Synopses & Reviews
New Geographiesjournal aims to examine the emergence of the “geographic,” a new but for the most part latent paradigm in design today—to articulate it and to bring it to bear effectively on the social role of design. Although much of the analysis of this context in architecture, landscape, and urbanism derives from social anthropology, human geography, and economics, the journal aims to extend these arguments to the impact of global changes on the spatial dimension, whether in terms of the emergence of global spatial networks, global cities, or nomadic practices, and how these inform design practices today. Through essays and design projects, the journal aims to identify the relationship between the very small and the very large, and intends to open up discussions on the expanded role of the designer, with an emphasis on disciplinary reframings, repositionings, and attitudes.
About the Author
Neyran Turanis an Assistant Professor of <>Architecture at Rice University.lives in Milan<>Bruno Latouris Professor at the <>Center for the Study of Innovation at the School of Mines, Paris.Hashim Sarkisis Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies at the <>Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Table of Contents
- Editorial
by Neyran Turan - Design, Agency, Territory: Provisional Notes on Planning and the Emergence of Landscape
by Charles Waldheim - Taichung Gateway Project: A New Synthesis of Park and City
by Stan Allen - Toward a City of Events: Digital Media and Urbanity
by Antoine Picon - Down from the Stand: Arguments in Favor of a Non-anthropocentric Urban Ethics
by Stephano Boeri - Metropolitan Waterpark: Zaragoza Expo 2008
by Ecosistema Urbano - Rescaling the Urban Question
by Neil Brenner - Platforms for a Permanent Modernity
by Alexander D'Hooghe - The Green City
by Alex Wall - New Geographics: Notes on an Emerging Aesthetic
by Hashim Sarkis - Geologics
by Vicente Guallart - The Space of Controversies
by Bruno Latour - Foam City: About Urban Spatial Multitudes
by Peter Sloterdijk - Positioning New Geographies
by Mohsen Mostafavi