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Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Reinhold Martin
SeriesForerunners: Ideas First
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:60
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 127
Category/GenreArchitecture
Philosophy - aesthetics
ISBN/Barcode 9780816696871
ClassificationsDewey:307.76
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 30 October 2014
Publication Country United States

Description

Reinhold Martin's "Mediators" is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of

Author Biography

Reinhold Martin is professor of architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and is a member of the Committee on Global Thought.