1st Edition
Distributed Urbanism Cities After Google Earth
Foreword Felicity Scott Acknowledgements Introduction Gretchen Wilkins 1. The City You Can’t See on Google Earth Ilka and Andreas Ruby 2. Rural Urbanism: Thriving Under the Radar – Beijing’s Villages in the City Robert Mangurian and MaryAnn Ray 3. Rotterdam 1979-2007: From Ideology to Market Communism and Beyond Michael Speaks 4. MegaHouse Hitoshi Abe and Masashige Motoe 5. BORDERLAND/BORDERAMA/DETROIT Jerry Herron 6. Rubble in the Sand Jan van Schaik and Simon Drysdale 7. Density of Emptiness Jason Young 8. Antisepsis Li Shiqiao 9. BEYOND URBANISM:Mumbai and the cultivation of an Eye Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha 10. Resurrecting Cities: Instant Urban Planning Ignasi Pérez Arnal, translated by Oscar Yanez del Mazo 11. Productive Residue: The Casting of Alternative Public Space Dan Pitera 12. Bubble Cities: Airports, Islands and Nomads Gretchen Wilkins Bibliography Index
Biography
Gretchen Wilkins is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, teaching in the Urban Architecture Laboratory and is a co-coordinator of the World Architecture Workshop. Previously she was Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and Research Fellow at the Japan Foundation. She is the editor of Entropia: Incremental Gestures Towards a Possible Urbanism (Champ Libre, 2008) and On-The-Spot: Atelier Hitoshi Abe (University of Michigan, 2008).
