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