Main entry:

Gadanho, Pedro, author, editor.

Title & Author:

Uneven growth : tactical urbanisms for expanding megacities / Pedro Gadanho.

Publication:

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2014]
New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Artbook/D.A.P., New York
©2014

Description:

166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 22, 2014-May 10, 2015, organized by Pedro Gadanho, Curator, with Phoebe Springstubb, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design"--Title page verso.
"This is the third exhibition in the series Issues in Contemporary Architecture"--Title page verso.
"The six speculative proposals presented in this catalogue are the result of a productive and dynamic fourteen-month initiative spanning multiple continents and bringing together architects of local knowledge and international experience ... The MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art and its Director, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein ... have been both generous hosts--organizing the project's final workshop and providing a second venue for the exhibition at its 2015 Vienna Biennale"--Page 7.
"How can we address the rising social and spatial inequality produced by an ever-growing planetary urbanization? ... This publication brings together three approaches to this crucial issue."--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Foreword / Christoph Thun-Hohenstein -- Preface / Barry Bergdoll -- Mirroring uneven growth: a speculation on tomorrow's cities today / Pedro Gadanho -- The crisis of planetary urbanization / David Harvey -- Accretion and rupture in the global city / Ricky Burdett -- Complex and incomplete: spaces for tactical urbanism / Saskia Sassen -- Rethinking uneven growth: it's about inequality, stupid / Teddy Cruz -- Urban challenges: specifications of form and the indeterminacy of public reception / Nader Tehrani -- Design scenarios and tactical urbanisms : Hong Kong / MAP Office, Hong Kong, Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University, New York -- Tactical urbanisms: East Asia -- Istanbul / Superpool, Istanbul, Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée, Paris -- Tactical urbanisms: Europe -- Lagos / NLÉ, Lagos and Amsterdam, Zoohaus/Inteligencias Colectivas, Madrid -- Tactical urbanisms: Africa -- Mumbai / URBZ:user-generated cities, Mumbai, Ensamble Studio/MIT-POPlab, Madrid and Cambridge -- Tactical urbanisms: South Asia -- New York / SITU Studio, New York, Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), Rotterdam and New York -- Tactical urbanisms: North America -- Rio de Janeiro / RUA Arquitetos, Rio de Janeiro, MAS Urban Design, ETH Zurich -- Tacitcal urbanisms: Latin America.

Summary:

"How can we address the rising social and spatial inequality produced by an ever-growing planetary urbanization? ... This publication brings together three approaches to this crucial issue."--Back cover.
"The six speculative proposals presented in this catalogue are the result of a productive and dynamic fourteen-month initiative spanning multiple continents and bringing together architects of local knowledge and international experience ... The MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art and its Director, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein ... have been both generous hosts--organizing the project's final workshop and providing a second venue for the exhibition at its 2015 Vienna Biennale"--Page 7.

ISBN:

0870709143 (paperback)
9780870709142 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning History 21st century Exhibitions.
Cities and towns Growth History 21st century Exhibitions.
Metropolitan areas History 21st century Exhibitions.
Villes Croissance Histoire 21e siècle Expositions.
Cities and towns Growth Exhibitions. 21st century.
City planning History Exhibitions. 21st century.
Metropolitan areas History Exhibitions. 21st century.
Architecture and Planning.
Cities and towns Growth.
City planning.
Metropolitan areas.
Verstädterung
Stadtentwicklung
Städtebau
Megastadt
Stadsplanning.
Urbanisatie.
Stadsplanering.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, issuing body.

Tactical urbanisms for expanding megacities

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288379
Call No.: BIB 230057
Status: Available