Book ID: CBB454741476

Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present (2020)

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Cupers, Kenny (Editor)
Catharina Gabrielsson (Editor)
Helena Mattsson (Editor)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 448
Language: English

Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role of architecture and urbanism in geographically variable yet interconnected processes of neoliberal transformation across scales—from China, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Britain, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. Analyzing how buildings and urban projects in different regions since the 1960s have served in the implementation of concrete policies such as privatization, fiscal reform, deregulation, state restructuring, and the expansion of free trade, contributors reveal neoliberalism as a process marked by historical contingency. Neoliberalism on the Ground fundamentally reframes accepted narratives of both neoliberalism and postmodernism by demonstrating how architecture has articulated changing relationships between state, society, and economy since the 1960s.

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Authors & Contributors
Zachmann, Karin
Fernandez, Rodrigo
Jessa Lingel
Valentina Roxo
James Zarsadiaz
David Gissen
Concepts
Technology and society
Technology and politics
Technology and economics
Urban planning
Energy resources and technologies
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Modern
Places
United States
Mozambique
Los Angeles (California)
Japan
France
Finland
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