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The Speculative City
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Author : Susanna Phillips Newbury
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2021-04-20
The Speculative City written by Susanna Phillips Newbury and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-20 with Social Science categories.
A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City, Susanna Phillips Newbury teases out how art and Los Angeles shaped one another’s evolution. She compellingly articulates how together they transformed the Southland, establishing the foundation for its contemporary art infrastructure, and explains how artists came to influence Los Angeles’s burgeoning definition as the global city of the twenty-first century. Pairing particular works of art with specific innovations in real estate development, The Speculative City reveals the connections between real estate and contemporary art as they constructed Los Angeles’s present-day cityscape. From banal parking lots to Frank Gehry’s designs for artists’ studios and museums, Newbury examines pivotal interventions by artists and architects, city officials and cultural philanthropists, concluding with an examination of how, in the wake of the 2008 global credit crisis, contemporary art emerged as a financial asset to fuel private wealth and urban gentrification. Both a history of the transformation of the Southland and a forensic examination of works of art, The Speculative City is a rich complement to the California chronicles by such writers as Rebecca Solnit and Mike Davis.
The Speculative City
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Author : Susanna Phillips Newbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-30
The Speculative City written by Susanna Phillips Newbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with categories.
A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City, Susanna Phillips Newbury teases out how art and Los Angeles shaped one another's evolution. She compellingly articulates how together they transformed the Southland, establishing the foundation for its contemporary art infrastructure, and explains how artists came to influence Los Angeles's burgeoning definition as the global city of the twenty-first century. Pairing particular works of art with specific innovations in real estate development, The Speculative City reveals the connections between real estate and contemporary art as they constructed Los Angeles's present-day cityscape. From banal parking lots to Frank Gehry's designs for artists' studios and museums, Newbury examines pivotal interventions by artists and architects, city officials and cultural philanthropists, concluding with an examination of how, in the wake of the 2008 global credit crisis, contemporary art emerged as a financial asset to fuel private wealth and urban gentrification. Both a history of the transformation of the Southland and a forensic examination of works of art, The Speculative City is a rich complement to the California chronicles by such writers as Rebecca Solnit and Mike Davis.
Speculative Futures
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Author : Johanna Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2022-10-04
Speculative Futures written by Johanna Hoffman and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Social Science categories.
How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream--and build--better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone. Speculative futures--design approaches that help us visualize new and potential worlds--move us beyond what currently exists into what could one day be. Inspired by art, film, fiction, and industrial design, they use speculation to provoke, imagine, and dream into what lies ahead. Written for futurists, urbanists, and artists looking to enact city-wide transformation--and for readers at the intersection of disruption, design, innovation, and city living--this book offers creative paths toward urban resilience, using design tools that already exist. Artist and urbanist Johanna Hoffman uses an interdisciplinary lens informed by her experience in architecture, art, engineering, and construction to examine how we can reimagine our cities at every level: as individuals, in community, and on a professional scale. Hoffman blends precedent studies, compelling research, and professional memoir, connecting urban development issues with the processes and actions best positioned to create better solutions for our cities. The result is a dynamic field guide that uses speculative futures to imagine, advocate for, and adapt to modern scales, scopes, and speeds of change. While this book is of great utility to professionals in the urban design and planning industries, it’s also for people who resist received, capitalistic, technocratic ways of thinking--readers who seek new solutions to old problems with anti-colonial, living-systems-oriented lenses.
The Speculative City
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Author : Cecelia L. Chu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-28
The Speculative City written by Cecelia L. Chu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-28 with Architecture categories.
By attending to the divergent forces and actors involved in property development in different geopolitical contexts, The Speculative City illustrates both the novelty and historical continuity of urbanization in the twentieth-first century.
The Speculative City
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Author : Cecelia L. Chu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-28
The Speculative City written by Cecelia L. Chu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-28 with Architecture categories.
By attending to the divergent forces and actors involved in property development in different geopolitical contexts, The Speculative City illustrates both the novelty and historical continuity of urbanization in the twentieth-first century.
City Of Endless Night
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Author : Milo Hastings
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-11-13
City Of Endless Night written by Milo Hastings and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-13 with Fiction categories.
City of Endless Night (1919) is a dystopian novel which first appeared as the story "Children of Kultur" serialized in True Story Magazine in seven installments from May to November, 1919. The word kultur, German for culture, had been made infamous by Allied propaganda in World War I. Set in future of 1941, City of Endless Night anticipates the resurgence of Germany and the rise of fascism. Other highlights of its immense foresight are the idea of a rigidly controlled press, rise of Nazi religion, racial theories and Eugenic breeding. A Must Read! Milo Milton Hastings (1884–1957) was an American inventor, author, and nutritionist. He invented the forced-draft chicken incubator and Weeniwinks, a health-food snack. He wrote about chickens, science fiction, and health.
Building Colonial Hong Kong
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Author : Cecilia L. Chu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-04-19
Building Colonial Hong Kong written by Cecilia L. Chu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Architecture categories.
In the 1880s, Hong Kong was a booming colonial entrepôt, with many European, especially British, residents living in palatial mansions in the Mid-Levels and at the Peak. But it was also a ruthless migrant city where Chinese workers shared bedspaces in the crowded tenements of Taipingshan. Despite persistent inequality, Hong Kong never ceased to attract different classes of sojourners and immigrants, who strived to advance their social standing by accumulating wealth, especially through land and property speculation. In this engaging and extensively illustrated book, Cecilia L. Chu retells the ‘Hong Kong story’ by tracing the emergence of its ‘speculative landscape’ from the late nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. Through a number of pivotal case studies, she highlights the contradictory logic of colonial urban development: the encouragement of native investment that supported a laissez-faire housing market, versus the imperative to segregate the populations in a hierarchical, colonial spatial order. Crucially, she shows that the production of Hong Kong’s urban landscapes was not a top-down process, but one that evolved through ongoing negotiations between different constituencies with vested interests in property. Further, her study reveals that the built environment was key to generating and attaining individual and collective aspirations in a racially divided, highly unequal, but nevertheless upwardly mobile, modernizing colonial city.
Lion City
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Author : Ng Yi-Sheng
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
Release Date : 2018
Lion City written by Ng Yi-Sheng and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Fiction categories.
Gravures Du 16 Au 19 S Et Aquarelles
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Gravures Du 16 Au 19 S Et Aquarelles written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with categories.
Broken City
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Author : Patrick M. Condon
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2024-05-15
Broken City written by Patrick M. Condon and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-15 with Political Science categories.
How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a good speculative investment, runaway housing costs ensued. In just one city, Vancouver, land prices increased by 600 percent between 2008 and 2016. How much wealth have investors extracted from urban land? In this engaging, readable, and clearly reasoned treatise, Patrick Condon explains how we have let land, our most durable resource, shift away from the common good – and proposes bold strategies that cities in North America could use to shift it back.
