Un philosophe en ville
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Après avoir dressé un état des lieux Thierry Paquot explore ici une philosophie appliquée à l'architecture et à la ville à travers plusieurs thématiques la ville diffuse la transparence architecturale, l'énergie, les saisons et il analyse diverses situations citadines la banlieue, l'hospitalité, la marche...
Un philosophe en ville
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Après avoir dressé un état des lieux Thierry Paquot explore ici une philosophie appliquée à l'architecture et à la ville à travers plusieurs thématiques la ville diffuse la transparence architecturale, l'énergie, les saisons et il analyse diverses situations citadines la banlieue, l'hospitalité, la marche...
Urban Theory
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Dans le contexte d'une économie de l'immatériel et de la connaissance, les nouveaux moteurs économiques sont les services aux entreprises, qui s'implantent généralement dans les métropoles. Quel développement alors pour les villes moyennes ? Doivent-elles copier le mode métropolitain ? Quel avenir pour celles qui échoueraient ? Leurs fonctions traditionnelles(...)
Villes moyennes et services aux entreprises: enjeux et stratégies
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Dans le contexte d'une économie de l'immatériel et de la connaissance, les nouveaux moteurs économiques sont les services aux entreprises, qui s'implantent généralement dans les métropoles. Quel développement alors pour les villes moyennes ? Doivent-elles copier le mode métropolitain ? Quel avenir pour celles qui échoueraient ? Leurs fonctions traditionnelles peuvent-elles suffire à leur développement, ou sont-elles destinées à devenir des centres de consommation et de résidence, à l'écart des grandes mutations économiques ? Cet ouvrage aborde cette problématique de plusieurs façons: certains chapitres analysent systématiquement l'ensemble des villes moyennes françaises, d'autres étudient plus en détail des contextes particuliers, soit urbains, soit sectoriels et régionaux.
Urban Theory
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Urban Composition introduces essential ways in which the architects, planners, artists and engineers of individual projects can fulfill their public trust to help make great urban places.
Urban composition: Developing community through design
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Urban Composition introduces essential ways in which the architects, planners, artists and engineers of individual projects can fulfill their public trust to help make great urban places.
Urban Theory
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This publication examines urban environments, how they are born, change and die, and offers fresh approaches to unlocking our cities' great potential. More than half of the world's population lives in a city and that number stands to increase. Crafted with the tools gleaned during the author's 40 years of working as an architect around the world, Fain's message could(...)
If cars could talk : essays on urbanism
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This publication examines urban environments, how they are born, change and die, and offers fresh approaches to unlocking our cities' great potential. More than half of the world's population lives in a city and that number stands to increase. Crafted with the tools gleaned during the author's 40 years of working as an architect around the world, Fain's message could not be more timely.
Urban Theory
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In The Lure of the City, Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the potential of cities to meet the economic, social, and political challenges of the current age. This book seeks to examine the dynamics of urban life, showing that new opportunities can be maximized and social advances realized in existing and emerging urban centers. It explores both the planned and(...)
The lure of the city: from slums to suburbs
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In The Lure of the City, Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the potential of cities to meet the economic, social, and political challenges of the current age. This book seeks to examine the dynamics of urban life, showing that new opportunities can be maximized and social advances realized in existing and emerging urban centers. It explores both the planned and organic nature of urban developments and the impacts and aspirations of the people who live and work in them.
Urban Theory
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The Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall, gray tower. Though unassuming architecturally, it is a historical beacon, representing a midcentury moment when insurance companies such as Prudential were particularly aware of how their physical presence and civic engagement reflected upon their intangible product: financial security. Looking to New York's(...)
Insuring the city: the Prudential Center and the Postwar urban landscape
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The Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall, gray tower. Though unassuming architecturally, it is a historical beacon, representing a midcentury moment when insurance companies such as Prudential were particularly aware of how their physical presence and civic engagement reflected upon their intangible product: financial security. Looking to New York's Rockefeller Center, the creators of the Prudential Center aspired to use real estate development as a tool toward civic achievement, reinvigorating central Boston and integrating a large complex of buildings with new infrastructure for the automobile. Architectural historian Elihu Rubin tells the full story of "The Pru", placing it within the political, economic, and architectural contexts of the period. The Prudential Center played a pivotal role in the economic redevelopment of Boston and was arguably one of the most significant urban developments of the 1950s and '60s. It is an important story, and one that provides great insight into the evolution of the modern city in postwar America.
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Hitler'S Berlin: abused city
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From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany''s great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new account of Hitler''s relationship with Berlin, Thomas Friedrich explores how Hitler identified with the city, how his political aspirations were reflected in architectural aspirations for the capital, and how Berlin surprisingly(...)
Hitler'S Berlin: abused city
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From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany''s great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new account of Hitler''s relationship with Berlin, Thomas Friedrich explores how Hitler identified with the city, how his political aspirations were reflected in architectural aspirations for the capital, and how Berlin surprisingly influenced the development of Hitler''s political ideas. A leading expert on the twentieth-century history of Berlin, Friedrich employs new and little-known German sources to track Hitler''s attitudes and plans for the city. Even while he despised both the cosmopolitan culture of the Weimar Republic and the profound Jewish influence on the city, Hitler was drawn to the grandiosity of its architecture and its imperial spirit. He dreamed of transforming Berlin into a capital that would reflect his autocracy, and he used the city for such varied purposes as testing his anti-Semitic policies and demonstrating the might of the Third Reich. Illuminating Berlin's burdened years under Nazi subjection, Friedrich offers new understandings of Hitler and his politics, architectural views, and artistic opinions.
Urban Theory
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Taking Henri Lefebvres 1967 essay, The Right to the City, as his jumping-off point, Harvey (Social Justice and the City) examines real estate booms and busts and predation on vulnerable populations; commodification of culture; neo-liberal capitalist dominance; and urban uprisings, from the Paris Commune to the massive 2006 protest against U.S. anti-immigrant policies to(...)
Rebel cities : from the right to the city to the urban revolution
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Taking Henri Lefebvres 1967 essay, The Right to the City, as his jumping-off point, Harvey (Social Justice and the City) examines real estate booms and busts and predation on vulnerable populations; commodification of culture; neo-liberal capitalist dominance; and urban uprisings, from the Paris Commune to the massive 2006 protest against U.S. anti-immigrant policies to urbanized peasants and mineworkers in El Alto, Bolivia, who organized themselves and instigated a progressive Bolivian government. He asks: Is there something about the urban process and the urban experience... under capitalism, that, in itself, has the potential to ground anti-capitalist struggles?
Urban Theory
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In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement and civic irresponsibility is doing to the places where the British live. (...)
A new kind of bleak : journeys through urban Britain
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In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement and civic irresponsibility is doing to the places where the British live. In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, Hatherley takes us from Plymouth and Brighton to Belfast and Aberdeen, by way of the eerie urbanism of the Welsh valleys and the much-mocked splendour of modernist Coventry. Everywhere outside the unreal Southeast, the building has stopped in towns and cities, which languish as they wait for the next bout of self-defeating austerity. Hatherley writes with unrivalled aggression about the disarray of modern Britain, and yet this remains a book about possibilities remembered, about unlikely successes in the midst of seemingly inexorable failure. For as well as trash, ancient and modern, Hatherley finds signs of the hopeful country Britain once was and hints of what it might become.
Urban Theory
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New Labour came to power in 1997 amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, urban environments became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: of finance, property speculation, and the service industry. Now, with New Labour capsized, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage —(...)
A guide to the new ruins of Great Britain (Paperback)
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New Labour came to power in 1997 amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, urban environments became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: of finance, property speculation, and the service industry. Now, with New Labour capsized, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage — the architecture that epitomized an age of greed and selfish aspiration. From riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive “centers” to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s, an emphatic expression of a failed politics.
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