Mark Crinson, Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003), 1.
Arif Dirlik, Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism (London: Paradigm Publishers, 2006).
Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000).
Alain Tarrius, La remontée des Sud: Afghans et Marocains en Europe méridionale (La Tour d'Aigues, France: Éditions de l'Aube, 2007).
See for example Claude Lichtenstein and Thomas Schregenberger, eds., As Found: The Discovery of the Ordinary (Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller Publishers, 2001); Felicity Scott, Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007); and many other publications of the last ten years.
See Jos Bosman et al., Team 10: 1953–1981, In Search of a Utopia of the Present (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2005); cf. →.
See Tom Avermaete, Another Modern: The Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2006).
Many of the ideas expressed in this text culminated in “In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After,” an exhibition and accompanying program of events curated by von Osten, which took place from 29 August to 2 November 2008 at the House of World Cultures in Berlin.