Urban Research

BOOK CATALOG FALL 2018

urpub.org UR (Urban Research), the imprint of Terreform, publishes progressive books about cities and their futures. Understanding that no single approach is adequate to the promise and problems of the urban, we publish a wide range of designs and analyses.

Our list includes projects ranging from the practical to the utopian, from community-generated plans for neighborhood transformation to outstanding outcomes from academic studios, to visionary speculations by designers burning the midnight oil, and to collations of scholarly arguments about the most urgent issues of urban growth and survival.

Michael Sorkin Editor in Chief

Advisory Board Tom Angotti, Hunter College CUNY Thom Mayne, Morphosis Architects Kazi Ashraf, Bengal Institute Suha Ozkan, World Architecture Community M. Christine Boyer, Princeton University Colin Robinson, OR Books Teddy Cruz, Estudio Teddy Cruz Jonathan Solomon, School of the Art Institute , UC Riverside of Chicago Edward Dimendberg, UC Irvine Tau Tavengwa, African Center for Cities Ana Maria Duran Calisto, Estudio AO Srdjan Weiss, Normal Architecture Office Anthony Fontenot, Woodbury School of Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths College Architecture Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia GSAPP Susanna Hecht, UCLA Kongjian Yu, John Hill, Institute of Technology Walter Hood, UC Berkeley Cindi Katz, Graduate Center CUNY Romi Khosla, Romi Khosla Design Studio

UR (Urban Research) urpub.org 2 UR01 GOWNTOWN: A 197X FORPLAN UPPER Gowntown investigates the impact of ’s expansion into Upper Manhattan and proposes strategies of transformative leverage provide GOWNTOWNbroad and focused benefit and counter an urbanism of trickle-down and gentrification.Gowntown proposes a planning paradigm focused on both carefully designed and spontaneous institutional and environmental A 197-Xconnections. Our planPLAN suggests that by FOR improving the physical and social linkages between educational, cultural and human service institutions, UPPERtheir collective positiveMANHATTAN impact on the communities they inhabit can be GOWNTOWN greatly increased.

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Architecture and society, Land use, Urban, History, New York. 2016 | 8 x 11” | 180 pages. Full color, 100 illustrations Softcover: $40.00 978-0-9960041-0-7 Printed in the United States. Selling Territory: Worldwide

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Waterproofing New York Edited by Edited by Denise Hoffman Brandt With two destructive tropical storms in two years, New York Denise Hoffman Brandt and Catherine Seavitt Nordenson City—like many other global cities—is entering a phase of Catherine Seavitt Nordenson WATERPROOFINGadaptation to catastrophic climate events which are a result Contributors of carbon cycle disruption by human, urban, and industrial Lance Jay Brown practices. Recovery will require more than a simple fix; Nette Compton Deborah Gans it will necessitate systemic adaptation to escalating tidal and Jeffrey Hou NEWstorm surges, precipitation, YORK and wind events through the Lydia Kallipoliti construction of new urban landscapes that have the capacity Signe Nielsen POWER / Kate Orff DATA to merge social, cultural, and environmental forces. BIGGER BETTER Thaddeus Pawlowski UR02: Waterproofing New Yorkgathers some of the CLOUDS Editors: Denise Hoffman BrandtSandra Richter and most influential and thought provoking municipal leaders, HUMAN Frank Ruchala Jr. NETWORKS engineers, planners, social scientists, and designers to Janette Sadik-Khan ELEVATED SURGE-PERVIOUS Catherineexplore the impact of Seavittpast and future storms Nordenson on New York Hilary Sample INFRASTRUCTURE STRUCTURES Judd Schechtman SHELTER City’s infrastructural systems: Water/Waste, Power/Data, byEdited Denise Nordenson Hoffman Brandt and Seavitt Catherine Gullivar Shepard Circulation/Fuel, Parks/Recreation, and Shelter. The essays Michael Sorkin Contributors:and projects collected Lance here use Jay these Brown; urban operating Nette Compton;Byron Stigge Deborah WATER-TIGHT systems to open speculation on the possibilities not simply Erika Svendsen, TUBES Gans;for waterproofing Jeffrey Hou;the city butLydia for thinking Kallipoliti; beyond it to seek Signe Nielsen;Lindsay Campbell, Kate wider means of coordinated yet opportunistic, pragmatic Nancy F. Sonti, Orff; Sandra Richter; Frank Ruchala Jr.; Thaddeusand Gillian Baine and inventive, city design. Waterproofing New York is Georgeen Theodore SHARED BIOTIC Pawlowski;intended to support Janette an emerging Sadik-Khan; skepticism of a singular Hilary Sample; Judd TERRITORIES “big fix,” as well as of the unplanned, uncoordinated, shoring WASTE / Schechtman; Gullivar Shepard; Michael Sorkin; Byron WATER up of individual enterprises and discrete sites that will ensue Stigge;in the absenceErika of Svendsen, design and civic leadership. Lindsay Campbell, Nancy F. Sonti and Gillian Baine; Georgeen Theodore Urban Research Urban Research (UR) is a book series devoted to speculation about LOW TO NO-POWER NEIGHBORHOOD-SCALE the condition and future of the city. We publish projects ranging from PARKS SERVICES “Hoffmanthe practical to theBrandt utopian, from community-generatedand Nordenson’s plans for book NO-CARBON neighborhood transformation to outstanding outcomes from academic PARKS / MOTIVE FORCE suggestsstudios, visionary speculationsa more by designers nuanced burning the midnight understanding oil, of RECREATION and collations of arguments about the most urgent issues of urban urban nature while challenging landscape NEW INFRASTRUCTURE growth and survival. Our remit is to get the word out about solutions U R 0 2 CORRIDORS architects,that exceed the imaginative engineers, reach of “official” planning andand design policyPublished bymakers Terreform to and to encourage the most vigorous debate. move beyond short-term pragmaticISBN 978-0-9960041-2-1 responses UR, the imprint of Terreform, seeks to become a key venue both for CIRCULATION / to individualsextreme and organizations storms engaged in progressive to urbanengage research, a broader FUEL design, and critical advocacy. We invite the collaboration of all who definitionshare our interest in creating of sustainable, everyday beautiful, and justinfrastructure.” cities around the world. UR02 Thaisa Way, ASLA “Flooded With Ideas” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Urban Research (UR) Februaryurpub.org 2017 Published by Terreform

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the most influential and thought provoking About the Editors municipal leaders, engineers, planners, social Denise Hoffman Brandt, RLA, is the Director of Landscape scientists, and designers to explore the Architecture and an Associate Professor at the Bernard and impact of past and future storms on New York Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New City’s infrastructural systems. The essays and York. She is Principal of Hoffman Brandt Projects, LLC. Among other recent awards, Hoffman Brandt has received the 2009 research collected in this book propose that New York Prize Fellowship from the Van Alen Institute; her we look past short-term deterrents and adopt project City Sink has been awarded a 2010 Great Places award; a multi-valent understanding of infrastructure, and she is a 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Semi-Finalist. opening speculation on possibilities not simply Catherine Seavitt Nordenson is an Associate Professor of for waterproofing the city but for thinking Landscape Architecture at the and beyond it to seek wider means of coordinated Principal of Catherine Seavitt Studio. Her co-authored book On yet opportunistic, pragmatic, and inventive the Water: Palisade Bay (Hatje Cantz, 2010) was the foundation city design. of the exhibition “Rising Currents” at the , New York. Her forthcoming book Structures of Coastal City planning, Flood damage prevention, New York. Resilience (Island Press, 2018) includes her resiliency proposals 2016 | 8 x 11” | 192 pages. for ’s Jamaica Bay. Full color, 150 illustrations Softcover: $45.00 978-0-9960041-2-1 Printed in the United States. Selling Territory: Worldwide

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“ It’s good to see that the onset of rapid 2100: A DYSTOPIAN UTOPIA 2100: A DYSTOPIAN UTOPIA global warming is nudging creative minds into action. Job one is to make sure we Fast forward to the year 2100. New York—along prevent as much change as possible, but with Phoenix, , Sao Paulo, Manila, and that which we can no longer prevent will 2100: require us to adapt, and here are some many more of the world’s most populated cities— provocative plans to stir your is irrevocably changed. Much of the earth’s great imagination!” Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth middle swath is subject to droughts, wildfires, of Commuities and the Durable Future A DYSTOPIAN UTOPIA / and desertification, while increasingly frequent super storms plague coastal areas, destroying “ Vanessa Keith makes an intelligent THE CITY AFTER extrapolation on how metropolises and precious agricultural lands by bringing seawater cities will have to adapt to the inevitable far inland. Where in the world will we live, and climate change. She assumes we are not going to be able to stop what we have CLIMATEwhat will our built environments CHANGE be like? How already triggered. Neither the population nor the political institutions are making can we change our way of life to come to terms the necessary efforts... This is a book with these transformed natural systems and that should not be missed for those that will live more than 30 years; it’s a guide to By processes?Vanessa In 2100: AKeith/StudioTEKA Dystopian Utopia, metropolitan survival.” Pedro B. Ortiz, author of The Art of Shaping StudioTEKA visualizes radical solutions to meet the Metropolis these harrowing challenges. The question of

“It’ssuch dramaticgood transformationto see thatis framed bythe noted onset “ 2100: A Dystopianof Utopiarapid is a futuristic sociologist, Saskia Sassen, who introduces the speculation of a special sort, combining global warming is nudging creativeand overlapping examplesminds of the latest book with her advocacy of “delegating back climate research and predictions with 2100: into action. Job one is to makeradical designsure solutions basedwe upon to the environment.” emerging technologies. The book is indeed utopian in seeing the best in preventABOUT THE AUTHOR as much change as possible,human potential rising but to the challenge Vanessa Keith is a registered architect and the Principal of StudioTEKA, which of a dystopian threat. It sounds a thatshe foundedwhich in 2003. Based we in New Yorkcan City, StudioTEKAno islonger a design practice preventpowerful call for architects will to take an engaged in both building and research. active role and respond to climate require us to adapt, and here change’sare most diresome scenarios with provocative design solutions. As we A DYSTOPIAN provocativeUrban Research plans to stir yourshould. imagination!” As we must.” Winka Dubbeldam, Associate AIA, Professor & Chair Vanessa Keith / StudioTEKA Design PennDesign, Principal Archi-Tectonics Bill McKibben,Urban Research 350.org (UR) is a book series devoted to speculation about the condition and future of the city. We publish projects ranging from the practical to the utopian, from community-generated plans for neighborhood transformation to outstanding outcomes from academic U R 0 3 studios, visionary speculations by designers burning the midnight oil, Published by Terreform A brilliantand collations of argumentscombination about the most urgent issues of of radicalurban pessimism UTOPIA growth and survival. Our remit is to get the word out about solutions ISBN XXXXXXXXX that exceed the imaginative reach of “official” planning and design withand toutopian encourage the most architectural vigorous debate. and urban THE CITY AFTER CLIMATE CHANGE UR, the imprint of Terreform, seeks to become a key venue both for intervention,individuals and organizations 2100 engaged in progressivestarts urban from research, the premise design, and critical advocacy. We invite the collaboration of all who share our interest in creating sustainable, beautiful, and just cities thataround dramatic the world. climate change is inevitable and imaginesurpub.org a planet radically reconfigured to Vanessa Keith / StudioTEKA Design cope with it. Vanessa Keith and StudioTEKA visualize possible design solutions in the world’s ten most populated cities, suggesting the About the Author profound adaptability of the design field to Vanessa Keith is a registered architect and the Principal of meet environmental challenges in the future. StudioTEKA, which she founded in 2003. Based in New York The issue is framed by noted sociologist city, StudioTEKA is a boutique firm that engages in both built Saskia Sassen, who writes in her preface and research based design work. She is also an editor of Kingston Harbor: Development Transects (Columbia University to advocate the process of “delegating back Press, 2010). Keith has taught graduate and undergraduate to the environment.” design studios in architecture, urban and interior design, and economic development at Columbia University’s GSAPP and Architecture, , Environment, Climate change. SIPA, Pratt Institute, and the City University of New York. 2017 | 8 x 11” | 256 pages. Full color, 200 illustrations Softcover: $48.00 978-0-9960041-1-4 Printed in the United States. Selling Territory: Worldwide

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Adventures in : Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Thinking with Marshall Berman Adventures Marshall Berman was a political theorist, urbanist, and public Edited by ADVENTURESintellectual who gave generations a way to think about what it Jennifer Corby means to be modern. He offered a vision of Marx as a pre-eminent in Modernism: modernist and humanist, which served as a touchstone for his Contributors exploration into the complexity of our modern world and our lives. Jamie Aroosi Marshall seamlessly wove together the ideas of Dostoevsky and Kurtis IN MODERNISM:Marshall Berman Thinking with Blow, the experiences of St. Petersburg and the South Bronx. In so doing, he made sense of the maelstrom of modern life and inspired a feeling of optimism in the midst of the chaos, where all that is solid Marta Gutman Marshall Berman THINKING melts into air. WITH Owen Hatherley Esther Leslie MARSHALLAdventures in Modernism: Thinking with BERMAN Marshall Berman begins Andy Merrifield Jennifer Corby, Editor with Marshall’s unpublished essay, Emerging from the Ruins. With Ali Mirsepassi contributions by theorists, architects, media critics, urbanists, With an introductory essay by Marshall Berman Joan Ockman and historians from across the globe, it is a testament to the broad Kirsteen Paton Jenniferinfluence of Marshall’s Corby, work. Some essays Editordemonstrate the potential for applying his methods of analysis into places like Iran or Scotland. Robert Snyder Marshall Berman Others return to familiar places such as the South Bronx or Times Square in order to stretch or update Marshall’s analyses. And a Cover photograph Contributors: Jamie Aroosi; Marshall Berman;by Ofer Bilik Todd Gitlin; few essays engage Marshall as a theorist and educator, examining Martahis ideas ofGutman; public, urban life, Owen Hatherley; and modernism, in andEsther Leslie; Andy beyond the classroom. Collectively, the essays that comprise this Merrifield;volume reflect deeply Ali on Mirsepassi;Marshall’s work, and speakJoan to its Ockman;continued Kirsteen Paton; relevance in deciphering and finding meaning in our modern world. Robert Snyder

Jennifer Corby studied with Marshall Berman at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is Edited by Jennifer Corby “Ialso invented a former colleague of his at aCity College,word where theyfor both taught this political process: theory. Jennifer’s work is driven by an interest in the forces that shape perceptions URBICIDE,of time, and the impact these the perceptions murder have on the development of of asubjectivity city. and political agency. She is the former recipient of the Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, Didand is currentlyI really a fellow at the Macaulay invent Honors College, CUNY.it? Once you said it, it seemed obvious enough. But how do people in a murdered city live? Urban Research TheUrban ResearchBronx (UR) is a bookhad series devotedways.” to speculation about U R 0 4 the condition and future of the city. We publish projects ranging from Published by Terreform Marshallthe practical Berman, to the utopian, Emerging from community-generated from the Ruins plans for neighborhood transformation to outstanding outcomes from academic studios, visionary speculations by designers burning the ISBN 978-0-9960041-6-9 midnight oil, and collations of arguments about the most urgent issues of urban growth and survival. Our remit is to get the word out Adventuresabout solutions that exceed inthe imaginative Modernism reach of “official” is the first posthumous planning and design and to encourage the most vigorous debate. volumeUR, the imprint of of Terreform, essays seeks to become on a key venuepolitical both for theorist, urbanist, individuals and organizations engaged in progressive urban research, design, and critical advocacy. We invite the collaboration of all who andshare our public interest in creating intellectual sustainable, beautiful, and just Marshall cities Berman’s life around the world. andurpub.org legacy. The book begins with Berman’s previously unpublished essay, “Emerging from the Ruins,” and includes contributions from theorists, architects, media critics, urbanists, About the Editor and historians. From an application of Berman’s Jennifer Corby studied with Marshall Berman at the CUNY methods of analysis to Iran to an engagement Graduate Center, and is also a former colleague of his at City College, where they both taught political theory. Jennifer’s with his theory of public space, the essays work is driven by an interest in the forces that shape explore the range and influence of one of the perceptions of time, and the impact these perceptions have twentieth century’s most restless modernists. on the development of subjectivity and political agency. She Collectively, they speak to Berman’s continued is the former recipient of the Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for the Committee on Globalization and Social relevance in deciphering and finding meaning in Change, and is currently a fellow at the Macaulay Honors our modern world. College, CUNY.

Political science, Intellectual life, New York, Urban development. 2016 | 6 x 9” | 176 pages. Black and white, ca 30 illustrations Softcover: $25.00 978-0-9960041-6-9 Printed in the United States. Selling Territory: Worldwide

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Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings focuses on Editors Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings the urban spatial dynamics of the mass protest movements that Deen Sharp have convulsed the Arab region since December 2010. The volume Claire Panetta shiftsBEYOND attention away from public squares — and in particular Tahrir Square in Cairo — to consider the broader urban context in which Contributors the uprisings unfolded and how it has intersected with the events Khaled Adham themselves. The essays are topically and geographically diverse, exploring THE a range of sociospatial SQUARE: phenomena in countries that have Susana Galán been at the heart of the Arab uprisings as well as those countries Azam Khatam that have appeared peripheral to the regional upheaval. This C. Lanthier breadthURBANISM of perspective highlights the centrality AND of space andTHE spatial Ed McAllister concerns to the ongoing political transformations in the region. In Julie Mehretu this way, the volume provides a distinctive — and critical — analysis G. Ollamh of one of the most significant political events of our time. ARAB UPRISINGS Claire Panetta Deen Sharp is a doctoral candidate in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program, Duygu Parmaksizoglu specializing in geography, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Aseel Sawalha Claire Panetta is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the Deen Sharp B EYOND Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta, Editors Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Helga Tawil-Souri URBANISM

“RevolutionsContributors: do not occur in a Khaledvacuum; rather, Adham; they are caused bySusana a complex Galán; Azam AND THE ARAB mix of domestic and international factors. They ultimately come to fruition Cover Image inKhatam; places, and not justC. in centralLanthier; squares. Beyond Ed the McAllister; Square fills a major JulieMogamma Mehretu; (A Painting in gap in our understanding of how urban space factors into popular uprisings. Four Parts), 2012 UPRISINGS ItG. is a valuableOllamh; contribution Duygu to the analysis Parmaksizoglu; of space and politics.” Aseel PartSawalha; 1 (detail) Asef Bayat, author of Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East Ink and Acrylic on Canvas THE Helga Tawil-Souri 180 x 144 inches (457.2 x

Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta, Editors 365.8 cm) “Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta’s Beyond the Square is unique in its scope Photograph by Ben Westoby and theoretical sophistication. Discussions of MENA (Middle East and Courtesy of the artist and Marian North Africa) urbanism have tended to focus on a few ‘usual suspects’: Goodman Gallery “Cairo,Beyond Dubai, or the Maghreb.the BeyondSquare the Square expandsfills the conversation, a major © Julie Mehretu gap in our covering a much wider range of case studies and orchestrating them in aunderstanding coherent way that speaks to the sociospatial of inhow theoretically urban generative space factors ways,into going beyondpopular the central, highly uprisings. visible urban forms and delving It is a valuable deeper into less tangible but no less important sociopolitical contexts SQUARE of contemporary urban politics in the MENA.” Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta, editors Ahmedcontribution Kanna, author of Dubai, the City asto Corporation the analysis of space and politics.” Urban Research UrbanAsef Research Bayat, (UR) author is a book series of Life devoted as to Politics: speculation about How Ordinary People Change the Middle East the condition and future of the city. We publish projects ranging U R 0 5 from the practical to the utopian, from community-generated plans Published by Terreform for neighborhood transformation to outstanding outcomes from academic studios, visionary speculations by designers burning the midnightBeyond oil, and collations the of arguments Square: about the most Urbanism urgent andISBN the 978-0-9960041-4-5 Arab issues of urban growth and survival. Our remit is to get the word out about solutions that exceed the imaginative reach of “official” planningUprisings and design and to encouragefocuses the most vigorous on debate. the urban spatial dynamics

UR, the imprint of Terreform, seeks to become a key venue both for individualsof the and organizations mass engaged protest in progressive urban movements research, that convulsed design, and critical advocacy. We invite the collaboration of all who share our interest in creating sustainable, beautiful, and just cities aroundthe the Arabworld. region since December 2010. The urpub.orgvolume shifts attention away from public squares—and in particular Tahrir Square in Cairo—to consider the broader urban context in which the uprisings unfolded. In 11 topically and About the Editors geographically diverse essays, including a visual Deen Sharp recently received his doctorate from the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program, specializing in geography, essay by artist Julie Mehretu, the book highlights at the CUNY Graduate Center and is currently Postdoctoral the centrality of space and spatial concerns Fellow at Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. to the ongoing political transformations in He has written for a number of publications, including, the region. In this way, the book provides a Jadaliyya, Portal 9, the Arab Studies Journal and The Guardian. Sharp has worked for several UN agencies, including UNDP and distinctive—and critical—analysis of one of the UN-Habitat, governments and international NGOs. He is also most significant political events of our time. Co-Director of Terreform.

Poltical culture, Middle East protest movements, Urban geography. Claire Panetta is a doctoral candidate in the Department of 2016 | 6 x 9” | 238 pages. Black and white with a 16 page color folio Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of Softcover: $28.00 978-0-9960041-4-5 New York. Her research interests are focused on the politics Printed in the United States. and practices of historic preservation in Cairo’s “old city.” Her Selling Territory: Worldwide most recent project looked at the work of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in the neighborhood of al-Darb al-Ahmar. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she spent two years as a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo.

UR (Urban Research) urpub.org 7 UR06 MAHOMETAN & CELESTIAL’S ENCYCLOPAEDIC GUIDE TO MODERNITY COMPRISING A MANUAL OF USEFUL INSTRUCTION ESSENTIAL TO ATTAINMENT OF THE URBANE BY THE SAVAGE, THE BARBAROUS, AND THE HALF-CIVILIZED ALIKE By Steven Flusty with Pauline C. Yu

“A Great Game is afoot, and expeditioning by intermunicipal subterranean railways, by occasional sundry other conveyances, as well as deep within the bowels of innumerable boutique cafés, this excursionist will not rest until he About the Author has arrived at the very source of that Greatness itself.” Steven Flusty is founder and co-principal of Mahometan & From A Tale of Seven Cities Remade to Measure Celestial LLC. He has a PhD in Geography from the University of South California and a MA in Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture. Flusty has previously Mahometan & Celestial’s Encyclopaedic Guide held various professorship positions in institutions including to Modernity leads the reader into a parallel Evergreen State College, University of Southern California universe of alternative imperial modernism, and York University. He is also the author of books including De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from Inside Out resistances, and trappings of peculiar material (Routledge, 2004) and Spaces of Postmodernity: Readings culture. Included in the book is A Tale of Seven in Human Geography (Oxford: Backwell Publishers, 2001), co-edited with Michael Dear. His work has appeared in journals Cities Remade to Measure, where human such as Political Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher geographer Steven Flusty narrates a ruthless Education, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scientists. competition among cities to become the next Great City. Weaving fictional accounts of the Pauline C. Yu is currently teaches at Evergreen State College. urban experience with graphic 19th century She has a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California and was awarded Post-doctoral Fellow by artifacts and parables, the authors have created the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Program where a highly critical yet engaging work about the she studied “Effects of ocean acidification on developmental physiology of the Antarctic sea urchin, Sterechinus neumayeri.” contemporary global city. Her articles have appeared in journals including Environmental

Philosophy, Modernism (Literature), Urbanism. Science & Technology, Biological Bulletin, and the Journal of 2016 | 8 x 11” | 208 pages. Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. Full color, ca 120 illustrations. Softcover: $40.00 978-0-9960041-5-2 Printed in the United States. Selling Territory: Worldwide

UR (Urban Research) urpub.org 8 UR07 ZONED ZONED OUT ZONED OUT! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City

New York City does not comprehensively plan for the future. Instead its Department of City ZONEDPlanning depends on zoning, a tool to regulate OUT! and promote development. In practice, zoning and housing policy has protected segregated neighborhoods and facilitated the displacement of low-income communities of color. The city’s “affordable housing” is not truly affordable to thoseRACE, who need it. This bookDISPLACEMENT, includes case studies of Williamsburg, Harlem and Chinatown, neighborhoods where rezonings reproduced historic patterns of racial discrimination and separation. It shows how race has mattered throughout the city’s history, starting with the daysAND of European settlementCITY and slavery, PLANNING through redlining, urban renewal, the fiscal crisis of the 1970s and beyond. Zoned Out! leaves us with strategies to address inequalities, promote authenticIN NEWcommunity-based andYORK city-wide planning, CITY and develop housing in the public domain. “From NYC’s 1811 grid to Bloomberg and De Blasio’s upzonings, Zoned Out! shines light on the deceptive ways seemingly race neutral zoning laws continue to maintain and promote the racial and socioeconomic hierarchies City City Planning in New York City Race, Displacement and TomAmerica was builtAngotti to support. A must readand for housing Sylvia advocates, organizers, Morse, Editors journalists and academics alike.” Andrew J. Padilla, Director of El Barrio Tours: Gentrification USA

“ShouldContributors: the ‘highest and best’ Tom use of land Angotti; be determined Philip by the market, DePaolo; EditedPeter by or should the right of citizens to live in stable and equitable communities, Tom Angotti especiallyMarcuse; important Sylvia for communities Morse; of color historicallySamuel victimized Stein by elite power disguised as ‘the market,’ take precedence? Full of insight and and Sylvia Morse provocation, this volume is essential reading for those scholars, students, and activists searching for alternative courses of action to widespread urban “Full of insight and provocation,Contributors this displacement, growing income inequality, and resurgent racial polarization O U T ! in the United States.” Philip DePaolo volume is essential reading for thosePeter Marcuse

J. Phillip Thompson, MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning scholars, students, and activistsSamuel searching Stein “New York is a city of neighborhoods, but Angotti, Morse, and their coauthors show that city planning policies systematically disenfranchise and for alternative courses of actionCover to illustration RACE, displace low-income New Yorkers who live in historic communities of color. by Richard Finkelstein They urge us to rethink what ‘affordable’ housing means, and develop

widespread urban displacement, growing Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse, Editors the political will to aim for a radically different system of public resources andincome community plans.” inequality, and resurgent racial DISPLACEMENT, , College and CUNY Graduate Center polarization in the United States.” AND CITY J. Phillip Thompson, MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Urban Research Urban Research (UR) is a book series devoted to speculation about U R 0 7 PLANNING IN the condition and future of the city. We publish projects ranging from Published by Terreform theGentrification practical to the utopian, from community-generated and displacement plans for of low-income neighborhood transformation to outstanding outcomes from academic studios, visionary speculations by designers burning the ISBN 978-0-9960041-3-8 NEW YORK CITY midnightcommunities oil, and collations of arguments of about color the most urgent are major issues in New issues of urban growth and survival. Our remit is to get the word out about solutions that exceed the imaginative reach of “official” ISBN 978-0-9960041-3-8 planningYork and designCity and to and encourage the most vigorouscity’s debate. zoning policies 9are000 0a> UR,major the imprint of cause. Terreform, seeks toRace become a key matters venue both for but the city ignores individuals and organizations engaged in progressive urban research, TOM ANGOTTI design, and critical advocacy. We invite the collaboration of all who shareit ourwhen interest in creating shaping sustainable, beautiful, land and justuse cities and housing policies. AND SYLVIA MORSE, around the world. 9 780996 004138 EDITORS urpub.orgThe city promises “affordable housing” that is not truly affordable. Zoned Out! shows how

this has played in Williamsburg, Harlem and About the Editors Chinatown, neighborhoods facing massive Tom Angotti is Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter displacement of people of color. It looks at College, the Graduate Center, and City University of New York, ways the city can address inequalities, promote and Director of the Hunter College Center for Community authentic community-based planning and Planning & Development. He is author of New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, which won develop housing in the public domain. the 2009 Davidoff Book Award.

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UR (Urban Research) urpub.org 9 UR08 KONGJIAN YU AND THE FUTURE OF THE CHINESE CITY LETTERS TO THE LEADERS OF In 2003, in the midst of China’s A pioneering visionary, Kongjian Yu is actively shaping vital new rapid economic development and futures for the Chinese city. Letters to the Leaders of China is a testament to his work but also an inspiring manifesto for spiraling ecological devastation, contemporary urbanism, if not for human survival more broadly. the landscape architect and LETTERSJAMES CORNER, FieldTO Operations designer Kongjian Yu emerged, with the publication of The Road Nothing could be more welcome in this particular moment than to have on record the scope of environmental advice that the to Urban Landscape: A Dialogue brilliant landscape architect Kongjian Yu has seen fit to extend with the THE Mayors, as a powerful LEADERS gratuitously to politicians of every stripe and caliber within the broker for change in the domain hierarchy of the People’s Republic of China. LETTERS TO of environmental planning. Since KENNETH B. FRAMPTON, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University then, the text has been circulated widelyOF among ’s CHINA: Kongjian Yu has distinguished himself as the preeminent leadership, Yu’s design firm, landscape architect of his generation in China. His work on Sponge Cities and the transformation of postindustrial sites Turenscape, has flourished, and THE LEADERS KONGJIANhas YU led to an innovative AND approach to the development of future his core design concepts—from cities around the globe. “negative planning” to “sponge MOHSEN MOSTAFAVI, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design cities”—haveTHE been codifiedFUTURE at the OF THE Letters to the Leaders of China offers a superb introduction highest levels of official design to Kongjian Yu’s extraordinarily innovative and globally relevant OF CHINA guidance. Letters to the Leaders quest to challenge the assumptions which have driven China’s of ChinaCHINESE excerpts and updates CITYrapid and massive urbanization. his 2003 classic and contains JAMES PECK, Author of Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism additional, previously unpublished lettersTerreform, to high-ranking officials EditorI believe Kongjian is the father of contemporary landscape across the country, including architecture in China. His work and teaching have gone beyond China to influence and set an example for the profession KONGJIAN YU President Xi Jinping. With globally, prodding us all to create landscapes of beauty that contributionsContributors: from geographers, Ai Weiwei;work for peopleThomas and for the J. planet. Campanella; urban historians, and critical MARTHA SCHWARTZ, Founding Principal, MSP theorists,Zhongjie in addition toLin; a lengthy Xuefei Ren; Peter G. Rowe; Michael Sorkin; I’ve sometimes thought of Kongjian Yu as the Olmsted of China colloquyDaniel with artist Sui; Ai Weiwei, Julie Sze;owing Kongjian to the remarkable Yu scale of his work and the robust way AND THE this book affirms Kongjian Yu’s he undertakes each new project. Having read this book, which reflects years of tireless advocacy for landscape policy that indispensability to a sustainable EDITED BY TERREFORM promotes ecological health, social benefit, and authenticity, transformation of China’s “Nothing could bethe titlemore seems even welcomemore apt than ever. in this environmental and urban particular momentMICHAEL in VAN VALKENBURGH, time Founding that Principal ,to MVVA have FUTURE OF design legacy. on record the scope of the environmental Edited by Terreformadvice that the brilliant landscapeUR08 Contributorsarchitect Kongjian Yu has seen Publishedfit by Terreformto THE CHINESE Ai Weiwei Peter G. Rowe Thomas J. 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UR (Urban Research) urpub.org 10 UR09 OCCUPY ALL STREETS Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro analyzes the implications of mega-projects connected to Rio’s transformation for the 2016 Olympic Games.Contributions from literary critics, historians, anthropologists, architects, media theorists,OCCUPY geographers and urban planners explore the ALL array of interventions proposed and built in anticipation of recent mega-events. Collectively, the essays tell the story of how these changes to the cityscape have kindled Rio’s citizens’ hopes and aspirations for their “right to the future,” and also chronicle the various ways they have contested the futures being imposed on them.STREETS: Anticipating the city yet to come, these essays also point to the potential for activism and protest to transform the Olympic legacy into different futures. While focused on Rio, Occupy All Streets is full of insights for other cities experiencing wide-ranging challenges Occupy and facingOLYMPIC far-reaching reforms. URBANISM AND Olympic Urbanism “Occupy All Streets is a brilliant and searing indictment of the injustice, violence, Editors militarisation, elitism and mind-boggling waste inherent in planning and Bruno Carvalho organizingCONTESTED Rio as host city of the 2016 Olympics. Through punchy FUTURES prose and superb visual material, its contributors expose the myths that sustain mega- Mariana Cavalcanti event urbanism; draw out the deep histories of branding Rio as an aesthetically Vyjayanthi Rao exceptional city; and, most important of all, explore the possibilities that exist IN RIO DE JANEIRO Venuturupalli for organizing megacities more justly. An extraordinary book!” Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, Newcastle University, author of Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism Contributors “The word play in the title expresses with rare felicity how Occupy All Streets Bruno Carvalho deliversBruno much more than it promises.Carvalho, The book brings together Mariana vital voices, in MarianaCavalcanti Cavalcanti with times of renewed disputes over the essential principle of all streets belonging Julia O’Donnell and Lilian to everyone,and as we makeVyjayanthi and live our cities (and citizenship). Rao Occupy Venuturupalli,All Streets Sampaio speaks in new ways about the always emblematic Rio and its counterparts Gabriel Duarte with Renata around the world. Its contributions could not be more timely and indispensable, All combining varied perspectives in its critiques, and pointing toward viable Bertol Editors Cavalcanti, andCarvalho, Rao, eds. urban futures that, unlike the Olympics, will certainly have to be shared, Beatriz Jaguaribe with and built on common ground.” Scott Salmon and Contested Futures José MarceloContributors: Zacchi, Founding Director Brunoof Casa Fluminense, Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro MarianaGuilherme Cavalcanti Lassance with Bryan McCann Julia O’Donnell and Lilian Sampaio, GabrielTheresa Williamson Duarte with Renata Bertol, Beatriz Jaguaribe withVyjayanthi Scott Rao Salmon, Venuturupalli Guilherme Lassance, Bryan McCann, Theresa Williamson, and Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli “Through punchy prose and superb U Rvisual 0 9 Streets material, Occupy’s contributorsPublished byexpose Terreform in Rio de Janeiro Urban Research Urban Research (UR) is a book series devoted to speculation about the condition ISBN 978-0-9960041-7-6 and futurethe of the city. 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He is Associate Professor of Spanish theorists, geographers and urban planners tell and Portuguese at Princeton University, and co-directs the the story of how these changes to the cityscape Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the have kindled citizens’ hopes and aspirations for Humanities. their “right to a future” and chronicle the ways Mariana Cavalcanti has published extensively on housing, in which citizens have contested the futures urbanism, and public policy and co-directed the 2012 being imposed on them. Anticipating the city yet documentary film, Favela Fabril. She is Associate Professor in to come, these essays also point to the potential the Sociology Department of the Institute of Social and Political for activism and protest to transform the Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

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UR (Urban Research) urpub.org 11 UR10 THE EFFECT Helsinki is the chosen site for the Guggenheim Museum’s latest effort to replicate the much-contested “Bilbao Effect.” Advocates of better methods for fusing the arts and urbanism combined to launch an alternative design THE THE competition in 2015. HELSINKI The Next Helsinki helped to amplify a public debate about the role of culture in civic health and economic development that has HELSINKI consequences far beyond the Finnish case-study. EFFECT:In addition to cataloging the hundreds of entries from dozens of countries, EFFECT PUBLIC ALTERNATIVES TO this volume includes essays by leading urbanists, artists, and architects about THE GUGGENHEIM MODEL OF the significance of the competition and the principles that inspired it. CULTURE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC ALTERNATIVES TO

Responding to a competition for the design of a new Guggenheim Museum in The Helsinki Effect is an urgent call for a new public imagination. This book Helsinki, the authors contributing to this volume deconstruct the values challenges the widespread belief that privatizing public resources and urban THE underlying use of the GUGGENHEIMarts to promote economic competitiveness. The sites is the only pathway toMODEL economic progress; and it insists that the uniqueness of this edited book lies in its focus on the commodification of internationalization of cultural management must be contested in order to artistic achievement and the ensuing failure to foster local creativity. In re-invent the contemporary art museum in the 21st century. More than ever, investigating the impact of brand-name institutions on construction labor, mega-cultural institutions should be responsible for connecting international art markets, and city life, it is an important addition to the critical urban art economies with local cultural productivity, mediating top-down and OFstudies literature. CULTURE-DRIVENbottom-up urban dynamics, and stimulating alternative strategies for constructing more just and inclusive cities. Susan S. Fainstein Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman University of California, San Diego Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman DEVELOPMENTAgainst the ultra-luxury, corporate-elite fantasies of Guggenheim Helsinki, the counter-proposals for The Next Helsinki documented here reflect not only a more inclusionary, radically democratic approach to the role of art in The Next Helsinki showed that there is great potential for imagining a lively, public life. They also chart out alternatives to the neoliberal city, based on attractive city that grows out of the unique culture of the region. The Helsinki the vision of the urban as a commons—produced, shared, appropriated and Effect opens a needed view to global conversations in city planning and art. transformed by all. Recommended reading for everybody interested in art, Helsinki, or both! Terike Haapoja, Andrew Ross, and Michael Sorkin, Editors TerikeNeil Brenner Haapoja, AndrewIlona Anhava, Gallerist, Ross, Gallery Anhava, Helsinki Professor of Urban Theory and Director of the Urban Theory Lab andHarvard Graduate Michael School of Design Sorkin, Editors

Contributors: Miguel Robles-Durán; Terike Haapoja; JuhaniUrban Research Pallasmaa; Andrew Ross; Michael Sorkin; Kaarin Cover Art: Klas Eriksson, Forza Rosa Fluff Urban Research (UR) is a book series devoted to speculation about Photo: Annika von Hausswolf Taipale;the condition Mabeland future of O.the city. Wilson; We publish projects Sharon ranging from Zukin the Courtesy of Checkpoint Helsinki practical to the utopian, from community-generated plans for neighborhood transformation to outstanding outcomes from academic studios, visionary speculations by designers burning the midnight oil, and U R 1 0 “Thecollations uniqueness of arguments about the most urgentof issuesthis of urban growthedited and Published book by Terreform survival. Our remit is to get the word out about solutions that exceed the liesimaginative in reach ofits “official” focusplanning and design on and tothe encourage commodification the ISBN 978-0-9960041-9-0 most vigorous debate. of artistic achievement and the ensuing UR, the imprint of Terreform, seeks to become a key venue both for ISBN 978-0-9960041-9-0 individuals and organizations engaged in progressive urban research, 90000> failuredesign, and critical to advocacy. foster We invite the collaboration local of all whocreativity. share our interest in creating sustainable, beautiful, and just cities Inaround investigating the world. the impact of brand-name Terike Haapoja, Andrew Ross, 9 780996 004190 institutionsurpub.org on construction labor, art and Michael Sorkin, Editors markets, and city life, it is an important addition to the critical urban studies literature.” Susan S. Fainstein, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design About the Editors Terike Haapoja is a Finnish visual artist based in Berlin and Helsinki is the chosen site for the Guggenheim New York. Her work investigates the existential and political Museum’s latest effort to replicate the much- boundaries of our world. Haapoja is a member of the Finnish Bioart Society, and founded the Ecology, Ethics, and Art contested “Bilbao Effect.” Advocates of better program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland. methods for fusing the arts and urbanism combined to launch an alternative design Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at competition in 2015. Sponsored by Checkpoint NYU. A contributor to The Guardian, , The Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is also the author of many Helsinki, Terreform, and G.U.L.F., The Next books. Ross is a founding member of the Gulf Labor Coalition, Helsinki helped to amplify a public debate an international group of artists, curators, and writers focused about the role of culture in civic health and on improving labor conditions at the Guggenheim’s Abu Dhabi economic development that has consequences museum.

far beyond the Finnish case study. The Helsinki Michael Sorkin is an urbanist whose practice spans architecture Effect archives the hundreds of entries design, criticism, and pedagogy. Sorkin is Distinguished submitted to the competition from dozens Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate of countries and includes essays by leading Program in Urban Design at City College of New York. He is also the architecture critic for The Nation, contributing editor at urbanists, artists, and architects—offering a Architectural Record, and author or editor of several books. blueprint for successful resistance. Sorkin is Principal of Michael Sorkin Studio, an international design practice that works in close collaboration with Art and society, City planning, Finland, Public art spaces. Terreform. 2016 | 8 x 11” | 212 pages. Full color, 300 illustrations Softcover: $35.00 978-0-9960041-9-0 Printed in the United States. Selling Territory: Worldwide

UR (Urban Research) urpub.org 12 UR11 Spaces of Disappearance By investigating the sovereign claims of Jordan H. Carver has given us a comprehensive American power and the architectural spaces accounting of what there is to be seen, read, and known of secret prisons, Spaces of Disappearance about US torture programs in the 21st century. The names, devices, methods, and places in our own dirty reconstructsSPACES the network of black site OFwar are here to be reckoned with. Not all of them prisons developed in the early years of the though—the book is as much about the disappearance of so-called War on Terror. Jordan H. Carver the evidence as it is about the evidence of disappearance. His retracing of the techniques of those erasures is the compiles an original archive of architectural signal accomplishment of this book. representations,DISAPPEARANCE: redacted documents, and THOMAS KEENAN media reports to build a knowingly incomplete Human Rights Program, Bard College Spaces spatial history of post-9/11 extraordinary rendition.THE Framed byARCHITECTURE an introductory essay This book is an essential distillation OF of what little evidence by architectural historian and theorist Felicity is publicly available about the network of infamous CIA black sites scattered around the world, and a meditation D. ScottEXTRAORDINARY that positions Carver’s work within on the meaning ofRENDITION the attempt to erase these sites, the a longer history of military strategy and people held within them, and the documents that describe The Architecture of state violence against “uncertain” warfare, them. Jordan H. Carver maps out the links to the more conventional prison-building industry, connecting the Extraordinary Rendition this book skillfully presents the territorial extra-legality of extraordinary rendition to the all-too- and politicalBy logicsJordan of the top-secret H. CIA Carverlegal system(s) of mass incarceration. Those who care Detention and Interrogation Program. Spaces about freedom and human rights in the built environment of Disappearance shows how architectures of will value this rejection of the redactions, denials, and

legalisms of the so-called War on Terror, achieved through The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition confinement“With were a designed thorough to deny prisoners analysis an insistence on locatingof itsarchitectural supposedly invisible activities their plans,human subjectivity documents, and describes how andphysically photographs, and geographically. this the spectacle of government bureaucracy RAPHAEL SPERRY Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) of is usedbook as a substitute demonstrates for accountability. how secrets can be hidden

in plain sight, as differentState violence is intrinsically shades entangled with theof the Jordan H. Carver is a writer, researcher, and educator function of the secret, but in an era of hyper-visibility, who writes on space, politics, and culture. He is a mundane. Jordan H. Carversecrecy takes on differentdoes dimensions. not With ashow thorough us contributing editor to the Avery Review, a core member analysis of architectural plans, documents, and of Who Builds Your Architecture?, and a Henry M. torture, killing, orphotographs, illegal this book demonstratesdetention how secrets but MacCracken Doctoral Fellow in American Studies can be hidden in plain sight, as different shades of at . the attempt to mask,the redact,mundane. Jordan H. Carverand does notobfuscate show us these crimes. In thistorture, book, killing, or illegal “negative detention but the attempt to mask, redact, and obfuscate these crimes. In this book, evidence”—the withdrawal“negative evidence”—the of evidencewithdrawal of evidence—— operates as evidence in its own right. operates as evidenceEYAL in WEIZMAN its own right.” UR11 Forensic Architecture PublishedEyal by Weizman, Terreform Forensic Architecture U R 0 7 This affecting and harrowing book examines the spatial Disapp- UR (Urban Research), the imprint of Terreform, Published by Terreform Jordan H. Carver publishes progressive books about cities and manifestations of the War on Terror. From the uncertain their futures. sovereign spaces of Guantánamo Bay to the prefabricated ISBN 978-0-9960041-3-8 urpub.orgBy interrogating the sovereignmetal cells that are used claims to house detainees of in black sites, to the globally disbursed architecture of torture and disappearance, this book’s focus on extraordinary American power and therendition architectural illuminates the uneven spatio-temporal spaces distributions of power and violence. of its secret prisons, SpacesLALEH KHALILI of Disappearance Author of Time in the Shadows: Confinement in traces the multiple spatialCounterinsurgencies manifestations of earance the so-called War on Terror and attempts to Jordan H. Carver reconstruct sites, subjects, and histories that have been rendered intentionally abstract and beyond representation. Jordan H. Carver About the Author compiles an original archive of architectural Jordan H. Carver is a writer, researcher, and educator who writes on space, politics, and culture. He is a contributing representations, redacted documents, and editor to the Avery Review, a core member of Who Builds Your media reports to build a frightening, if Architecture?, and a Henry M. MacCracken Doctoral Fellow in knowingly incomplete, spatial history of post- American Studies at New York University. 9/11 extraordinary rendition. Framed with an introductory essay by architectural historian and theorist Felicity D. Scott, Spaces of Disappearance shows how architectures of confinement were designed to deny prisoners their human subjectivity and describes how the spectacle of government bureaucracy is used as a substitute for accountability.

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Modern Architecture, Latin American Culture, Venezuela, Modernity. Hailed in the 1950s as a beacon of Latin 2018 | 8 x 11” | 268 pages. Full color, ca. 200 illustrations America’s modernist architecture, Venezuela’s Softcover: $65.00 978-1-947198-00-5 El Helicoide is a futuristic fantasy gone sour. Printed in the United States. Selling Territory: Worldwide At its conception, this drive-through shopping center embodied a narrative of progress, About the Editors fueled by soaring oil prices, consumerism, and Celeste Olalquiaga is an independent cultural historian. She car culture. Yet a very different story unfolded has a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from Columbia on its spiral ramps. Caught in the transition University (1990) and her books, Megalopolis: Contemporary from military dictatorship to democratic rule, Urban Sensibilities (1992) and The Artificial Kingdom (1998) have become classics within modern cultural studies. She writes for El Helicoide became a site of abandonment, specialized journals and lectures worldwide, and has received encircled by slums, and repurposed in 1979 as Guggenheim and Rockefeller awards. In 2013, she created an emergency shelter for flood victims. Since Proyecto Helicoide, dedicated to rescuing the memory of 1985, it has been a headquarters for national El Helicoide. intelligence and security police agencies, Lisa Blackmore has a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies and an infamous prison. Combining archival from the University of (2011). She recently published documents, critical analysis, literary texts, and Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality visual commentary, Downward Spiral traces the in Venezuela, 1948-1958 (2017) and has published widely in academic journals. She was Postdoctoral Researcher on the turbulent history of this living ruin and reveals project Modernity and the Landscape in Latin America at the dystopic side of urban modernity. Universität Zürich from 2014 to 2017. She is Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex.

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