Multi-National City: Architectural Itineraries, Paperback Book, By: Reinhold Martin
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Multi-National City: Architectural Itineraries, Paperback Book, By: Reinhold Martin
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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.
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- Books Author: Reinhold Martin
- Number Of Pages: 202
- Language: English
- Publisher: Actard Inc
- Books Category: History & Archaeology
- Book Format: Paperback
- Books_ISBN: 8496540626
- Other Feature 2: Weight: 600 grams
- Other Feature 3: Size: 240 x 170 x 17.27 mm
- Publication Date: July 23, 2008