Multi-National City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788496540620)

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.

Author: Martin
ISBN-10: 8496540626
ISBN-13: 9788496540620
Publisher: Actar
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2007
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.70w x 0.68d