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In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit government officials classified a staggering 150,000 lots—more than a third of the city—as “vacant” or “abandoned.” Analyzing subsequent efforts to shrink the Motor City’s footprint and budget, Safransky presents a new way of(...)
The city after property: Abandonment and repair in postindustrial Detroit
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In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit government officials classified a staggering 150,000 lots—more than a third of the city—as “vacant” or “abandoned.” Analyzing subsequent efforts to shrink the Motor City’s footprint and budget, Safransky presents a new way of conceptualizing urban abandonment. She challenges popular myths that cast Detroit as empty along with narratives that reduce its historical decline to capital and white flight. In connecting contemporary debates over neoliberal urbanism to Cold War histories and the lasting political legacies of global movements for decolonization and Black liberation, she foregrounds how the making of—and challenges to—modern property regimes have shaped urban policy and politics. Drawing on critical geographical theory and community-based ethnography, Safransky shows how private property functions as a racialized construct, an ideology, and a moral force that shapes selves and worlds. By thinking the city “after property,” Safransky illuminates alternative ways of imagining and organizing urban life.
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''Repository: 49 methods and assignments for writing urban places'' offers a set of methods and assignments intended to stimulate new approaches in architecture, urban studies, and other fields of spatial development and to invite creative, often embodied, and sometimes playful engagements with the material and immaterial dimensions of urban places.
Repository: 49 methods and assignments for writing urban places
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''Repository: 49 methods and assignments for writing urban places'' offers a set of methods and assignments intended to stimulate new approaches in architecture, urban studies, and other fields of spatial development and to invite creative, often embodied, and sometimes playful engagements with the material and immaterial dimensions of urban places.
Urban Theory
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This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas : Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.
Present pasts : urban palimpsests and the politics of memory
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This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas : Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.
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Ce titre provocateur nous rappelle que les capitales russe et américaine ont été conçues par deux architectes français, Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond et Pierre-Charles L’Enfant. Le premier projet mentionné, celui de Saint-Pétersbourg, est établi en 1717 et ne verra jamais le jour, tandis que le second, destiné à Washington, date de 1790 et sera intégralement réalisé.(...)
Deux capitales françaises, Saint-Petersbourg et Washington
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Ce titre provocateur nous rappelle que les capitales russe et américaine ont été conçues par deux architectes français, Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond et Pierre-Charles L’Enfant. Le premier projet mentionné, celui de Saint-Pétersbourg, est établi en 1717 et ne verra jamais le jour, tandis que le second, destiné à Washington, date de 1790 et sera intégralement réalisé. André Corboz postule que les plans des deux capitales ont été élaborés à la manière dont on dessine un parc ou un jardin, les masses à bâtir étant inspiréesdes volumes végétaux. Ce rapprochement formel s’accompagne de considérations sur l’hygiène des villes et la symbolique des divers lieux urbains. «André Corboz naît en 1928. Après des études de droit à l’Université de Genève, il va bientôt succomber à une vocation d’historien autodidacte qui se penche sur l’histoire de la ville. «L’invention de Carouge» est son premier ouvrage alors qu’il était professeur à l’Université de Montréal où il restera treize ans, avant d’être appelé à succéder à Paul Hofer à la chaire d’histoire de l’urbanisme à l’École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich. En 2003, l’Académie d’architecture lui décerne la médaille de l’Histoire de l’art.»
Urban Theory
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Van Alen Institute mounted the exhibition "Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering" to demonstrate how cities, after incomparable loss of people and places, find ways to plan, design, and reconstruct the life of the city. The book is both a catalogue and a special edition of our series of "Van Alen Reports," the publication both documents the exhibit and expands on it with(...)
Information exchange : how cities renew, rebuild, and remember
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Van Alen Institute mounted the exhibition "Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering" to demonstrate how cities, after incomparable loss of people and places, find ways to plan, design, and reconstruct the life of the city. The book is both a catalogue and a special edition of our series of "Van Alen Reports," the publication both documents the exhibit and expands on it with personal essays, articles and interviews. The point of the exhibition was not to compare catastrophes, but to compare, contrast, and try to explicate and understand initiatives, projects, plans, and actions that took place after the bomb, the earthquake, the war. After that, what worked, what would they do differently, what mattered right away, what mattered for the long-term? In October, the Institute put out a call for ideas for the exhibit. Students, designers, planners, artists, professors, photographers, public officials and a wide range of respondents from around the world were generous in suggesting places, projects, issues, and designs that were telling for the future of New York. From this response and ongoing research, the Institute chose to focus on specific processes and projects in seven cities. In Beirut, a public art installation that progressed through the city was a first step in reclaiming its war-torn districts, and the Lebanese capital has continued not only with master plans and major new developments, but also with works such as the Garden of Forgiveness, grappling with a hard history to contemplate. In Berlin, a center for information about the city and its reconstruction rose above the ruins of the Berlin Wall, half a century after the city had been devastated and divided. In San Francisco, an earthquake left the elevated highway downtown in such precarious decision that the city decided to tear it down-and implement a long-held dream of reopening the city to the waterfront. In Kobe, where an earthquake resulted not only in billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure, but also in a terrible loss of life, architects responded with an outpouring of energy to survey the damage and construct innovative emergency housing, proving the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention. In addition, they strove to understand the disaster, building a museum about, and at, the geological fault that brought down so much of their city. Manchester had a terrorist attack in the mid-1990s, and rebuilt its center city better than before, as well as setting up an institute for the study of cities around the world, to better understand that the life of the city and its public realm can not be taken for granted. So, too, did Oklahoma City, where a public process led to an international design competition for a memorial, and the city has rebuilt itself around it. Sarajevo, after years of civil war, pulled together its citizens through restoring the landmarks of their public life.
Urban Theory
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This selection of groundbreaking essays offers an overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished(...)
Modernism and the spirit of the city
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This selection of groundbreaking essays offers an overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished scholars focus on the city as the dominant generator of social, political and cultural institutions and structures in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.
Urban Theory
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In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002 it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighborhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend? Behind the Gates is Low's revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years(...)
Behind the gates : life, security, and the pursuit of happiness in fortress America
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In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002 it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighborhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend? Behind the Gates is Low's revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years researching and interviewing families in Long Island, New York and San Antonio, Texas, Low provides an inside view of gated communities to help explain why people flee to these enclaves. Parents with children, young married couples, "empty-nesters," and retirees express their need for safety, their secret fears of a more ethnically diverse America, and their desire to recapture the close-knit, picket-fenced communities of their childhood. Ironically, she shows, gated neighborhoods are in fact no safer than other suburbs, and many who move there are disheartened by the insularity and restrictive rules of the community. Low probes the hopes, dreams, and fears of her subjects to portray the subtle change in American middle-class values marked by the emergence of enclosed communities in the suburbs.
Urban Theory
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Ce vocabulaire de l'Espace urbain s'inscrit dans la lignée du vocabulaire de l'Architecture de Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, et de celui plus récent du Jardin de Marie-Hélène Bénetière. Il a pour ambition de mettre à la disposition des acteurs et concepteurs de l'urbain, des élus, des chercheurs et de tout public un outil complet de description des espaces de la ville.(...)
Espace urbain : vocabulaire et morphologie
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Ce vocabulaire de l'Espace urbain s'inscrit dans la lignée du vocabulaire de l'Architecture de Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, et de celui plus récent du Jardin de Marie-Hélène Bénetière. Il a pour ambition de mettre à la disposition des acteurs et concepteurs de l'urbain, des élus, des chercheurs et de tout public un outil complet de description des espaces de la ville. Il réunit les termes les plus anciens et ceux apparus en grand nombre depuis un siècle. Chaque mot est défini et assorti d'une notice. Sous des allures immuables, l'espace urbain est toujours en mouvement. Il se caractérise par l'accumulation, au fil d'interventions plus ou moins planifiées. Cet ouvrage s'attache à montrer cette évolution à travers les aménagements liés à l'espace public, au mobilier urbain, à l'architecture et au parcellaire.
Urban Theory
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Philippe Arnaud propose une promenade commentée entre ruelles et grands ensembles. Quand architecture et urbanisme ont partie ou argent liés, nous sommes tous le piéton de Paris... ou d'ailleurs. Ce dossier est précédé d'une nouvelle intitulée «le concetto Bernini».
L'architecte, bâtisseur de la ville ?
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Philippe Arnaud propose une promenade commentée entre ruelles et grands ensembles. Quand architecture et urbanisme ont partie ou argent liés, nous sommes tous le piéton de Paris... ou d'ailleurs. Ce dossier est précédé d'une nouvelle intitulée «le concetto Bernini».
Urban Theory
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Sous le titre Enclaves, le premier numéro de la nouvelle série des Cahiers de l'Institut Supérieur d'Architecture La Cambre regroupe trois études qui traitent, à partir d'exemples radicaux, d'une même problématique contemporaine : les implications formelles et spatiales, architecturales et urbaines, des fractures socio-économiques et culturelles que subissent nos(...)
Urban Theory
November 2002, Bruxelles
Les cahiers de la Cambre - architecture no.1 : enclaves ou la ville privatisée
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Sous le titre Enclaves, le premier numéro de la nouvelle série des Cahiers de l'Institut Supérieur d'Architecture La Cambre regroupe trois études qui traitent, à partir d'exemples radicaux, d'une même problématique contemporaine : les implications formelles et spatiales, architecturales et urbaines, des fractures socio-économiques et culturelles que subissent nos sociétés contemporaines. Ces réflexions, menées dans le cadre de leur travail de fin d'études par des étudiants récemmet diplômés, sont précédées de brèves présentations d'enseignants de l'Institut et suivies de réactions de spécialistes des questions évoquées. Pour nourrir le débat, le philosophe Lieven De Cauter apporte, en introduction, des éléments de contextualisation. Au-delà de ces analyses critiques, c'est bien entendu la question de l'architecture, comme de celle de l'engagement de l'architecte et du statut de sa profession, qui se trouve posée. Les photographies sont de Gaëtan Massaut.
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