Talking cities
Subtitle: the micropolitics of urban space
By: edited by F. Ferguson & Urban Drift = die Mikropolitik des urbanen Raums / herausgegeben von F. Ferguson & Urban Drift.
Contributors: Ferguson, Francesca.; Urban Drift.
Publisher: Birkhäuser-Publishers for Architecture
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Basel; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9783764377274
Subjects: City planning -- Exhibitions.; Architecture -- Exhibitions.; Cities and towns -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: "Accompanies the exhibition as part of ENTRY2006 at the Zeche Zollverein, Essen, E. Germany, Aug. 26-Dec. 3, 2006"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and German.
Table of contents: value: 1. Talking cities : The Zeche Zollverein / Gerhard Seltmann; value: Zeche Zollverein: OMA's masterplan; value: The Potteries Thinkbelt / Cedric Price; value: Talking cities: the micropolitics of urban space / Francesca Ferguson; value: The evacuated field / Peter Lewis; value: 2. Fragmented cityscapes : Where density ends / Susanne Hauser; value: Ultra Ruhr / Nuno Cera; value: The cartography of everyday life / Bernd Kniess and Leonhard Lagos; value: Land for free; value: Artificial Arcadia / Bas Princen; value: Emptiness / IaN+; value: Berlin walk / studio.eu and Stalker; value: Black Rubber House / Simon Conder; value: Supercities / Will Alsop; value: Pragmatic utopias / Bjarke Ingels; value: Highrise of homes / SITE; value: 3. Rethinking modernism's megavisions : Desert cities / Aglaia Konrad; value: Chandigarh: plan in the punjab; value: Chandigarh revisited / Luc Deleu; value: Risky buildings / Cordula Zeidler; value: Architecture erased / Heike Klussmann; value: The model city / Karsten Konrad; value: Memory game / baukasten.berlin; value: Dystopian idyll / Timorous Beasties; value: Negative space / Map Office; value: Darmstadt plug-in / Arno Lederer; value: Corviale / Flaminia Gennari Santori; value: The urban imaginary; value: Transformation / Lacaton Vassal; value: Superscapes / Kriessl Kerber.; value: 4. Re-engaging contested spaces : The Gecekondu as archetype / Köbberling/Kaltwasser; value: The beauty of informality / Marjetica Potrč; value: Balkanisation is architecture / Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss; value: New Babylon / Constant Nieuwenhuis; value: Tokyo pet hybrids / Atelier Bow Wow; value: Bonfires of urbanity / Building Intiative; value: The Banlieue condition / Petetin Grégoire; value: Architecture on the edge / Valéry Didelon; value: 5. Micro-topias: tuning, customising, design-it-yourself : Micro-dwellings / N55; value: Nohotel / Tobias Lehmann and Floris Schiferli; value: Docking on / Stefan Eberstadt; value: Interbreeding field; value: Derelict / Detroit COllaborative Design Centre; value: Home made in Alabama / Rural Studio; value: Guerilla architecture / Simon Sadler; value: Provisional library / KARO; value: Typography in space / Recto; value: Urban olfactory / Sissel Tolaas; value: Barriers / Andreas Bergmann; value: Design-it-yourself / el ultimo grito; value: Gap horticulture / Atelier le Balto; value: The uncommon solution / Toh Shimazaki; value: &: partners and related events.