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Plus de huit personnes sur dix habitent en ville. Pour autant, la connaissent-elles ? Ne reste-t-elle pas synonyme d'idées reçues anonymat, violence, abondance côtoyant la grande pauvreté ? Certes elle est tout cela, mais aussi l'organisation humaine la plus aboutie et la plus complexe. Urbanistes, architectes, ingénieurs, sociologues, nombreuses sont les professions au(...)
Villes de papier : une anthologie de poétique urbaine
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Plus de huit personnes sur dix habitent en ville. Pour autant, la connaissent-elles ? Ne reste-t-elle pas synonyme d'idées reçues anonymat, violence, abondance côtoyant la grande pauvreté ? Certes elle est tout cela, mais aussi l'organisation humaine la plus aboutie et la plus complexe. Urbanistes, architectes, ingénieurs, sociologues, nombreuses sont les professions au chevet de la ville, priorité publique depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans. Ont-elles pour autant le monopole des discours pertinents sur la ville ? "je sais gré à Denis Caniaux de nous rappeler qu'une ville [...] se parcourt, qu'elle se découvre, qu'elle est pour nous une source de joies et de peines [...] De là de longs paragraphes consacrés à la ville rêvée, à la ville arpentée, à la ville explorée" : dans la préface qu'il donne à Villes de papier, Pierre Sansot insiste sur le fait que romanciers et poètes se révèlent souvent de remarquables analystes urbains et que leurs textes éclairent d'un jour original les questions sur la ville. La "poétique urbaine" ainsi ne pourrait-elle pas enrichir la "politique de la ville" ? Cette anthologie, plus de 50 auteurs du monde entier, plus de 130 extraits d'œuvres, du XIXe siècle à nos jours, nous invite à réenchanter notre vision de la ville, pour mieux la changer au quotidien. Elle nous propose une déambulation littéraire dans une, comédie urbaine, de Baudelaire à Guillevic, de Hugo à Gracq, de Vargas Llosa à Calvino, de Fernand Léger à Chamoiseau ou Valabrègue, en passant par Auster, Fallet, Dürrenmatt ou Kadaré. Un véritable ouvrage de référence pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent de près ou de loin à la ville.
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Hippodamos de Milet
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Penseur politique, proche collaborateur de Périclès, maître d’oeuvre du Pirée, Hippodamos de Milet (Ve siècle avant notre ère) est le plus célèbre architecte de l’Antiquité. Et pourtant, le plus méconnu. Pour tracer son portrait et étudier les implantations urbaines dont Hippodamos fut le concepteur, Emanuele Greco, éminent archéologue, a réuni l’ensemble des matériaux(...)
Hippodamos de Milet
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Penseur politique, proche collaborateur de Périclès, maître d’oeuvre du Pirée, Hippodamos de Milet (Ve siècle avant notre ère) est le plus célèbre architecte de l’Antiquité. Et pourtant, le plus méconnu. Pour tracer son portrait et étudier les implantations urbaines dont Hippodamos fut le concepteur, Emanuele Greco, éminent archéologue, a réuni l’ensemble des matériaux écrits dont nous disposons (l’intégralité des témoignages littéraires, dont celui, fondamental, d’Aristote) et mobilisé les plus récentes données archéologiques issues de ses propres fouilles.
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Cities made differently
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What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book ''Cities Made Differently'' opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is(...)
Cities made differently
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What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book ''Cities Made Differently'' opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth, science and imagination, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit—because we can, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true.
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The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In(...)
The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
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The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In this visionary book, Vishaan Chakrabarti argues for an "architecture of urbanity," showing how the design of our communities can create a more equitable, sustainable, and joyous future for us all. Taking readers from the great cities of antiquity to the worldwide exurban sprawl of our postindustrial age, Chakrabarti examines architecture’s relationship to history’s greatest social, technological, and environmental dilemmas. He then presents a rich selection of work by a global array of practicing architects, demonstrating how innovative design can dramatically improve life in big cities and small settlements around the world, from campuses and refugee camps to mega-cities like São Paulo, Lima, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
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Democracy and urban form
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"Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less." This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six lectures,(...)
Democracy and urban form
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"Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less." This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six lectures, Sennett presented discourse as the foundation of democracy, and posited that our cities are uniquely positioned to either empower or constrict this discourse—and that the difference could lie in architecture and urban design. Now, over 40 years later, as political polarization persists and its consequences arise in both new and familiar ways, "Democracy and urban form" revisits questions that remain relevant: If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?
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As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imaginary of a flourishing urban ecofuture is often driven by a specific version of sustainability that is tied to both high-tech futurism and persistent economic growth. What kinds of sustainable futures are we calling forth,(...)
Reimagining the more-than-human city: Stories from Singapore
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As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imaginary of a flourishing urban ecofuture is often driven by a specific version of sustainability that is tied to both high-tech futurism and persistent economic growth. What kinds of sustainable futures are we calling forth, and at what and whose expense? In "Reimagining the more-than-human city," Jamie Wang attempts to answer these questions by critically examining the sociocultural, political, ethical, and affective facets of human-environment dynamics in the urban nexus, with a geographic focus on Singapore.
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"Transversal Territory" is a laboratory of urban, environmental, and artistic experimentation at the renowned Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. It undertakes transdisciplinary and participatory research on the relationship between us, our bodies, and our built and natural environments. Its unique approach is to explore experiences of—and reflections(...)
Transversal territory: A transdiciplinary and participatory approaches on urban research
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"Transversal Territory" is a laboratory of urban, environmental, and artistic experimentation at the renowned Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. It undertakes transdisciplinary and participatory research on the relationship between us, our bodies, and our built and natural environments. Its unique approach is to explore experiences of—and reflections on—urban space through performative bodywork and on-site artistic installations. This process aims at transcending the conventional paradigms of perception and the understanding of urban space, and at creating a new imagination of it—an augmented reality.
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Empruntant au pamphlet la forme et l'ambition, ce recueil confronte idées vagues et images claires pour exprimer une perspective critique sur les stratégies contemporaines en matière d'urbanisme et d'architecture. Sa structure discursive met en relation une étude de cas spécifique et une réflexion théorique : le rapport remis par MADE IN en réponse à l'étude comparative(...)
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December 2024
De la verticalité
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Empruntant au pamphlet la forme et l'ambition, ce recueil confronte idées vagues et images claires pour exprimer une perspective critique sur les stratégies contemporaines en matière d'urbanisme et d'architecture. Sa structure discursive met en relation une étude de cas spécifique et une réflexion théorique : le rapport remis par MADE IN en réponse à l'étude comparative mandatée par la Ville de Zurich et visant à la révision des lignes directrices réglant la construction des immeubles de grande hauteur (de mai 2019 à août 2020); un essai épistolaire traitant de la Verticalité au sens large, des analogies formelles aux projections mythopoétiques. Un double commentaire évocatoire qui met en exergue les enjeux inhérents à la mutation de la ville, par-delà le quantifiable et le raisonnable.
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This book is an original and accessible history of the modern playground in Britain and beyond, charting its journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity. Tracing the playground’s history from the mid-nineteenth century to 2010, ''Designed for Play'' demonstrates how a diverse set of actors across the philanthropic, voluntary, state, and commercial sectors all(...)
Designed for play: Children's playgrounds and the politics of urban space. 1840-2010.
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This book is an original and accessible history of the modern playground in Britain and beyond, charting its journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity. Tracing the playground’s history from the mid-nineteenth century to 2010, ''Designed for Play'' demonstrates how a diverse set of actors across the philanthropic, voluntary, state, and commercial sectors all sought to reimagine and reshape the urban landscape to improve childhood outcomes.
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Le ve´lo est a` nouveau un mode de de´placement central dans la me´tropole parisienne. Le de´veloppement d’ame´nagements et de services stimule´s par les mobilisations citoyennes a permis de multiplier par dix l’usage du ve´lo au cours des trente dernie`res anne´es. Ce renouveau cycliste rappelle que Paris et le ve´lo entretiennent une relation e´troite depuis plus de(...)
À vélo: Paris métropole1818-2030 / Cycling: Paris metropolis 1818-2030
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Le ve´lo est a` nouveau un mode de de´placement central dans la me´tropole parisienne. Le de´veloppement d’ame´nagements et de services stimule´s par les mobilisations citoyennes a permis de multiplier par dix l’usage du ve´lo au cours des trente dernie`res anne´es. Ce renouveau cycliste rappelle que Paris et le ve´lo entretiennent une relation e´troite depuis plus de deux sie`cles. Ce lien remonte d’ailleurs a` son invention puisqu’en 1818, son cre´ateur choisit la capitale pour sa premie`re de´monstration mondiale.
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