Making the Arctic City

<p><i>Making the Arctic City </i>explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America through Greenland Svalbard to Russia this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in the extremes of the Arctic. <p/>Featuring case studies and designs of both built and unbuilt Arctic urban futures it explores the impact of 20th-century models of urban design and planning in Arctic cities and shows how the Arctic offers valuable lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban planning history elsewhere. <p/>Revealing how contemporary architectural approaches continue to this day to essentialize 'extreme' climate conditions and to disregard the agency of Arctic city-dwellers - this book provides an important critical perspective that is vital to the formulation of future design and planning practices throughout many regions of the globe.</p>