Title & Author:

In the life of cities / edited by Mohsen Mostafavi ; Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Publication:

Zurich : Lars Müller, ©2012.

Description:

375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes 4 fold-out pages of photographs.
Includes bibliographical references.
Tale of cities / Mohsen Mostafavi -- São Paulo, Minhocão / Ioana Marinescu -- Infrastructure and urban scenarios: the Voie Georges Pompidou and the future of Paris / Antoine Picon -- Baku: oil and urbanism at the edge of the new Europe / Eve Blau -- Off-modern urbanism: St. Petersburg and Tirana / Svetlana Boym -- En route to Dakar / Mimi Mollica -- Caracas ingenuity / Iwan Baan -- Ghostly cracks and urban deceptions: Jakarta / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Tokyo stainless / Adam Magyar -- Buenos Aires: a tale of two cities? / Jorge Silvetti -- Quito: between consolidated city and new frontier / Felipe Correa -- Invisible London / George Georgiou -- Chicago, transparent city / Michael Wolf -- Egypt speaks for itself in Tahrir Square: Cairo / Nasser Rabbat -- Mobile Johannesburg / Lindsay Bremner -- Whiteout city: Tel Aviv's culture of the new / Rafi Segal -- Moscow: inside the state / Armin Linke -- Paris street view / Michael Wolf -- The changing image of the city: agricultural urbanism in Detroit / Jana Cephas -- Toronto stories: urban specificity and the metropolitan generic / Charles Waldheim -- Hong Kong's architecture of density / Michael Wolf -- Bucharest in transition / Ioana Marinescu -- Architecture and amnesia in Indian modernity / Arjun Appadurai -- Post-planning in Mumbai / Rahul Mehrotra -- Mumbai dreams and counterdreams / Gyan Prakash -- Houston: contrasts and contradictions / Charlie Koolhaas.

Summary:

This volume addresses the complex relations between urban artifacts and urban life. The contributions show how architects, planners, and urban designers describe and give shape to the city, while novelists, humanists, and other scholars examine its operations and performances. The essential question is: How does the physical character of an urban environment influence or enable the events that take place within a specific setting? Contributors from a wide range of fields address the role and life of cities as diverse as Baku, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Detroit, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Paris, Quito, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Tirana, and Toronto. Portfolios of contemporary photography present the layered realities of urban life today.

ISBN:

9783037783023 (hbk.)
3037783028 (hbk.)

Subject:

City planning Case studies.
City planning Social aspects Case studies.
Architecture and society Case studies.
Architecture et société Études de cas.
Architecture and society
City planning
City planning Social aspects

Form/genre:

Case studies
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Mostafavi, Mohsen.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280263
Call No.: BIB 216846
Status: Available