Perspecta: re-urbanism : transforming capitals /
edited by Kanu Agrawal
- Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.
- 164 p. : ill
Abu Dhabi: Extrastatecraft / Keller Easterling -- 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.
An architectural perspective on the transformation of capital cities in an age of globalization, from Baghdad and Belgrade to Brussels and Washington DC. This title explores the various ways capital cities struggle to assert their vitality and continuing relevance.
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Urbanism City planning. Capitals (Cities) Urbanization.