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Edge city: Driving the periphery of São Paulo.
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Verlag: | Strelka Press |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 14.05.2012 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9785990336421 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 52 |
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Beschreibungen
Exploring the edge condition of São Paulo, Justin McGuirk analyses the different forms of dwelling available to its would-be citizens, and meets some of the people carving a life for themselves on the verge of this unforgiving metropolis. Driving anti-clockwise, we take a journey backwards in time, moving from cardboard favelas and hastily built tower blocks back to modernist social housing and the factory town built early in the last century. Is this a tale, as the Brazilian flag attests, of "order and progress"? Are the citizens of the periphery better off looking after themselves than in the hands of developers and the paternalistic state? Part road trip and part urban critique, this drive-by portrait makes the case that the city is best understood not by its centre but by its edge.
Justin McGuirk is the design critic of The Guardian and publishing director of Strelka Press. The former editor of Icon, the international architecture and design magazine, he is an award-winning journalist and editor, and an occasional commentator on architecture and design issues for the broadcast media.
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