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In the life of cities : edited by Mohsen Mostafavi. parallel narratives of the urban /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baden : Lars Müller ; London : Springer, 2012.Description: 375 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9783037783023 (hbk.)
  • 3037783028 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1216 THE 23 002333
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Contents:
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.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 307.1216 THE 002442 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 002442
Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, New Delhi 307.1216 THE 002333 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 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.

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