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More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrenched disadvantage. These neighbourhoods, known as ‘slums’, are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, however, it is often the host societies and their public policies that are at(...)
Slums: the history of a global injustice
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More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrenched disadvantage. These neighbourhoods, known as ‘slums’, are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, however, it is often the host societies and their public policies that are at fault. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word ‘slum’, from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use to describe favela communities in the lead up to the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016. The word ‘slum’ has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disperse poor communities.
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Offering new ways of thinking about our cities, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt goes far beyond the standard historical concepts of origins, development, revolutions, and the accomplishments of an elite few. Mattern shows that in their architecture, laws, street layouts, and civic knowledge—and through technologies including the telephone, telegraph, radio, printing,(...)
Code and clay, data and dirt: five thousand years of urban media
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Offering new ways of thinking about our cities, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt goes far beyond the standard historical concepts of origins, development, revolutions, and the accomplishments of an elite few. Mattern shows that in their architecture, laws, street layouts, and civic knowledge—and through technologies including the telephone, telegraph, radio, printing, writing, and even the human voice—cities have long negotiated a rich exchange between analog and digital, code and clay, data and dirt, ether and ore. Mattern’s vivid prose takes readers through a historically and geographically broad range of stories, scenes, and locations, synthesizing a new narrative for our urban spaces. Taking media archaeology to the city’s streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories.
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Tunnels, passerelles, escalators, téléphériques urbains, cheminements, les pasages sont des maillons essentiels et potentiellement porteurs d'urbanités singulières. Ils demandent peu d'investissements et devraient systématiquement accompagner les grandes opérations d'aménagement parce qu'ils offrent des vertus réparatrices des fractures opérées par les infrastructures de(...)
Passages: transitional spaces for the 21st-century city / Espaces de transition pour la ville du 21e siècle
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Tunnels, passerelles, escalators, téléphériques urbains, cheminements, les pasages sont des maillons essentiels et potentiellement porteurs d'urbanités singulières. Ils demandent peu d'investissements et devraient systématiquement accompagner les grandes opérations d'aménagement parce qu'ils offrent des vertus réparatrices des fractures opérées par les infrastructures de transport rapide et le zoning de l'urbanisation du 20e siècle. Cet ouvrage présente plus de 150 réalisations contemporaines et analyse les passages dans leurs dimensions historique, spatiale, sociale, sensible, ainsi que du pont de vue des mobilités émergentes et des désirs des habitants. Le Manifeste du PAssage, en conclusion, est un appel à l'innovation.
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In light of the increasing disengagement between urban and rural areas, this book address the interdependency of cities with ecological and technological processes outside the purview of traditional urban planning. It compiles a huge amount of essays in regards to the most important topics that cities must address today, such as their connection with global data networks,(...)
Imminent commons: the expanded city, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017
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In light of the increasing disengagement between urban and rural areas, this book address the interdependency of cities with ecological and technological processes outside the purview of traditional urban planning. It compiles a huge amount of essays in regards to the most important topics that cities must address today, such as their connection with global data networks, ecological cycles of resources which supersede the traditional boundaries of urbanism. For this reason, it frames investigation of contemporary urbanism on nine imminent commons grouping the urban commons into resources and technologies lead us to the arcane classification of natural resources: air, water, fire, and earth, the four elements of ancient cosmologies; and five basic technological commons based on expanded human capacities: sensing, communicating, moving, making, and recycling.
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Baku: oil and urbanism
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Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and formerly part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, is the original oil city, with oil and urbanism thoroughly intertwined—economically, politically, and physical—in the city’s fabric. Baku saw its first oil boom in the late nineteenth century, driven by the Russian branch of the Nobel family modernizing the oil fields around Baku as(...)
Baku: oil and urbanism
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Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and formerly part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, is the original oil city, with oil and urbanism thoroughly intertwined—economically, politically, and physical—in the city’s fabric. Baku saw its first oil boom in the late nineteenth century, driven by the Russian branch of the Nobel family modernizing the oil fields around Baku as local oil barons poured their new wealth into building a cosmopolitan city center. During the Soviet period, Baku became the site of an urban experiment: the shaping of an oil city of socialist man. That project included Neft Dashlari, a city built on trestles in the Caspian Sea and designed to house thousands of workers, schools, shops, gardens, clinics, and cinemas as well as 2,000 oil rigs, pipelines, and collecting stations. Today, as it heads into an uncertain post-oil future, Baku’s planners and business elites regard the legacy of its past as a resource that sustains new aspirations and identities.
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In Urban Acupuncture, Lerner celebrates these “pinpricks” of urbanism—projects, people, and initiatives from around the world that ripple through their communities to uplift city life. With meditative and descriptive prose, Lerner brings readers around the world to streets and neighborhoods where urban acupuncture has been practiced best, from the bustling La Boqueria(...)
Urban acupuncture: celebrating pinpricks of change that celebrate urban life
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In Urban Acupuncture, Lerner celebrates these “pinpricks” of urbanism—projects, people, and initiatives from around the world that ripple through their communities to uplift city life. With meditative and descriptive prose, Lerner brings readers around the world to streets and neighborhoods where urban acupuncture has been practiced best, from the bustling La Boqueria market in Barcelona to the revitalization of the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, South Korea. Through this journey, Lerner invites us to re-examine the true building blocks of vibrant communities—the tree-lined avenues, night vendors, and songs and traditions that connect us to our cities and to one another.
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Inégalités urbaines
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Rien ne garantit, aujourd’hui, qu’une évolution soutenable des sociétés humaines puisse être atteinte. Mais dans?la mesure où ce projet représente notre seul horizon collectif possible, il sera à la fois la cause et le résultat d’un changement drastique de nos modes de vie qui ne pourra aboutir sans l’adhésion volontaire de chacun. Comme Bernardo Secchi l’a soutenu à(...)
Inégalités urbaines
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Rien ne garantit, aujourd’hui, qu’une évolution soutenable des sociétés humaines puisse être atteinte. Mais dans?la mesure où ce projet représente notre seul horizon collectif possible, il sera à la fois la cause et le résultat d’un changement drastique de nos modes de vie qui ne pourra aboutir sans l’adhésion volontaire de chacun. Comme Bernardo Secchi l’a soutenu à diverses reprises, répondre à cet impératif écologique réclame avant tout de lutter contre les inégalités urbaines et de mettre en œuvre une véritable politique de droit à la ville. Le présent ouvrage élargit cette réflexion et ouvre des perspectives théoriques pour des projets de villes dont les enjeux spatiaux favorisent une société soutenable universelle. À travers l’analyse de plusieurs cas concrets, Inégalités urbaines rend compte d’une pensée architecturale et urbaine qui croise les stratégies sociales, la question des risques et la politique de la ville.
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Repenser l'urbanisme
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Six thèmes, six auteurs: Vincent Renard, Jean-Marc Offner, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Frédéric Bonnet, Thierry Paquot, pour comprendre l'urbanisme et le repenser à l'heure de l'impératif écologique et du numérique. Une démarche rétro-prospective qui combine ce que le passé nous révèle et ce que le futur nous inspire.
Repenser l'urbanisme
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Six thèmes, six auteurs: Vincent Renard, Jean-Marc Offner, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Frédéric Bonnet, Thierry Paquot, pour comprendre l'urbanisme et le repenser à l'heure de l'impératif écologique et du numérique. Une démarche rétro-prospective qui combine ce que le passé nous révèle et ce que le futur nous inspire.
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Un monde de bidonvilles
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Pour certains, les bidonvilles doivent être éradiqués comme des foyers d’insalubrité et de criminalité. Pour d’autres, ils constituent un laboratoire de la ville durable, à la fois piétonne, écologique, participative et recyclable. Et si les bidonvilles, au lieu de renvoyer uniquement à un passé effrayant, inventaient aussi des solutions pour l’avenir ?
Un monde de bidonvilles
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Pour certains, les bidonvilles doivent être éradiqués comme des foyers d’insalubrité et de criminalité. Pour d’autres, ils constituent un laboratoire de la ville durable, à la fois piétonne, écologique, participative et recyclable. Et si les bidonvilles, au lieu de renvoyer uniquement à un passé effrayant, inventaient aussi des solutions pour l’avenir ?
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Canadian artists Daniel Young and Christian Giroux created a non-hierarchical inventory of buildings realized in Berlin in 2013, juxtaposing them with those from a generation earlier. Using a strictly analytical approach, the documentation of more than 750 pairs of buildings began at the city’s north-west periphery. The artists scanned the urban fabric for structures from(...)
Berlin 2013/1983. Daniel Young and Christian Giroux
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Canadian artists Daniel Young and Christian Giroux created a non-hierarchical inventory of buildings realized in Berlin in 2013, juxtaposing them with those from a generation earlier. Using a strictly analytical approach, the documentation of more than 750 pairs of buildings began at the city’s north-west periphery. The artists scanned the urban fabric for structures from the specified years, subverting presupposed lines of differentiation, chronologies, and dichotomies between the present and the period preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as the ideological distinction between East and West Berlin. This double volume is the print rendering of their cinematic installation.
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