Title & Author:

Distributed urbanism : cities after Google earth / edited by Gretchen Wilkins.

Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Description:

xv, 206 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes on contributors -- Foreword / Felicity D. Scott -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Gretchen Wilkins -- The city you can't see on Google Earth / Ilka and Andreas Ruby -- Rural urbanism : thriving under the radar, Beijing's villages in the city : Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray -- Rotterdam 1979-2007 : from ideology to market communism and beyond / Michael Speaks -- Megahouse / Hitoshi Abe and Masashige Motoe -- Borderland/Borderama/Detroit / Jerry Herron -- Rubble in the sand / Johan van Schaik and Simon Drysdale -- Density of emptiness / Jason Young -- Antisepsis / Li Shiqiao -- Beyond urbanism : Mumbai and the cultivation of an eye / Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha -- Resurrecting cities : instant urban planning : real-time urbanization and planners' new role in emergency situations / Ignasi Pérez Arnal -- Productive residue : the casting of alternative public space / Dan Pitera -- Bubble cities : islands, airports, and nomads / Gretchen Wilkins -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

Exploring the increasingly decentralized systems through which cities are organized and produced, this collection of case studies on global cities focuses on the emerging architectural practices which result from external influences.

ISBN:

9780415562317 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415562317 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415562324 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415562325 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Google Earth.
Urbanization.
Cities and towns.
Cities
Urbanisation.
Villes.
urbanization.
cities.
Städtebau
Stadtentwicklung
Urbanisatie.
Städer.
Städer tillväxt.
Urbanisering.

Added entries:

Wilkins, Gretchen.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268751
Call No.: BIB 200620
Status: Available