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Architecture Words 3 – The Poetics of a Wall Projection
Jan Turnovsky
Architecture Words 6 – Projectiles
Bernard Cache
Architecture Words 7 – Modernity Unbound
Detlef Mertins
Architecture Words 8 – Tarzans in the Media Forest
Toyo Ito
Architecture Words 9 – Tectonic Acts Of Desire And Doubt
Mark Rakatansky
Archizines
Edited by Elias Redstone
As Hardly Found: Art and Tropical Architecture
Edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
Auto-Destructive Art: Metzger at AA
Gustav Metzger
A World Adrift
Unknown Fields
Barkow Leibinger: Bricoleur Bricolage
Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger
Bas Princen: The Construction of an Image
Edited by Vanessa Norwood
Beyond Entropy
Edited by Stefano Raboli Pansera
Cedric Price Works 1952–2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective
Edited by Samantha Hardingham
Cine Arch 3 – Fact and Fiction
Edited by Rubens Azevedo and Julian Löffler
Cities From Zero
Edited by Shumon Basar
Civic City Cahier 1 – Social Movements in the (Post-) Neoliberal City
Margit Mayer
Civic City Cahier 2 – Design and Democracy
Gui Bonsiepe
Civic City Cahier 3 – Distributed Agency, Design's Potentiality
Tom Holert
Civic City Cahier 4 – Afterlives of Neoliberalism
Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore
Civic City Cahier 5 – Designing the Post-Political City and the Insurgent Polis
Erik Swyngedouw
Civic City Cahier 6 – Design In and Against the Neoliberal City
Jesko Fezer
Colquhounery: Alan Colquhoun, from Bricolage to Myth
Edited by Irina Davidovici
Concerning...Land
Edited by Ingrid Schroder and Emily Priest
Didier Fiuza Faustino: Misarchitectures
Dogma: 11 Projects
Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
Do You Remember How Perfect Everything Was? The Work of Zoe Zenghelis
Hamed Khosravi
DRL Ten: A Design Research Compendium
Edited by Tom Verebes
Enabling – The Work of Minimaforms
Theodore and Stephen Spyropoulos
Exhibition Prosthetics
Joseph Grigely
Fieldwork, The Complete Reader
Ryan Gander

Civic City Cahier 6 – Design In and Against the Neoliberal City

Civic City Cahier 6 – Design In and Against the Neoliberal City

Civic City Cahier 6 – Design In and Against the Neoliberal City

Jesko Fezer

Bedford Press

The Civic City Cahier series intends to provide material for a critical discussion about the role of design for a new social city. It publishes short monographic texts by authors who specialise in urban and design theory and practice. Series edited by Jesko Fezer and Matthias Görlich.

Global cities (and their designs in particular) have rested on the paradigm of market-driven development, and have been interpreted as strategic spaces of neoliberal restructuring. While they are now hit by the crisis of this ideology, the situation also offers the opportunity and necessity to imagine another, more social city. Yet designers continue to hold back criticism and proposals. It is, however, time to redefine the role of design for a social city and take action. What is the role of design in the production of urban space? Is it merely an element in the commodified colonisation of social spaces? Or are design and the visual and physical representations of urban issues themselves the key means by which a Civic City may be created from the ideological ruins of existing urban spaces? Jesko Fezer argues for a project of accommodating conflicts by design.

9781907414282, 2013
19 × 11.5cm, illustrated, 52pp, paperback

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