V2_: New Publication: TransUrbanism

[marjolein at v2.nl]

Publication TransUrbanism
=
urbanism + transformation
urbanism + globalization


TransUrbanism is urbanism plus transformation. TransUrbanism is urbanism 
plus globalization. The city is no longer a clearly localizable spatial 
unit, but has transformed into an “urban field,” a collection of activities 
instead of a material structure. Cities today are in a state of continuous 
decomposition, but are also continually reorganizing and rearranging 
themselves, expanding and shrinking.

TransUrbanism is a design strategy that allows cities to organize 
themselves as complex systems, where small local structures incorporate 
global flows.

The book features essays, interviews and projects from:

Arjen Mulder: TransUrbanism
Andreas Ruby: Transgressing Urbanism
Arjun Appadurai: The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination
Scott Lash: Informational Totemism
Lars Spuybroek: The Structure of Vagueness
Edward Soja: Restructuring the Industrial Capitalist City
Mark Wigley: Resisting the City
Roemer van Toorn: Against the Hijacking of the Multitude
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Alien Relationships with Public Space
Lars Spuybroek meets Rem Koolhaas: Africa Comes First
Knowbotic Research: Codes Bad Guys Space
Brett Steele: Transitory Image Spaces: Urbanism 2.0

TransUrbanism is: Illustrated full color, Paperback, 240 pages, 16x23 cm, 
Text in English
ISBN: 90-5662-236-6
Price: € 22,50

Editorial Team: Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder (editors-in-chief), Laura Martz
Design: Joke Brouwer
Published by: V2_Publishing/NAI Publishers
This book is made possible by the Netherlands Architecture Fund 
(Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur), Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The Body Movies project by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer featured in the book, 
recently received two prestigious prizes: America's leading critical 
magazine I.D. Magazine's Golden Award 2002, category Interactive Media 
Design and Austria's Prix Ars Electronica 2002's 2nd Prize in Interactive Arts.

More information can also be found on: www.v2.nl/books
On this URL it is also possible to order TransUrbanism on line.


Note for the editors (not for publication):

For extra images, interview applications and/or more background information 
you can contact:

V2_, Marije Stijkel, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam, phone: +31 
(0)10 206 72 72, e-mail: marije at v2.nl