UR05 Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta, Editors Contributors: Khaled Adham; Susana Galán; Azam Khatam; Ed McAllister; Julie Mehretu; Duygu Parmaksızog˘lu; Aseel Sawalha; Helga Tawil-Souri
UR01 Gowntown: A 197X Plan for Upper Manhattan Terreform
Beyond the Square 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.
Gowntown investigates the impact of Columbia University’s massive expansion into Upper Manhattan. The book includes a series of specific physical, social, and networking proposals and provocations created by Michael Sorkin and the research and design team at Terreform. Addressed to all the people living, working, and studying uptown, Gowntown radically bridges the familiar—and too often hostile—divide between gown and town.
UR06 Mahometan & Celestial’s Encyclopaedic Guide to Modernity Comprising a Manual of Useful Instruction Essential to Attainment of the Urbane by the Savage, the Barbarous, and the Half-Civilized Alike Steven Flusty with Pauline C. Yu
UR02 Waterproofing New York Denise Hoffman Brandt and Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Editors
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!
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.
UR03 2100: A Dystopian Utopia The City After Climate Change Vanessa Keith / StudioTEKA Introduction by Saskia Sassen 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” and 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.
UR04 Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall Berman Jennifer Corby, Editor Contributors: Jamie Aroosi; Marshall Berman; Todd Gitlin; Marta Gutman; Owen Hatherley; Esther Leslie; Andy Merrifield; Ali Mirsepassi; Joan Ockman; Kirsteen Paton; Robert Snyder Adventures in Modernism is the first posthumous collection of essays on Marshall Berman’s life and legacy. A scholar, advocate, and public intellectual, Marshall gave generations a new way of thinking about what it means to be modern. The book begins with Marshall’s unpublished essay, Emerging from the Ruins. With contributions by theorists, architects, media critics, urbanists, and historians from across the globe, it is a testament to the broad influence of Marshall’s work.
UR07 Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse, Editors Contributors: Tom Angotti; Philip DePaolo; Peter Marcuse; Sylvia Morse; Samuel Stein New York City doesn’t plan for the future but instead depends on zoning, which protects segregated neighborhoods and displaces low-income communities of color. “Affordable housing” isn’t affordable. Race has mattered throughout the city’s history. Recent rezonings in Williamsburg, Harlem and Chinatown expanded inequalities. The authors call for authentic community-based and city-wide planning and housing in the public domain.
UR09 Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro Bruno Carvalho, Mariana Cavalcanti and Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli, Editors Contributors: Bruno Carvalho, Mariana Cavalcanti with Julia O’Donnell and Lilian Sampaio, Gabriel Duarte with Renata Bertol, Beatriz Jaguaribe with Scott Salmon, Guilherme Lassance, Bryan McCann, Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli, and Theresa Williamson Timely essays by literary critics, historians, anthropologists, architects and urban planners analyze the implications of Rio’s transformation for the 2016 Olympic Games, reflecting on the city’s past and possibilities for more just futures. In engaging prose, the book offers critical insight for other cities experiencing wide-ranging challenges and facing far-reaching urban reforms.
FORTHCOMING TITLES The Helsinki Effect: Public Alternatives to the Guggenheim Model of Culture-Driven Development, edited by Terike Haapoja, Andrew Ross, and Michael Sorkin; 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; 50 Ways to Game a City, Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai by Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli with Vineet Diwadkar 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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