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"""Critical urban scholarship at its best, Transnational Architecture and Urbanism is a thoughtful and balanced approach – deeply embedded in the literature and replete with examples – to the transnational flows of ideas about cities and buildings. This is urban theory as it is meant to be written."" Robert Beauregard, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University ""The subtitle of this book is Rethinking How Contemporary Cities Plan, Transform and Learn, and this is exactly what it delivers. A tight conceptual framework effectively organises a critical analysis of the ubiquitous and homogenizing forces of urban globalization through a series of case studies. Ponzini’s conclusion that ‘contextual learning’ by architects and urban planners, focusing less on the global (though not ignoring it) and more on the local, presents a timely and formidable challenge to the whole community of urbanists and architects who build in cities. With its rich complement of images, this book achieves that unusual but much sought after goal - a text that students, academic researchers, professionals, and indeed anyone interested in cities will find informative, intellectually provocative, visually exciting, and readable."" Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics"

Critical urban scholarship at its best, Transnational Architecture and Urbanism is a thoughtful and balanced approach - deeply embedded in the literature and replete with examples - to the transnational flows of ideas about cities and buildings. This is urban theory as it is meant to be written. Robert Beauregard, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University The subtitle of this book is Rethinking How Contemporary Cities Plan, Transform and Learn, and this is exactly what it delivers. A tight conceptual framework effectively organises a critical analysis of the ubiquitous and homogenizing forces of urban globalization through a series of case studies. Ponzini's conclusion that 'contextual learning' by architects and urban planners, focusing less on the global (though not ignoring it) and more on the local, presents a timely and formidable challenge to the whole community of urbanists and architects who build in cities. With its rich complement of images, this book achieves that unusual but much sought after goal - a text that students, academic researchers, professionals, and indeed anyone interested in cities will find informative, intellectually provocative, visually exciting, and readable. Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics

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Davide Ponzini is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano. He has also been a visiting scholar at Yale, Johns Hopkins, Columbia University, and Sciences Po Paris and Visiting Professor at TU Munich. His research activity focuses on planning theory, urban and cultural policy, and contemporary architecture. He is co-author (with the photographer Michele Nastasi) of Starchitecture, and co-editor (with Harvey Molotch) of The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress.

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