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TDSR 22.1 TRADITIONAL DWELLINGS AND SETTLEMENTS REVIEW International Association for the Study of JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS Traditional Environments Center for Environmental Design Research 390 Wurster Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-1839 image courtesy of Nicolas Fayad THE UTOPIAOF TRADITION TWELFTH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY F OF TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS | DECEMBER 15–18, 2010 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ALL 2010 OF BEIRUT (AUB), BEIRUT, LEBANON | SPECIAL ISSUE — CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS issn # 1050 - 2092 TDSR VOLUME XXII NUMBER I FALL 2010 Nezar AlSayyad, Editor David Moffat, Managing Editor Annabelle Ison, Art Director Stuart Chan, Production Coordinator Sophie Gonick, iaste Coordinator Vicky Garcia, CEDR Management Services Officer The International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (iaste) was established at the First International Symposium on Traditional Dwellings and Settlements held at Berkeley in April 1988. iaste is an interdisciplinary forum where scholars from various disciplines and coun- tries can exchange ideas, discuss methods and approaches, and share findings. As opposed to discipli- nary associations, iaste is a nonprofit organization concerned with the comparative and cross-cultural understanding of traditional habitat as an expression of informal cultural conventions. iaste’ s purpose is to serve as an umbrella association for all scholars studying vernacular, indigenous, popular and tradi- tional environments. Current activities of iaste include the organization of biennial conferences on selected themes in traditional-environments research, the publication of edited books on selected themes, a public outreach program which includes supporting films and documentaries, and the publi- cation of the Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series, which includes all papers presented at iaste conferences and accepted for publication. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review is the official publication of iaste. As a semi-annual refer- eed journal, TDSR acts as a forum for the exchange of ideas and a means to disseminate information and report on research activities. All articles submitted to TDSR are evaluated through a blind peer-review process. TDSR has been funded by grants from the Graham Foundation, the Getty Publication Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Environmental Design Research, and the office of the Provost at the University of California at Berkeley. iaste membership is open to all who are interested in traditional environments and their related studies. In addition to receiving the Association’s semi-annual journal, members are eligible to attend the biennial conference at reduced rates. Subscription to the journal is available only with mem- bership in iaste. Domestic annual order rates are as follows: Individual, $60; Institutional, $120; Corporations, $180. Foreign members add $15 for mailing. Libraries, museums, and academic organizations qualify as institutions. Subscriptions are payable in u.s. dollars only (by check drawn on a u.s. bank, u.s. money order, or international bank draft). Send inquiries to: iaste Center for Environmental Design Research 390 Wurster Hall University of California Berkeley, ca 94720-1839 Tel: 510.642.2896 Fax: 510.643.5571 Voicemail: 510.642.6801 E-mail: [email protected] TDSR VOLUME XXII NUMBER I FALL 2010 TRADITIONAL DWELLINGS AND SETTLEMENTS REVIEW Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments © 2010, The International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. All rights reserved. No part of this publi- cation may be reproduced in any form without prior permission from iaste. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS founder / co-founder Anne-Marie Broudehoux Dell Upton Nezar AlSayyad / Jean-Paul Bourdier University of Quebec University of Virginia Montreal, Canada Charlottesville, u.s.a. president & chair executive board C. Greig Crysler Donald J. Watts Nezar AlSayyad University of California Kansas State University University of California Berkeley, u.s.a. Manhattan, u.s.a. Berkeley, u.s.a. Dalila Elkerdany Jennifer Wolch Cairo University University of California director Egypt Berkeley, u.s.a. Mark Gillem Mia Fuller University of Oregon international correspondents University of California Eugene, u.s.a. and editorial advisors Berkeley, u.s.a. Eeva Aarrevaara executive board Henry Glassie Finland Hesham Khairy Abdelfatah University of Indiana Stefan Al Cairo University Bloomington, u.s.a. Egypt Hong Kong Clara Irazabal Joe Aranha Heba Ahmed Columbia University Texas, u.s.a. Cairo University New York, u.s.a. Egypt Juan F. Bontempo Hasan-Uddin Khan Mexico Duanfang Lu Roger Williams University University of Sydney Bristol, u.s.a. Jeffrey Cody Australia California, u.s.a. Heng Chye Kiang Sylvia Nam National University of Singapore Howard Davis University of California Singapore Oregon, u.s.a. Berkeley, u.s.a. Anthony King Mui Ho Mrinalini Rajagopalan Binghamton University California, u.s.a. University of Pittsburgh Binghamton, u.s.a. u.s.a. Anne Hublin Keith Loftin France Romala Sanyal University of Colorado University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Denver, u.s.a. Basel Kamel Newcastle, u.k. Egypt Robert Mugerauer Ipek Tureli University of Washington Morna Livingston Brown University Seattle, u.s.a. Pennsylvania, u.s.a. Providence, u.s.a. Paul Oliver Daniel Maudlin Montira Horayangura Unakul Oxford Brookes University United Kingdom UNESCO Oxford, u.k. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan Bangkok, Thailand Amos Rapoport Israel advisory council University of Wisconsin Attilio Petruccioli Janet Abu-Lughod Milwaukee, u.s.a. Italy New School for Social Research Mike Robinson Marcela Pizzi New York, u.s.a. Leeds Metropolitan University Chile Howayda Al-Harithy Leeds, u.k. Fernando Varanda American University of Beirut Ananya Roy Portugal Lebanon University of California Marcel Vellinga William Bechhoefer Berkeley, u.s.a. United Kingdom University of Maryland Gunawan Tjahjono College Park, u.s.a. University of Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia TDSR VOLUME XXII NUMBER I FALL 2010 17 C.1 CONSUMING UTOPIAS OF LUXURY AND LEISURE UTOPIA IS BEHIND US: ETHNIC TOURISM AND ETHNIC PLAY AND Contents THE SEARCH FOR A PARADISE ON EARTH Nelson Graburn THE SHELF LIFE OF UTOPIA: RUINING THE LAS VEGAS STRIP 10 EDITOR’S NOTE Stefan Al Nezar AlSayyad CONSUMING “TRADITION”: PIETY, MORALITY, AND LEISURE SITES 11 PLENARY SESSION IN BEIRUT THE POLITICS AND TRADITIONS OF UTOPIA Mona Harb and Lara Deeb RUPTURE AND RECOVERY: UTOPIA, TRADITION, AND SPATIAL PRESERVATION OF HERITAGE CITIES IN CHINA: UTOPIA OR AVANT-GARDES HETEROTOPIAS David Pinder Shu-Yi Wang THE AGONISM OF UTOPIA Ananya Roy 19 A.2 CONFLICT, IDENTITY, AND THE IDEAL IMAGINING BIDONVILLE: TRADITION AND THE MODERNIST 12 PLENARY SESSION UTOPIAN PROJECT IN NORTH AFRICA UTOPIA AND THE SPACE OF BELONGING Anna Goodman HINTERLAND AESTHETICS: THE POSSIBILITIES OF UTOPIA FROM THE BOTTOM UP: A RECLAMATION PROJECT BY ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN IN SUBTOPIAN URBANISM DISPLACED PEOPLE IN NORTHERN JAPAN Michael Dear Izumi Kuroishi DWELLING IN UTOPIA GEOGRAPHIES OF DIS/TOPIA IN THE NATION-STATE: ISRAEL, Ghassan Hage PALESTINE, AND THE GEOGRAPHIES OF LIBERATION Ron Smith 13 A.1 ARTICULATIONS OF THE IDEAL THE KUWAIT OIL COMPANY TOWN OF AHMADI: A BRITISH UTOPIA MY SWEET TRADITIONAL URBANISM UTOPIA IN THE ARABIAN DESERT, 1948–1961 Lineu Castello Reem Alissa UTOPIAN COMPOUNDS IN A DYSTOPIC COMMUNITY: THE BUILT PURSUIT OF UTOPIA IN DENNILTON, SOUTH AFRICA 21 B.2 THE UTOPIAN POLITICS OF SPATIAL IDENTITY Chris Harnish VISIONS OF CAIRO: THE FUTURE THAT NEVER WAS PLASTUTOPIA: “GLOBUS CASSUS” AS A FRAMEWORK FOR THE Mohamed Elshahed CONCEPTION OF UTOPIAS UTOPIAN VOYAGES IN THE POSTPOLITICAL ERA: ANALYZING THE Christian Waldvogel VISIONS OF THE RUSSIAN PAPER ARCHITCTS AUTOMOBILE UTOPIAS AND TRADITIONAL URBAN Michael Ostwald and Michael Chapman INFRASTRUCTURE: VISIONS OF THE COMING CONFLICT, 1925–1940 MANSIONS IN THE GARDEN: THE POLITICS OF PROPERTY AND THE Ted Shelton QUEST FOR IDEAL COMMUNITIES IN INTERWAR HONG KONG Cecilia Chu 15 B.1 UTOPIA AND THE COLONIAL PROJECT PRODUCTION OF A COUNTER-HEGEMONY: CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA EUROPE: MAKING RHODES GREEK UTOPIAN NARRATIVES OF “KURDISHNESS” IN DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY Mia Fuller Muna Guvenc PLANNING PRACTICES AND THE UTOPIA OF LUSO-TROPICALISM IN PORTUGAL/MOZAMBIQUE, 1945–1975 23 C.2 THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF UTOPIA Tiago Castela EMBODIED UTOPIAS OR MOMENTS OF HETEROTOPIA? TRACING WHOSE IDEAL VILLAGE IS IT? SPATIAL REFORM IN COLONIAL TAIWAN RECENT DISCUSSIONS IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY Ming-Chih Tsai Hilde Heynen MODERNITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS: COLONIAL SPATIAL ORDER IN UTOPIA HAPPENS: MAKING UTOPIAS FOR THE EVERYDAY KARACHI Peter Lang Sarwat Viqar “CITIES LIKE DREAMS, MADE OF FEARS AND DESIRES”: THE PRACTICE OF URBAN CONSERVATION BETWEEN (E)UTOPIAS AND INVISIBLE CITIES May al-Ibrashy INTERRUPTED MAPPING: TWO ROMES Anne Munly 6 TDSR 22.1 26 A.3 ECOTOPIAS AND SUSTAINABLE IDEALS 34 A.4 URBAN UTOPIAS: REGENERATION, RENEWAL AND PLANNING TECHNOLOGICAL FANTASIES FOR AN ECOLOGICAL FUTURE EMERGING AFRICAN UTOPIA?: TINAPA FREE ZONE AND RESORT, Rania Shafik and James Steele CALABAR, NIGERIA THE “ECOLOGICAL INDIAN” REVISITED: EVIDENCE FROM THE ARCTIC Joseph Godlewski Steven Dinero IS THIS THE LATEST MODERN CITY OR THE FIRST OF A FUTURE BURONS AND JASSERIES: SITUATED UTOPIAS BREED? SEJONG, SOUTH KOREA Jacqueline Victor and Laurence Loftin III Sofia Shwayri ECOTOPIA