1st Edition
Curated in China Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture
By Monica Naso
Copyright 2024
254 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
254 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives. It uses simultaneous narratives to explore scales and perspectives and the layered spatial and political agency that an ephemeral event – the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of... Read more
List of figures
Foreword by Christoph Lindner
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms
Introduction: Events and the city
1 Framing the Shenzhen Biennale
2 The Biennale as an urban device
3 Post-industrial legacy
4 Urban villages
5 The Central Business District
Conclusion: Events as City
Afterword by Huang Weiwen
Index
Biography
Monica Naso is an architect and Ph.D. holder. As a member of the China Room research group (Politecnico di Torino), she has taken part in international research & design projects. She was part of the curatorial team of the 2019 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. Monica is currently a researcher and a teaching assistant at the Politecnico di Torino.
