Building the city from the inside
Subtitle: Architecture and urban transformation in Los Angeles, Porto, and Las Vegas
By: Hannes Frykholm
Contributors: Kungl. Tekniska högskolan
Publisher: School of Architecture and Built Environment
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9789178734429
Subjects: City planning; Urban renewal
Other titles: Architecture and urban transformation in Los Angeles, Porto, and Las Vegas
Description: Positioned in the research field of 'interior urbanism', this thesis considers entrance situations that occur between buildings and cities in order to develop new ways of investigating the relationship between architecture and urban transformation. From the main research question - How does architecture mediate urban transformation? - the thesis focuses on experience-driven narratives about the city. Looking at the means by which architecture situates the subject in an urban experience, the thesis asks how the experience contributes to a particular attention to the city. This approach intends to shed light on architecture's role in both mediating and challenging neoliberal urbanism.. The thesis argues for analyzing large-scale processes of urban transformation by placing a sharpened empirical focus on the built environment. This is tested by a transversal research method that intersects multiple investigative techniques.
Notes: Doctoral Thesis in Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-385)