Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Leandro Medrano, Luiz Recamán, and Tom Avermaete -- Part I. Theoretical Tenets: Remains of architectural reason / Luiz Recamán -- On architecture and urban space after the ideological crisis of neoliberalism / Leandro Medrano -- Constructing the commons / Tom Avermaete -- Erving Goffman’s sociology of physical space / Fraya Frehse -- Broken windows, revisited / Reinhold Martin -- Architecture and the critical project / Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- Ruins of the future / Otília Arantes -- Part II. Rethinking Spatial Rhythms: Henri Lefebvre and the morphology of a spatial dialectic / César Simoni Santos -- Anthropophagic phenomenology / Natalia Escobar Castrillón -- Incremental housing / Nelson Mota -- The bubble, the arrow, and the area / Daniel Koch -- Part III. Contemporary Spatial Forms of the City: The subaltern city / Marta Caldeira -- The chronicles of Neo / Janina Gosseye -- LEED and corporate typologies / Raphael Grazziano -- What ever happened to social housing? / Sergio Martín Blas -- Critical strategies in pedagogy / Carmen Espegel Alonso and Daniel Movilla Vega.

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition, examining how architecture and urban design can act as a critique towards emerging global urban forms. Contributions from a range of international scholars expand theoretical tools for understanding spatial politics and critique in architecture and urbanism."