Many norths : spatial practice in a polar territory /

Next North charts unique, often surreal spatial realities of Canada's arctic regions, documenting the geospatial, infrastructural, techno-cultural, and architectural innovations that have enabled modern life in this territory of climatic and cultural extremes. It is a region where the reality o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sheppard, Lola, 1972- (Autor), White, Mason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Actar Publishers, [2017]
Temas:
Architecture > Canada, Northern.
Urbanization > Canada, Northern.
Natural resources > Canada, Northern.
Architecture > Arctic regions.
Natural resources > Arctic regions.
Urbanisation > Canada (Nord)
Ressources naturelles > Canada (Nord)
Architecture > Arctique.
Ressources naturelles > Arctique.
Architecture.
Natural resources.
Research.
Urbanization.
Canada, Northern.
Canada, Northern > Maps.
Arctic regions.
Arctic regions > Maps.
Arctic regions > Research.
Canada (Nord)
Arctique.
Arctic Regions.
Northern Canada.
Maps.
Cartes géographiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The (new) idea of North(s)
  • Urbanism : Urbanism timeline ; Urbanism below zero ; Transition and assimilation / Frank Tester
  • Migration and permanence ; Inuit diaspora ; Wasting space / Jack Kobayashi ; Built form and land form ; Growth of a city ; Utility of the north / Peter Clarkson ; Utility infrastructure ; Snow fences
  • Architecture : Architecture timeline ; Impermanence: building at an edge ; Constructing communities / Harold Strub ; Inuit architecture ; Government housing ; Fabricating a northern vernacular / Guy Gérin-Lajoie ; Climatic factors ; Nakasuk School ; Beauty and constraints / Gino Pin ; Foundations ; East Three School
  • Mobility : Mobility timeline ; Connectivity and diffusion ; Wayfinding on the land / Claudio Aporta ; Inuit navigation and trails ; Dempster Highway ; Shipping logistics / Thomas Paterson ; Deep-sea ports ; Sealifting ; Making a winter road / Tim Tattrie ; Winter roads ; Aerial connectivity
  • Monitoring : Monitoring timeline ; Monitoring the remote ; Space of sovereignty / Shelagh Grant ; Sea ice ; DEW line ; Agency in high Arctic modernization / P. Whitney Lackenbauer ; Northern patrolling ; Search and rescue ; Observing the North / David J. Scott ; Hight Arctic research ; Mars simulation
  • Resources : Resources timeline ; Surface and subsurface ; Hunting big food / Charlie Qumuatuq ; Bowhead whale hunt ; Icebergs ; Under the ice / Aloupa Kulula ; Mussel harvest ; Fur trade ; In-town resources / Jim R. Brown ; Gold rush ; Extraction
  • Technology index : From Aircraft to Wooden posts.

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