100 Copenhagen typologies
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"100 Copenhagen typologies" presents 100 examples of re-use, adaptation and mixed-use architecture. In this book, Martin Marker and his students from The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape - BA Programme investigate Copenhagen as a Wunderkammer of architectural typologies. Leaving the focus on(...)
100 Copenhagen typologies
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"100 Copenhagen typologies" presents 100 examples of re-use, adaptation and mixed-use architecture. In this book, Martin Marker and his students from The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape - BA Programme investigate Copenhagen as a Wunderkammer of architectural typologies. Leaving the focus on materiality and visual aesthetics aside, the book explores how programmatic complexities and existing structures can form foundations for future urbanism in a rapidly changing world with a growing population, climate changes, and limited resources. This book extends a welcoming invitation to explore and examine our urban structures, sparking a vital conversation that encourage a fresh perspective on our existing typologies, ensuring their continued relevance for the people who inhabit them.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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The world is rapidly urbanizing, and experts predict that up to 80 percent of the population will live in cities by 2050. To accommodate that growth while ensuring quality of life for all residents, cities are increasingly turning to technology. From apps that make it easier for citizens to pitch in on civic improvement projects to comprehensive plans for smarter streets(...)
City tech: 20 apps, ideas, and innovations changing the urban landscape
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The world is rapidly urbanizing, and experts predict that up to 80 percent of the population will live in cities by 2050. To accommodate that growth while ensuring quality of life for all residents, cities are increasingly turning to technology. From apps that make it easier for citizens to pitch in on civic improvement projects to comprehensive plans for smarter streets and neighborhoods, new tools and approaches are taking root across the United States and around the world. In this thoughtful, inquisitive collection, Rob Walker—former New York Times columnist and author of the City Tech column for Land Lines magazine—investigates the new technologies afoot and their implications for planners, policymakers, residents, and the virtual and literal landscapes of the cities we call home.
Urban Theory
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Les médias constituent un système qui sert à communiquer des messages et des symboles à la population. Ils ont vocation à distraire, amuser, informer, et à inculquer aux individus les croyances et codes comportementaux qui les intégreront aux structures sociales au sens large. Dans un monde où les richesses sont fortement concentrées et où les intérêts de classe entrent(...)
La fabrication du consentement de la propagande médiatique en démocratie
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Les médias constituent un système qui sert à communiquer des messages et des symboles à la population. Ils ont vocation à distraire, amuser, informer, et à inculquer aux individus les croyances et codes comportementaux qui les intégreront aux structures sociales au sens large. Dans un monde où les richesses sont fortement concentrées et où les intérêts de classe entrent en conflit, accomplir cette intégration nécessite une propagande systématique. Une modélisation de la propagande se focalise sur la prodigieuse inégalité dans la capacité de contrôle des moyens de production ; et ce qu'elle implique tant du point de vue de l'accès à un système de médias privés que de leurs choix et fonctionnements. Le modèle permet de reconstituer par quels processus le pouvoir et l'argent sélectionnent les informations.
Critical Theory
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In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the(...)
Inventing autopia: dreams and visions of the modern metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles
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In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, Inventing Autopia shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen new form of urbanism--sprawling, illegible, fractured--that would reshape not only Southern California but much of the nation in the years to come.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and(...)
Nights of the dispossessed: riots unbound
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Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tension, an 'age of riots' has powerfully begun. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode, and the hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed reveals the cracks in governability, 'Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound' brings together artistic works, political texts, critical urban analyses, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to 'sense,' chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings - evoking a phenomenology of the multitude and surplus population.
Critical Theory
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L’enquête-choc qui a révélé la dévitalisation des villes françaises et suscité un débat national.La crise urbaine ronge les préfectures et sous-préfectures, les détruit de l’intérieur : les vitrines des commerces se vident, la population stagne, les logements sont vacants, le niveau de vie baisse. Alors que se passe-t-il? Dans cet ouvrage, analyse l’offensive délibérée de(...)
Comment la France a tué ses villes
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L’enquête-choc qui a révélé la dévitalisation des villes françaises et suscité un débat national.La crise urbaine ronge les préfectures et sous-préfectures, les détruit de l’intérieur : les vitrines des commerces se vident, la population stagne, les logements sont vacants, le niveau de vie baisse. Alors que se passe-t-il? Dans cet ouvrage, analyse l’offensive délibérée de la grande distribution, en périphérie, qui tue les commerces du centre-ville et des quartiers anciens, et sacrifie les emplois de proximité. Il observe également comment la motorisation – incarnée par la voiture individuelle – contribue largement à l’asphyxie des villes. « Comment la France peut-elle sauver ses villes? » Il n’existe nulle solution miraculeuse, mais une série de petits pas, de décisions empreintes de sobriété.
Urban Theory
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Inutile, libre, grand, généreux. Ce sont ces traits de l’ailante(? – Ailanthus altissima) que Zhuangzi évoquait pour illustrer sa philosophie Tao. Aujourd’hui, ces mêmes caractères sont reprochés aux spécimens de cette espèce qui évolue dans les régions tempérées de tous les continents. Simon Boudvin a suivi le développement d’une population d’ailantes pendant dix ans sur(...)
Ailanthus altissima : une monographie située de l'ailante
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Inutile, libre, grand, généreux. Ce sont ces traits de l’ailante(? – Ailanthus altissima) que Zhuangzi évoquait pour illustrer sa philosophie Tao. Aujourd’hui, ces mêmes caractères sont reprochés aux spécimens de cette espèce qui évolue dans les régions tempérées de tous les continents. Simon Boudvin a suivi le développement d’une population d’ailantes pendant dix ans sur un territoire de l’Est parisien, entre les communes de Bagnolet et Montreuil. Il partage ici un extrait de son relevé photographique, complété par le récit de l’histoire, des voyages, de l’intégration et du rejet de l’ailante dans nos sciences et cultures. Cette monographie située interroge notre capacité à accueillir l’apparition d’une forme de vie spontanée et à relâcher notre maîtrise exclusive sur l’espace de nos villes.
Urban Landscapes
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Set within the cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de siecle to the present day, this book provides an insightful analysis of the city's extraordinarily rich architectural tradition. Beginning with Wagner’s polemical manifesto, ''Moderne Architektur'', it stresses the importance of the fraught and highly polarized cultural politics that engulfed Vienna for(...)
Rebel modernists: Viennese architecture since Otto Wagner
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Set within the cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de siecle to the present day, this book provides an insightful analysis of the city's extraordinarily rich architectural tradition. Beginning with Wagner’s polemical manifesto, ''Moderne Architektur'', it stresses the importance of the fraught and highly polarized cultural politics that engulfed Vienna for most of the twentieth century and ultimately produced much of what is modern in every field of culture and science. The book also places architectural history within the context of the political economy that has shaped Vienna and highlights the relatively unknown tradition of Viennese social housing, initiated by social democratic Red Vienna in the 1920s. Today, 60% of Vienna’s population lives in the most successful social housing in the world.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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« La Popularité des conflits » est l'histoire d'un livre rouge qui pâlit. Il réunit cent sondages d'opinion publiés au lendemain de manifestations, grèves et autres mouvements sociaux dans différents organes de presse. Ces sondages ont la particularité de mesurer la sympathie d'une population pour tel ou tel conflit, donnant à lire, sous la forme d'un pourcentage, le(...)
Matthieu Saladin : la popularité des conflits
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« La Popularité des conflits » est l'histoire d'un livre rouge qui pâlit. Il réunit cent sondages d'opinion publiés au lendemain de manifestations, grèves et autres mouvements sociaux dans différents organes de presse. Ces sondages ont la particularité de mesurer la sympathie d'une population pour tel ou tel conflit, donnant à lire, sous la forme d'un pourcentage, le degré présumé d'adhésion populaire à la manifestation d'une protestation elle-même populaire. Les sondages sont présentés par ordre de popularité décroissant, le pourcentage de soutien devenant ici le pourcentage de couleur rouge de l'aplat correspondant. Le rouge ayant servi d'étalon pour ce livre provient, quant à lui, d'une gravure ornant la page de garde de la première édition (1967) de l'ouvrage de Maurice Dommanget, Histoire du drapeau rouge.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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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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