Politics of the Dunes

<p> Founded in the late 1960s on Chile's Pacific coast the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge architectural experimentation. Yet with a global reputation as an apolitical collective little has been discussed about the Open City's relationship with Chilean history and politics. <em>Politics of the Dunes</em> explores the ways in which the Open City's architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity pluralism and democratization in the face of authoritarianism a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.</p>