Perspecta 39 - Re-Urbanism - Transforming Capitals The Yale Architectural Journal

Name: Perspecta 39 - Re-Urbanism - Transforming Capitals The Yale Architectural Journal
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ISBN: 9780262511995

ISBN-10: 0262511991

ISBN-13: 9780262511995

Edition: 2007

Authors: Melanie Domino, Edward Richardson, Brad Walters, Kanu Agrawal

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This edition of Perspecta,the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America, investigates the transformation of capital cities in the era of globalization. This redevelopment, renewal, and recycling of the urban landscape--termed by the editors as "Re_Urbanism"--takes place as capital cities try both to cater to an influx of global capital and to reassert their roles as symbols of national sovereignty. Re_Urbanisminvestigates this process from an architectural perspective. The contributors explore the various ways capital cities struggle to assert their vitality and continuing relevance, examining capitals that compete internally with their own global…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/31/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 140
Size: 9.06" wide x 12.01" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Melanie Domino is a practicing architect in New York.

A gradute of the Yale School of Architecture, Edward Richardson is a practicing architect in Austin

A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Brad Walters is a doctoral candidate at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.



Abu Dhabi



Abuja: Abuja



Africa: Non-Aligned Spaces



Baghdad: Mapping Violence



Bangkok: Bangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies



Beijing: Beijing



Belgrade: Belgrade: Where Subversion is Normal



Brasilia: From Expressways to Crystals



Brussels: Ideal Figures: Foreign Bodies in Brussels



Jerusalem: The Walled City and the White City: Jerusalem and Tel Aviv



Kuwait: Villa Moda



Manila: Industry in Manila



Mexico City: Regenerative Landscapes



New Delhi: Gurgaon, New Delhi



Washington D.C: Washington D.C. vs. The New American Neighborhood: Urbanisms of Surveillance, Practices of Transgression