Camp Site City, suburban porosity and eclecticism in San José, Costa Rica.

C.H. Doevendans, A.L. Schram

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Abstract

The notion of 'camp' seems opposed to the more solid city and its almost permanent architecture. In this contribution, we regard the camp as a spatial concept with a twofold appearance: as both repressing and freeing, as a site for both larger, planned strategic activities, and smaller scale tactic acts of urban design. The camp is not only seen as the situation in which the nomos of civil society is set aside (as in Guatanomo bay, the camp outside the city) (Agamben 2002), but also regarded in a more 'joyful' situation: the polis itself as camping site. It is this latter interpretation, which we will try to explore through the example of the Central American city of San Jose.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEAAE conference on The Rise of Heterotopia, public space and the architecture of the everyday in a post-civil society, Leuven, May 2005
EditorsHilde Heynen, Bruno de Meulder
Place of PublicationLeuven
PublisherEAAE
Pages278-297
ISBN (Print)2-930301-30-9
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Eventconference; The Rise of Heterotopia, public space and the architecture of the everyday in a post-civil society; 2005-05-26; 2005-05-28 -
Duration: 26 May 200528 May 2005

Publication series

NameEAAE Transactions on Architectural Education
Volume33

Conference

Conferenceconference; The Rise of Heterotopia, public space and the architecture of the everyday in a post-civil society; 2005-05-26; 2005-05-28
Period26/05/0528/05/05
OtherThe Rise of Heterotopia, public space and the architecture of the everyday in a post-civil society

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