Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Imprint 18
3. TABLE OF CONTENTS xxi
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENT 23
5. FOREWORD 25
6. Speakers 29
7. UNDERSTANDING POPULISM
8. PANEL 1‹ Populism
9. HOW TO BE AND NOT TO POP? 34
10. The Populist Moment 38
11. How to Be and not to Pop Why are some populations populist and others aren’t? 46
12. What was the New Economy? 56
13. Pictorial thinking: symbolic forms, perception and internal pictures 72
14. STRATEGIES OF MOBILISATION
15. PANEL 2‹ Media
16. Introduction 82
17. Home of the Public? Paradoxes of Urban Mediascapes 86
18. Mental Capitalism 98
19. The Process That Changed Architecture 116
20. Are Competitions Populist? A Bourdieusian Alternative Perspective 132
21. Creating Majority Support by not Compromising 150
22. The Average Citizen 166
23. STRATEGIES OF ANTICIPATION
24. PANEL 3‹ Design
25. Introduction 176
26. Searching for the ‘everyday’ 180
27. From Induction to Incitement: Inside the Massive Change Project 188
28. “What do they want?” 206
29. PANEL 4‹ Architecture (for People)
30. Introduction 222
31. BENIDORM. The reasons for success 224
32. Bust or Fold? The New Culture of Control 236
33. Complexity and Populism 248
34. New Urbanism’s Subversive Marketing 254
35. “Populism Redux?” 270
36. In the Name of the People; The Populist Movement in Architecture 288
37. Working with appearance(s) 306
38. PANEL 5‹ Architecture (with People)
39. Introduction 320
40. Towards an open-source architectural practice 324
41. Urban Planning 334
42. McSyn: Cross-Modal architectural portraits 358
43. Blur 374
44. AFTERWORD‹ The limits and virtues of architecture 391
45. GLOSSARY 394