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Title Vertigo : the strange new world of the contemporary city / edited by Rowan Moore ; with a foreword by Jacques Herzog ; essays by Aaron Betsky ... [and others]
Published London : Laurence King in association with Glasgow 1999, 1999

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Description 208 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm
Contents Foreword : Thoughts on the exhibition 'Vertigo' / Jacques Herzog -- Introduction : Vertigo : the strange new world of the contemporary city / Rowan Moore -- Culture : The Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London : cool energy art experience / Raymund Ryan -- Politics : Berlin 1999 : Phantoms and formulae / Brian Hatton -- Hub space : Hong Kong : Chek Lap Kok : the airport as saviour of the city / Martin Pawley -- Public space : Yokohama International Port Terminal : ship of state / Irénée Scalbert -- Private housing : Lake Las Vegas resort : just add water / Paul Davies -- Public housing : Gifu housing, Japan : reversed planning through gender / Akira Suzuki -- Money : Shanghai World Financial Center : love and rockets in the spree economy / Aaron Tan & Louise Low -- Spectacle : the Millennium experience, London : a dome - yet different / Deyan Sudjic -- Nature : Landschaftspark, Duisburg-Nord : the rust belt blooms / Stefan Leppert -- Shopping : Ontario Mills, California : castle of consumption in the empire of signs / Aaron Betsky
Summary This book interprets the ideologies of the contemporary city, and opens up a startlingly rich arena for a discussion that vertiginously springboards beyond architecture into popular culture, city planning, the environment, economics and politics
Analysis 20th century
Architecture
Notes Includes index
Published to accompany an exhibition
Bibliography Includes index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Public architecture -- Exhibitions.
Public architecture.
Urban landscape architecture -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Moore, Rowan.
Vertigo (Exhibition) (1999 : Glasgow, Scotland)
LC no. 00001454
ISBN 1856691535
Other Titles Strange new world of the contemporary city