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NEW! Browse the Radical Urban Theory bookstore » table of contentsBack to the Future of the Creative City: Amsterdam’s Creative Redevelopment and the Art of DeceptionMerijn OudenampsenAmsterdam’s Creative City policy — far from intending to make the city’s entire population more creative — is predominantly a branding exercise, an expression of a much more general shift towards entrepreneurial modes of city government. Suburban Nation (book excerpt)Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff SpeckThe Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. Beyond SprawlBank of AmericaThe Bank of America’s ballyhood denunciation of suburban sprawl: “New patterns of growth to fit the new California. Up Above: The Geography of Suburban Sprawl in Southern California’s Antelope ValleyMatthew JalbertThe perils of sprawl development on the edge of the Mojave Desert, 60 miles north of Los Angeles. Metropolitan Dubai and the Rise of Architectural FantasyGeorge KatodrytisIn Dubai there is little difference between holiday accommodation and housing. Architectural programs are becoming fused and undifferentiated. The morphology of the landscape and sea-scape is becoming fabricated to the point that it may soon be difficult to differentiate between the natural and the constructed. Crime RaveAnthony PlattLaw-and-order demagoguery. FirebugsMike DavisBuild it in Southern California's foothills, and it will burn. Let Malibu BurnMike DavisA political history of the Fire Coast. Panama Lost?Photographer Lorena Endara explores the landscape and processes that shape Panama, as it succumbs to fast food restaurants, Hollywood films, and shopping malls. Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus on the Seattle Public Library: TED Conference 2006See an amazing video podcast of rising star architect Joshua Prince-Ramus that the TED conference just posted on the new Podcasting site TEDTalks. Special from Exuberance.com Suburban Sprawl Panoramic PhotosFor your consideration: panoramic (extra extra wide) photographs of suburban sprawl developments around California.
National Architects Group Censors Prison CriticsAfter all the controversy surrounding the graphic pictures of prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, you would hardly expect a photo of the prison’s blank exterior walls to cause much of a furor. But that’s the image excluded from the “Exploring Prisons as a Design, Ethical, and Social Policy Issue” panel to be held this Thursday, June 8, 2006, at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention in Los Angeles.
Stereography of Celebration: Perspective and virtual happinessPascale PressicaudGetting to know the real Celebration, Florida would have the same effect as understanding the consequences of visual impair on the author's psychological make up. Blockology: An Offbeat Walking Guide to Lower Manhattan (book excerpt)Robert Jay KaufmanA one-of-a-kind guide that celebrates the experience of exploring Lower Manhattan through its history, people and architecture. 'Burbs, Blockbusting, and BlacksMatthew JalbertMorphosis of the post-war American city. House of CardsMike DavisLas Vegas: Too many people in the wrong place, celebrating waste as a way of life. When The Rivers Ran DryMike DavisWe may be the most reckless and suicidal overconsumers of water in world history. The Incendiary OtherMike DavisThe 1993 Malibu firestorms opened a Pandora's box of fear. World Fire, vol. 4, Cycle of FireMike DavisAnthropogenic fire is more than a tool, it is a conscious geological power. Dark RapturesMike DavisA consumer's guide to the destruction of Los Angeles. Monsters and MessiahsMike DavisToo often we equate wildness with urban disorder. Learning From TijuanaMike DavisThe art of ADOBE L.A. Runaway Train Crushes BusesMike DavisLos Angeles County's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the biggest transportation fiasco in modern American history. Kajima's Throne of BloodMike DavisA struggle against an arrogant empire with a dark history, known as Kajima. Hell factories in the fieldMike DavisA prison-industrial complex. Beyond Blade RunnerMike DavisUrban Control and The Ecology of Fear (link exits Radical Urban Theory) Mike Davis Lecture at UC Berkeley, Feb. 1995Notes from a lecture. About Mike DavisThe American EarthquakeAdam SchatzMike Davis and the politics of disaster. In L.A., Out of ControlEmilio SpadolaThis is not an essay about L.A. It's about movies. Urban DecayChristopher LeoBarricading our cities, and our minds. The Evening of the AlligatorRick AdamsNew York has the number one scare story of all big cities. It is the story of the alligators in the sewers, a well known urban myth. It tells us everything we need to know about our attitudes toward cities. The “Gore Exception:” A Layman’s Guide to the Supreme Court Decision in Bush v. GoreMark Levine, Esq.The illogical opinion of the Supreme Court, one of the worst and ill-reasoned opinions in US history is, unfortunately, no joke. A Tale of Two Gated Communities: An African MemoirCharles MudedeSeattle and the over-abundant world of the Nordstroms, in whose Highlands palace my aunt lived and worked. “Ilhas” and “Condomínios” in Porto: anthropological urban structure and the social cohesion problemPaulo Castro SeixasWhen the space becomes too crowded to support the cultural differences existing within it, cities turn to images of hell or a garden of delights to restore hierarchy and social order. |
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