Waterproofing New York gathers some of the most influential and thought provoking municipal leaders, engineers, planners, social scientists, and designers to explore the impact of past and future storms on New York City's infrastructural systems: Water/Waste, Power/Data, Circulation/Fuel, Parks/Recreation, and Shelter. The essays and projects collected here use these urban operating systems to open speculation on the possibilities not simply for waterproofing the city but for thinking beyond it to seek wider means of coordinated yet opportunistic, pragmatic, and inventive city design. Waterproofing New York is intended to support an emerging skepticism of a singular "big fix," as well as of the unplanned, uncoordinated, shoring up of individual enterprises and discrete sites that will ensue in the absence of design and civic leadership. 
 UR02 Waterproofing New York 
 Editors: Denise Hoffman Brandt and Catherine Seavitt Nordenson 
 Contributors: Lance Jay Brown; Nette Compton; Deborah Gans; Jeffrey Hou; Lydia Kallipoliti; Signe Nielsen; Kate Orff; Sandra Richter; Frank Ruchala Jr.; Thaddeus Pawlowski; Janette Sadik-Khan; Hilary Sample; Judd Schechtman; Gullivar Shepard; Michael Sorkin; Byron Stigge; Erika Svendsen, Lindsay Campbell, Nancy F. Sonti and Gillian Baine; Georgeen Theodore 
 "Hoffman Brandt and Nordenson's book suggests a more nuanced understanding of urban nature while challenging landscape architects, engineers, and policy makers to move beyond short-term pragmatic responses to extreme storms to engage a broader definition of everyday infrastructure. Landscape architects have only begun to engage the space in between the scales of the swale and the floating city, reimagining the evolution of existing urban systems to foster a more robust and resilient future." --- Thaisa Way, ASLA "Flooded With Ideas" Landscape Architecture Magazine

Waterproofing New York

Terreform

Fast forward to the year 2100. New York, along with Phoenix, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Manila, and many more of the world's most populated cities, is irrevocably changed. Much of the earth's great middle swath is subject to droughts, wildfires, and desertification, while increasingly frequent super storms plague coastal areas, destroying precious agricultural lands by bringing seawater far inland. Where in the world shall we live, and what will our built environments be like? How can we change our way of life to be more in keeping with natural systems and processes? Through 2100: A Dystopian Utopia, Vanessa Keith and StudioTEKA visualize possible design solutions to suggest the profound adaptability and possibilities of the design field to meet environmental challenges in the future. The issue is framed by noted sociologist, Saskia Sassen, with her preface and advocacy of "delegating back to the environment". UR03 2100: A Dystopian Utopia / The City After Climate Change 
 by Vanessa Keith/StudioTEKA 
 Vanessa Keith is a registered architect and the Principal of StudioTEKA, which she founded in 2003. Based in New York city, StudioTEKA is a boutique firm that engages in both built and research based design work.
 "It's good to see that the onset of rapid global warming is nudging creative minds into action. Job one is to make sure we prevent as much change as possible, but that which we can no longer prevent will require us to adapt, and here are some provocative plans to stir your imagination!" Bill McKibben,350.org 
 "The book is indeed utopian in seeing the best in human potential rising to the challenge of a dystopian threat. It sounds a powerful call for architects to take an active role and respond to climate change's most dire scenarios with provocative design solutions. As we should. As we must." Winka Dubbeldam, Chair, PennDesign

2100: A Dystopian Utopia / The City After Climate Change

Vanessa Keith

StudioTEKA

New York City does zoning without planning. Its zoning changes are displacing low-income communities of color while protecting segregated neighborhoods. Its "affordable housing" is not truly affordable. Case studies of Willliamsburg, Harlem and Chinatown show how race matters but is not acknowledged in land use and housing policies. Zoned Out! proposes ways to address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning, and housing in the public domain. "From NYC's 1811 grid to Bloomberg and De Blasio's upzonings, Zoned Out! shines light on the deceptive ways seemingly race neutral zoning laws continue to maintain and promote the racial and socioeconomic hierarchies America was built to support. A must read for housing advocates, organizers, journalists and academics alike." --- Andrew J. Padilla, Director of El Barrio Tours: Gentrification USA "Full of insight and provocation, this volume is essential reading for those scholars, students, and activists searching for alternative courses of action to widespread urban displacement, growing income inequality, and resurgent racial polarization in the United States." --- J. Phillip Thompson, MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning "New York is a city of neighborhoods, but Angotti, Morse, and their coauthors show that city planning policies systematically disenfranchise and displace low-income New Yorkers who live in historic communities of color. They urge us to rethink what 'affordable' housing means, and develop the political will to aim for a radically different system of public resources and community plans." --- Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center

Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City

Politics & Social Sciences

Tom Angotti

Sylvia Morse

Social Sciences

Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings focuses on the urban spatial dynamics of the mass protest movements that have convulsed the Arab region since December 2010. The volume shifts attention away from public squares - and in particular Tahrir Square in Cairo - to consider the broader urban context in which the uprisings unfolded. The essays are topically and geographically diverse, exploring a range of sociospatial phenomena in countries that have been at the heart of the Arab uprisings as well as those countries that have appeared peripheral to the upheaval. This breadth of perspective highlights the centrality of space and spatial concerns to the ongoing political transformations in the region. In this way, the book provides a distinctive - and critical - analysis of one of the most significant political events of our time. UR05 Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings 
 Editors: Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta 
 Contributors: Khaled Adham; Susana Galán; Azam Khatam; C. Lanthier; Ed McAllister; Julie Mehretu; G. Ollamh; Duygu Parmaksizoglu; Aseel Sawalha; Helga Tawil-Souri 
 "Revolutions do not occur in a vacuum; rather, they are caused by a complex mix of domestic and international factors. They ultimately come to fruition in places, and not just in central squares. Beyond the Square fills a major gap in our understanding of how urban space factors into popular uprisings. It is a valuable contribution to the analysis of space and politics." ---Asef Bayat, author of Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East

â€‹Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings

Deen Sharp (Editor)

Claire Panetta (Editor)

Mahometan &amp; Celestial's Encyclopædic Guide to Modernity, Comprising a Manual of Useful Instruction Essential to Attainment of the Urbane by the Savage, the Barbarous, and the Semi-Civilized Alike, is an incomparable compendium of expeditionary reports, exhibited artifacts and concise aphoristic parables that charts the most direct and unfailing course to the modern, meticulously presented so as to be readily comprehensible to any reader no matter how putatively backward or decadent. By means of careful attention to and assiduous application of the lessons contained within this guide, the diligent reader is categorically guaranteed to reap the benefit of metropolises and entrepôts relieved of such troublesome nuisances as foreign gunboats, financiers, missionaries, and the like. Steven Flusty is the nom de plume of Tepan Fyodorovich "Hezârfenzade" İfritoğlu Yoldaş-Paşa, noted metropolographer and founder of the Constantinopolitan aëronautical concern Tophane Çelebifabrikası. In conjunction with the celebrated natural historian, polar expeditionist and larval vivisectionist Dr. Celeste Tian, who under the pseudonym of Pauline C. Yu assisted extensively with the preparation of this volume, he is also co-proprietor of the firm Mahometan &amp; Celestial LLC, a foremost purveyor of modernization to crowned heads the world over since the 18th of October 1860.

Mahometan & Celestialâ€™s Encyclopaedic Guide to Modernity: Comprising a Manual of

Steven Flusty

Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro analyzes the implications of the mega-projects that are part of the comprehensive transformation of Rio de Janeiro, for the 2016 Olympic Games. Contributions from literary critics, historians, anthropologists, architects, media theorists, geographers and urban planners tell the story of how these changes to the cityscape have kindled citizens' hopes and aspirations for their "right to a future" and chronicle the ways in which citizens have contested the futures being imposed on them. Anticipating the city yet to come, these essays also point to the potential for activism and protest to transform the Olympic legacy into different, more democratic, futures. While focused on Rio, Occupy All Streets offers critical insights for other cities experiencing wide-ranging challenges and facing far-reaching urban reforms. UR09 Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro 
 Editors: Bruno Carvalho, Mariana Cavalcanti and Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli
 Contributors: Bruno Carvalho, Mariana Cavalcanti with Julia O'Donnell and Lilian Sampaio, Gabriel Duarte with Renata Bertol, Beatriz Jaguaribe with Scott Salmon, Guilherme Lassance, Bryan McCann, Theresa Williamson, and Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli Through punchy prose and superb visual material, its contributors expose the myths that sustain mega-event urbanism; draw out the deep histories of branding Rio as an aesthetically exceptional city; and, most important of all, explore the possibilities that exist for organizing megacities more justly." Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, Newcastle University

Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro

Bruno Carvalho

Mariana Cavalcanti

Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli

In 2003, in the midst of China's rapid economic development and spiraling ecological devastation, the landscape architect and designer Kongjian Yu emerged, with the publication of The Road to Urban Landscape: A Dialogue with the Mayors, as a powerful broker for change in the domain of environmental planning. Since then, the text has been circulated widely among the nation's leadership, Yu's design rm, Turenscape, has ourished, and his core design concepts-from "negative planning" to "sponge cities"-have been codi ed at the highest levels of of cial design guidance. Letters to the Leaders of China excerpts and updates his 2003 classic and contains additional, previously unpublished letters to high-ranking of cials across the country, including President Xi Jinping. With contributions from geographers, urban historians, and critical theorists, in addition to a lengthy colloquy with artist Ai Weiwei, this book affrms Kongjian Yu's indispensability to a sustainable transformation of China's environmental and urban design legacy. "Kongjian Yu's work sets an example for the profession globally, prodding us all to create landscapes of beauty that work for people and for the planet." - Martha Schwartz, Founding Principal, MSP "I've sometimes thought of Kongjian Yu as the Olmsted of China owing to the remarkable scale of his work; having read this book, the title seems more apt than ever." - Michael Van Valkenburgh, Founding Principal, MVVA "Letters to the Leaders of China is a testament to Kongjian Yu's work but also an inspiring manifesto for contemporary urbanism, if not also for human survival more broadly." -James Corner, Field Operations "Nothing could be more welcome in this moment than the scope of environmental advice that Kongjian Yu has seen fit to extend to politicians of every stripe and caliber." - Kenneth B. Frampton Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University

Letters to the Leaders of China: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese City

Kongjian Yu

Helsinki is the chosen site for the Guggenheim Museum's latest effort to replicate the much-contested "Bilbao Effect." Advocates of better methods for fusing the arts and urbanism combined to launch an alternative design competition in 2015. The Next Helsinki helped to amplify a public debate about the role of culture in civic health and economic development that has consequences far beyond the Finnish case-study. 
 In addition to cataloging the hundreds of entries from dozens of countries, The Helsinki Effect includes essays by leading urbanists, artists, and architects about the significance of the competition and the principles that inspired it. 
 UR10 The Helsinki Effect 
 Editors: Terike Haapoja, Andrew Ross, and Michael Sorkin 
 Contributors: Miguel Robles-Durán; Terike Haapoja; Juhani Pallasmaa; Andrew Ross; Michael Sorkin; Kaarin Taipale; Mabel Wilson; Sharon Zukin 
 "Responding to a competition for the design of a new Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki, the authors contributing to this volume deconstruct the values underlying use of the arts to promote economic competitiveness. The uniqueness of this edited book lies in its focus on the commodification of artistic achievement and the ensuing failure to foster local creativity. In investigating the impact of brand-name institutions on construction labor, art markets, and city life, it is an important addition to the critical urban studies literature." --- Susan S. Fainstein, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design 
 " The Next Helsinki showed that there is great potential for imagining a lively, attractive city that grows out of the unique culture of the region. The Helsinki Effect opens a needed view to global conversations in city planning and art. Recommended reading for everybody interested in art, Helsinki, or both! --- Ilona Anhava, Gallerist, Gallery Anhava, Helsinki

The Helsinki Effect: Public Alternatives to the Guggenheim Model of Culture-Driven Development

Andrew Ross

Michael Sorkin

Terike Haapoja

Downward Spiral: El Helicoide's Descent from Mall to Prison. ISBN 1947198009

Celeste Olalquiaga

Lisa Blackmore

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Waterproofing New York

2100: A Dystopian Utopia / The City After Climate Change

Waterproofing New York

Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City

â€‹Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings

Mahometan & Celestialâ€™s Encyclopaedic Guide to Modernity: Comprising a Manual of

Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro

Letters to the Leaders of China: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese City

The Helsinki Effect: Public Alternatives to the Guggenheim Model of Culture-Driven Development

Downward Spiral: El Helicoide's Descent from Mall to Prison. ISBN 1947198009