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For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essays in Urban Imaginaries respond to this condition by focusing on how social(...)
Urban imaginaries: locating the modern city
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For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essays in Urban Imaginaries respond to this condition by focusing on how social and physical space is conceived as both indefinite and singular. They emphasize the ways this space is shared and thus made into urban culture. Urban Imaginaries offers case studies on cities in Brazil, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and India, as well as in the United States and France, and in doing so blends social, cultural, and political approaches to better understand the contemporary urban experience. Alev Çinar is associate professor of political science and public administration at Bilkent University, Turkey and Thomas Bender is university professor of the humanities and history at New York University.
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Grand urban rules
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Grand Urban Rules offers a compilation and discussion of significant rules invented and implemented by European, North American, and Asian cities. The reader does not only get an overview of the functionality and repercussions of these rule sets but also gains insight into the context and situation of the specific city through the lens of rule-based governance: a city's(...)
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Grand Urban Rules offers a compilation and discussion of significant rules invented and implemented by European, North American, and Asian cities. The reader does not only get an overview of the functionality and repercussions of these rule sets but also gains insight into the context and situation of the specific city through the lens of rule-based governance: a city's code as the inverted, abstracted and extracted image of a city's actual situation. Setting standards is first and foremost a cultural act. We map cities by their rules!
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Disclosing Dapperbuurt
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Perennial challenges for urban planning include the problems and the potential of old urban neighborhoods in large cities. This second volume of Design Academy Eindhoven's smartly edited new urban design journal takes on the Dapperbuurt neighborhood in Amsterdam - which has a well-known public market, but needs a face-lift and public safety improvements - as a case(...)
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Disclosing Dapperbuurt
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Perennial challenges for urban planning include the problems and the potential of old urban neighborhoods in large cities. This second volume of Design Academy Eindhoven's smartly edited new urban design journal takes on the Dapperbuurt neighborhood in Amsterdam - which has a well-known public market, but needs a face-lift and public safety improvements - as a case study. Urban design students have come up with a constellation of interesting proposals to give Dapperbuurt a new identity. The perfect-bound journal includes texts by experts on the theme of urban space, research materials, photos of the neighborhood and its residents, schematics and drawings, and scale models.
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Cascoland is a multidisciplinary public art project initiated by Dutch artist Fiona de Bell, involving international artists, architects, designers, local talent and initiatives as well as urban communities and stakeholders. Cascoland is exploring a series if interventions in public space to create awareness of urban issues, mobility and the use of public space in a(...)
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June 2008, Amsterdam
Cascoland interventions in public space Drill Hall Johannesburg South Africa
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Cascoland is a multidisciplinary public art project initiated by Dutch artist Fiona de Bell, involving international artists, architects, designers, local talent and initiatives as well as urban communities and stakeholders. Cascoland is exploring a series if interventions in public space to create awareness of urban issues, mobility and the use of public space in a positive and creative framework and to mobilize local residents, artists and initiatives to participate in the shapping of their public space.
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Transient city
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Urban Landmarks: Didier Fiuza Faustino, Olaf Nicolai, Bert Theis, Simone Decker, Périphériques, Justin Bennett, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Xu Tan, Hehe Community Life: Jung Yeondoo, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Bik Van der Pol & Apolonija Sustersic, Carlos Garaicoa, Surasi Kusolwong. Tsuyoshi Ozawa. Urban Lab: Rem Koolhass/AMO/OMA, FCJZ, Atelier Bow-Wow, Multiplicity, ESAD,(...)
Transient city
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Urban Landmarks: Didier Fiuza Faustino, Olaf Nicolai, Bert Theis, Simone Decker, Périphériques, Justin Bennett, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Xu Tan, Hehe Community Life: Jung Yeondoo, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Bik Van der Pol & Apolonija Sustersic, Carlos Garaicoa, Surasi Kusolwong. Tsuyoshi Ozawa. Urban Lab: Rem Koolhass/AMO/OMA, FCJZ, Atelier Bow-Wow, Multiplicity, ESAD, ENSAN, Bilgi University, Domus Academy
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Sarah Schrank in this book places the celebrated arrival of LA in the richer context of art controversies and political contests over modern art and art spaces in the twentieth century. Challenging historical accounts that situate the city's origins as an art center in the 1960s, she argues that debates over modernism among artists and civic leaders alike made art a(...)
Art and the city : civic imagination and cultural authority in Los Angeles
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Sarah Schrank in this book places the celebrated arrival of LA in the richer context of art controversies and political contests over modern art and art spaces in the twentieth century. Challenging historical accounts that situate the city's origins as an art center in the 1960s, she argues that debates over modernism among artists and civic leaders alike made art a charged political site as early as the 1910s. The legacy of those early battles reverberated throughout the century. Because of a rich tradition of arts education and the presence of Hollywood, Los Angeles historically hosted a talented population of contemporary artists. However, because of the snug relationship between urban aesthetics and capital investment that underscored the booster goals of the civic arts movement, modern artists were pushed out of public exhibition spaces until after World War II.
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Layered urbanisms
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Layered Urbanisms features the work of the first three Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors, a chairman-ship endowed in 2004 to bring young innovators in architectural design to the Yale School of Architecture. This book includes the projects of the advanced studios of Gregg Pasquarelli in 'Versionning-6.0,' Galia Solomonoff in 'Brooklyn Civic Space', and Mario(...)
Layered urbanisms
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Layered Urbanisms features the work of the first three Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors, a chairman-ship endowed in 2004 to bring young innovators in architectural design to the Yale School of Architecture. This book includes the projects of the advanced studios of Gregg Pasquarelli in 'Versionning-6.0,' Galia Solomonoff in 'Brooklyn Civic Space', and Mario Gooden in 'Global Topologies.' Interviews with the architects and studio strategies provide insight into the pedagological approach of the three practitioner-educator.
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The Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was one of the seminal figures of the 20th-century Modern Movement. Member of the Vienna Circle, Founder of the Museum of Society and Economy, inventor of the famous ISOTYPE pictorial system, and champion of the Unity of Science movement, Neurath's lifelong identification with collectivity and the concept of the global(...)
Otto Neurath: the language of the global polis
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The Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was one of the seminal figures of the 20th-century Modern Movement. Member of the Vienna Circle, Founder of the Museum of Society and Economy, inventor of the famous ISOTYPE pictorial system, and champion of the Unity of Science movement, Neurath's lifelong identification with collectivity and the concept of the global polis put him in contact with the leading intellectuals, architects and artists of his time, from Adolf Loos to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from Sigfried Giedion to Le Corbusier, from graphic designer Gerd Arntz to architect and urban designer Cornelis van Eesteren. This book traces Neurath's global understanding of the modern metropolis as a global polis, representing an idea about collectivity premised on cultural and linguistic universality. Although much attention has been given to Neurath's achievements in the field of graphic design and philosophy, he has never been treated in the context of urbanism and architecture.
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By means of a two-yearly competition for young professionals, in two decades Europan, a collaboration of - on average - twenty European countries, has developed into an extensive and significant European network. This 9th volume contains interviews with the designers of the winning plans in which they explain their vision. It also includes a number of essays covering(...)
Results Europan 9: european urbanity - sustainable city and new public space
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By means of a two-yearly competition for young professionals, in two decades Europan, a collaboration of - on average - twenty European countries, has developed into an extensive and significant European network. This 9th volume contains interviews with the designers of the winning plans in which they explain their vision. It also includes a number of essays covering such subjects as Europan in a European perspective and the theme of the competition. All the entries for the Dutch sites are included on the enclosed CD-ROM which provides insight into the competition process in word and image.
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Shaped by immigration, globalization, and demographics, our hub cities demonstrate what's best about Canada: our commitment to education, tolerance, culture, and innovation. Since the early 1990s, however, troubling trends have threatened to undermine our much-envied quality of life. Large urban centres are experiencing a widening gap between rich and poor, mounting(...)
The New City: how the crisis in Canada's urban centres is reshaping the nation
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Shaped by immigration, globalization, and demographics, our hub cities demonstrate what's best about Canada: our commitment to education, tolerance, culture, and innovation. Since the early 1990s, however, troubling trends have threatened to undermine our much-envied quality of life. Large urban centres are experiencing a widening gap between rich and poor, mounting levels of violence, and sprawl-induced health and environmental damage. Well-trained immigrants struggle to find suitable jobs and decent housing, while big-city schools suffer from underfunding. Local governments lack the resources and political clout to act decisively. In The New City, award-winning urban affairs writer John Lorinc offers a compelling vision of how to make Canada's metropolitan centres sustainable, livable, and competitive in a world dominated by powerful mega-cities. Incisive and broad-ranging, this is a timely reminder that all Canadians must confront urban issues if the country is to succeed in the tumultuous economy of the 21st century.
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