TY - BOOK AU - Marcinkoski,Christopher TI - The City That Never Was: reconsidering the speculative nature of contemporary urbanization. SN - 9781616893903 AV - HD1390 M364 2015 U1 - 711/.4 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Princeton Architectural Press KW - Real estate development KW - History KW - Local KW - Urbanization KW - City planning N1 - Include index; "The City That Never Was considers the increasingly speculative nature of contemporary urbanization by exploring the consequences of the massive building boom and bust seen in Spain between 1998 and 2008 as a lens through which to reconsider the theory, methods and agency of contemporary urban design and planning praxis"; Table of Contents: 8 Acknowledgments -- 10 Introduction -- 15 A Brief History of Speculative Urbanization -- 19 Notable Past Speculations -- 25 Recent specalutive Urbanization Events -- 25 The US Sun Belt -- 28 Irish Ghost Estates -- 31 Dubai -- 35 Ongoing Speculative Urbanization -- 35 Panama -- 37 Turkey -- 40 African New Towns -- 43 The People's Republic of China -- 49 City Rankings and Global City Ambitions -- 52 Commonalities and Conclusions -- 57 A New Spanish Miracle -- 60 A Brief Summary of the Boom and Bust -- 63 Roots of the Second Miracle -- 64 Land -- 68 1998 Ley del Suelo -- 72 Housing -- 79 Infrastructure -- 86 The Role of Design -- 90 Broader Contexts -- 92 Responses to the Boom and Bust -- 96 Reflections -- 99 Products of the Boom and Bust -- Case Studies from the Madrid Metropolitan Region -- 100 Introduction -- 102 1997 General Plan / Urban Action Programs -- 110 Urban Expansions -- 138 Ciudad Valdeluz -- 146 High Speed Rail -- 158 Aeropuerto Central Ciudad Real -- 166 Commercial Airports -- 178 AP-41 Autopista Madrid Toledo -- 186 Intercity Motorways -- 198 CREAA / South Extension -- 206 Cultural Institutions -- 217 Urbanization Beyond Speculation 219 Looking Back -- 221 Looking Forward -- 222 Architectural Form -- 224 Land use -- 225 Infrastructure -- 229 Public Realm -- 230 Operating Systems -- 231 Postscript -- 234 Notes -- 250 Index -- 256 Figures and Image Sources -- ER -