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"Platform 2" provides a sampling of the most salient research and
design explorations undertaken at the Harvard Graduate School of
Design (GSD) during the 2008-2009 academic year. Organized
thematically, the publication identifies underlying congruencies
among studio work, theses, research, lectures, conferences, and
writings to unfold some of the many critical ideas and interests
currently being explored in the School. Ranging in scope from
detailed material fabrication to large-scale territorial and
infrastructural strategies, the work spans a broad and diverse set
of geographies and scenarios. In documenting this work, the
publication archives and disseminates the rich intellectual
momentum of the GSD. With contributions by Dirk Sijmons, Sissel
Tolaas, Scheri Fultiner, Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch, Judith
Grant Long, Jose Luis Vallejo / Belinda Tato, Joshua Prince Ramus,
Chris Reed, among others.
While the history of Sao Paulo dates back more than 450 years, most
of its growth took place after World War II as the city's major
economic engine shifted from agriculture to industry. Today, as Sao
Paulo evolves into a service economy hub, Felipe Correa argues, the
city must carefully examine how to better integrate its extensive
inner city post-industrial land into contemporary urban uses. In
Sao Paulo: A Graphic Biography, Correa presents a comprehensive
portrait of Brazil's largest city, narrating its fast-paced growth
through archival material, photography, original drawings, and
text. Additional essays from scholars in fields such as landscape
architecture, ecology, governance, and public health offer a series
of interdisciplinary perspectives on the city's history and
development. Beyond presenting the first history of Paulista urban
form and carefully detailing the formative processes that gave
shape to this manufacturing capital, Sao Paulo shows how the city
can transform its post-industrial lands into a series of inner city
mixed-use affordable housing districts. By reorienting how we think
about these spaces, the volume offers a compelling vision of a
much-needed urban restructuring that can help alleviate the extreme
socioeconomic divide between city center and periphery. This
twenty-first century urban blueprint thus constitutes an impressive
work of research and presents a unique perspective on how cities
can imagine their future.
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