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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
JULY/AUGUST 2010
PROFILE NO 206
GUEST-EDITED BY RIVKA OXMAN
AND ROBERT OXMAN
THE NEW
STRUCTURALISM
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ING 2 TITLES
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010
PROFILE NO 207
POST-TRAUMATIC URBANISM
GUEST-EDITED BY ANTHONY BURKE, ADRIAN LAHOUD AND CHARLES RICE
Urban trauma describes a condition where confl ict or catastrophe has disrupted and damaged not only
the physical environment and infrastructure of a city, but also the social and works. Cities
experiencing trauma dominate the daily news. Images of blasted buildings, or events such as Cyclone
Katrina exemplify the sense of ‘immediate impact’. But how is this trauma to be understood in its
aftermath, and in urban terms? What is the response of the discipline to the post-traumatic condition?
On the one hand, one can try to restore and recover everything that has passed, or otherwise see the
post-traumatic city as a resilient space poised on the cusp of new potentialities. While repair and
reconstruction are automatic refl exes, the knowledge and practices of the disciplines need to be imbued
with a deeper understanding of the effect of trauma on cities and their contingent realities. This issue will
pursue this latter approach, using examples of post-traumatic urban conditions to rethink the agency of
architecture and urbanism in the contemporary world. Post-traumatic urbanism demands of architects the
mobilisation of skills, criticality and creativity in contexts with which they are not familiar. The post-
traumatic is no longer the exception; it is the global condition.
• Contributors include: Andrew Benjamin, Ole Bouman, Tony Chakar, Mark Fisher, Christopher Hight,
Brian Massumi, Todd Reisz, Eyal Weizman and Slavoj Žižek.
Volume No • Featured cities: Beirut, Shenzhen, Berlin, Baghdad, Kabul and Caracas.
ISBN • passes: urban confl ict, reconstruction, infrastructure, development, climate change, public
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