Smooth city: Against urban perfection, towards collective alternatives Edition:English - Softcover Mario Carpo

Mario Carpo

How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality

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To the photographer

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Smooth city: Against urban perfection, towards collective alternatives Edition:English - Softcover Mario CarpoHow urban paradigms of efficiency, sanitization and surveillance transform city life into seamless "experience" and erode the non normative. In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the active eradication of any aberration, friction or alternative. From Dubai, Hong Kong and London to Amsterdam and Cairo, the smooth city, with its gated communities