The city that never was / Christopher Marcinkoski.

Main entry:

Marcinkoski, Christopher, author.

Title & Author:

The city that never was / Christopher Marcinkoski.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

256 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A brief history of speculative urbanization -- A new Spanish miracle -- Products of the boom and bust -- Urbanization beyond speculation.

Summary:

"One of the most troubling consequences of the 2008 global financial collapse was the midstream abandonment of several large-scale speculative urban and suburban projects. The resulting scars on the landscape, large subdivisions with only marked-out plots and half-finished roads, are the subject of The City That Never Was, an eye-opening look at what happens when development, particularly what the author calls "speculative urbanism," is out of sync with financial reality. Presenting historical and recent examples from around the world--from the sprawl of the US Sun Belt and the unoccupied towns of western China, to the "ghost estates" of Ireland--and focusing on case studies in Spain, Marcinkoski proposes an ecologically based model in place of the capricious economic and political factors that typically drive development today"-- Provided by publisher.
"The City That Never Was considers the increasingly speculative nature of contemporary urbanization by exploring the consequences of the massive building boom and bust seen in Spain between 1998 and 2008 as a lens through which to reconsider the theory, methods and agency of contemporary urban design and planning praxis"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781616893903 (paperback)
1616893907 (paperback)

Subject:

Real estate development History.
City planning History.
Urbanization History.
Promotion immobilière Histoire.
Urbanisation Histoire.
ARCHITECTURE Urban & Land Use Planning.
ARCHITECTURE Methods & Materials.
City planning
Real estate development
Urbanization
Stadsplanering (estetik)
Urbanisering.
Real estate development Spain Madrid Metropolitan Region Case studies.
City planning Spain Madrid Metropolitan Region Case studies.
Urbanization Spain Madrid Metropolitan Region Case studies.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291739
Call No.: BIB 235517
Status: Available

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