Re_urbanism : transforming capitals
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Re_urbanism : transforming capitals
(Perspecta : the Yale architectural journal, 39)
MIT Press, c2007
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Contents of Works
- Abu Dhabi: Extrastatecraft / Keller Easterling
- Bangkok: Bangkok: the architecture of three ecologies / Brian McGrath
- Beijing: Texting Beijing / Tina DiCarlo with Cao Fei ... [et al.]
- Belgrade: Where subversion is normal / Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
- Brasília: Brasília's levitational field / Sunil Bald
- Brussels: Brussels' ideal figures: Fremdkörper as symbolic forms of the project of liberalism / Alexander D'Hooghe and Neeraj Bhatia
- Dakar, Khartoum, and Kinshasa: Invisible urbanism in Africa / Vyjayanthi Rao in conversation with Filip De Boeck and AbdouMaliq Simone
- Jerusalem: The walled city and the white city: the construction of the Tel Aviv/Jerusalem dichotomy / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
- Kuwait City: Office dA: proposal for the Kuwait City Villa Moda / Nader Tehrani in conversation with the editors
- Manila: Metro Manila: zones of capital / Nina Rappaport
- Mexico City: Contemporary Mexico City: recycled sites, regenerative landscapes, and revalued post-industrial enclaves / Edward R. Burian
- New Delhi: Multi-national city: from Silicon Valley to New Delhi / Reinhold Martin
- Washington: From Washington, D.C., to the emergent American neighborhood: strategies of surveillance, tactics of encroachment / Teddy Cruz
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This is an architectural perspective on the transformation of capital cities in an age of globalization, from Baghdad and Belgrade to Brussels and Washington D.C.This edition of "Perspecta", the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America, investigates the transformation of capital cities in the era of globalization. This redevelopment, renewal, and recycling of the urban landscape - termed by the editors as "Re_Urbanism" - takes place as capital cities try both to cater to an influx of global capital and to reassert their roles as symbols of national sovereignty. Re_Urbanism investigates this process from an architectural perspective. The contributors explore the various ways capital cities struggle to assert their vitality and continuing relevance, examining capitals that compete internally with their own global counterparts (Abu Dhabi vs. Dubai), capitals that must be rebuilt after periods of destruction (Belgrade and Baghdad), and capital cities that are responding to hyperbolic development (Beijing, New Delhi, Kuwait City).Some cities are examined for their impact on border politics (Washington D.C.) while others reveal mythologies parallel to their modernist origins (Brasilia).
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