Balkanization and Global Politics Remaking Cities and Architecture

Nikolina Bobic, "Balkanization and Global Politics: Remaking Cities and Architecture "
English | ISBN: 1138061832 | 2019 | 228 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Balkanization (territorial fragmentation) is becoming a significant urban and geopolitical pursuit in contemporary times. Countries, cities and regions are ever increasingly voicing the desire for independence and balkanization from the nation or union they are a part of. This monograph generally maps the historical and theoretical emergence of balkanization, as well its more recent spread into fields as far ranging as law, medicine, data and security studies, sociology, architecture and the urban. The spatialization of balkanization is particularly addressed in terms of destruction and renewal through a detailed sociopolitical interrogation of architecture and the urban, including their changing symbolic, ideological and functional forms.