An Architektur 16/17

An Architektur 16
Material on: David Harvey, Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization

David Harvey interprets the postmodern architecture of the 1980s as a cultural expression of post-Fordism and thus of the crisis facing American cities at the time. By introducing two new developments into the discussion about cities and relating them to one another, he insists that discourses and cultural practices cannot be separated from economic and political processes: the architectural phenomenon of postmodernism and the economic project of flexible accumulation must be read together.
With contributions, as well as excerpts and reprints of texts, by Pierre Bourdieu, Margaret Crawford, Guy Debord, Counter-Textbook Series: Amerikkka, Homer Hoyt, Fredric Jameson, Charles Jencks, Reinhard Kreissl, Henri Lefebvre, Peter Marcuse, Marx/Engels, The New York Surveillance Camera Players, Richard Nixon, Richard Sennett, Neil Smith, Manfredo Tafuri, Ferdinand Tönnies, Venturi/Scott Brown/Izenour, Loïc J. D. Wacquant, and Iris Marion Young.

An Architektur 17
Material on: Manuel Castells, The City and the Grassroots

The City and the Grassroots analyzes developments and changes in the city as the result of a conflict-ridden process of urban social movements. Manuel Castells introduces the struggles of local protest groups, citizens’ initiatives, alternative communities, and grassroots democratic movements into urban research as productive forces of urban change. Building on a Marxist perspective of the city, he constructs an open and adaptable model of the built environment as a crossroads of social struggles.
The key chapters of the book are translated into German here for the first time.

As a supplement to An Architektur 16/17:
Interview booklet: Quarries of Theory Formation
Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Resistance in the Capitalist City.
Email conversation between Regina Bittner, Manuel Castells, Jürgen Essletzbichler, David Harvey, Roger Keil, Margit Mayer, and Christian Schmidt.