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The Natural City explores how to integrate the natural environment into healthy urban centres from philosophical, religious, socio-political, and planning perspectives. Recognizing the need to better link the humanities with public policy, The Natural City offers unique insights for the development of an alternative vision of urban life.
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The natural city: Re-envisioning the built environment
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The Natural City explores how to integrate the natural environment into healthy urban centres from philosophical, religious, socio-political, and planning perspectives. Recognizing the need to better link the humanities with public policy, The Natural City offers unique insights for the development of an alternative vision of urban life.
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Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he's learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities from Brazil, Italy, India, Japan, China and the US are featured. Written with a engaging, humorous tone and Jacobs' own drawings, this publication transfers lessons on city design, building and urban change to all(...)
The good city: reflections and imaginations
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Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he's learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities from Brazil, Italy, India, Japan, China and the US are featured. Written with a engaging, humorous tone and Jacobs' own drawings, this publication transfers lessons on city design, building and urban change to all those willing to help cities become the beautiful places they should be - and encourages all inhabitants to learn to appreciate and explore their own cities.
Urban Theory
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Présentation générale de l'urbanisme et de ses enjeux en matière d'amènagement du territoire.
Les 101 mots de l'urbanisme à l'usage de tous
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Présentation générale de l'urbanisme et de ses enjeux en matière d'amènagement du territoire.
Urban Theory
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Founded by Winy Maas, The Why Factory concentrates on the production of models and visualizations for future cities. It runs independent research projects, PhD programs, architecture and urbanism studios, postgraduate studios at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, and workshops and debates. One component of the thinktank is publishing a series of books and producing(...)
The Why Factor(y) and the futur city
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Founded by Winy Maas, The Why Factory concentrates on the production of models and visualizations for future cities. It runs independent research projects, PhD programs, architecture and urbanism studios, postgraduate studios at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, and workshops and debates. One component of the thinktank is publishing a series of books and producing films. This volume is based on Maas' inaugural address upon assuming the position of Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at Delft University of Technology in 2009. It also includes transcripts and addresses from “My Future City,” a Why Factory symposium, in which students, architects, urban planners, philosophers, politicians and engineers shared their visions for the city of the future.
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In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease and premature death. Recognizing that city environments and the planning processes that shape them are(...)
Toward the healthy city: people, places, and the politics of urban planning
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In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease and premature death. Recognizing that city environments and the planning processes that shape them are powerful determinants of population health, urban planners today are beginning to take on the added challenge of revitalizing neglected urban neighborhoods in ways that improve health and promote greater equity. In this book, Jason Corburn argues that city planning must return to its roots in public health and social justice. To show healthy city planning in action, Corburn examines collaborations between government agencies and community coalitions in the San Francisco Bay area, including efforts to link environmental justice, residents' chronic illnesses, housing and real estate development projects, and planning processes with public health.
Urban Theory
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101 Things that Open and Close the City. 50 leading experts provide tools for analyzing how the Open City is made and unmade. Urban History 101 teaches us that the built environment is not the product of invisible, uncontrollable market forces, but of human-made tools that could have been used differently (or not at all). The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion is an(...)
Arsenal of exclusion/inclusion: 101 things that open and close the city
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101 Things that Open and Close the City. 50 leading experts provide tools for analyzing how the Open City is made and unmade. Urban History 101 teaches us that the built environment is not the product of invisible, uncontrollable market forces, but of human-made tools that could have been used differently (or not at all). The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion is an encyclopedia of the human-made tools used by architects, planners, policy-makers, developers, real estate brokers, activists, and other urban actors in the United States to restrict or increase access to the spaces of our cities and suburbs. The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion inventories these tools—or what we call weapons—examines how they have been used, and speculates about how they might be deployed (or retired) to make more open cities in which more people feel welcome in more spaces.
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Cet ouvrage présente les travaux français et étrangers sur l'effet de coupure en milieu urbain. Il explique également pourquoi la monétarisation de cette nuisance est si difficile, élabore des outils concrets d'analyse et de cartographie, révèle le rôle clef de la vitesse qui en est à l'origine et souligne les effets pervers des solutions sectorielles à courte vue, tout(...)
La ville morcelée : effets de coupure en milieu urbain
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Cet ouvrage présente les travaux français et étrangers sur l'effet de coupure en milieu urbain. Il explique également pourquoi la monétarisation de cette nuisance est si difficile, élabore des outils concrets d'analyse et de cartographie, révèle le rôle clef de la vitesse qui en est à l'origine et souligne les effets pervers des solutions sectorielles à courte vue, tout en préconisant au contraire une approche réconciliant la voie et la ville.
Urban Theory
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For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population-3.3 billion people-is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers-the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and(...)
City : a guidebook for the urban age
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For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population-3.3 billion people-is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers-the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future. The urban explorer will revel in essays on downtowns, suburbs, shantytowns and favelas, graffiti, skylines, crime, the theater, street food, sport, eco-cities, and sacred sites, as well as mini essays on the Tower of Babel, flash mobs, ghettos, skateboarding, and SimCity, among many others. Drawing on a vast range of examples from across the world and throughout history, City is extensively illustrated with full-color photographs, maps, and other images.
Urban Theory
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Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urbanplanner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons" - maxims, observations, and bite -size truths, followed by shortessays - that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to(...)
Urban code: 100 lessons for understanding the city
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Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urbanplanner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons" - maxims, observations, and bite -size truths, followed by shortessays - that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to the city, aprimer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level.
Urban Theory
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By the end of the twentieth century, America’s suburbs contained more office space than its central cities. Many of these corporate workplaces were surrounded, somewhat incongruously, by verdant vistas of broad lawns and leafy trees. In Pastoral Capitalism, Louise Mozingo describes the evolution of these central (but often ignored) features of postwar urbanism in the(...)
Pastoral capitalism: A history of suburban corporate landscapes
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By the end of the twentieth century, America’s suburbs contained more office space than its central cities. Many of these corporate workplaces were surrounded, somewhat incongruously, by verdant vistas of broad lawns and leafy trees. In Pastoral Capitalism, Louise Mozingo describes the evolution of these central (but often ignored) features of postwar urbanism in the context of the modern capitalist enterprise. This book offers an indispensible chapter in urban history, examining not only the design of corporate landscapes but also the economic, social, and cultural models that determined their form.