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Civic realism
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An examination of civic places and the social, political, and cultural circumstances that fashion them. Original clothbound edition published in 1997
Civic realism
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An examination of civic places and the social, political, and cultural circumstances that fashion them. Original clothbound edition published in 1997
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March 1999, Cambridge, Mass.
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Groupe de recherche, Production de la Ville et Patrimoine des Écoles d'architecture de Toulouse et Bordeaux. Actes du colloque de Toulouse des 18 et 19 novembre 1993.
Cités, cités-jardins : une histoire européenne
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Groupe de recherche, Production de la Ville et Patrimoine des Écoles d'architecture de Toulouse et Bordeaux. Actes du colloque de Toulouse des 18 et 19 novembre 1993.
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November 1993, Talence
Urban Theory
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Consacré aux lieux de ville cet ouvrage propose des réflexions théoriques et des études de terrain dans des villes fort différentes par leur statut et leur fonctionnement (Toronto, Mopti, Biel-Bienne, Lleida), pour approcher au plus près les corrélations entre lieux, langue(s) territoire et urbanité linguistique.
Perspectives en sociolinguistique urbaine : lieux de ville et territoires, volume 2
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Consacré aux lieux de ville cet ouvrage propose des réflexions théoriques et des études de terrain dans des villes fort différentes par leur statut et leur fonctionnement (Toronto, Mopti, Biel-Bienne, Lleida), pour approcher au plus près les corrélations entre lieux, langue(s) territoire et urbanité linguistique.
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Writings on cities
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Writings on Cities is a particular relevance to architects, planners, geographers, and those interested in the philosophical and political understanding of contemporary life.
Writings on cities
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Writings on Cities is a particular relevance to architects, planners, geographers, and those interested in the philosophical and political understanding of contemporary life.
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The manner in which global trends affect cities and increase the instability in local environments with their own dynamics, is like letting a rising river loose on a house. Global trends create urban flotsam. Urban flotsam and its complex dynamics form a second skin of the earth. How is this second skin visible and how can it be put to use in the quest for new urban(...)
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October 1999, Rotterdam
Urban flotsam : stirring the city
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The manner in which global trends affect cities and increase the instability in local environments with their own dynamics, is like letting a rising river loose on a house. Global trends create urban flotsam. Urban flotsam and its complex dynamics form a second skin of the earth. How is this second skin visible and how can it be put to use in the quest for new urban planning tools and policies? Who gives it form and sustains its organization? 'Urban Flotsam' is a book that attempts to answer these questions through examples, but in doing so it postulates the need for a more consistent way of answering them. The book addresses this need through the formation of an outline for a methodology. This methodology consists of four major parts: 1. How to see manifestations of global influences on local environments? 2. How to model them? 3. How to develop and communicate scenarios on the basis of this knowledge? 4. How to implement scenarios? The book contains a manifesto for a general debate of these issues, a more poetic setting of the theme of the second skin of the earth as urban phenomenon, short theoretical introductions to individual issues, case studies undertaken in urban situations and didactic exercises to demonstrate the need for research in a pedagogical context. The book is the first major publication by Chora architecture and urbanism, an independent research laboratory. Chora has built up a body of knowledge and experience through workshops, commissions, teaching and self-initiated studies which has led to the formulation of the methodology and practice outlined in 'Urban Flotsam'. Chora postulates that drastic reforms or innovations are necessary within the practice and education of architecture, urban design and urban planning in order to meet the challenges of the second skin and the demands of its inhabitants. Together with the artist Jeanne van Heeswijk it calls for a new practice called 'urban curation'.
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October 1999, Rotterdam
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Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decades managed to mount cost-effective and resource-conserving transit services that provide respectable alternatives to car travel. What sets these places apart? In this book,(...)
The transit metropolis : a global inquiry
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Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decades managed to mount cost-effective and resource-conserving transit services that provide respectable alternatives to car travel. What sets these places apart? In this book, noted transportation expert Robert Cervero provides an on-the-ground look at more than a dozen mass transit success stories, introducing the concept of the "transit metropolis"-a region where a workable fit exists between transit services and urban form. The author has spent more than three years studying cities around the world, and he makes a compelling case that metropolitan areas of any size and with any growth pattern-from highly compact to widely dispersed-can develop successful mass transit systems.
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January 1998, Washington
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While sharing his insights on how to discover what lies hidden beneath the surface of the everyday world around us, Stilgoe provides an original pocket history of the American landscape. From the electrical grid overhead to fences, malls, and main streets, Stilgoe offers a fresh understanding of the links and fractures in our society.
Outside lies magic : regaining history and awareness in everyday places
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While sharing his insights on how to discover what lies hidden beneath the surface of the everyday world around us, Stilgoe provides an original pocket history of the American landscape. From the electrical grid overhead to fences, malls, and main streets, Stilgoe offers a fresh understanding of the links and fractures in our society.
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April 1999, New York
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The turning tide : the user's role in the redevelopment of harbour buildings in northwest Europe
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With photographs by Willem Vermaase.
The turning tide : the user's role in the redevelopment of harbour buildings in northwest Europe
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With photographs by Willem Vermaase.
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July 1998, Amsterdam
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In this fascinating and innovative look at nineteenth-century London, this book offers a new account of modernity and metropolitan life. It charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organized city in the 1860s and the emergence of new(...)
Victorian Babylon : people, streets and images in nineteenth-century London
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In this fascinating and innovative look at nineteenth-century London, this book offers a new account of modernity and metropolitan life. It charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organized city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture. She considers the role visual images played in the creation of a vibrant and diverse urban culture and how new kinds of publics were created for these representations. Shifting the focus of the history of modernity from Paris to London, Nead here argues for a different understanding of gender and public space in a society where women joined the everyday life of city streets and entered the debates concerning morality, spectacle, and adventure. The book draws on texts and images of many kinds -- including acts of Parliament, literature, newspaper reports, private letters, maps, paintings, advertisements, posters, and banned obscene publications. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead explores such intriguing topics as the efforts of urban improvers to move water, air, traffic, goods, and people in the Victorian metropolis; the impact of gas lighting and glass on urban leisure; and the obscenity legislation that emerged in response to new forms of visual mass culture that were perceived as dangerous and pervasive.
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November 2000, New Haven
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This meticulous reprint of the Plan of Chicago reproduces all 142 plates from the original, 48 of which are in color. It also contains a color plate of the City Hall that was omitted from the 1909 edition. A new introduction by Kristen Schaffer details those parts of Burnham's draft that were excluded from the published book. The most visible document of the "City(...)
Urban Theory
November 1992, New York
Burnham and Bennett plan of Chicago
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This meticulous reprint of the Plan of Chicago reproduces all 142 plates from the original, 48 of which are in color. It also contains a color plate of the City Hall that was omitted from the 1909 edition. A new introduction by Kristen Schaffer details those parts of Burnham's draft that were excluded from the published book. The most visible document of the "City beautiful" movement, this reprint still holds valuable lessons for today's architects and planners.
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November 1992, New York
Urban Theory