TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin, Reinhold 
TI  - The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City
SN  - 9781517901196
U1  - 720.103 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press, 
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Cities and towns
N1  - includes index & bibliography; See images
N2  - 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
ER  -