Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
By (Author) Reinhold Martin
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
30th October 2014
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Society and culture: general
Philosophy: aesthetics
Urban communities
307.76
Physical Properties
Paperback
60
Width 127mm, Height 178mm, Spine 25mm
Description
Reinhold Martin's "Mediators" is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of
Author Bio
Reinhold Martin is professor of architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and is a member of the Committee on Global Thought.
