TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Lima Amaral,Camilo Vladimir
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Urban Reproduction of Subjectivities: Deconstructing Neoliberal Architectures in London 
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Geography,
SN  - 9783032014658
AV  - HT101-395 
U1  - 307.76 23
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Cultural geography
KW  - Design
KW  - Environmental geography
KW  - Urban Sociology
KW  - Social and Cultural Geography
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - Integrated Geography
N1  - 1 The Reproduction of Social Relations by Urban Spaces -- 2 The Privatisation of Spaces in London and the Metropolis Enclosure -- 3 For a Theory of Urban Reification: Designing Urban Things and Its Fantasies -- 4 Fetish as It Happens: Depoliticisation of Revolt and London’s Housing Crisis -- 5 For a Theory of Urban Fetish: Techniques of Phenomena and Fantasies -- 6 For Deconstructing Neoliberal Objectification -- 7 Subject to Change: Imagining Transitional Subjectivities; Open Access
N2  - This open access book analyzes how subjectivities are produced and reproduced by urban spatial structures in twenty-first century neoliberal London. In three steps, it examines the continuous processes of intertwining conflicts that constitute urban space: It demonstrates how contemporary neoliberal spatial processes enclose subjectivity; it addresses how these processes are mediated by design and science; and finally, it examines how detours and insurgencies might be developed. This book interrogates the processes and consequences of privatization. Neoliberal spaces disconnect people from non-hegemonic actions and subtly control the urban experience by encouraging consumerist behavior and passive spectatorship. Despite the dispossession, expropriation, and exclusion these processes entail, people come to love these privatized urban spaces. Using case studies from around London, the book challenges traditional notions of public spaces. Georg Simmel described the metropolitan spaces as experiences of difference, freedom, and rationality, but this book explores how spaces now construct a post-metropolis shaped by domestication and anaesthetic comfort, exerting control through invisible cages and reproducing spatial machines that reinforce consumerist subjectivities. It analyzes policies, plans, and scientific discourse to trace how fetish mechanisms contribute to the objectification of social relations in urban spaces. By helping to understand the political economy of urban production, this book aims to help overcome neoliberal hegemonic design-thinking strategies. Therefore, it also addresses conflicts, insurgent experiences, and practices that explore alternative routes, such as micro-utopias and hacking practices. The Urban Reproduction of Subjectivities invites academics, practitioners, and activists to open new fields for critical design, urbanism, and architecture, to search for new imaginings of a different city, and to develop alternative design practices
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01465-8
ER  -