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, ca. 1990 by Maroš Krivý
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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
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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