Urban Field Web Articles and Book Reviews
"Identity in the City" is an exciting lecture on the megacity, which combines the characteristics of global cities and urban fields
An erudite account of the succession of the global city and the megacity to the world city
So-called 'non'-places are in fact disciplined mono-cultural zero-friction enclaves and should be supplemented by spaces with a strong public domain
Charles Rutheiser's Imagineering Atlanta: Making Place in the Non-place Urban Realm does for Atlanta what Mike Davis' City of Quartz did for Los Angeles, according to this entertaining book review
Yet another way of saying the same thing, though this time with the emphasis on landscape, density and identity
Here, attempts by the Dutch government to implement the notions of urban field or network city are critically analysed from a geographical perspective
The alternative plans for Brasilia are not to be missed examples of modernist utopian urbanism
This book review may serve as an introduction to New Urbanism and its critique of contemporary urban development
The movement is neither 'new' nor 'urban' and will only contribute to contemporary exurban development with its attempt to programme organic integrity
In this conference paper, John Friedmann discusses the possibilities of intercity cooperation between the Asian-Pacific megacities
A thorough sociological contribution to the debate, based on the author's influencial Italian publication Metropoli
The opposite of the doughnut effect is to be found in Sydney, according to this jubilant article
The Malaysian government has technopole dreams in a 15 x 50 km zone between Kuala Lumpur and KL International Airport
This article about Kisho Kurokawa's plan for KL International Airport and the Multimedia Super Corridor reveals that urban fields are now actively being planned
Complex and lengthy article in which a 'plurality of cities' is presented as an alternative to the current state-oriented political system
This may serve as a typical over-the-top artistic speculation of a world without territoriality
Dutch Urban Field Web Articles
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