Tag: Richard Florida
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Visualizing major ‘urban world’ metanarratives
Daniel Ibañez, a member of Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab, has produced a telling video for urbanNext, summarizing four major metageographical visions of the city, the urban and the world that animate contemporary discussion of world urbanization: the global-city network model, the urban-age discourse, Richard Florida’s spiky world of urban nodes of activity, and critical…
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Reframing the World as One City | A debate forum in urbanNext
A group of architects and designers, in collaboration with Acta Publishers, recently launched the web project urbanNext, a site devoted to explore the role an expanded urban condition plays in shaping and rethinking architecture and urbanism. The content is broad and variegated, dealing with a number of collateral disciplines and related fields of practice, from…