Multi-National City - Architectural Itineraries

Multi-National City follows three architectural itineraries through three cities and their histories. Like so many, these cities are caught within the feedback loops of globalization: Silicon Valley in northern California; New York's internal suburbias; and Gurgaon, a burgeoning corporate city outside of New Delhi. Each exhibits a distinct character, while together, they also form important nodes in what the authors describe as a single Multi-National City (MNC) stretching across the globe. The itineraries traced through them take the reader on a tour of the architectural monuments of corporate globalization-corporate campuses, high-rise towers, public atriums, call centers, and gated communities-that tracks their shared logic, their internal discrepancies, and their undeniable strangeness. Each itinerary concludes with an unannounced stop at an architectural project that applies the lessons of the Multi-National City to itself.

Product details

• Authors: Kadambari Baxi, Martin, Reinhold Martin, Reinhold Baxi Kadambari Martin, Martin Reinhold
• Publisher: Actar
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9788496540620
• ISBN: 978-84-96540-62-0
• No. of pages: 135
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 18 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 602 g
• Illustrations: w. numerous col. and b&w figs. on plates.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture