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OverviewBlending critical philosophy, political theory, and media theory, The Urban Apparatus explores how the aesthetics of cities and their political economies overlap. In a series of ten essays, Reinhold Martin argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Reinhold MartinPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781517901189ISBN 10: 1517901189 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 25 October 2016 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Urban Apparatus 1. City, Country, World 2. Financial Imaginaries 3. The Thing About Cities 4. Public and Common(s) 5. Horizons of Thought 6. Polis = Oikos 7. Notes of the Housing Question 8. Broken Windows 9. Beijing in Detroit 10. Infrastructure and Mediapolitics Notes IndexReviewsReinhold Martin's work productively connects debates on architectural culture to fundamental questions related to the political economy of city-building, urbanism, and urbanization. His ideas are at once philosophically grounded, historically nuanced, spatially attuned, and political.-Neil Brenner, Harvard University The Urban Apparatus offers a brilliant meditation on the new realities and experiences of the city in a fluid and rapidly changing global situation. Reinhold Martin explores an extraordinarily diverse set of objects in ways that are illuminating, original, and often deeply moving-all of which take on special urgency in our current national and geo-political climates. -Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida Reinhold Martin's work productively connects debates on architectural culture to fundamental questions related to the political economy of city-building, urbanism, and urbanization. His ideas are at once philosophically grounded, historically nuanced, spatially attuned, and political. Neil Brenner, Harvard University The Urban Apparatus offers a brilliant meditation on the new realities and experiences of the city in a fluid and rapidly changing global situation. Reinhold Martin explores an extraordinarily diverse set of objects in ways that are illuminating, original, and often deeply moving all of which take on special urgency in our current national and geo-political climates. Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida Reinhold Martin's work productively connects debates on architectural culture to fundamental questions related to the political economy of city-building, urbanism, and urbanization. His ideas are at once philosophically grounded, historically nuanced, spatially attuned, and political. --Neil Brenner, Harvard University The Urban Apparatus offers a brilliant meditation on the new realities and experiences of the city in a fluid and rapidly changing global situation. Reinhold Martin explores an extraordinarily diverse set of objects in ways that are illuminating, original, and often deeply moving--all of which take on special urgency in our current national and geo-political climates. --Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida Author InformationReinhold Martin is professor of architecture at Columbia University. He cofounded the journal Grey Room and is author of Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (Minnesota, 2010). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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