At the close of this era of expansion and surplus Volume speculates on one of the period's emblematic inventions: Content Management, or the collecting, organizing and sharing of digital information. Our retrospective appraisal of recent developments in the managing of information offers inside into the ability of Content Management to serve the current realities of digital abundance and material shortage, and to protect both vast and extremely limited quantities.
2 Introduction - Inaba, Jeffrey 10 The Architecture of Content Management - Wigley, Mark 14 Mismanagement - Smedt, Julien De 18 Operating Manuals - Muller, Lars 22 A New Mind for an Aging Species - Daalder, Rene 26 The Strange Condition of Contemporary Content-Crisis - Basar, Shumon 28 Rank and File - Anderson, Chris 32 In Media Res - Goldberg, Ken 36 The Rachel Maddow Show - Maddow, Rachel 40 News Update - Huffington, Arianna 44 World Heritage: Oryx or Goat? - C-Lab 60 The Big Dig - Abu El Haj, Nadia 64 Categorizing the City - Grima, Joseph 66 Technically Speaking - Simmons, Marc 72 Communicating Content - Domeisen, Oliver 76 The Politics of the Envelope ‚Äi A Political Critique of Materialism - Zaera Polo, Alejandro 106 Art as Urbanism - Govan, Michael 110 Architecture is Merciless - Herzog, Jacques 114 Talk of the Town - AOC 118 Life Support - Abalos, Inaki 122 Transplants - Vogt Landscape Architects 128 Seeds of Paranoia - C-Lab 142 Still Metropolitan After All These Years - Montebello, Philippe de 146 Content Management - Marcopoulos, Ari 152 Faculties for Architecture - Oosterman, Arjen