Urban asymmetries
Subtitle: studies and projects on neoliberal urbanization
By: editors Tahl Kaminer, Miguel Robles-Dúran, Heidi Sohn ; with contributions by M. Christine Boyer ... [et al.]
Contributors: Robles-Durán, Miguel; Delft School of Design
Series: Delft School of Design series on Architecture and Urbanism -- 5; Delft School of Design series on architecture and urbanism -- 5.
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789064507243
Subjects: City planning; Urban policy; Neoliberalism
Description: The onset of the current global economic crisis provides the perfect backdrop for reviewing the dire consequences that neoliberal urban policies have had upon the city, and for discussing possible alternatives to market-driven development. In this light "Urban asymmetries" centres on the contradictions of uneven urban development as a means of providing both a substantial critique of the current urban condition and a discussion of necessary counter practices, policies and strategies for designing in such environments, and inferring that social betterment within the city is possible by strategic use of the tools available to the urbanist and to the architect. The book aims to disprove some of the prevailing disciplinary discourses in architecture and urbanism which see the city as 'a given' rather than as an evolving socio-historic phenomenon, and intends to challenge the ubiquitous understanding of architecture as devoid of any social transformative power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.