gta papers 11: Macroeconomics
| Author | Matthew Critchley ed. |
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| Publisher | gta Verlag |
| ISBN | 9783856765019 |
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| Status | not yet published |
Macroeconomics might seem to be the purview of the federal reserve or the Word Economic Forum. Its mechanisms appear to act on a scale far beyond architecture or the city, and its arguments are often couched in a technocratic language that surreptitiously naturalizes political decisions. Against this rarified atmosphere, this issue of 'gta papers' uses architecture to examine the material consequences of specific macroeconomic policies. The articles reconstruct the contingencies and uncertainties of these policies and trace their impact all the way through built structures. They show that macroeconomic decisions regulating tax, credit, labour, commodity trade, currencies, and debt have had profound significance on historical and contemporary architecture.
| 126 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English |
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idea48392
