Florian Urban

Tower and Slab

Histories of Global Mass Housing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Few urban forms have roused as much controversy as the modernist tower block. While on the surface the style appears universal, it is in fact as diverse in its significance and connotations as its many different cultural contexts. The comparison of the projects suggests that success does not depend on a single variable but rather on a complex formula that includes not only form, but also social composition, location, maintenance, and a variety of cultural, social, and political factors. Florian Urban looks at case studies from around the world, including: Chicago, Paris, East and West Berlin, Brasilia, Mumbai, Moscow and Shanghai

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 172mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415676298
• ISBN-10: 0415676290
• Artikelnr.: 33131788

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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