Multi-National City: Architectural Itineraries [Paperback]

Reinhold Martin (Author), Kadambari Baxi (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 8496540626 | ISBN-13: 978-8496540620 | Publication Date: August 1, 2007

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.

Editorial Reviews

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Wonderfully designed. Not only does the graphic design of the text reinforce the connected loops of the global network, but the book itself 'opens' into two, so the reader can take in the text with or without the photographs... --Archidose

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Actar (August 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8496540626
• ISBN-13: 978-8496540620
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #840,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)