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Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Reinhold Martin
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Series | Forerunners: Ideas First |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:60 | Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 127 |
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Category/Genre | Architecture Philosophy - aesthetics |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780816696871
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Classifications | Dewey:307.76 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
University of Minnesota Press
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Imprint |
University of Minnesota Press
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Publication Date |
30 October 2014 |
Publication Country |
United States
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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.
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