MutationsACTAR, 2000 - 720 pages The continuously accelerating phenomenon of urbanization continues to be one of the great challenges of our time, surfacing repeatedly as an issue in different areas of the world for two hundred years. In a world that has been redefined by a proliferation of communication networks and by a progressive erasure of borders, Mutations reflects on the transformations that these accelerating processes inflict on our environment, and on the spaces in which architecture can still operate. Organized as a heavily illustrated atlas/survey of contemporary urban landscapes, the first section of this exhaustive and essential book begins with revealing data on global urbanization, juxtaposed with a series of essays on the changing environment and economy of today's metropolis. The rest of the book is devoted to a selection of groundbreaking studies by some of the central figures in contemporary architectural urbanism, including the Pearl River Delta in Southeast Asia, a project of the Harvard Project on the City, directed by Rem Koolhaas; ''Uncertain States of Europe, '' a project by Stefano Boeri and Multiplicity; a survey of American cities by Sanford Kwinter and Daniela Fabricius; and a study of Lagos, Nigeria--one of Africa's largest cities--by the Harvard Project. |
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... logic of margins : what does the most recently added unit of labor , savings , money , or capital add to a system ... logical production ? Where are the real borders between the social classes ? Only thirty years ago , any economist ...
... logic of margins : what does the most recently added unit of labor , savings , money , or capital add to a system ... logical production ? Where are the real borders between the social classes ? Only thirty years ago , any economist ...
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... logic for the conceptualization of space , is the one best able to grasp the characteristics of the new European urban condition . This research paradigm offers a new “ strategy ” of vision , and suggests four major revisions of the ...
... logic for the conceptualization of space , is the one best able to grasp the characteristics of the new European urban condition . This research paradigm offers a new “ strategy ” of vision , and suggests four major revisions of the ...
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... logic of short - term efficiencies : agility , turnover , scale . Ever more scientific in means and pragmatic in its ends , devel- opment seeks no other gradient but the one of least resistance : either the continuous predatory ...
... logic of short - term efficiencies : agility , turnover , scale . Ever more scientific in means and pragmatic in its ends , devel- opment seeks no other gradient but the one of least resistance : either the continuous predatory ...
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Statistics Céline Rozenblat | 10 |
Shopping Harvard Project on the City | 124 |
Photographic dossier | 196 |
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