Designing the Rural : A Global Countryside in Flux.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Copyright Page -- About the Guest-Editors -- Introduction: Where is the Rural in an Urban World? -- The Global Rural -- Rural Urban Framework -- The Real and Imagined Rural -- The Urban Future -- Inventing the Rural: A Brief History of Modern Architecture in the Countryside -- Cities in the Countryside -- Modernism's Architectural Pastoral -- Return to the Rural -- Settling the Nomads: Rural Urban Framework, an Incremental Urban Strategy for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia -- Becoming Urban -- Incremental Change -- Reality Check -- Notes -- Indefinitely Intermediate: Processes of Ruralisation in Chisinau, Moldova -- Intermediary Society -- The Persistence of the Vernacular -- Design and Ruralisation -- Notes -- Cultivating the Field in the Global Hinterland: Community Building for Mass Housing in the Amazon Region -- Frontier Zone of Global Capitalism -- Generic Housing Models Versus Specific Adaptations -- Test Site: Bairro dos Mineiros -- Social, Technical and Design Assistance -- The Civic Centre as a Field -- Setting the Frame for Future Urban Growth -- Notes -- Palm Oil: A New Ethics of Visibility for the Production Landscape -- Geography of Paradise -- Geography of Production -- Invisible Industrialisation of the Rural -- Representing and Designing Production Landscapes -- Notes -- Notes on Villages as a Global Condition -- Villages and the Agricultural Revolution -- Villages, Industry and the Metropolis in the Modern Nation State -- Networks of Villages in the Megalopolis and the Fragmented Metropolis -- Multiple Village Networks in the Contemporary Megacity and Metacity -- Designing for Villages in an Extended Urban Field -- Notes -- Fieldoffice Architects In Situ: Reflecting on the Rural-Urban Mix in Yilan, Taiwan -- Reflecting on 'Time as a Friend'.

Reflecting on 'The Sheltering Capacity of the Urban-Field Canopy' -- Reflecting on 'Learning from the Delta, Water and Territory' -- Final Reflections on 'Living in the Rural-Urban Mix, Yilan' -- Notes -- In the Hands of the People: Harnessing the Collective Power of Village Life in India -- Housing: An Opportunity to Build Social Capital -- Artisans as Knowledge Bearers -- Balancing Process and Product -- Note -- Designing for an Uncertain Future: Rural Urban Framework, Shichuang Village House Prototype, Guangdong Province, China -- Dissolving the Rural-Urban Divide -- From Houses to Housing -- A Flexible Prototype -- The Hunstad Code: Rules for the Planning of a Rural Town -- A New Nature -- Notes -- The Villages, Florida: Small-town Metropolitanism and the 'Middle of Nowhere' -- From Orange Blossom Gardens to The Villages -- Small-Town Metropolitanism: Scaling Up -- Small-Town Metropolitanism: Scaling Down -- Scalar Elastics -- Notes -- New Territories: Deconstructing and Constructing Countryside - The Great Divide of Rural and Urban in Hong Kong -- Old Territory (On the Perception of Countryside) -- New Territories (On the Force of Urbanisation) -- The Old Territory and The New Territory (On the Division of Rural and Urban) -- New Territories (On the Design of the Countryside) -- Notes -- The Toshka Project: Colossal Water Infrastructures, Biopolitics and Territory in Egypt -- Notes -- Best of Both Worlds: Lamenting Our Path to the Future -- 'Do I dare Disturb the universe?' -- Swansong -- Line-Up -- Arrested Development -- Camouflage -- Notes -- Durana, Albania: A Field of Possibilities -- The Hinterland, Urbanised? -- The Urbanisation Problématique -- Interiorising the Constitutive Outside -- Designing Other Urbanisations -- Notes -- Counterpoint: Don't Waste Your Time in the Countryside -- Rural Architecture?.

Metropolitan Brain Versus Rural Muscle -- Avant-Garde Versus Avant-Gardism -- Markets Versus Anti-Capitalist Moralising -- Notes -- Contributors -- What is Architectural Design? -- Forthcoming Titles -- Back Cover -- EULA.

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