Community Displacement: How Architectural Adaptations Show Resistance to Assimilation
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of the Marshall Islands are two pacific island nations that have been the site of centuries of colonisation, agricultural exploitation, and wartime decimation forcing marginalised populations to repeatedly resettle and concentrate in and around urban centres. We trace two of these resettled communities to investigate the objectives of cultural assimilation in contrasting top-down versus bottom-up resettlement morphologies. We conclude by suggesting that adaptations in the resettlement architecture show resistance to the traditions of assimilation, and they are an important possible resurgence of cultural patterns.
Source: Fabrications
Authors: Lyndsey Deaton, James Miller
Institutions: Clemson University, Western Washington University
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4409551584