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Cities from zero

Title
Cities from zero / edited by Shumon Basar.
Publication
London : Architectural Association, [2007], ©2007.

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  • Basar, Shumon.
  • Architectural Association (Great Britain)
Description
128 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 21 cm
Summary
"The contributors in this book -- architects, critics and documenters -- have responded to the invitation to prise the fact from the fiction, with particular focus on both the Gulf emirate of Dubai and the rapid urbanisation of China. Are cities from zero universal blueprints of a better world for all of us, or doomed, out-dated models of already extinct ideologies?"--Cover.
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Note
  • Cover title.
  • Based on a symposium held at Architectural Association on 10 November 2006.
Contents
Zero archive / S.B. + K.K. + B.V. -- V+M+HC = CFZ introduction / Shumon Basar -- City's degree zero : Polis vs planning, or city-making in the west and east / Pier Vittorio Aureli -- Always for the first time / Frank van der Salm -- Dubai's island urbanism : an archipelago of difference for the 21st century / Amale Andraos -- Dongtan eco-city / Arup -- Twelve ultimate critical steps to sudden urban success / Shumon Basar -- Who's afraid of public space? / Adina Hempel and Mirco Urban -- Drafting defeat : 10th-century road maps and 21st-century disasters / Slavs and Tatars -- New city nation / Neville Mars/Dynamic City Foundation -- Learning from Learning from Dubai / Peter Carl.
ISBN
  • 9781902902609 (pbk.)
  • 1902902602 (pbk.)
LCCN
2008399601
OCLC
  • ocn144596864
  • SCSB-9241832
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries