{"product_id":"seoul-9781032684949","title":"Seoul","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a broader sense, the book discusses the dichotomy between city and urbanization: city being an architectural problem of bounded forms, while urbanism is an infrastructural project of expansion. It is an uncontested reality that urbanization is a continuous global process that has produced nebulous conurbations labeled as megacities. These expand beyond the virtual administrative boundary of any said city, producing a discrepancy between an area of administrative control and the real physical condition of human settlement. If there were a better formal understanding of megacities through their typological architectural conditions, then there could be a better assessment of the qualitative state of urbanization. Avant-garde groups from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s such as Team X, the Situationist, the Structuralist, and the Metabolist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019161338199,"sku":"9781032684949","price":48.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032684949.jpg?v=1750779502","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/seoul-9781032684949","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}