New York délire
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Manhattan est l’arène où se joue le dernier acte du monde occidental. Avec l’explosion démographique et l’invasion des nouvelles technologies, Manhattan, depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle, est devenu le laboratoire d’une nouvelle culture – celle de la congestion –; une île mythique où se réalise l’inconscient collectif d’un nouveau mode de vie métropolitain, une usine de(...)
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Manhattan est l’arène où se joue le dernier acte du monde occidental. Avec l’explosion démographique et l’invasion des nouvelles technologies, Manhattan, depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle, est devenu le laboratoire d’une nouvelle culture – celle de la congestion –; une île mythique où se réalise l’inconscient collectif d’un nouveau mode de vie métropolitain, une usine de l’artificiel où naturel et réel ont cessé d’exister. Ce livre est un «manifeste rétroactif», une interprétation de la théorie informulée, sous-jacente au développement de Manhattan; c’est le récit des intrigues d’un urbanisme qui, des origines à Coney Island jusqu’aux théoriciens du gratte-ciel, a fait exploser la grille d’origine. Ce livre, polémique et prémonitoire (publié en 1978), illustre les relations entre un univers métropolitain mutant et la seule architecture qu’il puisse produire.
Urban Theory
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Ce livre est né d’une interrogation : les villes nouvelles des années 1960-1970 sont-elles toujours un concept pertinent? Elles sont réputées « nées dans les champs de betteraves », alors qu’il n’y en a plus dans les métropoles! L’actuelle urbanisation en modifie radicalement la donne. Le projet anglais de Milton Keynes, lancé en 1970 au nord de Londres, a été le(...)
La success-story de Milton Keynes : Un avenir métapolitain pour les villes nouvelles ?
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Ce livre est né d’une interrogation : les villes nouvelles des années 1960-1970 sont-elles toujours un concept pertinent? Elles sont réputées « nées dans les champs de betteraves », alors qu’il n’y en a plus dans les métropoles! L’actuelle urbanisation en modifie radicalement la donne. Le projet anglais de Milton Keynes, lancé en 1970 au nord de Londres, a été le prototype d’une nouvelle vision aux grandes ambitions. Et celle-ci est devenue par son succès «la» cinquantenaire exemplaire. Le résultat est une «smart city» avant l’heure et écologique, de surcroît. Son succès multiforme, démographique, économique et scientifique, en fait le barycentre de l’écosystème universitaire et économiquement constitué avec ses prestigieuses voisines d’Oxbridge.
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How to think about cities
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Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to “cut through the noise” of urban disagreement by emphasizing a dominant lens for understanding the key, central logic of the city. This volume sees this tendency to selective vision as misleading and ultimately unjust: cities are many things at once to different people and(...)
How to think about cities
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Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to “cut through the noise” of urban disagreement by emphasizing a dominant lens for understanding the key, central logic of the city. This volume sees this tendency to selective vision as misleading and ultimately unjust: cities are many things at once to different people and communities. It describes the various ways of seeing the functions and landscapes of the city as place frames, and the constant process of negotiating which place frames best explain the city as place-making. This approach highlights how any given stance opens up some lines of inquiry and understanding while closing off others.
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Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous – our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks from São Paolo present surprisingly idiosyncratic city scenes: People dancing along the motorway, strolling through the(...)
Sao Paulo Heterotopia: Urban spaces in suspense
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Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous – our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks from São Paolo present surprisingly idiosyncratic city scenes: People dancing along the motorway, strolling through the stone archipelago, splashing around in front of the city skyline… Many of the case studies are linked to the ideas of the Brazilian urban planner Francisco Prestes Maia. As early as in the 1930s, he developed concepts that combine traffic, open space and architecture – a surprisingly contemporary approach.
Urban Theory
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The book questions how ''artifice'' and the ''social world'' can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. Taking the example of Tokyo, it takes up the two major traits in urban transformation – the large-scale development model on the one hand, and the small-scale model of neighborhood development or preservation(...)
Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the social world
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The book questions how ''artifice'' and the ''social world'' can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. Taking the example of Tokyo, it takes up the two major traits in urban transformation – the large-scale development model on the one hand, and the small-scale model of neighborhood development or preservation on the other – and instead seeks alternative ideas and new strategies. A variety of innovative practices are presented by a diverse group of contributors including renowned scholars, architects, urbanists, and photographers from Japan and the US, and the research team at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. While the discourses and architectural works presented deal with the specificity of Tokyo, they were carefully selected to formulate together a collection of insights, new perspectives, and speculative experiments in urbanism and architecture that can also be used in other contexts.
Urban Theory
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Ouvrage inédit, qui s’attache à décrire les mécanismes de touristification des villes côtières, cet essai montre comment ceux-ci mettent au ban une partie importante et précarisée des populations locales. À partir de l’exemple de la ville de Douarnenez, le collectif a mené une riche enquête dont ce livre restitue les principaux éléments. Analyses, entretiens et focus(...)
Habiter une ville touristique : Une vue sur mer pour les précaires
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Ouvrage inédit, qui s’attache à décrire les mécanismes de touristification des villes côtières, cet essai montre comment ceux-ci mettent au ban une partie importante et précarisée des populations locales. À partir de l’exemple de la ville de Douarnenez, le collectif a mené une riche enquête dont ce livre restitue les principaux éléments. Analyses, entretiens et focus historiques, c’est par un travail fourni et protéiforme que le collectif produit la critique de ce processus déjà à l’œuvre dans de nombreuses villes européennes et mondiales.
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Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens reassesses the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoikía, and its different connotations through the decades: from a monotonous and ugly element of the city to the role it might play in the urban sustainability. Sprawling beneath the Acropolis, modern Athens(...)
Builders, housewives, and the construction of modern Athens
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Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens reassesses the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoikía, and its different connotations through the decades: from a monotonous and ugly element of the city to the role it might play in the urban sustainability. Sprawling beneath the Acropolis, modern Athens is commonly viewed in negative terms: congested, ugly and monotonous. Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens questions this stereotype, reassessing the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type: the polykatoikía (a small-scale multistory apartment block). Theocharopoulou re-evaluates the polykatoikía as a low-tech, easily constructible innovation that stimulated the postwar urban economy, triggering the city's social mid-twentieth-century transformation. The interiors of the polykatoikía apartments reflect a desire for modernity as marketed to housewives through film and magazines. Regular builders became unlikely allies in designing these polykatoikía interiors, enabling inhabitants to exert agency over their daily lives and the shape of the postwar city. This revised edition of Theocharopoulou's study draws on popular media as well as urban and regional planning theory, cultural studies and anthropology to examine the evolution of this phenomenon. Written in the light of Greece's recent financial crisis, the book's updated Postscript considers the role polykatoikía might play in building an equitable and sustainable twenty-first-century city.
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Foundations of urban design
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The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, ''the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary.''
Foundations of urban design
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The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, ''the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary.''
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Hybrid factory, hybrid city
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Now that urban industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet it can be integrated at the city and building scale with other uses. Although little explored as of yet, we don’t yet know what this new hybrid will look like and how can it support new entrepreneurs, equitable jobs, and vital urban forms? How can hybrid models change with new technologies, sustainable(...)
Hybrid factory, hybrid city
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Now that urban industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet it can be integrated at the city and building scale with other uses. Although little explored as of yet, we don’t yet know what this new hybrid will look like and how can it support new entrepreneurs, equitable jobs, and vital urban forms? How can hybrid models change with new technologies, sustainable manufacturing, and advanced production systems to create new open city? Can we break the planning and land-use patterns of segregated zoning by class and function and encourage mixed-use zoning that transforms new building and zoning codes and this the mix in the city? These questions and more are addressed in Hybrid Factory / Hybrid City, through a collection of essays by participants in the eponymous symposium organized by Nina Rappaport at the Future Urban Legacy Lab of the Politecnico di Torino. Divided into two sections, the essays describes projects and research by architects and urbanists regarding the aura of industry and its smells, its place in relationship to the body, building structures, logistics centers, reused factory buildings, and their current and future potential for mixed-use. Social and economic equity can be integrated through light manufacturing jobs, community uses, and affordable housing.
Urban Theory
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Est-il inconcevable de transformer radicalement les manières actuelles de penser et de fabriquer la ville, où élus, concepteurs et promoteurs s’affrontent dans un climat de forte pression économique qui favorise une esthétique médiocre, fragmente le territoire et aboutit toujours à la prédation du vivant et de la nature ? Face à la crise climatique, on ne peut plus se(...)
L'inconcevable : Penser la ville après
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Est-il inconcevable de transformer radicalement les manières actuelles de penser et de fabriquer la ville, où élus, concepteurs et promoteurs s’affrontent dans un climat de forte pression économique qui favorise une esthétique médiocre, fragmente le territoire et aboutit toujours à la prédation du vivant et de la nature ? Face à la crise climatique, on ne peut plus se satisfaire de petits arrangements, il faut changer de paradigme. Dans cet essai très documenté, Nicolas Michelin propose de nouveaux principes de travail, assortis d’un certain nombre de mesures à caractère obligatoire, et esquisse les bases d’un ré-attachement indispensable à la Terre.
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