"How can we address the rising social and spatial inequality produced by an ever-growing planetary urbanization? ... This publication brings together three approaches to this crucial issue."--Back cover.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 22, 2014-May 10, 2015, organized by Pedro Gadanho, Curator, with Phoebe Springstubb, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design"--Title page verso.

"The six speculative proposals presented in this catalogue are the result of a productive and dynamic fourteen-month initiative spanning multiple continents and bringing together architects of local knowledge and international experience ... The MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art and its Director, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein ... have been both generous hosts--organizing the project's final workshop and providing a second venue for the exhibition at its 2015 Vienna Biennale"--Page 7.

This is the third exhibition in the series Issues in Contemporary Architecture"--Title page verso."

Includes bibliographical references.

Mirroring uneven growth : a speculation on tomorrow's cities today / Pedro Gadanho -- The crisis of planetary urbanization / David Harvey -- Accretion and rupture in the global city / Ricky Burdett -- Complex and incomplete spaces for tactical urbanism / Saskia Sassen -- Rethinking uneven growth : it's about inequality, stupid / Teddy Cruz -- Urban challenges : specifications of form and the indeterminacy of public reception / Nader Tehrani -- Design scenarios and tactical urbanisms. Hong Kong / MAP Office, Hong Kong, Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University, New York ; Tactical urbanisms : East Asia ; Istanbul / Superpool, Istanbul, Atelier d'Architecture Autog©♭r©♭e, Paris ; Tactical urbanisms : Europe ; Lagos / NL©, Lagos and Amsterdam, Zoohaus/Inteligencias Colectivas, Madrid ; Tactical urbanisms : Africa ; Mumbai / URBZ:user-generated cities, Mumbai, Ensamble Studio/MIT-POPlab, Madrid and Cambridge ; Tactical urbanisms : South Asia ; New York / SITU Studio, New York, Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), Rotterdam and New York ; Tactical urbanisms : North America ; Rio de Janeiro / RUA Arquitetos, Rio de Janeiro, MAS Urban Design, ETH Zurich ; Tacitcal urbanisms : Latin America.