View in EDS ePub Full Text

Spatial Theories for the Americas : Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Title: Spatial Theories for the Americas : Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism
Description: Shortlist, 2025 Architectural Book Award in Architectural TheoryTo study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from Europe, a very different continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. The first part of Spatial Theories for the Americas offers a critique of Eurocentrism in the discipline of architecture, problematizing its theoretical foundation in relation to the inseparability of modernization and colonization. The second part makes explicit the insufficiencies of a hegemonic Western tradition at the core of spatial theories by discussing a long list of authors who have thought about the Americas. To overcome centuries of Eurocentrism, Lara concludes, will require a tremendous effort, but, nonetheless, scholars and architects of the Americas have the responsibility of looking at their built environments through their own lenses. Spatial Theories for the Americas proposes a fundamental step in that direction.
Authors: Fernando Luiz Lara
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Architecture and society--America, Built environment--Social aspects--America, Eurocentrism
Categories: ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
FullText Links:
  – Type: ebook-epub
Text:
  Availability: 0
Header DbId: nlebk
DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
An: 3973759
RelevancyScore: 1123
AccessLevel: 6
PubType: eBook
PubTypeId: ebook
PreciseRelevancyScore: 1122.83581542969
IllustrationInfo
ImageInfo – Size: thumb
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$3973759$EPUB&s=r
– Size: medium
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$3973759$EPUB&s=d
Items – Name: Title
  Label: Title
  Group: Ti
  Data: Spatial Theories for the Americas : Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism
– Name: Abstract
  Label: Description
  Group: Ab
  Data: Shortlist, 2025 Architectural Book Award in Architectural TheoryTo study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from Europe, a very different continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. The first part of Spatial Theories for the Americas offers a critique of Eurocentrism in the discipline of architecture, problematizing its theoretical foundation in relation to the inseparability of modernization and colonization. The second part makes explicit the insufficiencies of a hegemonic Western tradition at the core of spatial theories by discussing a long list of authors who have thought about the Americas. To overcome centuries of Eurocentrism, Lara concludes, will require a tremendous effort, but, nonetheless, scholars and architects of the Americas have the responsibility of looking at their built environments through their own lenses. Spatial Theories for the Americas proposes a fundamental step in that direction.
– Name: Author
  Label: Authors
  Group: Au
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Fernando+Luiz+Lara%22">Fernando Luiz Lara</searchLink>
– Name: TypePub
  Label: Resource Type
  Group: TypPub
  Data: eBook.
– Name: Subject
  Label: Subjects
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Architecture+and+society--America%22">Architecture and society--America</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Built+environment--Social+aspects--America%22">Built environment--Social aspects--America</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Eurocentrism%22">Eurocentrism</searchLink>
– Name: SubjectBISAC
  Label: Categories
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22ARCHITECTURE+%2F+History+%2F+General%22">ARCHITECTURE / History / General</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22ARCHITECTURE+%2F+Urban+%26+Land+Use+Planning%22">ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22HISTORY+%2F+Latin+America+%2F+Central+America%22">HISTORY / Latin America / Central America</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22HISTORY+%2F+Latin+America+%2F+South+America%22">HISTORY / Latin America / South America</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22POLITICAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Public+Policy+%2F+City+Planning+%26+Urban+Development%22">POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development</searchLink>
PLink https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=3973759
RecordInfo BibRecord:
  BibEntity:
    Classifications:
      – Code: 720.103097
        Scheme: ddc
        Type: prePub
    Languages:
      – Code: eng
        Text: English
    Subjects:
      – SubjectFull: Architecture and society--America
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Built environment--Social aspects--America
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Eurocentrism
        Type: general
    Titles:
      – TitleFull: Spatial Theories for the Americas : Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism
        Type: main
  BibRelationships:
    HasContributorRelationships:
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Fernando Luiz Lara
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Fernando Luiz Lara
    IsPartOfRelationships:
      – BibEntity:
          Dates:
            – D: 01
              M: 01
              Type: published
              Y: 2024
            – D: 14
              M: 07
              Type: profile
              Y: 2025
          Identifiers:
            – Type: isbn-electronic
              Value: 9780822991564
          Titles:
            – TitleFull: Spatial Theories for the Americas : Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism
              Type: main
ResultId 1