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The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. "The neoliberal city" presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world institutions like the IMF and World Bank impose on third-world countries(...)
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The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. "The neoliberal city" presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world institutions like the IMF and World Bank impose on third-world countries(...)
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The neoliberal city : governance, ideology, and development in american urbanism
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The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. "The neoliberal city" presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world institutions like the IMF and World Bank impose on third-world countries and cities. The support of unimpeded trade and individual freedoms and the discouragement of state regulation and social spending are the putative centerpieces of this vision. More and more, though, people have come to recognize that first-world cities are undergoing the same processes. In "The neoliberal city", Jason Hackworth argues that neoliberal policies are in fact having a profound effect on the nature and direction of urbanization in the United States and other wealthy countries, and that much can be learned from studying its effect. He explores the impact that neoliberalism has had on three aspects of urbanization in the United States: governance, urban form, and social movements. The American inner city is seen as a crucial battle zone for the wider neoliberal transition primarily because it embodies neoliberalism's antithesis, Keynesian egalitarian liberalism. Focusing on issues such as gentrification in New York City; public-housing policy in New York, Chicago, and Seattle; downtown redevelopment in Phoenix; and urban-landscape change in New Brunswick, N.J., Hackworth shows us how material and symbolic changes to institutions, neighborhoods, and entire urban regions can be traced in part to the rise of neoliberalism.
The neoliberal city : governance, ideology, and development in american urbanism
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The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. "The neoliberal city" presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world institutions like the IMF and World Bank impose on third-world countries and cities. The support of unimpeded trade and individual freedoms and the discouragement of state regulation and social spending are the putative centerpieces of this vision. More and more, though, people have come to recognize that first-world cities are undergoing the same processes. In "The neoliberal city", Jason Hackworth argues that neoliberal policies are in fact having a profound effect on the nature and direction of urbanization in the United States and other wealthy countries, and that much can be learned from studying its effect. He explores the impact that neoliberalism has had on three aspects of urbanization in the United States: governance, urban form, and social movements. The American inner city is seen as a crucial battle zone for the wider neoliberal transition primarily because it embodies neoliberalism's antithesis, Keynesian egalitarian liberalism. Focusing on issues such as gentrification in New York City; public-housing policy in New York, Chicago, and Seattle; downtown redevelopment in Phoenix; and urban-landscape change in New Brunswick, N.J., Hackworth shows us how material and symbolic changes to institutions, neighborhoods, and entire urban regions can be traced in part to the rise of neoliberalism.
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December 2006, Ithaca, London
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The tenants of East Harlem
The tenants of East Harlem
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Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, "The tenants of East Harlem" is an unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian(...)
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Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, "The tenants of East Harlem" is an unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian(...)
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August 2006, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
August 2006, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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The tenants of East Harlem
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Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, "The tenants of East Harlem" is an unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian holdouts; José, a Puerto Rican; and Lucille, an African American. Side by side with these representatives of a century of ethnic succession are the newcomers: Maria, an undocumented Mexican; Mohamed, a West African entrepreneur; Si Zhi, a Chinese immigrant and landlord; and, finally, the author himself, a reluctant beneficiary of urban renewal. Russell Leigh Sharman weaves these oral histories together with fine-grained ethnographic observations and urban history to examine the ways that immigration, housing, ethnic change, gentrification, race, class, and gender have affected the neighborhood over time. Providing access to the nuances of inner-city life, "The tenants of East Harlem" shows how roots sink so quickly in a community that has always hosted the transient, how new immigrants are challenging the claims of the old, and how that cycle is threatened as never before by the specter of gentrification.
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Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, "The tenants of East Harlem" is an unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian holdouts; José, a Puerto Rican; and Lucille, an African American. Side by side with these representatives of a century of ethnic succession are the newcomers: Maria, an undocumented Mexican; Mohamed, a West African entrepreneur; Si Zhi, a Chinese immigrant and landlord; and, finally, the author himself, a reluctant beneficiary of urban renewal. Russell Leigh Sharman weaves these oral histories together with fine-grained ethnographic observations and urban history to examine the ways that immigration, housing, ethnic change, gentrification, race, class, and gender have affected the neighborhood over time. Providing access to the nuances of inner-city life, "The tenants of East Harlem" shows how roots sink so quickly in a community that has always hosted the transient, how new immigrants are challenging the claims of the old, and how that cycle is threatened as never before by the specter of gentrification.
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August 2006, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
August 2006, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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Los Angeles's history is a story of conflicting visions. Most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on L.A. as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited immigrants, and unregulated sprawl. "The next Los Angeles" tells a different story: that of the reformers and radicals who have struggled for(...)
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Los Angeles's history is a story of conflicting visions. Most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on L.A. as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited immigrants, and unregulated sprawl. "The next Los Angeles" tells a different story: that of the reformers and radicals who have struggled for(...)
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August 2006, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
August 2006, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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The next Los Angeles : the struggle for a livable city, updated with a new preface
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Los Angeles's history is a story of conflicting visions. Most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on L.A. as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited immigrants, and unregulated sprawl. "The next Los Angeles" tells a different story: that of the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. The authors chronicle efforts of progressive social movements that worked throughout the twentieth century to create a more livable, just, and democratic Los Angeles. These movements-what the authors call Progressive L.A.-have produced a new kind of labor movement, community-oriented environmentalism, and multi-ethnic coalition politics. This book shows how reformers have fought to transform a city characterized by huge economic disparities, concrete-encased rivers, and an endless landscape of subdivisions, freeways, and malls into a progressive model for regions around the country. "The next Los Angeles" includes a decade-by-decade historical snapshot of the city's progressive social movements and an in-depth exploration of key trends that are remaking L.A. at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It examines L.A.'s changing political landscape, including grassroots initiatives to construct a new agenda for social transformation.
The next Los Angeles : the struggle for a livable city, updated with a new preface
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Los Angeles's history is a story of conflicting visions. Most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on L.A. as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited immigrants, and unregulated sprawl. "The next Los Angeles" tells a different story: that of the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. The authors chronicle efforts of progressive social movements that worked throughout the twentieth century to create a more livable, just, and democratic Los Angeles. These movements-what the authors call Progressive L.A.-have produced a new kind of labor movement, community-oriented environmentalism, and multi-ethnic coalition politics. This book shows how reformers have fought to transform a city characterized by huge economic disparities, concrete-encased rivers, and an endless landscape of subdivisions, freeways, and malls into a progressive model for regions around the country. "The next Los Angeles" includes a decade-by-decade historical snapshot of the city's progressive social movements and an in-depth exploration of key trends that are remaking L.A. at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It examines L.A.'s changing political landscape, including grassroots initiatives to construct a new agenda for social transformation.
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August 2006, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
August 2006, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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From the Introduction: "The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every other year since 1986. Its objective is to recognize the remarkable value of urban design projects around the globe. This time, the prize goes to the City of Aleppo, for the rehabilitation of its historic town. The project has been carried out by the Old City Department of the(...)
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From the Introduction: "The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every other year since 1986. Its objective is to recognize the remarkable value of urban design projects around the globe. This time, the prize goes to the City of Aleppo, for the rehabilitation of its historic town. The project has been carried out by the Old City Department of the(...)
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Aleppo : rehabilitation of the Old City
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From the Introduction: "The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every other year since 1986. Its objective is to recognize the remarkable value of urban design projects around the globe. This time, the prize goes to the City of Aleppo, for the rehabilitation of its historic town. The project has been carried out by the Old City Department of the City of Aleppo, in collaboration with GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) and the efforts of many individual citizens. This recent experience in central Aleppo shows us how urban rehabilitation in a historic setting can transmit a vital new meaning when the main focus of the project is restoring urban fabric rather than rebuilding monuments; key to improving current conditions is understanding that the city's physical layout synthesizes its evolution. Furthermore, the effort demonstrates that the city's inhabitants can be the protagonists of such improvements."
Aleppo : rehabilitation of the Old City
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From the Introduction: "The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every other year since 1986. Its objective is to recognize the remarkable value of urban design projects around the globe. This time, the prize goes to the City of Aleppo, for the rehabilitation of its historic town. The project has been carried out by the Old City Department of the City of Aleppo, in collaboration with GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) and the efforts of many individual citizens. This recent experience in central Aleppo shows us how urban rehabilitation in a historic setting can transmit a vital new meaning when the main focus of the project is restoring urban fabric rather than rebuilding monuments; key to improving current conditions is understanding that the city's physical layout synthesizes its evolution. Furthermore, the effort demonstrates that the city's inhabitants can be the protagonists of such improvements."
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September 2006, Cambridge (MA)
September 2006, Cambridge (MA)
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Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and thus depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. In so doing, Brenner(...)
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Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and thus depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. In so doing, Brenner(...)
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Critique of urbanization: selected essays
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Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and thus depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. In so doing, Brenner advocates a constant reinvention of the framing categories, methods and assumptions of critical urban theory in relation to the rapidly mutating geographies of capitalist urbanization. Only a theory that is dynamic—which is constantly being transformed in relation to the restlessly evolving social worlds and territorial landscapes it aspires to grasp—can be a genuinely critical theory.
Critique of urbanization: selected essays
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Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and thus depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. In so doing, Brenner advocates a constant reinvention of the framing categories, methods and assumptions of critical urban theory in relation to the rapidly mutating geographies of capitalist urbanization. Only a theory that is dynamic—which is constantly being transformed in relation to the restlessly evolving social worlds and territorial landscapes it aspires to grasp—can be a genuinely critical theory.
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December 2016
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As the global economy has changed over the past decades, it has left an architectural legacy of abandoned factories, warehouses and docks in its wake. But these spaces need not remain empty; the history of post-industrial society is still being written. All over the world, abandoned industrial infrastructure is being creatively repurposed. RE–USA provides a toolkit for(...)
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As the global economy has changed over the past decades, it has left an architectural legacy of abandoned factories, warehouses and docks in its wake. But these spaces need not remain empty; the history of post-industrial society is still being written. All over the world, abandoned industrial infrastructure is being creatively repurposed. RE–USA provides a toolkit for(...)
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RE–USA: 20 American stories of adaptive reuse
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As the global economy has changed over the past decades, it has left an architectural legacy of abandoned factories, warehouses and docks in its wake. But these spaces need not remain empty; the history of post-industrial society is still being written. All over the world, abandoned industrial infrastructure is being creatively repurposed. RE–USA provides a toolkit for adaptive reuse grounded in practical examples. Cities and cases are selected to illustrate the power of innovative processes and projects based on private-public partnerships, bottom-up initiatives, community involvement and smart design despite difficult conditions, from declining demography to weak real estate values and scarce investment.
RE–USA: 20 American stories of adaptive reuse
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As the global economy has changed over the past decades, it has left an architectural legacy of abandoned factories, warehouses and docks in its wake. But these spaces need not remain empty; the history of post-industrial society is still being written. All over the world, abandoned industrial infrastructure is being creatively repurposed. RE–USA provides a toolkit for adaptive reuse grounded in practical examples. Cities and cases are selected to illustrate the power of innovative processes and projects based on private-public partnerships, bottom-up initiatives, community involvement and smart design despite difficult conditions, from declining demography to weak real estate values and scarce investment.
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October 2017
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Cet ouvrage se focalise sur deux objets distincts: l’entrée en ville, en tant que configuration spatiale, et l’arrivée en ville, en tant qu’expérience urbaine singulière. C’est dans le croisement de ces deuxobjets et des textes signés par des auteurs appartenant aux sciences sociales, de l’architecture et des arts qu’émerge la multiplicité des questions et des regards(...)
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Cet ouvrage se focalise sur deux objets distincts: l’entrée en ville, en tant que configuration spatiale, et l’arrivée en ville, en tant qu’expérience urbaine singulière. C’est dans le croisement de ces deuxobjets et des textes signés par des auteurs appartenant aux sciences sociales, de l’architecture et des arts qu’émerge la multiplicité des questions et des regards(...)
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L'entrée en ville : aménager, expérimenter, représenter
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Cet ouvrage se focalise sur deux objets distincts: l’entrée en ville, en tant que configuration spatiale, et l’arrivée en ville, en tant qu’expérience urbaine singulière. C’est dans le croisement de ces deuxobjets et des textes signés par des auteurs appartenant aux sciences sociales, de l’architecture et des arts qu’émerge la multiplicité des questions et des regards portés sur les espaces et le moment de l’entrée en ville. En trois temps, l’ouvrage examine les relations existant entre les espaces conçus (aménager), perçus (expérimenter) et vécus (représenter) de l’entrée en ville, dans une perspective diachronique qui va de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours.
L'entrée en ville : aménager, expérimenter, représenter
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Cet ouvrage se focalise sur deux objets distincts: l’entrée en ville, en tant que configuration spatiale, et l’arrivée en ville, en tant qu’expérience urbaine singulière. C’est dans le croisement de ces deuxobjets et des textes signés par des auteurs appartenant aux sciences sociales, de l’architecture et des arts qu’émerge la multiplicité des questions et des regards portés sur les espaces et le moment de l’entrée en ville. En trois temps, l’ouvrage examine les relations existant entre les espaces conçus (aménager), perçus (expérimenter) et vécus (représenter) de l’entrée en ville, dans une perspective diachronique qui va de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours.
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June 2017
June 2017
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Le béton est-il gris ? "Materia" propose de découvrir ce matériau millénaire sous ses multiples aspects. A travers une série d’exemples analytiques apparaissent les nombreux visages de cette matière souvent décriée et mal utilisée. Par la recherche d’une méthode rationnelle, les auteurs proposent une grammaire urbaine de l’utilisation du béton selon les règles de la(...)
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Le béton est-il gris ? "Materia" propose de découvrir ce matériau millénaire sous ses multiples aspects. A travers une série d’exemples analytiques apparaissent les nombreux visages de cette matière souvent décriée et mal utilisée. Par la recherche d’une méthode rationnelle, les auteurs proposent une grammaire urbaine de l’utilisation du béton selon les règles de la(...)
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Materia
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Le béton est-il gris ? "Materia" propose de découvrir ce matériau millénaire sous ses multiples aspects. A travers une série d’exemples analytiques apparaissent les nombreux visages de cette matière souvent décriée et mal utilisée. Par la recherche d’une méthode rationnelle, les auteurs proposent une grammaire urbaine de l’utilisation du béton selon les règles de la préfabrication contemporaine. Cet ouvrage fait parti d'un tryptique du même auteur. Retrouvez les deux autres titre : "Orizzonti" et "Terra incognita".
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Le béton est-il gris ? "Materia" propose de découvrir ce matériau millénaire sous ses multiples aspects. A travers une série d’exemples analytiques apparaissent les nombreux visages de cette matière souvent décriée et mal utilisée. Par la recherche d’une méthode rationnelle, les auteurs proposent une grammaire urbaine de l’utilisation du béton selon les règles de la préfabrication contemporaine. Cet ouvrage fait parti d'un tryptique du même auteur. Retrouvez les deux autres titre : "Orizzonti" et "Terra incognita".
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May 2017
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L'horizon de l'Arc lémanique change rapidement. Le paysage idyllique que nous partageons perdra à jamais ses caractéristiques à cause de l'expansion inévitable de l'environnement construit. L'évocation par le projet d'architecture proposée par Orizzonti illustre comment les décisions urbanistiques sont le résultat d'un processus. S'il est bien orienté et correctement(...)
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L'horizon de l'Arc lémanique change rapidement. Le paysage idyllique que nous partageons perdra à jamais ses caractéristiques à cause de l'expansion inévitable de l'environnement construit. L'évocation par le projet d'architecture proposée par Orizzonti illustre comment les décisions urbanistiques sont le résultat d'un processus. S'il est bien orienté et correctement(...)
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Orizzonti
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L'horizon de l'Arc lémanique change rapidement. Le paysage idyllique que nous partageons perdra à jamais ses caractéristiques à cause de l'expansion inévitable de l'environnement construit. L'évocation par le projet d'architecture proposée par Orizzonti illustre comment les décisions urbanistiques sont le résultat d'un processus. S'il est bien orienté et correctement organisé, un tel processus peut perpétuer le bien-être collectif que les lieux de concentration humaine nous offrent depuis des siècles, tout en sauvegardant les caractéristiques intrinsèques d'un paysage. Cet ouvrage fait parti d'un tryptique du même auteur. Retrouvez les deux autres titre ici: Materia et Terra incognita.
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L'horizon de l'Arc lémanique change rapidement. Le paysage idyllique que nous partageons perdra à jamais ses caractéristiques à cause de l'expansion inévitable de l'environnement construit. L'évocation par le projet d'architecture proposée par Orizzonti illustre comment les décisions urbanistiques sont le résultat d'un processus. S'il est bien orienté et correctement organisé, un tel processus peut perpétuer le bien-être collectif que les lieux de concentration humaine nous offrent depuis des siècles, tout en sauvegardant les caractéristiques intrinsèques d'un paysage. Cet ouvrage fait parti d'un tryptique du même auteur. Retrouvez les deux autres titre ici: Materia et Terra incognita.
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May 2017
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Hong Kong’s border with Shenzhen is dissolving. By 2047, the border will likely not exist. Integration with the Mainland will remove distinctions created by the "One Country Two Systems" policy. The uncertainty surrounding what will happen has created anxiety relating to law, identity, freedom of speech, and voting rights. Caught in this debate is the Frontier Closed(...)
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Hong Kong’s border with Shenzhen is dissolving. By 2047, the border will likely not exist. Integration with the Mainland will remove distinctions created by the "One Country Two Systems" policy. The uncertainty surrounding what will happen has created anxiety relating to law, identity, freedom of speech, and voting rights. Caught in this debate is the Frontier Closed(...)
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December 2016
December 2016
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Border ecologies: Hong Kong's mainland frontier
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Hong Kong’s border with Shenzhen is dissolving. By 2047, the border will likely not exist. Integration with the Mainland will remove distinctions created by the "One Country Two Systems" policy. The uncertainty surrounding what will happen has created anxiety relating to law, identity, freedom of speech, and voting rights. Caught in this debate is the Frontier Closed Area, a 1951 undeveloped buffer zone of estuaries, fish farms, forests, villages and military posts. In contrast, Shenzhen, has exploded into a metropolis of 15 million plus. The book explores this unique border ecology. Design strategies inserted within this ecology promote alternate forms of development. The example widens the discourse on borders to raise critical issues that impact the contemporary city.
Border ecologies: Hong Kong's mainland frontier
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Hong Kong’s border with Shenzhen is dissolving. By 2047, the border will likely not exist. Integration with the Mainland will remove distinctions created by the "One Country Two Systems" policy. The uncertainty surrounding what will happen has created anxiety relating to law, identity, freedom of speech, and voting rights. Caught in this debate is the Frontier Closed Area, a 1951 undeveloped buffer zone of estuaries, fish farms, forests, villages and military posts. In contrast, Shenzhen, has exploded into a metropolis of 15 million plus. The book explores this unique border ecology. Design strategies inserted within this ecology promote alternate forms of development. The example widens the discourse on borders to raise critical issues that impact the contemporary city.
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