Slow space
By: edited by Michael Bell and Sze Tsung Leong.
Contributors: Bell, Michael; Leong, Sze Tsung.
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Cities and towns; Sociology, Urban
Description: Slow Space was formed in and by these spaces - the vacancies that, by having become the unintended archetype of contemporary urbanism, coerce an evolution of conventional visuality and inhabitation. The comprehension of an urban condition rendered through processes - machinic, regulatory, managerial - thus resides in the temporal. These durations, imbricated with the variable flows of the metropolis, form the medium for the twenty-three essays and projects that make up Slow Space. This book represents an attempt to make time material, and an effort to find an architecture and a practice that engages and catalytically reconfigures the spaces and processes of the contemporary city.

Slow Space was formed in and by these spaces - the vacancies that, by having become the unintended archetype of contemporary urbanism, coerce an evolution of conventional visuality and inhabitation. The comprehension of an urban condition rendered through processes - machinic, regulatory, managerial - thus resides in the temporal. These durations, imbricated with the variable flows of the metropolis, form the medium for the twenty-three essays and projects that make up Slow Space.

This book represents an attempt to make time material, and an effort to find an architecture and a practice that engages and catalytically reconfigures the spaces and processes of the contemporary city.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.