Search

Title:
Pavillons de banlieue

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$79.95
(available to order)

Summary:
Ce travail monographique analyse, grâce aux exemples récents réalisés par des architectes de renom international, la difficulté d'intégrer dans les vides du puzzle suburbain de nouveaux volumes d'habitation qui abordent les contraintes avec des solutions techniques et formelles exemplaires. Magnifiquement illustré, ce volume analyse 22 projets de Pavillons de Banlieue soigneusement sélectionné pour leur créativité et leur génie dans le rapport qu'ils entretiennent avec la rue, le jardin et l'espace intime de l'intérieur. En prenant en compte la nécessité de décrire rigoureusement les projets par le biais de superbes photographies, de plans et de coupes, et de détails sur les matériaux, ce livre offre l'information indispensable sur toutes les étapes du processus de la création architecturale.

Title:
Architecture and suburbia: from english villa to American dream house, 1690-2000

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$27.50
(available to order)

Summary:
The American suburban dream house-a single-family, detached dwelling, frequently clustered in tight rows and cul-de-sacs-has been attacked for some time as homogeneous and barren, yet the suburbs are home to half of the American population. Architectural historian John Archer suggests the endurance of the ideal house is deeply rooted in the notions of privacy, property, and selfhood that were introduced in late seventeenth-century England and became the foundation of the American nation and identity. Spanning four centuries, Architecture and Suburbia explores phenomena ranging from household furnishings and routines to the proliferation of the dream house in parallel with Cold War politics. Beginning with John Locke, whose Enlightenment philosophy imagined individuals capable of self-fulfillment, Archer examines the eighteenth-century British bourgeois villa and the earliest London suburbs. He recounts how early American homeowners used houses to establish social status and how twentieth-century Americans continued to flock to single-family houses in the suburbs, encouraged by patriotism, fueled by consumerism, and resisting disdain by disaffected youths, designers, and intellectuals. Finally, he recognizes “hybridized” or increasingly diverse American suburbs as the dynamic basis for a strengthened social fabric. From Enlightenment philosophy to rap lyrics, from the rise of a mercantile economy to discussions over neighborhoods, sprawl, and gated communities, Archer addresses the past, present, and future of the American dream house. John Archer is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. His book The Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 1715-1842, is the standard reference on the subject, and he also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Urban America and the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture.

Title:
Le parc planétaire : la fabrication de l’environnement suburbain

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$38.95
(available to order)

Summary:
La ville suburbaine est l'utopie réalisée de la prospérité. Elle est l'expansion sans fin du confort à la campagne qui a transformé la planète en réseau de parcs. C'est la ville vernaculaire du XXe siècle. Pour comprendre la fabrication de cette grande installation planétaire, Emeric Lambert dresse un portrait chinois du projet suburbain. Il reconstruit une histoire décentrée de la ville. En suivant l'épopée de la constitution de la ville de Sénart, il montre comment l'urbanisme planifié hérité de la modernité a cédé la place à l'opportunisme opérationnel. Il construit ainsi la théorie informulée du suburbanisme qui a oeuvré au développement d'une ville informe et pourtant très efficace. Plus qu'une vision d'urbaniste, c'est un phénomène culturel, dont les ramifications s'étendent à la technologique, à l'art et à la politique, qui est exposé ici avec pragmatisme. Cette enquête suburbaine s'adresse à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la fabrication de notre environnement et aux controverses démocratiques qu'elle soulève.

Title:
Banlieues populaires : territoires, sociétés, politiques

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$45.95
(available to order)

Summary:
La Seine Saint-Denis est un territoire social et politique singulier, un territoire médiatisé et stigmatisé – le ''9.3'' – qui a connu aux cours des quatre dernières décennies de profondes mutations. La Seine-Saint-Denis reste emblématique des banlieues populaires, de leur histoire et de leurs transformations. Alors que certains observateurs défendent que les enjeux d’intégration et de cohésion, sociales et urbaines auraient quitté la banlieue pour se déplacer vers les grandes périphéries des métropoles, cet ouvrage a pour ambition de rappeler et de démontrer que les banlieues populaires ont constitué et constituent encore aujourd’hui un fait social majeur de notre époque.

Title:
Sprawltown : looking for the city on its edges

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$22.50
(available to order)

Summary:
Sprawl. The word calls to mind a host of troublesome issues such as city flight, runaway suburban development, and the conversion of farmland to soulless housing developments. In "Sprawltown", architectural historian Richard Ingersoll makes the surprising claim that sprawl is an inevitable reality of modern life that should be addressed more thoughtfully and recognized as its own new form of urbanism rather than simply being criticized and condemned. In five chapters, covering topics such as tourism, film, and the automobile, Ingersoll takes the position that any solution to the problems of sprawl—including pressing issues like resource use and energy waste— must take into consideration its undeniable success as a social milieu. No screed against the suburb, this book offers a more sophisticated and nuanced view of the way we think about its rapid development and growth.

Title:
Cities without suburbs : a census 2000 update, 3rd edition

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$25.95
(available to order)

Summary:
David Rusk argues that America must end the isolation of the central city from its suburbs in order to attack its urban problems. Rusk's analysis, extending back to 1950, covers 522 central cities in 320 metro areas of the United States. He finds that cities trapped within old boundaries have suffered severe racial segregation and the emergence of an urban underclass. But cities with annexation powers-- termed 'elastic' by Rusk-- have shared in areawide development. Rusk assesses the major trends of the 1990s, including the preceived rebound of central cities, the impact of Hispanic and Asian migration, and the emerging influence of faith-based movements. New recommendations take account of growing restrictions on cities' annexation powers, even in the south-western United States, and of new opportunities for federal shaping of home mortgage programs and urban planning processes. Rusk's conclusion stresses cities' growing experience with building political coalitions in pursuit of development and growth.

Title:
Tristes campagnes

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$22.95
(available to order)

Summary:
« On pleure les Indiens des autres, mais on tue les siens », constate Bernard Charbonneau alors que l’on anéantit nos campagnes, dans la souffrance contenue, avec la froideur administrative d’un plan de réforme pour l’agriculture européenne. Face à la rationalisation de la production, la concentration des terres, le développement de zones pavillonnaires et de complexes touristiques, les paysans sont priés de s’adapter. Les sociétés locales disparaissent, emportées par l’essor d’une banlieue uniforme et d’une industrie totale. On parle de progrès technique, mais il s’agit d’un ethnocide.

Title:
Urbanizing suburbia: Hyper-gentrification, the financialization of housing and the city

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$49.95
(available in store)

Summary:
''Urbanizing suburbia'' considers the relationship between three current processes underway in global cities: the hyper-gentrification of inner cities, the financialization of housing, and the structural changes occurring in the suburbs. The rocketing price of housing in cities around the world has led to a sizable exodus of residents from the inner cities, with many of those displaced settling in the suburban belts. This change in demographics, coupled with specific regeneration strategies implemented by municipalities, is leading to a remaking of suburbia. The book examines these changes using the examples of four key global European cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and Stockholm. It is a first attempt at understanding the three processes discussed here within one comprehensive explanatory framework.

Title:
Bourgeois Nightmares : Suburbia, 1870-1930

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$20.00
(available to order)

Summary:
The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents’ dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and low income groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change. These fears, and the restrictive covenants that embodied them, are the subject of Robert M. Fogelson’s fascinating new book. As Fogelson reveals, suburban subdividers attempted to cope with the deep-seated fears of unwanted change, especially the encroachment of “undesirable” people and activities, by imposing a wide range of restrictions on the lots. These restrictions ranged from mandating minimum costs and architectural styles for the houses to forbidding the owners to sell or lease their property to any member of a host of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. These restrictions, many of which are still commonly employed, tell us as much about the complexities of American society today as about its complexities a century ago.

Title:
Suburban Transformations

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$44.95
(available to order)

Summary:
Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their solutions are often criticized for being overly prescriptive, opposed to growth, or nostalgic, respectively. Suburban Transformations offers an alternative to these practices while synthesizing many of the ideas and proposals that they put forth. Five case studies provide fully expressed examples of the process, beginning with a sophisticated system of mapping and culminating in computer projections of likely future outcomes, giving the designer the ability to project changes in the community fabric and adding that knowledge to the designers kit of place-making tools.