Stani Michiels & Arjan van Helmond: Jakarta Megalopolis: Horizontal and Vertical Observations
By Unknown Author.
Description
Jakarta Megalopolis focuses on two projects in the title city by artist and architect Stani Michiels and artist Arjan van Helmond. Each grapples with Jakarta's housing culture, the experience of private as opposed to public space and the consequences of city migration, as well as the city's infrastructure, increasing density, and its coherence--or lack thereof--as a whole. As megalopolises in developing countries undergo explosive growth, their cultural, social, political and economic complexities are developing at unprecedented rates. That phenomenon is drawing more and more atte...
ISBN(s)
907808801X, 9789078088011
