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Title:

Master Plans as Cosmograms: Articulating Oceanic Forms and Urban Forms After the 2010 Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile

Document type:
Buchbeitrag
Author(s):
Farías, Ignacio
Pages contribution:
179-202
Chapter contribution:
8
Abstract:
The 2010 tsunami that severely affected coastal towns in Chile posed a novel cosmopolitical challenge: how to cope with the radical asymmetry between human life and overwhelming oceanic forces. In this article, I discuss the different ways master plans for sustainable reconstruction proposed to recompose an urban cosmos where human life with future tsunamis would be possible. I focus on three distinct cosmogrammatic operations: the territorialization of tsunami risk, the classification of entit...     »
Book title:
Relational Planning
Book subtitle:
Tracing Artefacts, Agency and Practices
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher address:
London
Year:
2018
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