Main entry:

Caracas Urban Think Tank.

Title & Author:

Informal city : Caracas case / edited by Alfredo Brillembourg, Kristin Feireiss, Hubert Klumpner.

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2005.

Description:

360 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Caracas 1950s and '60s / Paolo Gasparini -- Towards an informal city / Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner -- Five versions of the in/formal / Felix Zwoch -- Globalization and informalization of urban space / Elmar Altvater -- Caracas 1980s and '90s / Ramon Paulini -- Informal capital / Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner -- Informal city, multiple realities / Gwendolyn Wright -- Fragmented urban topographies / Saskia Sassen -- Shanty architecture / André Cypriano -- The research enterprise / Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner -- Caracas : hecho en Venezuela / Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber -- Caracas shanty towns / André Cypriano -- Phenomenon mapping / Shuhei Endo, Keisuke Fukuma -- Regimes of slowness / Marco Poletto, Guy La Fayette -- Caracas invisible(s) / Nicolas Bancilhon, Alejandra Padrón -- Oral urban regulations / Felix Madrazo, Helene Chevtchenko -- Urban practices, tactical spatializations / Sabine Müller, Andreas Quednau -- Growing house, growing city / Marjetica Potrč, Liyat Esakov -- Imagined Caracas : the unpredictable city / Armando Silva and team -- Utopian / Raúl Zélik -- Images of La Ceibita / Carlos German Rojas -- The simple and the complex / Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner -- Straight talk / Guy Battle [and others] -- Transcultural urganities / Diana Agrest -- Night shots / Ricardo Jiménez -- Imagine the new city / Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner -- Urbanism as adventure / Regina Bittner -- Megapolis organized by informality / Nestor Garcia Canclini.
Also issued online.
Text in English and German.

Summary:

"Informal City Caracas Case is the result of an extraordinary urban research project, initiated in the Venezuelan capital by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) and the Urban Think Tank. This publication is a form of compendium of informal and cultural developments that pertain not only to Caracas but to almost every Latin American metropolis. It offers a new urbanism applicable to cities around the world and makes the need for a profound change in our understanding of urban culture evident."--Jacket.

ISBN:

3791333917 (paperback)
9783791333915 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning Venezuela Caracas.
Urbanization Venezuela Caracas.
Sociology, Urban Venezuela Caracas.
Sociologie urbaine Venezuela Caracas.
Urbanisation Venezuela Caracas.
Sociology, Urban
City planning
Urbanization
Schattenwirtschaft
Stadtentwicklung
Urbanität
Planejamento territorial urbano Caracas;venezuela.
Urbanização (evolução) Caracas.
Áreas metropolitanas América latina.
Venezuela Caracas
Caracas

Form/genre:

Case studies
Bildband.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Brillembourg Tamayo, Alfredo.
Feireiss, Kristin.
Klumpner, Hubert.
Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 242562
Call No.: BIB 172364
Status: Available