The City That Never Was

By Christopher Marcinkoski

One of the most troubling consequences of the 2008 global financial collapse was the midstream abandonment of several large-scale speculative urban and suburban projects. The resulting scars on the landscape, large subdivisions with only marked-out plots and half-finished roads, are the subject of The City That Never Was, an eye-opening look at what happens when development, particularly what the author calls "speculative urbanization" is out of sync with financial reality. Presenting historical and recent examples from around the world--from the sprawl of the US Sun Belt and the unoccupied towns of western China, to the "ghost estates" of Ireland--and focusing on case studies in Spain, Marcinkoski proposes an ecologically based model in place of the capricious economic and political factors that typically drive development today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616893907
• ISBN13: 9781616893903
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 11.0"