Transurbanism

by Brouwer, Joke; Mulder, Arjen

• ISBN13: 9789056622367
• ISBN10: 9056622366
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Recent technological advances have radically altered the parameters of the urban field: trade takes place on a universal scale, work is immaterial and telematic, and new modes of communication influence the development of social relations. The city is the topographical area where these changes occur in their most concentrated form, where the conflicts and tensions accruing from them are most clearly articulated, where pixel and concrete are bound at every level. No longer a material place defined by geographical and architectural boundaries, the city of today is constituted by experiences, by lifestyles and attitudes, by leisure and consumption, by faces and conversations, and by media. Texts and projects by urban designers, artists, and writers, including Archined and V2_lab, Knowbotic Research, Scott Lash, Bart Lootsma, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, chart groundbreaking ways of thinking about the new city.

Table of Contents

TransUrbanism	p. 5
Transgressing Urbanism	p. 17
The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination	p. 33
Informational Totemism	p. 49
The Structure of Vagueness	p. 65
Restructuring the Industrial Capitalist City	p. 89
Resisting the City	p. 103
Against the Hijacking of the Multitude	p. 123
Alien Relationships with Public Space	p. 139
Lars Spuybroek meets Rem Koolhaas: Africa Comes First	p. 161
Codes Bad Guys Space	p. 197
Transitory Image Spaces: Urbanism 2.0	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 238
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