Description
Book SynopsisWhat form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and the average length of stay is three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and redefine their economic identity? What type of architecture results from the prevalence of airborne contaminants? What kind of urbanism does Google Earth produce?
Exploring the increasingly decentralized systems through which cities are organized and produced, Distributed Urbanism highlights the architectural practices that are emerging in response. Unlike early models of urbanism, in which centralized models of production, communication and governance were sited within a central business district, contemporary urbanism is shaped by remote, distributed mechanisms such as information technologies, (i.e. SatNav, Google Earth, E-trade, Photosynth or RSS web feeds) cooperative economic models and environmental networks, many of which are physically re
Table of Contents
Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. The City You Can’t See on Google Earth 2. Rural Urbanism: Thriving Under the Radar – Beijing’s Villages in the City 3. Rotterdam 1979-2007: From Ideology to Market Communism and Beyond 4. MegaHouse 5. Borderland/Borderama/Detroit 6. Rubble in the Sand 7. Density of Emptiness 8. Antisepsis 9. Beyond Urbanism: Mumbai and the Cultivation of an Eye 10. Resurrecting Cities: Instant Urban Planning 11. Productive Residue: The Casting of Alternative Public Space 12. Bubble Cities: Airports, Islands and Nomads Bibliography. Index
