The Urban Apparatus : Mediapolitics and the City/
Martin, Reinhold
The Urban Apparatus : Mediapolitics and the City/ by Reinhold Martin - 1st ed. - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. - 208p.: ill.; 21 cm.
includes index & bibliography
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The Urban Apparatus' analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. Its main argument is that understanding the city as infrastructure (i.e. hardware in all senses) reveals the category of the urban, and of urbanization, to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly-bound neoliberal regime, rather than an empirical or properly theoretical description of that regime
9781517901196
Architecture--Criticism
Cities and towns
720.103 / MAU
The Urban Apparatus : Mediapolitics and the City/ by Reinhold Martin - 1st ed. - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. - 208p.: ill.; 21 cm.
includes index & bibliography
See images
The Urban Apparatus' analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. Its main argument is that understanding the city as infrastructure (i.e. hardware in all senses) reveals the category of the urban, and of urbanization, to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly-bound neoliberal regime, rather than an empirical or properly theoretical description of that regime
9781517901196
Architecture--Criticism
Cities and towns
720.103 / MAU