Urban Bottles and Green Glass: Display and Transparencies in Post-Industrial Tuborg
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Urban Bottles and Green Glass : Display and Transparencies in Post-Industrial Tuborg. / Reeh, Henrik.
Invisibility studies: surveillance, transparency and the hidden in contemporary culture. red. / Henriette Steiner; Kristin Veel. Bind 23 Oxford : Peter Lang, 2015. s. 117-137 6 (Cultural History and Literary Imagination).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Urban Bottles and Green Glass
T2 - Display and Transparencies in Post-Industrial Tuborg
AU - Reeh, Henrik
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Since the late twentieth century, European industrial areas with harbour facilities have frequently been converted into urban settings in which glass is a major architectural component. Incorporated into the façades of both dwellings and office buildings, glass is often closely connection to positive commercial and lifestyle-related narratives, which focus on the extensive view of the sea, canals, or other aquatic surfaces. Yet glass may also inspire narratives of surveillance that affect the mental and the social spirit of such places, and contradict certain desires for the unmediated urban presence of human beings. After all, glass participates in a new urban or suburban culture, where life is increasingly protected, insulated, or at least mediated by the glass surfaces of houses as well as automobiles. While urban spaces in such coastal or harbour areas are sometimes designed with great care, they are also strikingly vacant, devoid of human bodies, and even hostile to civic encounters. At least, this is the impression frequently reported from a wealthy redeveloped area on the coast just outside Copenhagen - an area whose modes of display and diverse forms of transparency we will explore in this chapter on post-industrial Tuborg.
AB - Since the late twentieth century, European industrial areas with harbour facilities have frequently been converted into urban settings in which glass is a major architectural component. Incorporated into the façades of both dwellings and office buildings, glass is often closely connection to positive commercial and lifestyle-related narratives, which focus on the extensive view of the sea, canals, or other aquatic surfaces. Yet glass may also inspire narratives of surveillance that affect the mental and the social spirit of such places, and contradict certain desires for the unmediated urban presence of human beings. After all, glass participates in a new urban or suburban culture, where life is increasingly protected, insulated, or at least mediated by the glass surfaces of houses as well as automobiles. While urban spaces in such coastal or harbour areas are sometimes designed with great care, they are also strikingly vacant, devoid of human bodies, and even hostile to civic encounters. At least, this is the impression frequently reported from a wealthy redeveloped area on the coast just outside Copenhagen - an area whose modes of display and diverse forms of transparency we will explore in this chapter on post-industrial Tuborg.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Tuborg Harbour
KW - Harbour transformation
KW - spatial analysis
KW - Perception
KW - transparency
KW - architectural analysis
KW - spatial practices
KW - urban culture
KW - Hellerup
KW - Copenhagen
KW - transparency
KW - opacity
KW - glass
KW - harbour transformation
KW - urban development
KW - urban culture
KW - Hellerup
KW - Tuborg Harbour
KW - Tuborg
KW - Arkitema
KW - C. F. Møller Architects
KW - Dissing & Weitling Architects
KW - Arne Jacobsen
KW - public space
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783034309851
VL - 23
T3 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
SP - 117
EP - 137
BT - Invisibility studies
A2 - Steiner, Henriette
A2 - Veel, Kristin
PB - Peter Lang
CY - Oxford
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