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Life is a building site : not just since the German film of that name was released, the building site has been a popular metaphor for the patchwork plans of contemporary life. The phenomenon of the building site runs through our everyday lives, but it largely remains behind construction site fences. This volume looks behind the barriers and focuses on the building site as(...)
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Life is a building site : not just since the German film of that name was released, the building site has been a popular metaphor for the patchwork plans of contemporary life. The phenomenon of the building site runs through our everyday lives, but it largely remains behind construction site fences. This volume looks behind the barriers and focuses on the building site as(...)
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Construction site : metamorphoses in the city
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Life is a building site : not just since the German film of that name was released, the building site has been a popular metaphor for the patchwork plans of contemporary life. The phenomenon of the building site runs through our everyday lives, but it largely remains behind construction site fences. This volume looks behind the barriers and focuses on the building site as such for the first time. With authoritative information and reflection from a variety of perspectives, some quite surprising, the building site is presented as an extraordinary place in the city and as a microcosm that operates under heavy pressures of time and costs. With essays on specific building sites such as the megaproject Sihlcity in Zurich or the La Défense building site in Paris, interviews with architects and construction managers, and impressive illustrations, the book leaps into a gap in the urban landscape. The publication is rounded out by artistic, photographic interventions like those of Miklos Gaals, who is known for his photographs that turn urban scenes into toys.
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Life is a building site : not just since the German film of that name was released, the building site has been a popular metaphor for the patchwork plans of contemporary life. The phenomenon of the building site runs through our everyday lives, but it largely remains behind construction site fences. This volume looks behind the barriers and focuses on the building site as such for the first time. With authoritative information and reflection from a variety of perspectives, some quite surprising, the building site is presented as an extraordinary place in the city and as a microcosm that operates under heavy pressures of time and costs. With essays on specific building sites such as the megaproject Sihlcity in Zurich or the La Défense building site in Paris, interviews with architects and construction managers, and impressive illustrations, the book leaps into a gap in the urban landscape. The publication is rounded out by artistic, photographic interventions like those of Miklos Gaals, who is known for his photographs that turn urban scenes into toys.
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May 2008, Zürich
May 2008, Zürich
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Cergy-Pontoise était dans les années 1970 une porte de frontière, une terre vierge où toutes les conquêtes étaient possibles. «Ville nouvelle»... Or, ce n'est pas une ville mais une agglomération. Vilain mot pour qualifier ce qui est depuis plus de trente ans une communauté de destins unissant douze communes. Nouvelle ? Cergy-Pontoise est une trentenaire un peu adulte, un(...)
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Cergy-Pontoise était dans les années 1970 une porte de frontière, une terre vierge où toutes les conquêtes étaient possibles. «Ville nouvelle»... Or, ce n'est pas une ville mais une agglomération. Vilain mot pour qualifier ce qui est depuis plus de trente ans une communauté de destins unissant douze communes. Nouvelle ? Cergy-Pontoise est une trentenaire un peu adulte, un(...)
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Cergy-Pontoise : terre des possibles
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Cergy-Pontoise était dans les années 1970 une porte de frontière, une terre vierge où toutes les conquêtes étaient possibles. «Ville nouvelle»... Or, ce n'est pas une ville mais une agglomération. Vilain mot pour qualifier ce qui est depuis plus de trente ans une communauté de destins unissant douze communes. Nouvelle ? Cergy-Pontoise est une trentenaire un peu adulte, un peu ado, qui, émancipée de la tutelle de l'État, revendique aujourd'hui une place de choix. Mais pour découvrir toutes les pépites que recèle cette terre des possibles, il faut repousser les limites de sa curiosité, quitter l'autoroute qui file vers Paris et prendre les chemins de traverse. Pourquoi la couronne parisienne ne pourrait-elle pas receler d'autres joyaux que la Ville Lumière? Lutter contre les idées reçues, ôter cette étiquette qui colle au béton de ce qui reste la plus grande aventure urbaine du XXe siècle, c'est le défi que cet ouvrage entend relever en donnant la parole à vingt-quatre acteurs majeurs de sa vie culturelle et sociale : de l'inventeur à la militante, de la plasticienne à l'urbaniste, de l'agriculteur à l'avocate.
Cergy-Pontoise : terre des possibles
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Cergy-Pontoise était dans les années 1970 une porte de frontière, une terre vierge où toutes les conquêtes étaient possibles. «Ville nouvelle»... Or, ce n'est pas une ville mais une agglomération. Vilain mot pour qualifier ce qui est depuis plus de trente ans une communauté de destins unissant douze communes. Nouvelle ? Cergy-Pontoise est une trentenaire un peu adulte, un peu ado, qui, émancipée de la tutelle de l'État, revendique aujourd'hui une place de choix. Mais pour découvrir toutes les pépites que recèle cette terre des possibles, il faut repousser les limites de sa curiosité, quitter l'autoroute qui file vers Paris et prendre les chemins de traverse. Pourquoi la couronne parisienne ne pourrait-elle pas receler d'autres joyaux que la Ville Lumière? Lutter contre les idées reçues, ôter cette étiquette qui colle au béton de ce qui reste la plus grande aventure urbaine du XXe siècle, c'est le défi que cet ouvrage entend relever en donnant la parole à vingt-quatre acteurs majeurs de sa vie culturelle et sociale : de l'inventeur à la militante, de la plasticienne à l'urbaniste, de l'agriculteur à l'avocate.
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May 2007, Paris
May 2007, Paris
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In "Municipal mind", Toronto’s Poet Laureate offers a blueprint for building sustainable cities in a global era, predicated on city soul. By weaving bold and savvy strategies for urban creativity and civic prosperity, together with a reasoned appeal for mutual respect, understanding and interaction among citizens, he persuades us that – in the delicate balancing of(...)
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In "Municipal mind", Toronto’s Poet Laureate offers a blueprint for building sustainable cities in a global era, predicated on city soul. By weaving bold and savvy strategies for urban creativity and civic prosperity, together with a reasoned appeal for mutual respect, understanding and interaction among citizens, he persuades us that – in the delicate balancing of(...)
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Municipal mind : manifestoes for the creative city
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In "Municipal mind", Toronto’s Poet Laureate offers a blueprint for building sustainable cities in a global era, predicated on city soul. By weaving bold and savvy strategies for urban creativity and civic prosperity, together with a reasoned appeal for mutual respect, understanding and interaction among citizens, he persuades us that – in the delicate balancing of universal values and individual needs – cities can do far, far better. "Municipal mind" offers up a whole new way of civic being and thinking that puts wonder before commerce and nothing before human encounter.
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In "Municipal mind", Toronto’s Poet Laureate offers a blueprint for building sustainable cities in a global era, predicated on city soul. By weaving bold and savvy strategies for urban creativity and civic prosperity, together with a reasoned appeal for mutual respect, understanding and interaction among citizens, he persuades us that – in the delicate balancing of universal values and individual needs – cities can do far, far better. "Municipal mind" offers up a whole new way of civic being and thinking that puts wonder before commerce and nothing before human encounter.
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April 2007, Toronto
April 2007, Toronto
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Planet of slums
Planet of slums
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Urban theorist Davis takes a global approach to documenting the astonishing depth of squalid poverty that dominates the lives of the planet's increasingly urban population, detailing poor urban communities from Cape Town and Caracas to Casablanca and Khartoum. Davis argues health, justice and social issues associated with gargantuan slums (the largest, in Mexico City, has(...)
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Urban theorist Davis takes a global approach to documenting the astonishing depth of squalid poverty that dominates the lives of the planet's increasingly urban population, detailing poor urban communities from Cape Town and Caracas to Casablanca and Khartoum. Davis argues health, justice and social issues associated with gargantuan slums (the largest, in Mexico City, has(...)
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Planet of slums
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Urban theorist Davis takes a global approach to documenting the astonishing depth of squalid poverty that dominates the lives of the planet's increasingly urban population, detailing poor urban communities from Cape Town and Caracas to Casablanca and Khartoum. Davis argues health, justice and social issues associated with gargantuan slums (the largest, in Mexico City, has an estimated population of 4 million) get overlooked in world politics: "The demonizing rhetorics of the various international 'wars' on terrorism, drugs, and crime are so much semantic apartheid: they construct epistemological walls around gecekondus, favelas, and chawls that disable any honest debate about the daily violence of economic exclusion." Though Davis focuses on individual communities, he presents statistics showing the skyrocketing population and number of "megaslums" (informally, "stinking mountains of shit" or, formally, "when shanty-towns and squatter communities merge in continuous belts of informal housing and poverty, usually on the urban periphery") since the 1960s. Layered over the hard numbers are a fascinating grid of specific area studies and sub-topics ranging from how the Olympics has spurred the forceful relocation of thousands (and, sometimes, hundreds of thousands) of the urban poor, to the conversion of formerly second world countries to third world status. Davis paints a bleak picture of the upward trend in urbanization and maintains a stark outlook for slum-dwellers' futures
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Urban theorist Davis takes a global approach to documenting the astonishing depth of squalid poverty that dominates the lives of the planet's increasingly urban population, detailing poor urban communities from Cape Town and Caracas to Casablanca and Khartoum. Davis argues health, justice and social issues associated with gargantuan slums (the largest, in Mexico City, has an estimated population of 4 million) get overlooked in world politics: "The demonizing rhetorics of the various international 'wars' on terrorism, drugs, and crime are so much semantic apartheid: they construct epistemological walls around gecekondus, favelas, and chawls that disable any honest debate about the daily violence of economic exclusion." Though Davis focuses on individual communities, he presents statistics showing the skyrocketing population and number of "megaslums" (informally, "stinking mountains of shit" or, formally, "when shanty-towns and squatter communities merge in continuous belts of informal housing and poverty, usually on the urban periphery") since the 1960s. Layered over the hard numbers are a fascinating grid of specific area studies and sub-topics ranging from how the Olympics has spurred the forceful relocation of thousands (and, sometimes, hundreds of thousands) of the urban poor, to the conversion of formerly second world countries to third world status. Davis paints a bleak picture of the upward trend in urbanization and maintains a stark outlook for slum-dwellers' futures
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August 2007, London New York
August 2007, London New York
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Games like America’s Army, World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto and the music of Snoop 'Doggy' Dogg, Dizzee Rascal and Juan Atkins are fuelling the engines of globalization. As a result, popular culture is taking an ever firmer grip on our living environment and on our lives. In Mediapolis the authors sound out an urban environment pulsing to the rhythm of the popular(...)
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Games like America’s Army, World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto and the music of Snoop 'Doggy' Dogg, Dizzee Rascal and Juan Atkins are fuelling the engines of globalization. As a result, popular culture is taking an ever firmer grip on our living environment and on our lives. In Mediapolis the authors sound out an urban environment pulsing to the rhythm of the popular(...)
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Mediapolis : popular culture and the city
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Games like America’s Army, World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto and the music of Snoop 'Doggy' Dogg, Dizzee Rascal and Juan Atkins are fuelling the engines of globalization. As a result, popular culture is taking an ever firmer grip on our living environment and on our lives. In Mediapolis the authors sound out an urban environment pulsing to the rhythm of the popular media. They introduce a pop philosophy whose concepts include the Urban Container, 'scenius', sonic communities and nodal urbanity. Here technological, political, cultural, economic and even military developments meet head-on. Mediapolis makes clear what urban pop culture is and how it has influenced our notion of city. The words of the Italian Futurist Antonio Sant’Elia are as true today as in 1914 : "Every generation must build its own city".
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Games like America’s Army, World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto and the music of Snoop 'Doggy' Dogg, Dizzee Rascal and Juan Atkins are fuelling the engines of globalization. As a result, popular culture is taking an ever firmer grip on our living environment and on our lives. In Mediapolis the authors sound out an urban environment pulsing to the rhythm of the popular media. They introduce a pop philosophy whose concepts include the Urban Container, 'scenius', sonic communities and nodal urbanity. Here technological, political, cultural, economic and even military developments meet head-on. Mediapolis makes clear what urban pop culture is and how it has influenced our notion of city. The words of the Italian Futurist Antonio Sant’Elia are as true today as in 1914 : "Every generation must build its own city".
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June 2006, Rotterdam
June 2006, Rotterdam
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In various roles in city and state government from 1930 to 1965, Robert Moses reshaped the fabric of the city. From Lincoln Center to the Triborough Bridge, the West Side Highway to the Cross Bronx Expressway, his public projects, reassessed in this book by notable urbanists, continue to exert a strong influence in the lives of New Yorkers.
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In various roles in city and state government from 1930 to 1965, Robert Moses reshaped the fabric of the city. From Lincoln Center to the Triborough Bridge, the West Side Highway to the Cross Bronx Expressway, his public projects, reassessed in this book by notable urbanists, continue to exert a strong influence in the lives of New Yorkers.
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February 2007, New York, London
February 2007, New York, London
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Robert Moses and the modern city : the transformation of New York
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In various roles in city and state government from 1930 to 1965, Robert Moses reshaped the fabric of the city. From Lincoln Center to the Triborough Bridge, the West Side Highway to the Cross Bronx Expressway, his public projects, reassessed in this book by notable urbanists, continue to exert a strong influence in the lives of New Yorkers.
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In various roles in city and state government from 1930 to 1965, Robert Moses reshaped the fabric of the city. From Lincoln Center to the Triborough Bridge, the West Side Highway to the Cross Bronx Expressway, his public projects, reassessed in this book by notable urbanists, continue to exert a strong influence in the lives of New Yorkers.
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February 2007, New York, London
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C'est autour des problématiques soulevées par la sociologie urbaine contemporaine que sont réunis quelques-uns des meilleures spécialistes francophones en la matière. Il s'agit d'une deuxième édition, profondément remaniée, augmentée et actualisée. Sont traités au fil des 18 chapitres de cet ouvrage, les dynamiques métropolitaines, les mobilités et les réseaux, les(...)
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C'est autour des problématiques soulevées par la sociologie urbaine contemporaine que sont réunis quelques-uns des meilleures spécialistes francophones en la matière. Il s'agit d'une deuxième édition, profondément remaniée, augmentée et actualisée. Sont traités au fil des 18 chapitres de cet ouvrage, les dynamiques métropolitaines, les mobilités et les réseaux, les(...)
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April 2007, Lausanne
April 2007, Lausanne
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Enjeux de la sociologie urbaine
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C'est autour des problématiques soulevées par la sociologie urbaine contemporaine que sont réunis quelques-uns des meilleures spécialistes francophones en la matière. Il s'agit d'une deuxième édition, profondément remaniée, augmentée et actualisée. Sont traités au fil des 18 chapitres de cet ouvrage, les dynamiques métropolitaines, les mobilités et les réseaux, les inégalités sociales et fragmentations urbaines, les notions de temps et de quartier ainsi que les imbrications entre l'économique et le politique dans la production des formes urbaines. Après une ouverture consacrée à l'état de l'art, chaque chapitre fait le bilan d'une abondante bibliographie, introduit des recherches originales et conclut en mettant en exergue les apports des résultats présentés pour la compréhension du phénomène urbain. Soucieux de s'approprier les apports d'autres disciplines, cet ouvrage renouvelle les théories et méthodes de la recherche urbaine. L'ouvrage se termine par un chapitre conclusif qui prend la forme d'une ouverture sur les grands débats qui animent la sociologie contemporaine.
Enjeux de la sociologie urbaine
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C'est autour des problématiques soulevées par la sociologie urbaine contemporaine que sont réunis quelques-uns des meilleures spécialistes francophones en la matière. Il s'agit d'une deuxième édition, profondément remaniée, augmentée et actualisée. Sont traités au fil des 18 chapitres de cet ouvrage, les dynamiques métropolitaines, les mobilités et les réseaux, les inégalités sociales et fragmentations urbaines, les notions de temps et de quartier ainsi que les imbrications entre l'économique et le politique dans la production des formes urbaines. Après une ouverture consacrée à l'état de l'art, chaque chapitre fait le bilan d'une abondante bibliographie, introduit des recherches originales et conclut en mettant en exergue les apports des résultats présentés pour la compréhension du phénomène urbain. Soucieux de s'approprier les apports d'autres disciplines, cet ouvrage renouvelle les théories et méthodes de la recherche urbaine. L'ouvrage se termine par un chapitre conclusif qui prend la forme d'une ouverture sur les grands débats qui animent la sociologie contemporaine.
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April 2007, Lausanne
April 2007, Lausanne
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In the past decade, a new generation of planners from diverse backgrounds - architecture, landscape, even art and performance - have sought fresh, creative ways of working with communities to build modern and sustainable societies that reflect the needs and dreams of their inhabitants. This book presents and explains, for the first time, the rise and success of this new(...)
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In the past decade, a new generation of planners from diverse backgrounds - architecture, landscape, even art and performance - have sought fresh, creative ways of working with communities to build modern and sustainable societies that reflect the needs and dreams of their inhabitants. This book presents and explains, for the first time, the rise and success of this new(...)
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Design and landscape for people
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In the past decade, a new generation of planners from diverse backgrounds - architecture, landscape, even art and performance - have sought fresh, creative ways of working with communities to build modern and sustainable societies that reflect the needs and dreams of their inhabitants. This book presents and explains, for the first time, the rise and success of this new global sensibility. With important lessons and invaluable ideas for architects, planners and landscape designers around the world, this book - set to be the volume that establishes the agenda for going forward - is just as essential for anyone interested in the future of our countryside and cities.
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In the past decade, a new generation of planners from diverse backgrounds - architecture, landscape, even art and performance - have sought fresh, creative ways of working with communities to build modern and sustainable societies that reflect the needs and dreams of their inhabitants. This book presents and explains, for the first time, the rise and success of this new global sensibility. With important lessons and invaluable ideas for architects, planners and landscape designers around the world, this book - set to be the volume that establishes the agenda for going forward - is just as essential for anyone interested in the future of our countryside and cities.
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May 2007, New York
May 2007, New York
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What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle. If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of flesh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history.(...)
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What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle. If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of flesh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history.(...)
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August 2006, Toronto
August 2006, Toronto
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Occasional work and seven walks from the office for soft architecture
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What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle. If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of flesh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history. It’s about social space and clothing and urban geography and visual art, and some intersection of all these. This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, sca×olding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.
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What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle. If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of flesh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history. It’s about social space and clothing and urban geography and visual art, and some intersection of all these. This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, sca×olding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.
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August 2006, Toronto
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Moi, Bertolt Brecht, je suis des forêts noires. Ma mère m'a porté dans les villes Quand j'étais dans son ventre. Et le froid des forêts En moi restera jusqu'à ma mort.
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Moi, Bertolt Brecht, je suis des forêts noires. Ma mère m'a porté dans les villes Quand j'étais dans son ventre. Et le froid des forêts En moi restera jusqu'à ma mort.
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Manuel pour habitants des villes: poèmes
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Moi, Bertolt Brecht, je suis des forêts noires. Ma mère m'a porté dans les villes Quand j'étais dans son ventre. Et le froid des forêts En moi restera jusqu'à ma mort.
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Moi, Bertolt Brecht, je suis des forêts noires. Ma mère m'a porté dans les villes Quand j'étais dans son ventre. Et le froid des forêts En moi restera jusqu'à ma mort.
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February 2007, Paris
February 2007, Paris
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Urban Theory
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