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Often portrayed as a confluence of cars and movies, this book traces another course to uncover Los Angeles’ primal sources of creation – land and opportunity. Within the endless sprawl there reside flurries of uncodified spatial configurations that no high-definition map or satellite image can accurately capture nor present. (IN)formal LA explores a range of unique(...)
(In)formail L.A. : the space of politics
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Often portrayed as a confluence of cars and movies, this book traces another course to uncover Los Angeles’ primal sources of creation – land and opportunity. Within the endless sprawl there reside flurries of uncodified spatial configurations that no high-definition map or satellite image can accurately capture nor present. (IN)formal LA explores a range of unique spatial practices and pedagogies through the lens of politics in Los Angeles. While this book articulates growing skepticism in current design discourse and education, it also provides a spatial awareness that is culturally rooted, socially responsive and vitally connected to the city. Composed of essays, photos, projects and interviews, (IN)formal LA embraces the quirky, celebrates the wide and embellishes the close range to expose the complex social organizations within this contemporary urban network.
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La ville dans tous ses états
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Sociologue photographe et "climatologue" de la ville, Fabio La Rocca nous invite à penser la métropole comme un personnage de cinéma, avec ses panneaux publicitaires, ses graffitis, ses inter-connexions, ses flux numériques. Il interroge la prolifération de l'image dans l'espace urbain et propose quelques concepts clés : "Hype City", "Superlieux", "bladerunnerisation"(...)
La ville dans tous ses états
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Sociologue photographe et "climatologue" de la ville, Fabio La Rocca nous invite à penser la métropole comme un personnage de cinéma, avec ses panneaux publicitaires, ses graffitis, ses inter-connexions, ses flux numériques. Il interroge la prolifération de l'image dans l'espace urbain et propose quelques concepts clés : "Hype City", "Superlieux", "bladerunnerisation" du territoire.
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Collectivize! makes a case for the rehabilitation of the idea of the “common”. By taking the reader on a trip through built social laboratories and fictional utopias (or dystopias), this collection of four essays explores the role of collective ownership and identity in an increasingly individualized and compartmentalized world. With diverse contributions by Massimo De(...)
Collectivize! Essays on the political economy of Urban form vol.2
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Collectivize! makes a case for the rehabilitation of the idea of the “common”. By taking the reader on a trip through built social laboratories and fictional utopias (or dystopias), this collection of four essays explores the role of collective ownership and identity in an increasingly individualized and compartmentalized world. With diverse contributions by Massimo De Angelis, Jesse Le Cavalier, Arno Brandlhuber and Christian Posthofen, and Zvi Efrat.
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We see the city, we hear the city, but above all: we smell the city. Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and an unparalleled connection to memory, yet it has gone overlooked in discussions of sensory design. What scents shape the city? How does scent contribute to placemaking? How do we design smell environments in the city? Urban Smellscapes makes a(...)
Urban smellscapes : understanding and designing city smell environments
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We see the city, we hear the city, but above all: we smell the city. Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and an unparalleled connection to memory, yet it has gone overlooked in discussions of sensory design. What scents shape the city? How does scent contribute to placemaking? How do we design smell environments in the city? Urban Smellscapes makes a notable contribution towards the growing body of literature on the senses and design by providing some answers to these questions and contributing towards the wider research agenda regarding how people sensually experience urban environments.
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Small, gritty and green: the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world
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As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costs of suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities offer many assets for sustainable living not shared by their big city or small town counterparts, including population density and nearby, fertile farmland available for new environmentally friendly uses. Tumber traveled to twenty-five cities in(...)
Small, gritty and green: the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world
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As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costs of suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities offer many assets for sustainable living not shared by their big city or small town counterparts, including population density and nearby, fertile farmland available for new environmentally friendly uses. Tumber traveled to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Midwest -- from Buffalo to Peoria to Detroit to Rochester -- interviewing planners, city officials, and activists, and weaving their stories into this exploration of small-scale urbanism.
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Où étaient les premiers parcs et pourquoi étaient-ils à cet endroit ? À quoi ressemblaient-ils? Ont-ils changé au cours des années? Et ainsi de suite. En d'autres termes, comment le parc s'est-il développé, et pourquoi? Grâce à des archives, des articles, des dépliants publicitaires et des cartes postales, Mieke Dings reconstruit le développement du parc entre 1920 et(...)
Tussen tent en villa - het vakantiepark in Nederland 1920-nu
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Où étaient les premiers parcs et pourquoi étaient-ils à cet endroit ? À quoi ressemblaient-ils? Ont-ils changé au cours des années? Et ainsi de suite. En d'autres termes, comment le parc s'est-il développé, et pourquoi? Grâce à des archives, des articles, des dépliants publicitaires et des cartes postales, Mieke Dings reconstruit le développement du parc entre 1920 et maintenant. Cette publication donne un aperçu de près d'une centaine d'années à la conception des activités de loisirs aux Pays-Bas. De plus, la perspective historique apporte un éclairage nouveau sur la question de la résidence permanente de vacances. Entre tente et villa se compose de trois parties, qui représentent les phases de développement les plus importants du parc.
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"Robinson believed that, if he looked at it hard enough, he could cause the surface of the city to reveal to him the molecular basis of historical events, and in this way he hoped to see into the future." In his sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. Now, in this(...)
The view from the train : cities and other landscapes
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"Robinson believed that, if he looked at it hard enough, he could cause the surface of the city to reveal to him the molecular basis of historical events, and in this way he hoped to see into the future." In his sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. Now, in this brilliant collection of essays, he offers a new perspective on how Britain works and sees itself. He discusses the background to his work and its development – from surrealism to post-2008 economic catastrophe – and expands on what the films reveal. Referencing writers including Benjamin and Lefebvre, the essays follow his career since the late 1970s, exploring themes including the surrealist perception of the city; the relationship of architecture and film; how cities change over time, and how films represent this; as well as accounts of cross-country journeys involving historical figures, unexpected ideas and an urgent portrait of post-crash Britain.
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Explore Everything is an account of the author’s escapades with the London Consolidation Crew, an urban exploration collective. The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first century metropolis
Explore everything: place-hacking the city
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Explore Everything is an account of the author’s escapades with the London Consolidation Crew, an urban exploration collective. The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first century metropolis
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One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a long struggle to create a communist utopia. In a story reminiscent of the Asterix books, Dan Hancox explores the reality behind the community where no one has a mortgage, sport is played in the Che Guevara stadium and there are monthly “Red(...)
The village against the world
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One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a long struggle to create a communist utopia. In a story reminiscent of the Asterix books, Dan Hancox explores the reality behind the community where no one has a mortgage, sport is played in the Che Guevara stadium and there are monthly “Red Sundays” where everyone works together to clean up the neighbourhood.
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Water urbanisms 2: East
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In Water Urbanisms 2: East, a selection of the world’s leading experts on urbanism reflect on the changing role that water plays in cities. They investigate the possible consequences of global warming on urban water supplies, including new problems with drought and flooding, as well as the new pressures of dealing with storm waters and basin management.
Water urbanisms 2: East
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In Water Urbanisms 2: East, a selection of the world’s leading experts on urbanism reflect on the changing role that water plays in cities. They investigate the possible consequences of global warming on urban water supplies, including new problems with drought and flooding, as well as the new pressures of dealing with storm waters and basin management.
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