Financial Imaginaries: Toward a Philosophy of the City

Envisioning Reform: The International Hotel in Postrevolutionary China, 1974–1990

“…47 Vividly captured by a promotional collage depicting an axonometric representation of the hotel set within the work of late-Ming Dynasty painter Zheng Zhong (active ca. 1612-1648), Pei's hotel created an aura of cultural tradition in order to maximize its economic success.…”

En nombre de lo singular: Biomuseo en Ciudad de Panamá

“…15 Sabemos también que la contradicción entre el interior y el exterior, como recurso formal per se, no es tema exclusivo de Gehry; fue estudiado y celebrado por Venturi hace ya algunas décadas. 16 No obstante, si retomamos el Biomuseo, la tensión entre envolvente y orden interno se desvanece cuando la museografía entra en juego. Veamos.…”

“…14 Foster, "Maestro constructor", 38 15. Benson, "Skin-deep Beauty with Content" 16. Venturi, Complejidad y contradicción en arquitectura, 109-167.…”

‘We Are Here Alone’: The Ironic Potentials and Vulnerabilities of Mixed (Up) Districts in Central Jakarta

“…Across cities of the global South, however, new developments — their financing, architecture, and support by the state — function by acting as if the rich and the poor do not operate in the same space. As Martin () points out, these are investments that seem to magically resolve the structural crisis of the urban question even as they reproduce it. In districts where residents largely responded to each other's initiative with a mixture of envy, disinterest, parasitism, collaboration and inventive rechanneling, whatever a household has — the quality of construction, the relative location in relationship to services or roads, the square footage, the available documentation attesting to length of stay, as well as the ways in which these ‘assets’ are traded among residents — is now the subject of calculation.…”