In the life of cities :
In the life of cities : parallel narratives of the urban /
edited by Mohsen Mostafavi.
- Baden : London : Lars Müller ; Springer, 2012.
- 375 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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.
9783037783023 (hbk.) Rs3444.00 3037783028 (hbk.)
City planning--Case studies.
City planning--Social aspects--Case studies.
Architecture and society--Case studies.
307.1216 THE / 002333
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.
9783037783023 (hbk.) Rs3444.00 3037783028 (hbk.)
City planning--Case studies.
City planning--Social aspects--Case studies.
Architecture and society--Case studies.
307.1216 THE / 002333