When urbanization comes to ground When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a collaborative research project between the Brooklyn based architecture studio CAZA and think tank SURBA an urban research collective spearheaded by Carlos Arnaiz and Peter Rowe. Drawing upon case studies including projects in China Colombia and the Philippines this book works across place time and culture to offer an allegorical journey into urbanization at large. When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a loosely congregated collection of essays that reflect an aggregation of encounters with urban circumstances physical and immaterial and structural and affective. This publication questions the role of architecture and its related disciplines in the wake of the master plan. It searches for a field guide to everyday urban life by offering palpable views into the network of relations that characterize this evolving social ecosystem. Through their collective global research projects CAZA and SURBA frame abstract poeticize and render the city as a historical process a future destination a production cycle and a layered landscape of overlapping phenomena. When Urbanization Comes To Ground does not attempt to cast the city in any one particular ideology nor does it aim to essentialize or distill urban experience. Instead this book oscillates from one rendering of urbanization to another alternating scales and media in order to present the topic of the city and its encapsulated processes through the same phenomena that inform it