Founded in the late 1960s on Chile's Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge architectural experimentation. Yet with a global reputation as an apolitical collective, little has been discussed about the Open City's relationship with Chilean history and politics. Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City's architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.
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Politics of the Dunes
Poetry, Architecture, and Coloniality at the Open City
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Table of contents
- Politics of the Dunes
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 —On So-Called Nonpolitical Urban Environmentalism: The Architecture of the Open City, Politics, and the Political
- Chapter 2 — Refashioning Latin Americanism: The Foundations of the Environmental Urbanism of the Open City
- Chapter 3 — The Eruption of the Political? Politics, the Political, Hospitality, and the Foundation of the Open City
- Chapter 4 — Thinking Otherwise: Keeping the Open City Open in the Dictatorship
- Chapter 5 — On Subaltern Historiography: Thinking the Open City Historically
- Chapter 6 — Towards a Decolonial Environmentalism: The Limits and Openings of the Open City’s Environmentalism Urbanisms
- Conclusion — Socialities, New Openings, and the Lingering Questions of Capital
- Figures
- References
- Index
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