Urban Transformation - excerpts from table of content
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The book "Urban Transformation" based on the Holcim Forum 2007 is available in five versions - the difference being the outside wrapper representing contributions from a region of the world.
 Excerpt of Foreword (PDF, 23 KB)
Ilka & Andreas Ruby
 Excerpt of City of “and…and…and...” (PDF, 82 KB)
Marc Angélil and Cary Siress
Between ecology and economy
Introduction: Beyond Programmed Obsolescence
Fernando Diez
Excerpt of A Green Masterplan Is Still a Masterplan (PDF, 49 KB)
Mark Jarzombek
Excerpt of Zone (PDF, 96 KB)
Keller Easterling
Excerpt of Aguada Flood-Park: Recovering a Post-Industrial Urban Stream in Santiago de Chile (PDF, 114 KB)
Pablo Allard and José Rosas
Excerpt of The Good, the Bad, and the Utilitarian: Singapore’s Schizophrenic Urbanism (PDF, 136 KB)
Ting-Ting Zhang and William Tan
Excerpt of Running the Numbers (PDF, 223 KB)
Chris Jordan
Excerpt of Cityness (PDF, 47 KB)
Saskia Sassen
Between global and local
Introduction: The Global-Local Nexus and the New Urban Order
Amer Moustafa
Excerpt of Re: Doing Dubai (PDF, 121 KB)
Wes Jones
Excerpt of Sustainable Difference (PDF, 164 KB)
Simon Hubacher
Excerpt of Caribbean Strips: Tourism in the Caribbean (PDF, 120 KB)
Juan Alfonso Zapata and Supersudaca
Excerpt of Permanent Visitors (PDF, 46 KB)
Donald L. Bates
Excerpt of Mallorca: Island in Progress (PDF, 112 KB)
Marc Räder
Excerpt of [Restricted Access] or The Open City? (PDF, 48 KB)
Kees Christiaanse
Between public and private
Introduction: Citizen or Shareholder?
Kaarin Taipale
Excerpt of Two Houses in Seoul (PDF, 132 KB)
Minsuk Cho
Excerpt of Empty Lots: Collective Action of Experimental Urban Occupation (PDF, 47 KB)
Louise Marie Cardoso Ganz
Excerpt of Ciclopaseo in Quito: Cycling Citizenship in the City (PDF, 97 KB)
Ximena Ganchala
Excerpt of The City of Production: A Fantastic Opportunity to Experiment with Positive Capitalism (PDF, 165 KB)
Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix
Excerpt of Going Public (PDF, 47 KB)
Sarah Whiting
Excerpt of A More Socially and Environmentally Sustainable City (PDF, 74 KB)
Enrique Peñalosa
Between sanctioned and shadow order
Introduction: Learning from the Kinetic City
Rahul Mehrotra
Excerpt of In-Between Legal and Illegal (PDF, 47 KB)
Philippe Cabane
Excerpt of Evasion of Temporality (PDF, 92 KB)
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Excerpt of Don’t Underestimate the Rice Fields (PDF, 108 KB)
Juan Du
Trans-Border Flows: An Urbanism Beyond the Property Line
Teddy Cruz
Excerpt of Urban Flux (PDF, 468 KB)
Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer
Excerpt of Tabula Non Rasa. Toward a Performative Contextualism (PDF, 23 KB)
Ilka & Andreas Ruby in Conversation with Jean-Philippe Vassal
Between standard and appropriation
Introduction: Urban Ninjas and Pirate Planners
Mark Lee
Excerpt of Subversive Standards or United Bottle: A Product Designed for Misuse (PDF, 118 KB)
Dirk Hebel and Jörg Stollmann
Excerpt of Elemental: Housing As an Investment not a Social Expense (PDF, 46 KB)
Andrés Iacobelli and Alejandro Aravena
Excerpt of Caracas MetroCable: Bridging the Formal/Informal City (PDF, 93 KB)
Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, Urban-Think Tank
Excerpt of Underneath the Highway (PDF, 58 KB)
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