The High-Rise and The Shack: Rhizomatic Collisions In Caracas’ Torre David

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dc.contributor.authorIrazabal, Clara
dc.contributor.authorSosa, Irene
dc.contributor.authorSchlenker, Lee Evan
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-17T09:25:05Z
dc.date.available2021-04-17T09:25:05Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractA 45-story tower in Caracas formerly occupied by some 5,000 squatters, Torre David was touted by international media accounts as the world’s most spectacular “vertical slum.” This, among other sensationalized accounts, failed to consider the paradoxical ways in which Caracas’ formal and informal, urban and architectural trajectories literally collided with each other in Torre David. The modern high-rise and the self-built shack—antagonist spatial typologies in Caracas’ growth—were dramatically superposed in the tower, unleashing hitherto un(fore)seen dynamics. Through site fieldwork, interviews, film production, media analysis, and historical research, we offer a nuanced theorization of Torre David that grapples with its charged tensions between the formal and informal, modern and traditional, modernity and postmodernity, reality and imagination, and capitalism and socialism. We begin our investigation with a historical account of the tower’s construction, abandonment, and ultimate occupation. This is followed by a theoretical positioning of Torre David as a social and physical space ‘in-between’. Ultimately, we argue that these tensions created a rhizomatic socio-spatial field heavily pregnant with both risks and hopes for the people, the government, and the spatial disciplines.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/dknq-z6pq
dc.identifier.citationIrazábal, C., I. Sosa, and L. Schlenker. “The High-Rise and The Shack: Rhizomatic Collisions In Caracas’ Torre David.” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 19(1): 1-34, 2020. https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1855en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26963
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of British Columbia, Okanaganen_US
dc.subjectCaracasen_US
dc.subjectVenezuelaen_US
dc.subjectTorre Daviden_US
dc.subjectoccupationsen_US
dc.subjecthousingen_US
dc.subjectcommunity organizingen_US
dc.titleThe High-Rise and The Shack: Rhizomatic Collisions In Caracas’ Torre Daviden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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