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Learning from... London
Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
Paul Desmarais Theater
10 March 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... London
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Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
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10 March 2011
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theater
Learning from... Tongzhou
It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
10 April 2014 , 6pm
Learning from... Tongzhou
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It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Starting From... The Bubble
The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
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26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
Starting From... The Bubble
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The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
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171 pages illustrations 24 cm
Paris, Librairies techniques, 1967.
Planification urbaine et propriété privée. Préface de Jean Rivero.
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171 pages illustrations 24 cm
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Paris, Librairies techniques, 1967.
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Introduction à la planification urbaine : imprécis d'urbanisme à la française / Jean-Paul Lacaze.
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xiv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Paris : Moniteur, 1979.
Introduction à la planification urbaine : imprécis d'urbanisme à la française / Jean-Paul Lacaze.
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xiv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Paris : Moniteur, 1979.
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xx, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : UMI Dissertation Services, 2007.
La planification urbaine à l'épreuve de la métropolisation : enjeux, acteurs et stratégies à Marseille et à Montréal / par Nicolas Douay.
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xx, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : UMI Dissertation Services, 2007.
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244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
[Montréal] : Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2012.
Débattre pour transformer l'action urbaine : planification urbaine et développement durable à Grenoble, Lyon et Montréal / Lila Combe [and others].
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244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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[Montréal] : Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2012.
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105 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
[Ottawa] : Ministère d'État des affaires urbaines, 1976.
Une planification humaine : réflexions personnelles sur l'expérience de la planification dans le Grand Vancouver / Harry Lash.
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105 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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[Ottawa] : Ministère d'État des affaires urbaines, 1976.
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24 leaves 30 cm
Paris, [1972]
Planification urbaine de villages dans les pays en developpement. Planning of villages in developing countries.
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24 leaves 30 cm
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Paris, [1972]
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72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
[Ottawa] : Ministère d'état des affaires urbaines, 1976.
Le peuplement du Canada et la planification de l'environnement / Alice Coleman.
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72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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[Ottawa] : Ministère d'état des affaires urbaines, 1976.