When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a collaborative research
project between the Brooklyn-based architecture studio, CAZA, and
think tank, SURBA, an urban research collective spearheaded by
Carlos Arnaiz and Peter Rowe. Drawing upon case studies including
projects in China, Colombia, and the Philippines, this book works
across place, time, and culture to offer an allegorical journey
into urbanization at large. When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a
loosely congregated collection of essays that reflect an
aggregation of encounters with urban circumstances - physical and
immaterial, and structural and affective. From Robots, Utilidors,
and a Brave New World to A Third Way Towards Metropolitanism and
Tagging Thingness and Scale, this publication questions the role of
architecture and its related disciplines in the wake of the master
plan. It searches for a field guide to everyday urban life by
offering palpable views into the network of relations that
characterize this evolving social ecosystem. Through their
collective global research projects CAZA and SURBA frame, abstract,
poeticize, and render the city as a historical process, a future
destination, a production cycle, and a layered landscape of
overlapping phenomena. When Urbanization Comes To Ground does not
attempt to cast the city in any one particular ideology, nor does
it aim to essentialize or distill urban experience. Instead, this
book oscillates from one rendering of urbanization to another,
alternating scales and media in order to present the topic of the
city and its encapsulated processes through the same phenomena that
inform it.
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