Neoliberalism on the ground : architecture and transformation from the 1960s to the present / edited by Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Helena Mattsson.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has not only been a dominant paradigm in politics, but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role of architecture and urbanism in geographically variable yet interconnected processes of neoliberal transformation across scales-from China, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, the US, Britain, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. Analyzing how buildings and urban projects in different regions since the 1960s have served in the implementation of concrete policies such as privatization, fiscal reform, deregulation, state restructuring, and the expansion of free trade, contributors reveal neoliberalism as a process marked by historical contingency. Neoliberalism on the Ground fundamentally reframes accepted narratives of both neoliberalism and postmodernism by demonstrating how architecture has articulated changing relationships between state, society, and economy since the 1960s"--

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Undead Neoliberalisms by Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Helena Mattsson -- Part 1. Shifting Objects and Representations -- 1. Palace on Mortgage: The Collapse of a Social Housing Monument in France by Anne Kockelkorn -- 2. A Ruin in Reverse: The National Library of the Republic of Argentina, 1961-1992 by Ana María León -- 3. Through the Anxieties of Style: The Rigging of Neoliberalism and the New Vasa Museum in Stockholm by Catharina Gabrielsson -- 4. Faceless Concrete Monsters, circa 1990 by Maroš Krivý -- Color plates

Part 2. Policies and Spatial Production -- 5. The Political Economy of Flexibility: Deregulation and the Transformation of Corporate Space in the Postwar City of London by Amy Thomas -- 6. Building Reform: The Block and the Wall in Late Mao-Era China by Cole Roskam -- 7. Norm to Form: Deregulation, Postmodernism, and Swedish Welfare State Housing by Helena Mattsson -- 8. Austerity Architecture: Contradictory Aspirations for Apartheid's End by Sharóne Tomer -- Part 3. Professional Practices in Transformation

9. The Laws of Persuasion: Discretionary Zoning, Manageability, and the Rise of the Urban Designer by Deepa Ramaswamy -- 10. Optimizing Freedom and Choice: Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt by Mary Louise Lobsinger -- 11. Surfing the Wave of Neoliberalism: Rem Koolhaas in Lille by Valéry Didelon -- 12. Creative Uncertainty: Arup Associates, Fire Safety, and the Metaengineering of Government Liam Ross -- Color plates -- Part 4. Subjectivities in Formation -- 13. Mexican Remittance Architecture: Building Neoliberal Subjectivities in the Spaces of Migration by Sarah Lopez

14. The "Right to Buy" in Milton Keynes: Constructing Consumer-Citizens and Commodifying Urban Life by Janina Gosseye -- 15. Human Territoriality and the Downfall of Public Housing by Kenny Cupers -- 16. Homo economicus of the "New Turkey": Urban Development of Istanbul in the 2000s by Esra Akcan -- Epilogue: Neoliberalism and Architecture, Backward by Reinhold Martin -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index

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