--- On Fri, 8/29/08, Gini Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Can anyone suggest theory, writings and films, documentaries
> that work with ideas and practices of extreme urbanism and
> cities. Code 46 and Koolhaas Lagos are examples where the
> cities of Shanghai and Lagos are investigated through
> positioning the city as actor and as protagonist.
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
Is urbanism preferrably to be understood as overpopulation?
I´d automatically think of alienation, surveillance, visionionary architecture as well and experiments in city planning gone wrong (London´s Docklands) or the city as a social (crimeridden) space - the "moloch".
Obvious films would be Metropolis and Dark City, or Soylent Green depicting a overpopulized world.
A film called "Weiße Lilien" (White Lillies) just premiered in Austria, I am yet to see it.
It´s reviewed here:
http://diepresse.com/home/kultur/film/filmkritik/410668/index.do
According to the reviewer it´s mostly about architecture and the protagonist functioning as a "sympton" of the newly created city / suburb.
The German 2001 documentary "Berlin Babylon" is dedicated to the rapidly changing face of the city.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276819/
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