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Urban Transformation - excerpts from table of content

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 permanent and transitory

Introduction: The Endless Present
Eyal Weizman

Excerpt of Leisure Nomads of the New Third Age: Nomadic Network Urbanism
of the Senior RV Community in the US (PDF, 97 KB)
Deane Simpson

Excerpt of Refugee Camps or Ideal Cities in Dust and Dirt (PDF, 339 KB)
Manuel Herz

Excerpt of Model Houses and Show Flats or How to Buy an Apartment in Korea (PDF, 46 KB)
Haewon Shin

Excerpt of International Aid Cities: A By-Product of Reconstruction in Postwar Cities (PDF, 130 KB)
Pushkaraj Karakat and Snehal Hannurkar

Excerpt of Strategies for the Reuse of Temporary Housing (PDF, 47 KB)
Cassidy Johnson

Excerpt of Whatever Happened to Nomadism? (PDF, 211 KB)
Florian Lippe

Excerpt of Indifferent Urbanism or Modernism Was Almost Alright (PDF, 46 KB)
Robert Somol

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)
Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix

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