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A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking ''The uses of disorder,'' that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and alongside campaigner and architect, Pablo(...)
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A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking ''The uses of disorder,'' that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and alongside campaigner and architect, Pablo(...)
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Designing disorder: experiments and disruptions in the city
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A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking ''The uses of disorder,'' that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and alongside campaigner and architect, Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City. The public spaces of our cities are under siege from planners, privatisation and increased surveillance. Our streets are becoming ever more lifeless and ordered. What is to be done? Can disorder be designed? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? In this provocative essay Sendra and Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the social life of our cities. What the authors call 'Infrastructures of disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide up, remain open to change rather than closed off. The book proves that ideas of disorder are still some of the most radical and transformative in debates on 21st century cities.
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A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking ''The uses of disorder,'' that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and alongside campaigner and architect, Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City. The public spaces of our cities are under siege from planners, privatisation and increased surveillance. Our streets are becoming ever more lifeless and ordered. What is to be done? Can disorder be designed? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? In this provocative essay Sendra and Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the social life of our cities. What the authors call 'Infrastructures of disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide up, remain open to change rather than closed off. The book proves that ideas of disorder are still some of the most radical and transformative in debates on 21st century cities.
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How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe's supercities - with unparalleled cultural, economic, and technological reach? Peter Lunenfeld constructs an urban portrait, layer by layer, from serendipitous affinities, historical anomalies, and uncanny correspondences. One of the book's innovations is(...)
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How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe's supercities - with unparalleled cultural, economic, and technological reach? Peter Lunenfeld constructs an urban portrait, layer by layer, from serendipitous affinities, historical anomalies, and uncanny correspondences. One of the book's innovations is(...)
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CIty at the edge of forever: Los Angeles reimagined
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How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe's supercities - with unparalleled cultural, economic, and technological reach? Peter Lunenfeld constructs an urban portrait, layer by layer, from serendipitous affinities, historical anomalies, and uncanny correspondences. One of the book's innovations is to brand Los Angeles as the alchemical city. Earth became real estate when the Yankees took control in the nineteenth century. Fire fueled the city's early explosive growth as the Southland's oil fields supplied the inexhaustible demands of drivers and their cars. Air defined the area from WWII to the end of the Cold War, with aeronautics and aerospace dominating the region's industries. Water is now the key element, and Southern California's ports are the largest in the western hemisphere. What alchemists identify as the ethereal fifth element, or quintessence, this book positions as the glamour of Hollywood, a spell that sustains the city but also needs to be broken in order to understand Los Angeles now.
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How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe's supercities - with unparalleled cultural, economic, and technological reach? Peter Lunenfeld constructs an urban portrait, layer by layer, from serendipitous affinities, historical anomalies, and uncanny correspondences. One of the book's innovations is to brand Los Angeles as the alchemical city. Earth became real estate when the Yankees took control in the nineteenth century. Fire fueled the city's early explosive growth as the Southland's oil fields supplied the inexhaustible demands of drivers and their cars. Air defined the area from WWII to the end of the Cold War, with aeronautics and aerospace dominating the region's industries. Water is now the key element, and Southern California's ports are the largest in the western hemisphere. What alchemists identify as the ethereal fifth element, or quintessence, this book positions as the glamour of Hollywood, a spell that sustains the city but also needs to be broken in order to understand Los Angeles now.
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Un urbanisme de l'inattendu
Un urbanisme de l'inattendu
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Patrick Bouchain est un architecte, urbaniste, maître d'oeuvre et scénographe français. C'est un pionnier du réaménagement de lieux industriels en espaces culturels (le Lieu unique à Nantes, la Condition publique à Roubaix, Le Channel à Calais...). Partisan d'une méthode collaborative avec les habitants, permettant de définir une stratégie collective pour aborder les(...)
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Patrick Bouchain est un architecte, urbaniste, maître d'oeuvre et scénographe français. C'est un pionnier du réaménagement de lieux industriels en espaces culturels (le Lieu unique à Nantes, la Condition publique à Roubaix, Le Channel à Calais...). Partisan d'une méthode collaborative avec les habitants, permettant de définir une stratégie collective pour aborder les(...)
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Patrick Bouchain est un architecte, urbaniste, maître d'oeuvre et scénographe français. C'est un pionnier du réaménagement de lieux industriels en espaces culturels (le Lieu unique à Nantes, la Condition publique à Roubaix, Le Channel à Calais...). Partisan d'une méthode collaborative avec les habitants, permettant de définir une stratégie collective pour aborder les questions urbaines, son action est guidée par sa liberté, son goût de l'expérimentation, son appétence pour les territoires et les sites. Son travail vise à promouvoir le « possible ignoré », sortir des standards pour que le temporaire débloque des situations figées, en jonglant, si nécessaire, avec la législation. Et toujours conserver une forme d'inachèvement qui accueille l'imprévu.
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Patrick Bouchain est un architecte, urbaniste, maître d'oeuvre et scénographe français. C'est un pionnier du réaménagement de lieux industriels en espaces culturels (le Lieu unique à Nantes, la Condition publique à Roubaix, Le Channel à Calais...). Partisan d'une méthode collaborative avec les habitants, permettant de définir une stratégie collective pour aborder les questions urbaines, son action est guidée par sa liberté, son goût de l'expérimentation, son appétence pour les territoires et les sites. Son travail vise à promouvoir le « possible ignoré », sortir des standards pour que le temporaire débloque des situations figées, en jonglant, si nécessaire, avec la législation. Et toujours conserver une forme d'inachèvement qui accueille l'imprévu.
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Une capacité accélérée d’importer la nébuleuse imaginaire de l’instant, voici l’efficacité de l’architecture. C’est à elle de rendre possibles toutes les histoires que les humains se racontent, tous les désirs et toutes les tentations. Les dispositifs architecturaux travaillent les représentations et les comportements, et réalisent ainsi la performance de l’architecture(...)
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Une capacité accélérée d’importer la nébuleuse imaginaire de l’instant, voici l’efficacité de l’architecture. C’est à elle de rendre possibles toutes les histoires que les humains se racontent, tous les désirs et toutes les tentations. Les dispositifs architecturaux travaillent les représentations et les comportements, et réalisent ainsi la performance de l’architecture(...)
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Le Grand espace commun : l'architecture transforme
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Une capacité accélérée d’importer la nébuleuse imaginaire de l’instant, voici l’efficacité de l’architecture. C’est à elle de rendre possibles toutes les histoires que les humains se racontent, tous les désirs et toutes les tentations. Les dispositifs architecturaux travaillent les représentations et les comportements, et réalisent ainsi la performance de l’architecture dans sa capacité à nous transformer. Architecte et théoricien, Alain Guiheux explore le déploiement de cette extension de l’univers ouvert de l’architecture au sein de l’ensemble des objets fabriqués et communicants.
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Une capacité accélérée d’importer la nébuleuse imaginaire de l’instant, voici l’efficacité de l’architecture. C’est à elle de rendre possibles toutes les histoires que les humains se racontent, tous les désirs et toutes les tentations. Les dispositifs architecturaux travaillent les représentations et les comportements, et réalisent ainsi la performance de l’architecture dans sa capacité à nous transformer. Architecte et théoricien, Alain Guiheux explore le déploiement de cette extension de l’univers ouvert de l’architecture au sein de l’ensemble des objets fabriqués et communicants.
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‘Borgata’, ‘favela’, ‘périurbain’, and ‘suburb’ are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres. "In what’s in a name?" editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the(...)
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‘Borgata’, ‘favela’, ‘périurbain’, and ‘suburb’ are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres. "In what’s in a name?" editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the(...)
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What's in a name? Talking about urban peripheries
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‘Borgata’, ‘favela’, ‘périurbain’, and ‘suburb’ are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres. "In what’s in a name?" editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery. Rather than view these distinct communities through the lens of the western notion of urban sprawl, the contributors focus on the variety of everyday terms that are used, together with their connotations. This volume explores the local terminology used in cities such as Beijing, Bucharest, Montreal, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sofia, as well as more broadly across North America, Australia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. What’s in a Name? is the first book in English to pay serious and sustained attention to the naming of the urban periphery worldwide. By exploring the ways in which local individuals speak about the urban periphery Harris and Vorms bridge the assumed divide between the global North and the global South.
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‘Borgata’, ‘favela’, ‘périurbain’, and ‘suburb’ are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres. "In what’s in a name?" editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery. Rather than view these distinct communities through the lens of the western notion of urban sprawl, the contributors focus on the variety of everyday terms that are used, together with their connotations. This volume explores the local terminology used in cities such as Beijing, Bucharest, Montreal, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sofia, as well as more broadly across North America, Australia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. What’s in a Name? is the first book in English to pay serious and sustained attention to the naming of the urban periphery worldwide. By exploring the ways in which local individuals speak about the urban periphery Harris and Vorms bridge the assumed divide between the global North and the global South.
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"Public spaces" presents essays and discussions about the planning of public spaces. With contributions from urban architects and regional planners, the volume takes a close look at the Trammplatz in Hanover and the Platz der Fünf Kontinente in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
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"Public spaces" presents essays and discussions about the planning of public spaces. With contributions from urban architects and regional planners, the volume takes a close look at the Trammplatz in Hanover and the Platz der Fünf Kontinente in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
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Public spaces: What for? Wozu? Pourquoi?
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"Public spaces" presents essays and discussions about the planning of public spaces. With contributions from urban architects and regional planners, the volume takes a close look at the Trammplatz in Hanover and the Platz der Fünf Kontinente in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
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"Public spaces" presents essays and discussions about the planning of public spaces. With contributions from urban architects and regional planners, the volume takes a close look at the Trammplatz in Hanover and the Platz der Fünf Kontinente in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
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Sociologie des villes
Sociologie des villes
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Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Londres, Johannesbourg, Paris, Jérusalem, Mumbai, Lagos, Shanghai... Le phénomène urbain s’étend sur la planète. Des global cities aux petites villes, il représente la forme sociale de la modernité. Certaines expériences d’architecture et d’urbanisme mobilisent les recherches en sciences sociales. Comment les groupes sociaux s’adaptent-ils à(...)
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Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Londres, Johannesbourg, Paris, Jérusalem, Mumbai, Lagos, Shanghai... Le phénomène urbain s’étend sur la planète. Des global cities aux petites villes, il représente la forme sociale de la modernité. Certaines expériences d’architecture et d’urbanisme mobilisent les recherches en sciences sociales. Comment les groupes sociaux s’adaptent-ils à(...)
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Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Londres, Johannesbourg, Paris, Jérusalem, Mumbai, Lagos, Shanghai... Le phénomène urbain s’étend sur la planète. Des global cities aux petites villes, il représente la forme sociale de la modernité. Certaines expériences d’architecture et d’urbanisme mobilisent les recherches en sciences sociales. Comment les groupes sociaux s’adaptent-ils à ces espaces et comment se les approprient-ils ? La ville crée-t-elle des communautés ou des solitudes ? Existe-t-il des lieux pathogènes ? Comment la distribution des classes sociales s’opère-t-elle ? La tendance à la ségrégation sociale a-t-elle augmenté ? La mixité sociale est-elle possible et organisable ? Par quels groupes sociaux la cité est-elle gouvernée et comment ? La participation des habitants est-elle envisageable ? Que signifie un aménagement urbain durable ? Ce livre propose des éléments de réponse en mobilisant les résultats de nombreuses recherches sociologiques françaises et internationales ainsi qu’un guide méthodologique pour le chercheur débutant.
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Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Londres, Johannesbourg, Paris, Jérusalem, Mumbai, Lagos, Shanghai... Le phénomène urbain s’étend sur la planète. Des global cities aux petites villes, il représente la forme sociale de la modernité. Certaines expériences d’architecture et d’urbanisme mobilisent les recherches en sciences sociales. Comment les groupes sociaux s’adaptent-ils à ces espaces et comment se les approprient-ils ? La ville crée-t-elle des communautés ou des solitudes ? Existe-t-il des lieux pathogènes ? Comment la distribution des classes sociales s’opère-t-elle ? La tendance à la ségrégation sociale a-t-elle augmenté ? La mixité sociale est-elle possible et organisable ? Par quels groupes sociaux la cité est-elle gouvernée et comment ? La participation des habitants est-elle envisageable ? Que signifie un aménagement urbain durable ? Ce livre propose des éléments de réponse en mobilisant les résultats de nombreuses recherches sociologiques françaises et internationales ainsi qu’un guide méthodologique pour le chercheur débutant.
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Infinite suburbia
Infinite suburbia
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Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design,(...)
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Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design,(...)
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Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment,economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment,economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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"Designing San Francisco" is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists,(...)
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"Designing San Francisco" is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists,(...)
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Designing San Francisco: art, land and urban renewal in the city by the bay
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"Designing San Francisco" is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. An evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities, "Designing San Francisco" provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.
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"Designing San Francisco" is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. An evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities, "Designing San Francisco" provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.
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There is a long tradition of comparing cities with organisms as they have similarities in their anatomy. But since cities are brought into life by the presence of people, they are less living beings than urban beings with their own identity. This is based on the behaviors, needs and requirements of the residents. In other words, the anatomy of the city informs its(...)
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There is a long tradition of comparing cities with organisms as they have similarities in their anatomy. But since cities are brought into life by the presence of people, they are less living beings than urban beings with their own identity. This is based on the behaviors, needs and requirements of the residents. In other words, the anatomy of the city informs its(...)
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Urban being: anatomy and identity of the city
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There is a long tradition of comparing cities with organisms as they have similarities in their anatomy. But since cities are brought into life by the presence of people, they are less living beings than urban beings with their own identity. This is based on the behaviors, needs and requirements of the residents. In other words, the anatomy of the city informs its identity – certain city structures, wherever they are, are influenced in similar ways by the people who interact with them. This volume shows and makes understandable these influences on the living environments of the inhabitants. Through detailed charts and elaborate maps generated from satelite images various city structures are compared across five different dimensions and their influence on the city's identity through the lived experience of the inhabitants is discussed. These range from local urban cells, explorable by foot, and urban centers to macro-regions, agglomerations of many hundreds of cities that stretch across thousands of kilometers.
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There is a long tradition of comparing cities with organisms as they have similarities in their anatomy. But since cities are brought into life by the presence of people, they are less living beings than urban beings with their own identity. This is based on the behaviors, needs and requirements of the residents. In other words, the anatomy of the city informs its identity – certain city structures, wherever they are, are influenced in similar ways by the people who interact with them. This volume shows and makes understandable these influences on the living environments of the inhabitants. Through detailed charts and elaborate maps generated from satelite images various city structures are compared across five different dimensions and their influence on the city's identity through the lived experience of the inhabitants is discussed. These range from local urban cells, explorable by foot, and urban centers to macro-regions, agglomerations of many hundreds of cities that stretch across thousands of kilometers.
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