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The City That Never Was


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One of the most troubling consequences of the 2008 global financial collapse was the midstream abandonment of several large-scale speculative urban and suburban projects. The resulting scars on the landscape, large subdivisions with only marked-out plots and half-finished roads, are the subject of The City That Never Was, an eye-opening look at what happens when development, particularly what the author calls speculative urbanization is out of sync with financial reality. Presenting historical and recent examples from around the world--from the sprawl of the US Sun Belt and the unoccupied towns of western China, to the ghost estates of Ireland--and focusing on case studies in Spain, Marcinkoski proposes an ecologically based model in place of the capricious economic and political factors that typically drive development today.
About the Author: Christopher Marcinkoski is an assistant professor of landscape architecture and urban design at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a licensed architect and founding director of PORT A+U, a leading-edge urban design consultancy with ongoing projects in Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia. Prior to his appointment at Penn, Marcinkoski was a senior associate at James Corner Field Operations in New York where he led that office's large-scale urban design work including the QianHai Water City in Shenzhen and Shelby Farms Park in Memphis.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781616893903
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton Architectural Press
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Reconsidering the Speculative Nature of Contemporary Urbanization
  • Width: 175 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1616893907
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jan 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 1
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 865 gr


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