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This publication compiles the winning and the finalist entries of the City Sense competition, organized by the Institute of Advanced Architecture. The competition was open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who wanted to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing proposals capable of responding to emerging challenges in(...)
City sense : shaping our environment with real-time data, 4th Advanced Architecture Contest
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This publication compiles the winning and the finalist entries of the City Sense competition, organized by the Institute of Advanced Architecture. The competition was open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who wanted to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing proposals capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the possible impact of real-time data collection on sensor-driven cities.
Urban Theory
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Cities Are Good for You introduces us to dreamers, planners, revolutionaries, writers, scientists, architects, slum-dwellers and kings. Ranging globally and through time in search of answers--from the archive to the laboratory, from City Hall to the architect's desk--it is above all driven by the idea that cities are for people and by people.
Cities are good for you: the genius of the metropolis
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Cities Are Good for You introduces us to dreamers, planners, revolutionaries, writers, scientists, architects, slum-dwellers and kings. Ranging globally and through time in search of answers--from the archive to the laboratory, from City Hall to the architect's desk--it is above all driven by the idea that cities are for people and by people.
Urban Theory
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This publication examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and(...)
Shaping the city: studies in history, theory and urban theory
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This publication examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and themes at hand like the mega-city, the post-colonial city and New Urbanism, in this new edition the editors have introduced new case studies critical to any study of contemporary urbanism – China, Dubai, Tijuana and the wider issues of informal cities in the Global South.
Urban Theory
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Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.
Urban theory beyond the west : a world of cities
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Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.
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In this thought-provoking book, Martijn de Waal, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, discusses the ways in which digital and mobile media are changing urban life and our everyday experience of our physical surroundings. Few would deny the convenient and engaging nature of new media. But, probing deeper, de Waal delves into how the rise of these "urban(...)
The city as interface: how new media are changing the city
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In this thought-provoking book, Martijn de Waal, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, discusses the ways in which digital and mobile media are changing urban life and our everyday experience of our physical surroundings. Few would deny the convenient and engaging nature of new media. But, probing deeper, de Waal delves into how the rise of these "urban media" also presents an important philosophical issue: how do they affect how the city functions as a community?
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As cycling continues to enjoy a worldwide revival, experiments in new cycling facilities are underway everywhere. Cycle Infrastructure includes international examples, interviews with the makers of prominent cycling routes and a glimpse at future innovations. Its goal is to activate the full potential of cycling for the urban landscape and to consider cycling(...)
Cycle infrastructure
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As cycling continues to enjoy a worldwide revival, experiments in new cycling facilities are underway everywhere. Cycle Infrastructure includes international examples, interviews with the makers of prominent cycling routes and a glimpse at future innovations. Its goal is to activate the full potential of cycling for the urban landscape and to consider cycling infrastructure as an integral design challenge, rather than purely an issue of traffic engineering.
Urban Theory
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C’est l’urbanité, au sens large, qui est en jeu dans ces fluctuations de la perception, dans ces transitions du sensible, engendrant une esthétique mineure. Les lieux du sensible : une anthropologie singulière des faits intimes, des presque-rien, de l’inconnu ; une esthétique du reste qui appréhende le battement du réel.
Les lieux du sensible : villes, hommes, images
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C’est l’urbanité, au sens large, qui est en jeu dans ces fluctuations de la perception, dans ces transitions du sensible, engendrant une esthétique mineure. Les lieux du sensible : une anthropologie singulière des faits intimes, des presque-rien, de l’inconnu ; une esthétique du reste qui appréhende le battement du réel.
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Designing Cities examines the most important design and presentation principles of urban design, using selected historical examples and contemporary international competition entries designed by practices including Foster + Partners, KCAP Architects & Planners, MVRDV, and OMA.
Designing cities : basics, principles, projects
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Designing Cities examines the most important design and presentation principles of urban design, using selected historical examples and contemporary international competition entries designed by practices including Foster + Partners, KCAP Architects & Planners, MVRDV, and OMA.
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The book chronicles the thirty-year history of the evolution and development of Seaside, Florida, its global influence on town planning, and the resurgence of place-making in the built environment. Through a rich repository of historical materials and writings, the book chronicles numerous architectural and planning schemes, and outlines a blueprint for moving forward(...)
Visions of Seaside: foundation, evolution, imagination
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The book chronicles the thirty-year history of the evolution and development of Seaside, Florida, its global influence on town planning, and the resurgence of place-making in the built environment. Through a rich repository of historical materials and writings, the book chronicles numerous architectural and planning schemes, and outlines a blueprint for moving forward over the next twenty-five to fifty years. Among the many contributors are Deborah Berke, Andrés Duany, Steven Holl, Léon Krier, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Aldo Rossi, and Robert A. M. Stern.
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Projet El Pocero est une déambulation dans cette ville fantôme,El Quinon, symbole parfait de la folie spéculative qui s’est emparée de l’Espagne au milieu de la première décennie 2000. Symbole également d’un capitalisme sauvage, outrancier, qui a précipité l’économie mondiale dans une chute vertigineuse.
Projet el Pocero: dans une ville fantôme de la crise espagnole
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Projet El Pocero est une déambulation dans cette ville fantôme,El Quinon, symbole parfait de la folie spéculative qui s’est emparée de l’Espagne au milieu de la première décennie 2000. Symbole également d’un capitalisme sauvage, outrancier, qui a précipité l’économie mondiale dans une chute vertigineuse.
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