What do Dubai, Detroit, and Tokyo have in common? How are rural and urban conditions merging under the radar of official planning guidelines in Beijing? What type of architecture results from
the prevalence of airborne contaminants? What kind of urbanism does Google Earth produce?
As everything from automobile production to energy collection, citizenship to higher education, news media to professional sports relinquish a model of singularity for one of multiplicity, the
tools of interaction and design have changed. Exploring these decentralized systems through which cities are increasingly organized and produced, this volume compares emerging design practices
in the contemporary production of urbanity.
Distributed Urbanism presents a series of case studies highlighting the architectural implications of remote design agencies on twenty-first-century cities. Edited by Gretchen Wilkins, this
collection of essays and projects, both imagined and real, compiles work by leading architects and theorists from global perspective, including projects', in Rotterdam, Tokyo, Barcelona,
Detroit, Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing, and Mumbdti.
Gretchen Wilkins is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne, teaching in the Urban Architecture Laboratory and is a co-coordinator of the World Architecture Workshop.
Previously she was Assistant Professor at the ' University of Michigan and Research Fellow at the Japan Foundation. She is the editor of Entropia: Incremental ' Gestures Towards a Possible
Urbanism (Champ Libre, 2008) and On-The-Spot: Atelier Hitoshi Abe (University of Michigan, 2008).
