related to structural elements 235
Architectural stability and changes at Furuset 235
Symbolic and programmatic transformation along Akerselva River 238
Summary remarks 241
6. SPATIAL NARRATIVES
Introduction243
The search for a way to group dispositions in order to
study patterns 247
Layers of dispositions and production of a differentiated
urban landscape 252
Layer 1: Self-imposed transit: temporary, non-investing practices 254
Layer 3: Imposed permanent residents “settled situation” 268
Layer 2: Self-imposed permanent residents: “conscious neighbouring”279
Domestic choices related to differences in the architecture
of buildings 279
Descriptions of domestic choices and patterns in practices related to architectural differences between the three study areas 283
Summary remarks 313
ZOOMING OUT 317
BIBLIOGRAPHY 351
APPENDIX 360
Interview guide home interviews 360
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