Preface Mark Jarzombek Introduction 1. Social Reform, State Control, and the Origins of Mass Housing 2. Mass Housing in Chicago 3. The Concrete Cordon Around Paris 4. Concrete Slabs versus Stucco Ornaments in East and West Berlin 5. Brasilia, the Slab Block Capital 6. Mumbai – Mass Housing for the Upper Crust 7. Prefab Moscow 8. High-Rise Shanghai 9. Global Architecture, Locally Conditoned
Biography
Florian Urban is Head of Architectural History and Urban Studies at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. From 2006 to 2008 he taught at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA, and a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from MIT. He is the author of Neo-historical East Berlin – Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990 (Ashgate, 2009).
"The dilemma of mass housing continues to exert an attraction to academics and researchers, especially the fundamental question, how can something which looks so similar have turned out so differently? In this book, Florian Urban applies a historical and globally comparative perspective to this question, recognising in his Introduction that ‘no urban form in history has roused such controversy’. Each country chapter provides a well written, well structured and informative account of the evolution of mass housing, especially from the perspective of its changing status and significance."–Richard Turkington, DeMontford University
