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Monica Naso

Curated in China

Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture

Monica Naso

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Routledge
29 February 2024

Theory of architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Development studies; Urban communities; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives. It uses simultaneous narratives to explore scales and perspectives and the layered spatial and political agency that an ephemeral event – the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture – has gradually established in the city between 2005 and 2019.

Encapsulating Shenzhen’s ambitions as a world-class city, the Biennale aims to actively build a relationship between architecture and socio-spatial issues as a device to not only investigate the city’s hypertrophic development, but also manipulate its urban fabric. The spaces transformed by the exhibition convey visual delight and urban extravaganza; they also embody the interlocking of multiple (intellectual, corporate and institutional) actors who exploit the event in the pursuit of different goals. Everybody strolls around and enjoys the spectacle set up in the allegedly pacifying space of the exhibition; nevertheless, what lies behind – and beyond – the event?

By addressing students and scholars in the fields of architecture and urban space, the book unpacks the layered frictions between a temporary event’s narrative apparatus and its physical outcomes, questioning the relationship between biennials as theoretical platforms and their agency in real urban spaces.

By: Monica Naso
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9781032462585
ISBN 10: 1032462582
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 29 February 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures Foreword by Christoph Lindner Acknowledgements List of acronyms Introduction: Events and the city 1 Framing the Shenzhen Biennale 2 The Biennale as an urban device 3 Post-industrial legacy 4 Urban villages 5 The Central Business District Conclusion: Events as City Afterword by Huang Weiwen Index

Monica Naso is an architect and Ph.D. holder. As a member of the China Room research group (Politecnico di Torino), she has taken part in international research & design projects. She was part of the curatorial team of the 2019 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. Monica is currently a researcher and a teaching assistant at the Politecnico di Torino.