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Terms and conditions applyShrinking Cities: Volume 2 - Interventions
Philipp Oswalt
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Format: Book
Pages: 861
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Date Published: Aug 2006
Stock Code: 57334
Binding: Paperback
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Shrinking cities have pushed urban design and classical city planning to their limits. This new challenge requires new approaches in which the 'hard' tools of construction are joined by the 'soft' tools of political, social, cultural, and communicative interventions.
This book provides an international overview of experimental concepts for taking action in shrinking cities from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban construction, the media, performance and art. The approaches range from artistic intercessions and self-empowerment projects to architectural and landscape interventions, and from strategies of media communication and city marketing to new legal regulations and utopian designs. A series of essays provides a critical discussion of both successful and failed projects of recent decades from such countries as the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia and Japan.
The associated exhibition debuted in Leipzig at the turn of the year, and will rumble around the world from Venice to St. Petersburg over the next two years. Featured practitioners include Will Alsop, Crimson, Jeremy Deller, Gordon Matta-Clark, OMA, Cedric Price, Andreas Siekmann, Robert Smithson, Superflex and O. M. Ungers.
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