Liveability and Urban Architectures
Mol(ecul)ar Biopower and the 'becoming Lively' of Sustainable Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Kraftl (0000-0002-7915-4808, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, England, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 274-292 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d21012 |
| OpenAlex | W2103964628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 42 |
Contemporary analyses of biopolitics and the governance of 'life itself' have concentrated on molecular processes in domains such as medicine and neuroscience. In this paper, I turn an analytical lens on urban architectures, with a focus upon a particular programme of large-scale housebuilding in the UK: the Sustainable Communities agenda. I argue first that Sustainable Communities constitutes a resonant but qualitatively different attempt to plan for and govern life itself, particularly encapsulated by the term 'liveability'. Significantly, according to policy and technical documentation, Sustainable Communities appears to address the future at both molar and molecular levels, and through a focus on obduracy in ordinary, banal, everyday spaces (rather than in exceptional or border architectures). My analysis is, however, interwoven with attention to the 'becoming lively' of urban architectures. Drawing on a large, ethnographic research project, this paper offers three navigational aids to understanding how professionalised deployments of 'liveability' become co-opted into, resisted by, or creatively reinterpreted through, practices of inhabitation by residents of sustainable communities
Archaeology · Biopower · Business · Corporate governance · Documentation · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Everyday life · Focus (optics · Geography · Governmentality · Plan (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sustainable community · Sustainable development · Anthropology · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Urban Liveability
Planning for Urban Life
Urbanization, Work and Community
Urban environmental quality and wellbeing in the context of incomplete urbanisation in Brazil
I’m big, you’re small. I’m right, you’re wrong’
Young people's resilience and post-financial crisis television
New directions in the theorisation of temporary urbanisms
Critically Interrogating Eco‐Homes
Entering the Fifth Dimension
Curating change
Politics of dissensus in geographies of architecture
(Re)Connecting spatial literacy with children’s geographies
Urban geographies of refugee journeys
Assembling Urban Regeneration? Resourcing Critical Generative Accounts of Urban Regeneration through Assemblage
Spatial agency and practising architecture beyond buildings
The Biopolitical Production of the City
Exclusion and reappropriation
Enjoyable life
Children Living with 'Sustainable' Urban Architectures
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Enchantment of Modern Life
Visions of ‘urban renaissance’
The Politics of Life Itself
Towards a critical geography of architecture
‘Walking … just walking’
'A Tall Storey … but, a Fact Just the Same'
Bodies and populations
Biopower at the molar level
New Zealand parents' understandings of the intergenerational decline in children's independent outdoor play and active travel
Not just growing up, but going on
Rethinking conceptualisations of adult-imposed restriction and children's experiences of autonomy in outdoor space
Are There Politics in Childhood
Geography and Architecture
Sustainable Development, Rolled-out Neoliberalism and Sustainable Communities
The biopolitics of food provisioning
Affect and biopower
Living on a building site
The health event’
Geographies of age
Intensities of feeling
More on ‘big things
Navigating the bio-politics of childhood
The Evangelical-Capitalist Resonance Machine
Architecture/Affect/Inhabitation
Living cities
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
Biometric borders
Living with difference
Angels and Devils
Event and Anticipation
The Dynamics of Community, Place, and Identity
Biosecurity
Practising architectures
Ecological architecture as performed art
A geography of big things
Living in an artwork
Biopolitics and the molecularization of life
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |