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Dr Richard Bower
Darlithydd mewn Dylunio ac Athroniaeth
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
As a lecturer in Urban Design I seek to explore the interrelatoinship of people, place, and power through the critical analysis of cities. More broadly my research explores themes of food, housing, and urbanism as ways of both critiquing Westernised space and proposing practical models of alternative political agency.
My ongoing research projects include explorations of urban food, the ‘slow city’ movement, and the history / future of anarchist plotlander housing in the UK.
Cyhoeddiad
2021
- Bower, R. 2021. Lost plotlands: regulatory consequences of forgotten places.. Town Planning Review 92(5), pp. 643-666. (10.3828/tpr.2021.8)
2018
- Bower, R. 2018. Antifragility and the transformative idea of slow urbanism.. In: Bezdecny, K. and Archer, K. eds. Handbook of Emerging 21st Century Cities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 47 - 66.
2017
- Bower, R. 2017. Marginality and the third space of unadopted plotlander roads. Space and Culture 20(4), pp. 485-499. (10.1177/1206331217707474)
- Bower, R. 2017. Dialectical materialism and the alternative architecture of John F.C. Turner. In: Mahtab Zaman, Q. and Troiani, I. eds. Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture: From Pedagogy to Praxis. The Urban Book Series Springer, pp. 141-154.
2016
- Bower, R. 2016. Forgotten plotlanders: learning from the survival of lost informal housing in the UK. Housing, Theory and Society 34(1), pp. 79-105. (10.1080/14036096.2016.1197850)
- Bower, R. 2016. Architecture and space re-imagined: Learning from the difference, multiplicity, and otherness of development practice. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315678146)
- Bower, R. 2016. Who decides and who provides? The anarchistic housing practices of John Turner as realizations of Henri Lefebvre's autogestive space. Alternatives 41(2), pp. 83-97. (10.1177/0304375416684856)
Articles
- Bower, R. 2021. Lost plotlands: regulatory consequences of forgotten places.. Town Planning Review 92(5), pp. 643-666. (10.3828/tpr.2021.8)
- Bower, R. 2017. Marginality and the third space of unadopted plotlander roads. Space and Culture 20(4), pp. 485-499. (10.1177/1206331217707474)
- Bower, R. 2016. Forgotten plotlanders: learning from the survival of lost informal housing in the UK. Housing, Theory and Society 34(1), pp. 79-105. (10.1080/14036096.2016.1197850)
- Bower, R. 2016. Who decides and who provides? The anarchistic housing practices of John Turner as realizations of Henri Lefebvre's autogestive space. Alternatives 41(2), pp. 83-97. (10.1177/0304375416684856)
Book sections
- Bower, R. 2018. Antifragility and the transformative idea of slow urbanism.. In: Bezdecny, K. and Archer, K. eds. Handbook of Emerging 21st Century Cities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 47 - 66.
- Bower, R. 2017. Dialectical materialism and the alternative architecture of John F.C. Turner. In: Mahtab Zaman, Q. and Troiani, I. eds. Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture: From Pedagogy to Praxis. The Urban Book Series Springer, pp. 141-154.
Books
- Bower, R. 2016. Architecture and space re-imagined: Learning from the difference, multiplicity, and otherness of development practice. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315678146)
Ymchwil
My research explores the relationships between people, power, and place by critically questioning a number of interconnecting spatial issues - urbanism, housing, food, and everyday political agency. By contextualising alternative examples of these issues I am seeking to explore aspects of agonistic and anarchistic theory as critical counter-narratives to the lived reality of contemporary Westernised space.
Addysgu
I teach across the MA Urban Design course and contribute to various other modules across the school's geography and planning courses.
Bywgraffiad
- 2014: PhD (Architecture and Human Geography), Plymouth University, UK
- 2008: Post-Graduate Diploma in Humane Architecture
- 2008: Graduate Diploma in Architecture
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
- 2017: Cyllid ymchwil a ddyfarnwyd gan Grŵp Pensaernïaeth Brodorol y DU
- 2008: Enwebiad Medal Arian Llywyddion RIBA
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- 2015 - 2017: University of Central Lancashire School of Architeture - Lecturer in Design and Critical Cultural Theory
- 2009 - 2014: Plymouth University School of Architecture - Associate Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Mae gen i ddiddordeb bob amser mewn goruchwylio myfyrwyr PhD sy'n edrych i archwilio theori athronyddol gyfoes - yn arbennig realaeth hapfasnachol, ôl-ddyneiddiaeth, a materoliaeth newydd. Gallai prosiectau o'r fath holi cwestiynau cymdeithasol, diwylliannol, polistaidd ac economaidd ar draws cyd-destunau mor amrywiol â dylunio, dinasoedd, cynaliadwyedd, ecoleg, bwyd, ac ati.
Goruchwyliaeth gyfredol
Fabiana D'ascenzo
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