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Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journeys, ''The Brooklyn Nobody Knows'' captures the heart and soul of a diverse, booming, and constantly changing borough that defines cool around the world. The guide covers every one of Brooklyn’s forty-four neighborhoods, from Greenpoint to Coney Island, providing a colorful portrait(...)
The Brooklyn nobody knows: an urban walking guide
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Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journeys, ''The Brooklyn Nobody Knows'' captures the heart and soul of a diverse, booming, and constantly changing borough that defines cool around the world. The guide covers every one of Brooklyn’s forty-four neighborhoods, from Greenpoint to Coney Island, providing a colorful portrait of each section’s most interesting, unusual, and unknown people, places, and things.
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Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates--all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed(...)
Eyes on the street: the life of Jane Jacobs
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Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates--all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing skills at Iron Age, Architectural Forum, Fortune, and other outlets, while amassing the knowledge she would draw upon to write her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Here, too, is the activist who helped lead an ultimately successful protest against Robert Moses's proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village; and who, in order to keep her sons out of the Vietnam War, moved to Canada, where she became as well known and admired as she was in the United States.
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Le géographe dans sa ville
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Au terme d’une carrière de géographe marquée par le souci d’enrichir l’analyse de l’évolution des villes d’une composante humaine, sensible et biographique, Marcel Roncayolo se livre à un retour introspectif à même de révéler les soubassements émotionnels des idées qu’en tant que géographe il a développées.
Le géographe dans sa ville
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Au terme d’une carrière de géographe marquée par le souci d’enrichir l’analyse de l’évolution des villes d’une composante humaine, sensible et biographique, Marcel Roncayolo se livre à un retour introspectif à même de révéler les soubassements émotionnels des idées qu’en tant que géographe il a développées.
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Mortal Cities and Forgotten Monuments tells a moving story of architecture and history. The first two parts of the book provide historical background on the war in Bosnia and its relationship to the built environment of the region. The final section demonstrates Mackic’s ideas for architectural interventions, applying a new design language that goes beyond political(...)
Mortal cities and forgotten monuments
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Mortal Cities and Forgotten Monuments tells a moving story of architecture and history. The first two parts of the book provide historical background on the war in Bosnia and its relationship to the built environment of the region. The final section demonstrates Mackic’s ideas for architectural interventions, applying a new design language that goes beyond political religious, or cultural interpretations—an openness that allows it avoid tensions and claims of truth without ignoring or denying the past. Using this as a foundation, she proposes designs for urban and public space that are simultaneously rooted in ancient traditions while looking toward the future.
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Rares sont les philosophes sur le «front urbain», alors même que l'urbanisation planétaire transforme tous les territoires et les modes de vie, et multiplie les brèches qui ne cessent de grandir entre les inclus et les exclus...C'est à une philosophie de l'urbain qu'invite Thierry Paquot en s'attaquant à des questions trop souvent minimisées?: les portes et les murs,(...)
Un philosophe en ville, nouvelle édition
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Rares sont les philosophes sur le «front urbain», alors même que l'urbanisation planétaire transforme tous les territoires et les modes de vie, et multiplie les brèches qui ne cessent de grandir entre les inclus et les exclus...C'est à une philosophie de l'urbain qu'invite Thierry Paquot en s'attaquant à des questions trop souvent minimisées?: les portes et les murs, l'architecture de verre, les rythmes urbains, la place de ceux qui n'en ont pas (les SDF), ce qu'habiter veut dire, la rupture avec l'urbanisme, ce moment occidental de l'urbanisation productiviste...Pour traiter ces thèmes qui concernent chacun d'entre nous, Thierry Paquot opte pour l'écologie comme démarche qui croise les processus, la transversalité et l'interrelation.
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Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today’s city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way(...)
The urban apparatus: mediapolitics and the city
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Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today’s city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime. Blending critical philosophy, political theory, and media theory, The Urban Apparatus explores how the aesthetics of cities and their political economies overlap. In a series of ten essays, with a detailed theoretical introduction, Martin explores questions related to urban life, drawn from a wide range of global topics—from the fiscal crisis in Detroit to speculative development in Mumbai to the landscape of Mars, from discussions of race and the environment to housing and economic inequality. Each essay proposes a particular “mediator” (or a material complex) that is shaped by imaginative practices, each answering the question “What is a city, today?”
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What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you’re tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? For a century, Chicagoans have joined block clubs to address problems like these that make daily life in the city a(...)
Chicago's block clubs: how neighbors shape the city
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What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you’re tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? For a century, Chicagoans have joined block clubs to address problems like these that make daily life in the city a nuisance. When neighbors work together in block clubs, playgrounds get built, local crime is monitored, streets are cleaned up, and every summer is marked by the festivities of day-long block parties. In Chicago’s Block Clubs, Amanda I. Seligman uncovers the history of the block club in Chicago—from its origins in the Urban League in the early 1900s through to the Chicago Police Department’s twenty-first-century community policing program. Recognizing that many neighborhood problems are too big for one resident to handle—but too small for the city to keep up with—city residents have for more than a century created clubs to establish and maintain their neighborhood’s particular social dynamics, quality of life, and appearance.
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From 2008 to 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marecl Meili, has been investigating the process of urbanization taking place outside cities. ''Territory'' brings together the results of their research in six significant locations: the Nile Valley; Rome-Adria, Italy; the Florida hinterlands; the Red River Delta in Vietnam; northern Oman, and(...)
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November 2016
Territory: on the development of landscape and city
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From 2008 to 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marecl Meili, has been investigating the process of urbanization taking place outside cities. ''Territory'' brings together the results of their research in six significant locations: the Nile Valley; Rome-Adria, Italy; the Florida hinterlands; the Red River Delta in Vietnam; northern Oman, and Belo Horizonte and Minas Gerais in Brazil.
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Tout être vivant inscrit son activité dans l’espace. Environnements proches accessibles à notre vue, environnements lointains, villes, continents… Nous explorons l’espace en le traversant, mais aussi en écoutant les descriptions qui nous en sont faites, en étudiant cartes, atlas ou supports numériques. Nous mémorisons des itinéraires, nous comparons des distances, nous(...)
Petit traité de l'espace: un parcours pluridisciplinaire
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Tout être vivant inscrit son activité dans l’espace. Environnements proches accessibles à notre vue, environnements lointains, villes, continents… Nous explorons l’espace en le traversant, mais aussi en écoutant les descriptions qui nous en sont faites, en étudiant cartes, atlas ou supports numériques. Nous mémorisons des itinéraires, nous comparons des distances, nous retrouvons notre point de départ après un long trajet. Nos capacités de raisonnement nous permettent d’imaginer des raccourcis, de créer de nouveaux parcours, en un mot, de manifester notre adaptation à l’environnement. Les technologies numériques étendent cette capacité en offrant à l’individu de nouvelles formes d’assistance au déplacement. Ces dispositifs sont particulièrement utiles pour les personnes souffrant de déficits visuels ou encore d’atteintes neurologiques spécifiques.
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Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night offers much to be enjoyed beyond vice. Night by definition contrasts(...)
Dark matters: a manifesto for the nocturnal city
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Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night offers much to be enjoyed beyond vice. Night by definition contrasts day, summoning notions of darkness and fear. But another night exists out there. Liberation and exhilaration in the urban landscape is increasingly rare when so much of our attention and actions are controlled. Rather than consider darkness as negative, opposed to illumination and enlightenment, this book explores the rich potential of the dark for our senses. The question may no longer be about what spaces we wish to engage with but when we do?
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