The problem of scale : the city, the territory, the planetary

Lahoud, A

The problem of scale : the city, the territory, the planetary

Lahoud, A

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Lahoud, A
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-21T00:47:29Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-21T00:47:29Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/24073
dc.description	University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Since they cannot secure themselves in common notions of value, classical definitions of scale grounded in systems of proportion can no longer be considered relevant. The thesis therefore sets out a way of understanding scalar genesis or individuation. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, Gilbert Simondon, Manuel Delanda and Michel Foucault it attends to this scalar genesis across three registers: the ontological, the epistemological and the discursive. Using a series of case studies such as an urban design project by Oscar Niemeyer in Lebanon, an experiment in cybernetic management in Chile, and the present issues surrounding the modeling and politics of the earths climate as exemplars of individuation at the scale of the city, the territory and the planetary, the thesis concludes by suggesting that every event of scalar genesis links together unique problematics across ontological, epistemological and discursive registers, in what is described as a chain of immanence. It concludes by suggesting that the political question of value with respect to scale can now return, but only in so far as this value is immanent to the scalar problematic in question.	en_US
dc.format	Thesis (PhD)	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/24073/2/02whole.pdf
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	Urban design.	en
dc.subject	Architecture.	en
dc.subject	Scale.	en
dc.title	The problem of scale : the city, the territory, the planetary	en_US
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Since they cannot secure themselves in common notions of value, classical definitions of scale grounded in systems of proportion can no longer be considered relevant. The thesis therefore sets out a way of understanding scalar genesis or individuation. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, Gilbert Simondon, Manuel Delanda and Michel Foucault it attends to this scalar genesis across three registers: the ontological, the epistemological and the discursive. Using a series of case studies such as an urban design project by Oscar Niemeyer in Lebanon, an experiment in cybernetic management in Chile, and the present issues surrounding the modeling and politics of the earths climate as exemplars of individuation at the scale of the city, the territory and the planetary, the thesis concludes by suggesting that every event of scalar genesis links together unique problematics across ontological, epistemological and discursive registers, in what is described as a chain of immanence. It concludes by suggesting that the political question of value with respect to scale can now return, but only in so far as this value is immanent to the scalar problematic in question.

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