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How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon in ''Broken City'', the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a(...)
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How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon in ''Broken City'', the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a(...)
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Broken city: Land speculation, inequality, and urban crisis
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How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon in ''Broken City'', the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a good speculative investment, runaway housing costs ensued. For example, in Vancouver, land prices increased by six hundred percent between 2008 and 2016. How much wealth have investors extracted from urban land? In this engaging, readable, and insightful treatise, Patrick Condon explains how we have let land, our most durable resource, shift away from the common good and proposes bold strategies for how cities in North America can shift it back.
Broken city: Land speculation, inequality, and urban crisis
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How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon in ''Broken City'', the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a good speculative investment, runaway housing costs ensued. For example, in Vancouver, land prices increased by six hundred percent between 2008 and 2016. How much wealth have investors extracted from urban land? In this engaging, readable, and insightful treatise, Patrick Condon explains how we have let land, our most durable resource, shift away from the common good and proposes bold strategies for how cities in North America can shift it back.
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May 2024
May 2024
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Urban Theory
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In the final days before the fall of Saigon in 1975, 125,000 Vietnamese who were evacuated or who made their own way out of the country resettled in the United States. Finding themselves in unfamiliar places yet still connected in exile, these refugees began building their own communities as memorials to a lost homeland. Known both officially and unofficially as Little(...)
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In the final days before the fall of Saigon in 1975, 125,000 Vietnamese who were evacuated or who made their own way out of the country resettled in the United States. Finding themselves in unfamiliar places yet still connected in exile, these refugees began building their own communities as memorials to a lost homeland. Known both officially and unofficially as Little(...)
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Building Little Saigon: Refugee urbanism in American cities and suburbs
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In the final days before the fall of Saigon in 1975, 125,000 Vietnamese who were evacuated or who made their own way out of the country resettled in the United States. Finding themselves in unfamiliar places yet still connected in exile, these refugees began building their own communities as memorials to a lost homeland. Known both officially and unofficially as Little Saigons, these built landscapes offer space for everyday activities as well as the staging of cultural heritage and political events. "Building Little Saigon" examines nearly fifty years of city building by Vietnamese Americans-who number over 2.2 million today. Author Erica Allen-Kim highlights architecture and planning ideas adapted by the Vietnamese communities who, in turn, have influenced planning policies and mainstream practices. Allen-Kim traveled to ten Little Saigons in the United States to visit archives, buildings, and public art and to converse with developers, community planners, artists, business owners, and Vietnam veterans. By examining everyday buildings-who made them and what they mean for those who know them-"Building Little Saigon" shows us the complexities of migration unfolding across lifetimes and generations.
Building Little Saigon: Refugee urbanism in American cities and suburbs
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In the final days before the fall of Saigon in 1975, 125,000 Vietnamese who were evacuated or who made their own way out of the country resettled in the United States. Finding themselves in unfamiliar places yet still connected in exile, these refugees began building their own communities as memorials to a lost homeland. Known both officially and unofficially as Little Saigons, these built landscapes offer space for everyday activities as well as the staging of cultural heritage and political events. "Building Little Saigon" examines nearly fifty years of city building by Vietnamese Americans-who number over 2.2 million today. Author Erica Allen-Kim highlights architecture and planning ideas adapted by the Vietnamese communities who, in turn, have influenced planning policies and mainstream practices. Allen-Kim traveled to ten Little Saigons in the United States to visit archives, buildings, and public art and to converse with developers, community planners, artists, business owners, and Vietnam veterans. By examining everyday buildings-who made them and what they mean for those who know them-"Building Little Saigon" shows us the complexities of migration unfolding across lifetimes and generations.
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July 2024
July 2024
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Urban Theory
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Les aménagements urbains pour les Jeux olympiques 2024 ont suscité de vives résistances, notamment à Saint-Denis et Aubervilliers, au nord de Paris. Mais, au-delà des JO, c’est un immense projet de renouvellement urbain qui se pro?le avec le Grand Paris d’ici 2030. Dans les banlieues populaires, de nombreuses habitantes et habitants sont expulsés, expropriés de leur(...)
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Les aménagements urbains pour les Jeux olympiques 2024 ont suscité de vives résistances, notamment à Saint-Denis et Aubervilliers, au nord de Paris. Mais, au-delà des JO, c’est un immense projet de renouvellement urbain qui se pro?le avec le Grand Paris d’ici 2030. Dans les banlieues populaires, de nombreuses habitantes et habitants sont expulsés, expropriés de leur(...)
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Les naufragés du Grand Paris Express
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Les aménagements urbains pour les Jeux olympiques 2024 ont suscité de vives résistances, notamment à Saint-Denis et Aubervilliers, au nord de Paris. Mais, au-delà des JO, c’est un immense projet de renouvellement urbain qui se pro?le avec le Grand Paris d’ici 2030. Dans les banlieues populaires, de nombreuses habitantes et habitants sont expulsés, expropriés de leur maison, relogés dans un autre logement social et doivent laisser place aux 68 futures gares du nouveau réseau de transport du Grand Paris Express. Autour de chacune de ces gares, de grands projets urbains prévoient la démolition de milliers de logements sociaux, reconstruits plus loin, plus chers, tandis que les prix immobiliers augmentent rapidement dans le parc privé. En décalage complet avec les besoins des classes populaires qui se paupérisent depuis des décennies, la Métropole du Grand Paris se construit pour tenir son rang dans la concurrence internationale, en rentabilisant le sol urbain et en cherchant à attirer de nouveaux investisseurs.
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Les aménagements urbains pour les Jeux olympiques 2024 ont suscité de vives résistances, notamment à Saint-Denis et Aubervilliers, au nord de Paris. Mais, au-delà des JO, c’est un immense projet de renouvellement urbain qui se pro?le avec le Grand Paris d’ici 2030. Dans les banlieues populaires, de nombreuses habitantes et habitants sont expulsés, expropriés de leur maison, relogés dans un autre logement social et doivent laisser place aux 68 futures gares du nouveau réseau de transport du Grand Paris Express. Autour de chacune de ces gares, de grands projets urbains prévoient la démolition de milliers de logements sociaux, reconstruits plus loin, plus chers, tandis que les prix immobiliers augmentent rapidement dans le parc privé. En décalage complet avec les besoins des classes populaires qui se paupérisent depuis des décennies, la Métropole du Grand Paris se construit pour tenir son rang dans la concurrence internationale, en rentabilisant le sol urbain et en cherchant à attirer de nouveaux investisseurs.
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March 2024
March 2024
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Hippodamos de Milet
Hippodamos de Milet
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Penseur politique, proche collaborateur de Périclès, maître d’oeuvre du Pirée, Hippodamos de Milet (Ve siècle avant notre ère) est le plus célèbre architecte de l’Antiquité. Et pourtant, le plus méconnu. Pour tracer son portrait et étudier les implantations urbaines dont Hippodamos fut le concepteur, Emanuele Greco, éminent archéologue, a réuni l’ensemble des matériaux(...)
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Penseur politique, proche collaborateur de Périclès, maître d’oeuvre du Pirée, Hippodamos de Milet (Ve siècle avant notre ère) est le plus célèbre architecte de l’Antiquité. Et pourtant, le plus méconnu. Pour tracer son portrait et étudier les implantations urbaines dont Hippodamos fut le concepteur, Emanuele Greco, éminent archéologue, a réuni l’ensemble des matériaux(...)
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Penseur politique, proche collaborateur de Périclès, maître d’oeuvre du Pirée, Hippodamos de Milet (Ve siècle avant notre ère) est le plus célèbre architecte de l’Antiquité. Et pourtant, le plus méconnu. Pour tracer son portrait et étudier les implantations urbaines dont Hippodamos fut le concepteur, Emanuele Greco, éminent archéologue, a réuni l’ensemble des matériaux écrits dont nous disposons (l’intégralité des témoignages littéraires, dont celui, fondamental, d’Aristote) et mobilisé les plus récentes données archéologiques issues de ses propres fouilles.
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Penseur politique, proche collaborateur de Périclès, maître d’oeuvre du Pirée, Hippodamos de Milet (Ve siècle avant notre ère) est le plus célèbre architecte de l’Antiquité. Et pourtant, le plus méconnu. Pour tracer son portrait et étudier les implantations urbaines dont Hippodamos fut le concepteur, Emanuele Greco, éminent archéologue, a réuni l’ensemble des matériaux écrits dont nous disposons (l’intégralité des témoignages littéraires, dont celui, fondamental, d’Aristote) et mobilisé les plus récentes données archéologiques issues de ses propres fouilles.
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June 2024
June 2024
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Cities made differently
Cities made differently
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What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book ''Cities Made Differently'' opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is(...)
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What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book ''Cities Made Differently'' opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is(...)
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What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book ''Cities Made Differently'' opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth, science and imagination, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit—because we can, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true.
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What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika's then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book ''Cities Made Differently'' opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth, science and imagination, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit—because we can, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true.
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November 2024
November 2024
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Urban Theory
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The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In(...)
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The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In(...)
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The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
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The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In this visionary book, Vishaan Chakrabarti argues for an "architecture of urbanity," showing how the design of our communities can create a more equitable, sustainable, and joyous future for us all. Taking readers from the great cities of antiquity to the worldwide exurban sprawl of our postindustrial age, Chakrabarti examines architecture’s relationship to history’s greatest social, technological, and environmental dilemmas. He then presents a rich selection of work by a global array of practicing architects, demonstrating how innovative design can dramatically improve life in big cities and small settlements around the world, from campuses and refugee camps to mega-cities like São Paulo, Lima, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
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The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In this visionary book, Vishaan Chakrabarti argues for an "architecture of urbanity," showing how the design of our communities can create a more equitable, sustainable, and joyous future for us all. Taking readers from the great cities of antiquity to the worldwide exurban sprawl of our postindustrial age, Chakrabarti examines architecture’s relationship to history’s greatest social, technological, and environmental dilemmas. He then presents a rich selection of work by a global array of practicing architects, demonstrating how innovative design can dramatically improve life in big cities and small settlements around the world, from campuses and refugee camps to mega-cities like São Paulo, Lima, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
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July 2024
July 2024
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Democracy and urban form
Democracy and urban form
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"Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less." This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six lectures,(...)
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"Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less." This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six lectures,(...)
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Democracy and urban form
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"Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less." This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six lectures, Sennett presented discourse as the foundation of democracy, and posited that our cities are uniquely positioned to either empower or constrict this discourse—and that the difference could lie in architecture and urban design. Now, over 40 years later, as political polarization persists and its consequences arise in both new and familiar ways, "Democracy and urban form" revisits questions that remain relevant: If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?
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"Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less." This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six lectures, Sennett presented discourse as the foundation of democracy, and posited that our cities are uniquely positioned to either empower or constrict this discourse—and that the difference could lie in architecture and urban design. Now, over 40 years later, as political polarization persists and its consequences arise in both new and familiar ways, "Democracy and urban form" revisits questions that remain relevant: If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?
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November 2024
November 2024
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Urban Theory
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As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imaginary of a flourishing urban ecofuture is often driven by a specific version of sustainability that is tied to both high-tech futurism and persistent economic growth. What kinds of sustainable futures are we calling forth,(...)
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As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imaginary of a flourishing urban ecofuture is often driven by a specific version of sustainability that is tied to both high-tech futurism and persistent economic growth. What kinds of sustainable futures are we calling forth,(...)
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Reimagining the more-than-human city: Stories from Singapore
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As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imaginary of a flourishing urban ecofuture is often driven by a specific version of sustainability that is tied to both high-tech futurism and persistent economic growth. What kinds of sustainable futures are we calling forth, and at what and whose expense? In "Reimagining the more-than-human city," Jamie Wang attempts to answer these questions by critically examining the sociocultural, political, ethical, and affective facets of human-environment dynamics in the urban nexus, with a geographic focus on Singapore.
Reimagining the more-than-human city: Stories from Singapore
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As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imaginary of a flourishing urban ecofuture is often driven by a specific version of sustainability that is tied to both high-tech futurism and persistent economic growth. What kinds of sustainable futures are we calling forth, and at what and whose expense? In "Reimagining the more-than-human city," Jamie Wang attempts to answer these questions by critically examining the sociocultural, political, ethical, and affective facets of human-environment dynamics in the urban nexus, with a geographic focus on Singapore.
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October 2024
October 2024
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"Transversal Territory" is a laboratory of urban, environmental, and artistic experimentation at the renowned Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. It undertakes transdisciplinary and participatory research on the relationship between us, our bodies, and our built and natural environments. Its unique approach is to explore experiences of—and reflections(...)
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"Transversal Territory" is a laboratory of urban, environmental, and artistic experimentation at the renowned Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. It undertakes transdisciplinary and participatory research on the relationship between us, our bodies, and our built and natural environments. Its unique approach is to explore experiences of—and reflections(...)
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Transversal territory: A transdiciplinary and participatory approaches on urban research
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"Transversal Territory" is a laboratory of urban, environmental, and artistic experimentation at the renowned Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. It undertakes transdisciplinary and participatory research on the relationship between us, our bodies, and our built and natural environments. Its unique approach is to explore experiences of—and reflections on—urban space through performative bodywork and on-site artistic installations. This process aims at transcending the conventional paradigms of perception and the understanding of urban space, and at creating a new imagination of it—an augmented reality.
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"Transversal Territory" is a laboratory of urban, environmental, and artistic experimentation at the renowned Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. It undertakes transdisciplinary and participatory research on the relationship between us, our bodies, and our built and natural environments. Its unique approach is to explore experiences of—and reflections on—urban space through performative bodywork and on-site artistic installations. This process aims at transcending the conventional paradigms of perception and the understanding of urban space, and at creating a new imagination of it—an augmented reality.
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October 2024
October 2024
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De la verticalité
De la verticalité
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Empruntant au pamphlet la forme et l'ambition, ce recueil confronte idées vagues et images claires pour exprimer une perspective critique sur les stratégies contemporaines en matière d'urbanisme et d'architecture. Sa structure discursive met en relation une étude de cas spécifique et une réflexion théorique : le rapport remis par MADE IN en réponse à l'étude comparative(...)
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Empruntant au pamphlet la forme et l'ambition, ce recueil confronte idées vagues et images claires pour exprimer une perspective critique sur les stratégies contemporaines en matière d'urbanisme et d'architecture. Sa structure discursive met en relation une étude de cas spécifique et une réflexion théorique : le rapport remis par MADE IN en réponse à l'étude comparative(...)
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December 2024
December 2024
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De la verticalité
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Empruntant au pamphlet la forme et l'ambition, ce recueil confronte idées vagues et images claires pour exprimer une perspective critique sur les stratégies contemporaines en matière d'urbanisme et d'architecture. Sa structure discursive met en relation une étude de cas spécifique et une réflexion théorique : le rapport remis par MADE IN en réponse à l'étude comparative mandatée par la Ville de Zurich et visant à la révision des lignes directrices réglant la construction des immeubles de grande hauteur (de mai 2019 à août 2020); un essai épistolaire traitant de la Verticalité au sens large, des analogies formelles aux projections mythopoétiques. Un double commentaire évocatoire qui met en exergue les enjeux inhérents à la mutation de la ville, par-delà le quantifiable et le raisonnable.
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Empruntant au pamphlet la forme et l'ambition, ce recueil confronte idées vagues et images claires pour exprimer une perspective critique sur les stratégies contemporaines en matière d'urbanisme et d'architecture. Sa structure discursive met en relation une étude de cas spécifique et une réflexion théorique : le rapport remis par MADE IN en réponse à l'étude comparative mandatée par la Ville de Zurich et visant à la révision des lignes directrices réglant la construction des immeubles de grande hauteur (de mai 2019 à août 2020); un essai épistolaire traitant de la Verticalité au sens large, des analogies formelles aux projections mythopoétiques. Un double commentaire évocatoire qui met en exergue les enjeux inhérents à la mutation de la ville, par-delà le quantifiable et le raisonnable.
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December 2024
December 2024
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