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the Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and Rise of Planetary Design

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the Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and Rise of Planetary Design
the Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and Rise of Planetary Design

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the Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and Rise of Planetary Design

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traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of analysis. Rather than describing how new design ideas and practices traveled and transformed people and places across the globe, this book interrogates the politics of life and earth underpinning this process. It demonstrates how approaches to modern housing, landscape design, and infrastructure planning are indebted to an understanding of planetary and human ecology fueled by settler colonialism and imperial ambition. Cupers draws from both canonical and unknown sources and archives in Germany, Namibia, and Poland to situate Wilhelmine and Weimar design projects in an expansive discourse about the relationship between soil, settlement, and race. This reframing reveals connections between colonial officials planning agricultural hinterlands, garden designers proselytizing geopolitical theory, soil researchers turning to folklore, and Bauhaus architects designing modern communities according to functionalist principles. Ultimately, shows how the conviction that we can our way out of environmental crisis is bound to exploitative and divisive ways of inhabiting the earth.

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