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Gowntown: A 197X Plan for Upper Manhattan By Terreform Based on Terreform’s multi-year urban design study on the impact of Columbia University’s expansion into Upper Manhattan, Gowntown combines specific physical planning proposals, historical research and provocations written and designed by Michael Sorkin and the research and design team at Terreform. Addressed to all the people of the neighborhoods uptown, our aim was to radically bridge the traditional— and too often hostile—divide between town and gown.
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Waterproofing New York
2100: A Dystopian Utopia / The City After Climate Change
Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall Berman
By Vanessa Keith/StudioTEKA
Jennifer Corby, Editor
A brilliant combination of radical pessimism with utopian architectural and urban invention, 2100 starts from the premise that dramatic climate change is inevitable and imagines a planet radically reconfigured to cope with it. Noted sociologist, Saskia Sassen, describes Keith's work as a form of "delegating back to the biosphere" as a route to a new kind of “intermediate space” that can heal the dangerous rupture between the urban and the biosphere we increasingly confront.
Contributors: Jamie Aroosi; Marshall Berman; Todd Gitlin; Marta Gutman; Owen Hatherley; Esther Leslie; Andy Merrifield; Ali Mirsepassi; Joan Ockman; Kirsteen Paton; Robert Snyder
Denise Hoffman Brandt and Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Editors Contributors: Lance Jay Brown; Nette Compton; Deborah Gans; Jeffrey Hou; Lydia Kallipoliti; Signe Nielsen; Kate Orff; Thaddeus Pawlowski; Sandra Richter; Janette Sadik-Khan; Hilary Sample; Judd Schechtman; Gullivar Shepard; Michael Sorkin; Byron Stigge; Erika Svendsen, Lindsay Campbell, Nancy F. Sonti and Gillian Baine; Georgeen Theodore This vital compendium is a collection of research and essays from today’s most influential leaders, urban planners, engineers, designers, and social scientists who are exploring the necessary evolution of the urban landscape of New York City. Their proposed solutions address climate change and the urban impacts of increasingly routine catastrophic weather events.
A tribute to the Bronx-native writer, political theorist and educator "whose aesthetic was wild, whose ideas were exciting, whose enthusiasm was contagious, and whose emotions were always on his sleeve", this book begins with Marshall’s unpublished essay, Emerging from the Ruins and includes contributions from top theorists, architects, media critics, urbanists, and historians from around the world.
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Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings
Mahometan & Celestial’s Encyclopaedic Guide to Modernity
Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta, Editors
By Steven Flusty with Pauline C. Yu
Contributors: Khaled Adham; Susana Galán; Azam Khatam; C. Lanthier; Ed McAllister; Julie Mehretu; G. Ollamh; Duygu Parmaksızog˘ lu; Aseel Sawalha; Helga Tawil-Souri
Proceeding from the certainty that the early 21st Century is the new late 19th, the lavishly illustrated contents of this tricephalic by-blow of a funhouse mirror, a wunderkammer and a war-crimes tribunal will ensure you, dear reader, metropolises and entrepôts relieved of such troublesome nuisances as foreign evangelists, carpetbaggers, expeditionary forces, &c. Do not be caught with your panung open or your sarouel down, let this Encyclopædic Guide put a bowler on your head and a box cannon in your hand!
Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings focuses on the urban spatial dynamics of the mass protest movements that have convulsed the Arab region since December 2010. The volume shifts attention away from public squares—such as Tahrir Square—to consider the broader urban context in which the uprisings unfolded. This breadth of perspective highlights the centrality of space and spatial concerns to the ongoing political transformations in the region. In this way, the book provides a distinctive analysis of one of the most significant political events of our time.
Occupy All Streets: The Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Competition Over Urban Futures, edited by Bruno Carvalho, Mariana Cavalcanti, and Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli; The Helsinki Effect: Public Alternatives to the Guggenheim Model of Culture-Driven Development, edited by Terike Haapoja, Andrew Ross, and Michael Sorkin; Zoned Out: Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City, edited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse; An Atlas of Extraordinary Rendition: Space, Sovereignty and Torture in the Global War on Terror by Jordan H. Carver; Kongjian Yu: Letters to the Mayors of China, edited by Terreform; Why Yachay? Cities, Knowledge, and Development, edited by Terreform; New York City (Steady) State: Home Grown by Terreform; and Gregory Ain: Low-Cost Modern Housing and the Construction of the Social Landscape by Anthony Fontenot.
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Terreform is a non-profit 501(c)(3), urban research studio and advocacy group founded in 2005 by Michael Sorkin. Its mission is to investigate the forms, policies, technologies, and practices that will yield equitable, sustainable, and beautiful cities for our urbanizing planet. Terreform works as a “friend of the court,” dedicated to raising urban expectations and to disseminating innovative and progressive ideas as widely as possible. We undertake selfinitiated investigations into both local and global issues and make research available to community and other organizations to support independent environmental and planning initiatives. For more information, please visit: terreform.info TerreformUR receives support from institutions (Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Holcim Foundation, The City College of New York—The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy) from individuals (including Richard Menaker, Elisabeth Block, Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown, George Sorkin and a generous anonymous donor) and from architectural offices (Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, Rockwell Group, TEN Arquitectos, Turenscape and Michael Sorkin Studio).
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