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A revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What we see invites thirty practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for(...)
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A revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What we see invites thirty practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for(...)
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What we see: Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs
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A revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What we see invites thirty practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
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A revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What we see invites thirty practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
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New city life
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New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society's essential city life to the elective city life if a leisure and consumer society. Whereas city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. Based on the comprehensive and detailed study of city life in Copenhagen over the past four decades.
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New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society's essential city life to the elective city life if a leisure and consumer society. Whereas city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. Based on the comprehensive and detailed study of city life in Copenhagen over the past four decades.
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January 2006
January 2006
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New city life
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New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society's essential city life to the elective city life if a leisure and consumer society. Whereas city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. Based on the comprehensive and detailed study of city life in Copenhagen over the past four decades.
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New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society's essential city life to the elective city life if a leisure and consumer society. Whereas city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. Based on the comprehensive and detailed study of city life in Copenhagen over the past four decades.
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The battle for Gotham
The battle for Gotham
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New(...)
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New(...)
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The battle for Gotham
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Moses's urban philosophy. As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobs's philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life.
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Moses's urban philosophy. As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobs's philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life.
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April 2010
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This is a thoroughly revised and much extended version of a book that drew extensive praise in its first edition. Most parts have stood the test of time and remain. A few are replaced or removed; about a hundred figures appear for the first time. Most important is an entirely new (sixth) section. This brings together many of the urban characteristics, otherwise(...)
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This is a thoroughly revised and much extended version of a book that drew extensive praise in its first edition. Most parts have stood the test of time and remain. A few are replaced or removed; about a hundred figures appear for the first time. Most important is an entirely new (sixth) section. This brings together many of the urban characteristics, otherwise(...)
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Learning from the Japanese city
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This is a thoroughly revised and much extended version of a book that drew extensive praise in its first edition. Most parts have stood the test of time and remain. A few are replaced or removed; about a hundred figures appear for the first time. Most important is an entirely new (sixth) section. This brings together many of the urban characteristics, otherwise encountered in fragments through the book, in one walkable district of what is arguably Japan 's most convenient metropolis, Nagoya.
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This is a thoroughly revised and much extended version of a book that drew extensive praise in its first edition. Most parts have stood the test of time and remain. A few are replaced or removed; about a hundred figures appear for the first time. Most important is an entirely new (sixth) section. This brings together many of the urban characteristics, otherwise encountered in fragments through the book, in one walkable district of what is arguably Japan 's most convenient metropolis, Nagoya.
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October 2010
October 2010
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What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and average length of stay three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and redefine their economic identity? What type of architecture results from the prevalence of airborne contaminants? What kind of urbanism does Google Earth(...)
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What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and average length of stay three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and redefine their economic identity? What type of architecture results from the prevalence of airborne contaminants? What kind of urbanism does Google Earth(...)
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Distributed urbanism : cities after Google Earth
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What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and average length of stay three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and redefine their economic identity? What type of architecture results from the prevalence of airborne contaminants? What kind of urbanism does Google Earth produce? Exploring the increasingly decentralized systems through which cities are organized and produced, this publication highlights the architectural practices that are emerging in response. Unlike early models of urbanism, in which centralized models of production, communication and governance were sited within a central business district, contemporary urbanism is shaped by remote, distributed mechanisms such as information technologies, (i.e. SatNav, Google Earth, E-trade, Photosynth or RSS web feeds) cooperative economic models and environmental networks, many of which are physically remote from the cities they shape. Consisting of a collection of case studies on global cities including Rotterdam, Tokyo, Barcelona, Detroit, Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing and Mumbai, the authors draw on these cities in relation to current events, urban schemes and demographic data.
Distributed urbanism : cities after Google Earth
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What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and average length of stay three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and redefine their economic identity? What type of architecture results from the prevalence of airborne contaminants? What kind of urbanism does Google Earth produce? Exploring the increasingly decentralized systems through which cities are organized and produced, this publication highlights the architectural practices that are emerging in response. Unlike early models of urbanism, in which centralized models of production, communication and governance were sited within a central business district, contemporary urbanism is shaped by remote, distributed mechanisms such as information technologies, (i.e. SatNav, Google Earth, E-trade, Photosynth or RSS web feeds) cooperative economic models and environmental networks, many of which are physically remote from the cities they shape. Consisting of a collection of case studies on global cities including Rotterdam, Tokyo, Barcelona, Detroit, Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing and Mumbai, the authors draw on these cities in relation to current events, urban schemes and demographic data.
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July 2010
July 2010
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There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped? Nadia Amoroso tackles these questions by taking statistical urban data and exploring(...)
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There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped? Nadia Amoroso tackles these questions by taking statistical urban data and exploring(...)
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The exposed city: Mapping the urban invisibles
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There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped? Nadia Amoroso tackles these questions by taking statistical urban data and exploring how they could be transformed into innovative new maps.
The exposed city: Mapping the urban invisibles
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There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped? Nadia Amoroso tackles these questions by taking statistical urban data and exploring how they could be transformed into innovative new maps.
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July 2010
July 2010
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Planning the night-time city
Planning the night-time city
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This book draws on international case study research to explain how changing approaches to evening and night-time activities have been conceptualized in planning practice in the UK. It explains how these ideas have been subverted by the entertainment industry to the point that some micro-districts in certain regenerated and creative cities have now been dubbed ‘no-go’ areas.
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This book draws on international case study research to explain how changing approaches to evening and night-time activities have been conceptualized in planning practice in the UK. It explains how these ideas have been subverted by the entertainment industry to the point that some micro-districts in certain regenerated and creative cities have now been dubbed ‘no-go’ areas.
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Planning the night-time city
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This book draws on international case study research to explain how changing approaches to evening and night-time activities have been conceptualized in planning practice in the UK. It explains how these ideas have been subverted by the entertainment industry to the point that some micro-districts in certain regenerated and creative cities have now been dubbed ‘no-go’ areas.
Planning the night-time city
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This book draws on international case study research to explain how changing approaches to evening and night-time activities have been conceptualized in planning practice in the UK. It explains how these ideas have been subverted by the entertainment industry to the point that some micro-districts in certain regenerated and creative cities have now been dubbed ‘no-go’ areas.
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February 2010
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as(...)
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as(...)
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Requiem: For the city at the end of the millenium
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as assuredly as one can on death and taxes.
Requiem: For the city at the end of the millenium
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as assuredly as one can on death and taxes.
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June 2010
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Au cours du XIXe siècle, l'industrialisation, l'exode rural, la généralisation des moyens de transport mécaniques métamorphosent la ville. Une discipline nouvelle, la " science de la ville " ou urbanisme, accompagne ce processus. Ce livre présente vingt-six faiseurs de villes, urbanistes, architectes, aménageurs ou rêveurs qui ont formulé les problèmes, proposé des(...)
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Au cours du XIXe siècle, l'industrialisation, l'exode rural, la généralisation des moyens de transport mécaniques métamorphosent la ville. Une discipline nouvelle, la " science de la ville " ou urbanisme, accompagne ce processus. Ce livre présente vingt-six faiseurs de villes, urbanistes, architectes, aménageurs ou rêveurs qui ont formulé les problèmes, proposé des(...)
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Les faiseurs de villes: 1850-1950
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Au cours du XIXe siècle, l'industrialisation, l'exode rural, la généralisation des moyens de transport mécaniques métamorphosent la ville. Une discipline nouvelle, la " science de la ville " ou urbanisme, accompagne ce processus. Ce livre présente vingt-six faiseurs de villes, urbanistes, architectes, aménageurs ou rêveurs qui ont formulé les problèmes, proposé des modèles, élaboré des plans, construit des cités, planté des parcs et des jardins. Ces monographies, publiées dans la revue Urbanisme sous la direction de Thierry Paquot, ont été écrites par vingt chercheurs, enseignants et journalistes, tous spécialistes reconnus de la ville. Elles couvrent un siècle d'histoire, de Haussmann à Aalto, et offrent des jalons pour une histoire globale de cet objet flou - la ville, l'urbain - qui change sans cesse, évolue de façon imprévue, se transforme sans avertir, au point de se fondre aujourd'hui en un " urbain généralisé ".
Les faiseurs de villes: 1850-1950
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Au cours du XIXe siècle, l'industrialisation, l'exode rural, la généralisation des moyens de transport mécaniques métamorphosent la ville. Une discipline nouvelle, la " science de la ville " ou urbanisme, accompagne ce processus. Ce livre présente vingt-six faiseurs de villes, urbanistes, architectes, aménageurs ou rêveurs qui ont formulé les problèmes, proposé des modèles, élaboré des plans, construit des cités, planté des parcs et des jardins. Ces monographies, publiées dans la revue Urbanisme sous la direction de Thierry Paquot, ont été écrites par vingt chercheurs, enseignants et journalistes, tous spécialistes reconnus de la ville. Elles couvrent un siècle d'histoire, de Haussmann à Aalto, et offrent des jalons pour une histoire globale de cet objet flou - la ville, l'urbain - qui change sans cesse, évolue de façon imprévue, se transforme sans avertir, au point de se fondre aujourd'hui en un " urbain généralisé ".
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Alors que notre société est rongée de l'intérieur : ghettoïsation des quartiers d'habitat social, « vivre ensemble » malmené par la multiplication des résidences sécurisées et l'exacerbation des communautarismes, etc., nous semblons accepter cette situation. A croire que cela n'aurait aucun effet sur notre vie quotidienne. «L'urbanisme c'est notre affaire !» est une(...)
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Alors que notre société est rongée de l'intérieur : ghettoïsation des quartiers d'habitat social, « vivre ensemble » malmené par la multiplication des résidences sécurisées et l'exacerbation des communautarismes, etc., nous semblons accepter cette situation. A croire que cela n'aurait aucun effet sur notre vie quotidienne. «L'urbanisme c'est notre affaire !» est une(...)
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L'urbanisme, c'est notre affaire!
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Alors que notre société est rongée de l'intérieur : ghettoïsation des quartiers d'habitat social, « vivre ensemble » malmené par la multiplication des résidences sécurisées et l'exacerbation des communautarismes, etc., nous semblons accepter cette situation. A croire que cela n'aurait aucun effet sur notre vie quotidienne. «L'urbanisme c'est notre affaire !» est une invitation qui, pour peu qu'on la suive, pourrait faire demain de nos villes des lieux solidaires, écologiques et démocratiques.
L'urbanisme, c'est notre affaire!
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Alors que notre société est rongée de l'intérieur : ghettoïsation des quartiers d'habitat social, « vivre ensemble » malmené par la multiplication des résidences sécurisées et l'exacerbation des communautarismes, etc., nous semblons accepter cette situation. A croire que cela n'aurait aucun effet sur notre vie quotidienne. «L'urbanisme c'est notre affaire !» est une invitation qui, pour peu qu'on la suive, pourrait faire demain de nos villes des lieux solidaires, écologiques et démocratiques.
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