Davide Ponzini

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism

Rethinking How Cities Plan, Transform, and Learn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780415787925
• ISBN-10: 0415787920
• Artikelnr.: 59761166

Autorenporträt

Davide Ponzini is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano. He has also been a visiting scholar at Yale, Johns Hopkins, Columbia University, and Sciences Po Paris and Visiting Professor at TU Munich. His research activity focuses on planning theory, urban and cultural policy, and contemporary architecture. He is co-author (with the photographer Michele Nastasi) of Starchitecture, and co-editor (with Harvey Molotch) of The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress.

Inhaltsangabe

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Introduction
PART I - Transnational architecture and urbanism
1 The transnational transformations of contemporary cities
1.1 Ubiquitous and homogenizing forces of urban globalization?
1.2 Global spread and local transplants: past and recent examples
1.3 Contemporary urban narratives, models and projects
1.4 City forms and transnational projects: pressing issues and questions
2 Looking for (urban) troubles across disciplines
2.1 The architecture/city nexus: old criticisms and contemporary reductions
to absurdity
2.2 Forms of contemporary urban development: Manhattanism, bigness and the
generic post-metropolis
2.3 Glocal urban competition and growth machines
2.4 Contemporary architectural and urban knowledge is part of the problem
3 A Conceptual framework for usable knowledge in contemporary cities
3.1 Projects and built forms
3.2 Glocal places and contexts
3.3 Transnational agents and networks
3.4 Transnational urban processes
3.5 Analyzing transnational projects through their mobilities, circulation,
and transfer
3.6 A conceptual framework for usable knowledge, not for general urban
theories
4 Critical approach and pragmatic attitude
4.1 Long-term global mapping and urban analysis: forms, agents and process
4.2 The case study method and its limits in investigating transnational
issues
4.3 Methods for critically understanding transnational architecture and
urbanism
PART II - Critical issues
5 Spectacularization of contemporary architecture and the urban environment
5.1 Architecture in the society of spectacle
5.2 Urban politics and the economies of spectacle
5.3 Transnational cultural facilities and their urban expectations: the
Guggenheim spectacles
5.4 The city wonders in the world: supertall skyscrapers
5.5 The Burj Khalifa in Downtown Dubai and beyond
5.6 Placing urban spectacles
6 Urban personification and the mobilities of global experts
6.1 Archistars, urbanistars and other transnational elites
6.2 The "New York by Gehry" building and other personifications
6.3 Hadid's, Libeskind's and Isozaki's projects and the poor planning of
Milan's CityLife
6.4 Mobilities of urbanistars and planning consultancy groups
6.5 Transnational experts and local landings
7 Decontextualization of architectural and urban design
7.1 Economic and symbolic competitions in a financialized urban world
7.2 Transnational design firms' strategies in contemporary cities
7.3 The transnational trajectories of Broadway Malyan's firm and projects
7.4 Transnational urban development and the disconnect of its design
8 Plan circulation and complex transfers
8.1 New York's High Line Elevated Park and its transnational circulation
8.2 The circulation of a master plan from Vancouver's False Creek to Dubai
Marina and beyond
8.3 Transferring an urban complex: from Abu Dhabi's Central Market to Abu
Dhabi Plaza in Astana
9 Transfer of megastructures and buildings
9.1 Singapore's new landmark transferred to Chongqing
9.2 From Barcelona's Poblenou to Doha's West Bay: the take-off and landing
of an iconic skyscraper
9.3 Understanding the qualities of transnational places and projects
10 Homogenization of central places and urban landscapes
10.1 Homogenization in contemporary cities
10.2 Five ways of comprehending urban homogenization
10.3 Transnational geographies and dynamics of urban homogenization
PART III - Conclusions
11 Planning, learning and dealing with transnational architecture and
urbanism
11.1 Varied relevance of local planning and the legitimization crisis of
urban and design knowledge
11.2 A state of unlearning: speed, scale and de-politicization of urban
planning and architectural design
11.3 The little room for maneuvering and for making better places
12 How can urban planners, designers and policy makers cope with these
issues?
12.1 Contextual learning from transnational plans and projects
12.2 Less about transnational narratives, more about local problems
12.3 Critical paths for research and practice across urban design, planning
and policy making
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