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312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Taming Manhattan : environmental battles in the antebellum city / Catherine McNeur.
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312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file (35 minutes)) : sound, color
London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.
Artifice, Not Nature / [presented by] Laurie Olin.
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London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.
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"The limitless city" offers an accessible examination of the predominant form of land use in the United States today - the all too familiar pattern of commercial and residential development know as sprawl. Oliver Gillham, an architect and planner with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field, considers the history and development of sprawl and examines(...)
The limetless city : a primer in the urban sprawl debate
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"The limitless city" offers an accessible examination of the predominant form of land use in the United States today - the all too familiar pattern of commercial and residential development know as sprawl. Oliver Gillham, an architect and planner with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field, considers the history and development of sprawl and examines current debates about the issue. The book offers a comprehensive definition of sprawl in America; traces the roots of sprawl and considers the factors that led to its preeminence as an urban and suburban form reviews both its negative impacts (loss of open space, increased pollution, gridlock) as well as its positive aspects (economic development, personal freedom, privacy); considers responses to sprawl including "smart growth," urban growth boundaries, regional planning, and the New Urbanism; looks at what can be done to improve and counterbalance sprawl. The author argues that whether we like it or not, sprawl is here to stay, and only by understanding where it came from and why it developed will we be able to successfully address the problems it has created and is likely to create in the future. "The limitless city" provides a realistic look at sprawl, with a frank recognition of its status as the predominant urban form in America, now and into the near future. Rather than railing against it, Gillham charts its probable future course while describing critical efforts that can be undertaken to improve the future of sprawl and our existing urban core areas.
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March 2002, Washington
Urban Theory
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm
[Berlin] : Aedes, [2019], ©2019
Zukunft Schulbau : Europäische Beispiele zeitgemässer Schularchitektur = Future School Buildings / Herausgeber, Kristin Feireiss, Hans-Jürgen Commerell.
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[Berlin] : Aedes, [2019], ©2019
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Fundación Cisneros 2012
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Fundación Cisneros 2012
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Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks available for open space, parks, housing, and nonindustrial uses. Urban rivers, which once functioned as open sewers for cities, are now seen as part of larger watershed ecosystems. Rivertown examines(...)
Rivertown : Rethinking urban rivers
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Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks available for open space, parks, housing, and nonindustrial uses. Urban rivers, which once functioned as open sewers for cities, are now seen as part of larger watershed ecosystems. Rivertown examines urban river restoration efforts across the United States, presenting case studies from Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Oregon; Chicago; Salt Lake City; and San Jose. It also analyzes the roles of the federal government (in particular, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and citizen activism in urban river politics. A postscript places New Orleans's experience with Hurricane Katrina in the broader context of the national riverside land-use debate. Each case study in Rivertown considers the critical questions of who makes decisions about our urban rivers, who pays to implement these decisions, and who ultimately benefits or suffers from these decisions. In Los Angeles, for example, local nonprofit and academic research groups played crucial roles, whereas Chicago relied on a series of engineering interventions. In each case, authors evaluate the ecological issues and consider urban river restoration projects in relation to other urban economic and environmental initiatives in the region. Rivertown is a valuable resource for urban planners and citizen groups as well as for scholars.
Landscape Theory
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327 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), plans, maps, portraits ; 26 x 30 cm
Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2016]
Kindred objects / edited by Staab Architeken ; Florian Heilmeyer.
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327 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), plans, maps, portraits ; 26 x 30 cm
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Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2016]
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Highlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to(...)
Against the commons: A radical history of urban planning
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Highlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources, public space, neighborhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries. This volume underscores the ways urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending particular awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for postcapitalist urban planning, in which the structure of collective spaces is ultimately defined by the people who inhabit them.
Urban Theory
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95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
New York : Aperture, ©1997.
On planet Earth : travels in an unfamiliar land / photographs by Jan Staller ; flood plain, an original story by Luc Sante.
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New York : Aperture, ©1997.
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This book reveals Copenhagen's quality of life using the example of built spaces. It leads its readers on a tour of exploration, visiting exciting architecture projects and surprising districts between Ørestadt and Nordhavn. A total of over 25 buildings, urban squares and public spaces created in the past 10 years are presented. Documented with photos, general plans and(...)
Kobenhavn: Urban architecture and public spaces
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This book reveals Copenhagen's quality of life using the example of built spaces. It leads its readers on a tour of exploration, visiting exciting architecture projects and surprising districts between Ørestadt and Nordhavn. A total of over 25 buildings, urban squares and public spaces created in the past 10 years are presented. Documented with photos, general plans and texts, these projects paint an image of a generation of architects and planners who are not afraid to employ novel solutions. On display are daring typologies such as Amager Bakke, a ski slope on a waste incineration plant by BIG, iconic buildings, including the Royal Danish Aquarium by 3XN or popular public spaces for the urban community.
Architecture since 1900, Europe