Cities from zero / edited by Shumon Basar.

Title & Author:

Cities from zero / edited by Shumon Basar.

Publication:

Description:

128 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
Based on a symposium held at Architectural Association on 10 November 2006.
Includes bibliographical references.
Zero archive / S.B. + K.K. + B.V. -- V+M+HC = CFZ introduction / Shumon Basar -- City's degree zero : Polis vs planning, or city-making in the west and east / Pier Vittorio Aureli -- Always for the first time / Frank van der Salm -- Dubai's island urbanism : an archipelago of difference for the 21st century / Amale Andraos -- Dongtan eco-city / Arup -- Twelve ultimate critical steps to sudden urban success / Shumon Basar -- Who's afraid of public space? / Adina Hempel and Mirco Urban -- Drafting defeat : 10th-century road maps and 21st-century disasters / Slavs and Tatars -- New city nation / Neville Mars/Dynamic City Foundation -- Learning from Learning from Dubai / Peter Carl.

Summary:

"The contributors in this book -- architects, critics and documenters -- have responded to the invitation to prise the fact from the fiction, with particular focus on both the Gulf emirate of Dubai and the rapid urbanisation of China. Are cities from zero universal blueprints of a better world for all of us, or doomed, out-dated models of already extinct ideologies?"--Cover.

ISBN:

9781902902609 (pbk.)
1902902602 (pbk.)

Subject:

Urbanization United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate) Congresses.
Urbanization China Congresses.
City planning United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate) Congresses.
City planning China Congresses.
City dwellers United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate) Social conditions 21st century Congresses.
City dwellers United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate) Economic conditions 21st century Congresses.
City dwellers China Social conditions 21st century Congresses.
City dwellers China Economic conditions 21st century Congresses.
New towns Congresses.
Urbanization Congresses.
Villes nouvelles Congrès.
Urbanisation Congrès.
Urbanisme Émirats arabes unis Dubayy (Émirat) Congrès.
Urbanisme Chine Congrès.
Urbanisation Émirats arabes unis Dubayy (Émirat) Congrès.
Urbanisation Chine Congrès.
Citadins Émirats arabes unis Dubayy (Émirat) Conditions sociales 21e siècle Congrès.
Citadins Émirats arabes unis Dubayy (Émirat) Conditions économiques 21e siècle Congrès.
Citadins Chine Conditions sociales 21e siècle Congrès.
Citadins Chine Conditions économiques 21e siècle Congrès.
New towns
City dwellers Economic conditions
City dwellers Social conditions
City planning
Urbanization
China
United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate)

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Basar, Shumon.
Architectural Association (Great Britain)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255056
Call No.: BIB 185117
Status: Available

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