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How to study public life
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How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance. Jan Gehl has been(...)
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How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance. Jan Gehl has been(...)
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How to study public life
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How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance. Jan Gehl has been examining this question since the 1960s, when few urban designers or planners were thinking about designing cities for people. But given the unpredictable, complex and ephemeral nature of life in cities, how can we best design public infrastructure—vital to cities for getting from place to place, or staying in place—for human use? Studying city life and understanding the factors that encourage or discourage use is the key to designing inviting public space.
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How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance. Jan Gehl has been examining this question since the 1960s, when few urban designers or planners were thinking about designing cities for people. But given the unpredictable, complex and ephemeral nature of life in cities, how can we best design public infrastructure—vital to cities for getting from place to place, or staying in place—for human use? Studying city life and understanding the factors that encourage or discourage use is the key to designing inviting public space.
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December 2013
December 2013
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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The society of interiors
The society of interiors
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The Society of Interiors discusses a variety of spatial practices which critique, reveal, and resist the economical logic of a neo-liberal market. A market that caters for exclusiveness and individualities, where public space becomes an interior, that is highly controlled and privatized. The different essays unpack, develop and expand a diversity of interior and spatial(...)
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The Society of Interiors discusses a variety of spatial practices which critique, reveal, and resist the economical logic of a neo-liberal market. A market that caters for exclusiveness and individualities, where public space becomes an interior, that is highly controlled and privatized. The different essays unpack, develop and expand a diversity of interior and spatial(...)
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The society of interiors
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The Society of Interiors discusses a variety of spatial practices which critique, reveal, and resist the economical logic of a neo-liberal market. A market that caters for exclusiveness and individualities, where public space becomes an interior, that is highly controlled and privatized. The different essays unpack, develop and expand a diversity of interior and spatial practices in urban contexts that allow for a diverse public, express differences, and create other experiences and situations. Contributors: Rochus Hinkel, Peter Lang, Tor Lindstrand, Petra Pferdmenges, Tatjana Schneider
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The Society of Interiors discusses a variety of spatial practices which critique, reveal, and resist the economical logic of a neo-liberal market. A market that caters for exclusiveness and individualities, where public space becomes an interior, that is highly controlled and privatized. The different essays unpack, develop and expand a diversity of interior and spatial practices in urban contexts that allow for a diverse public, express differences, and create other experiences and situations. Contributors: Rochus Hinkel, Peter Lang, Tor Lindstrand, Petra Pferdmenges, Tatjana Schneider
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January 2018
January 2018
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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"X-Urbanism" raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal(...)
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"X-Urbanism" raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal(...)
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X-urbanism : architecture and the American city
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"X-Urbanism" raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal properties of American urbanism--fabric, void, grid, wall--that reveal the hidden structure of the cities New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, New Haven, Des Moines, and Atlantic City. In the process, X-Urbanism confounds our expectations: it shows us the subtle order of chaotic Los Angeles, and the disruptions of New York's rigorous grid.
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"X-Urbanism" raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal properties of American urbanism--fabric, void, grid, wall--that reveal the hidden structure of the cities New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, New Haven, Des Moines, and Atlantic City. In the process, X-Urbanism confounds our expectations: it shows us the subtle order of chaotic Los Angeles, and the disruptions of New York's rigorous grid.
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February 1999, New York
February 1999, New York
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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In Europe, the period of great economic and demographic growth is largely over. The physical growth of our urban agglomerations has come to an end. The spatial assignment of the future European city will be fundamentally different. Building new space outside the city boundaries is no longer necessary. Instead, what exists should be made sustainable. The new spatial(...)
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In Europe, the period of great economic and demographic growth is largely over. The physical growth of our urban agglomerations has come to an end. The spatial assignment of the future European city will be fundamentally different. Building new space outside the city boundaries is no longer necessary. Instead, what exists should be made sustainable. The new spatial(...)
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The flexible city: sustainable solutions for a Europe in transit
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In Europe, the period of great economic and demographic growth is largely over. The physical growth of our urban agglomerations has come to an end. The spatial assignment of the future European city will be fundamentally different. Building new space outside the city boundaries is no longer necessary. Instead, what exists should be made sustainable. The new spatial assignment involves maintaining, restructuring, densifying or diluting the existing city. This publication analyses this development and describes a toolbox that is able to turn the new assignment into a success.
The flexible city: sustainable solutions for a Europe in transit
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In Europe, the period of great economic and demographic growth is largely over. The physical growth of our urban agglomerations has come to an end. The spatial assignment of the future European city will be fundamentally different. Building new space outside the city boundaries is no longer necessary. Instead, what exists should be made sustainable. The new spatial assignment involves maintaining, restructuring, densifying or diluting the existing city. This publication analyses this development and describes a toolbox that is able to turn the new assignment into a success.
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August 2016
August 2016
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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The Reichstag graffiti
The Reichstag graffiti
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The walls of the Reichstag are covered with graffiti, written by victorious Soviet soldiers in 1945. Hidden for 30 years, the Reichstag graffiti were rediscovered by Norman Foster and his team when they began work on the building in 1995. They were preserved as part of Foster’s concept of the Reichstag as a ‘living museum’ of German history. Published at a time when the(...)
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The walls of the Reichstag are covered with graffiti, written by victorious Soviet soldiers in 1945. Hidden for 30 years, the Reichstag graffiti were rediscovered by Norman Foster and his team when they began work on the building in 1995. They were preserved as part of Foster’s concept of the Reichstag as a ‘living museum’ of German history. Published at a time when the(...)
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March 2003, Berlin
March 2003, Berlin
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The Reichstag graffiti
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The walls of the Reichstag are covered with graffiti, written by victorious Soviet soldiers in 1945. Hidden for 30 years, the Reichstag graffiti were rediscovered by Norman Foster and his team when they began work on the building in 1995. They were preserved as part of Foster’s concept of the Reichstag as a ‘living museum’ of German history. Published at a time when the graffiti are threatened with eradication, this book offers an important visual and literary record. Deborah Lipstadt considers the arguments for and against the preservation of the graffiti: is the preservation, as some charge, "morally offensive" and "masochistic" or does it indicate a brave determination not to forget the tragedies of the past? And what does it mean and say about Germany today? Frederick Baker considers the graffiti as a monument to the individual and offers an historical account of the Battle of Berlin through the eyes of Red Army soldiers as they approached their ultimate goal, including the soldier who first raised the Red Flag above the Reichstag. This illustrated volume allows the inscriptions to be made accessible and understandable to a wider public for the first time.
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The walls of the Reichstag are covered with graffiti, written by victorious Soviet soldiers in 1945. Hidden for 30 years, the Reichstag graffiti were rediscovered by Norman Foster and his team when they began work on the building in 1995. They were preserved as part of Foster’s concept of the Reichstag as a ‘living museum’ of German history. Published at a time when the graffiti are threatened with eradication, this book offers an important visual and literary record. Deborah Lipstadt considers the arguments for and against the preservation of the graffiti: is the preservation, as some charge, "morally offensive" and "masochistic" or does it indicate a brave determination not to forget the tragedies of the past? And what does it mean and say about Germany today? Frederick Baker considers the graffiti as a monument to the individual and offers an historical account of the Battle of Berlin through the eyes of Red Army soldiers as they approached their ultimate goal, including the soldier who first raised the Red Flag above the Reichstag. This illustrated volume allows the inscriptions to be made accessible and understandable to a wider public for the first time.
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March 2003, Berlin
March 2003, Berlin
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Dans une position qui n’est pas sans rappeler l’intérêt d’artistes tels que Dan Graham ou Robert Smithson pour les cultures populaires, Raphaël Zarka se documente et écrit au sujet du skateboard depuis plusieurs années. Cet ouvrage décrit l’évolution du skateboard, de ses origines aquatiques jusqu’à l’ambivalente popularité médiatique dont elle jouit depuis quelques(...)
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Dans une position qui n’est pas sans rappeler l’intérêt d’artistes tels que Dan Graham ou Robert Smithson pour les cultures populaires, Raphaël Zarka se documente et écrit au sujet du skateboard depuis plusieurs années. Cet ouvrage décrit l’évolution du skateboard, de ses origines aquatiques jusqu’à l’ambivalente popularité médiatique dont elle jouit depuis quelques(...)
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Une journée sans vague : chronologie lacunaire du skateboard, 1779-2005
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Dans une position qui n’est pas sans rappeler l’intérêt d’artistes tels que Dan Graham ou Robert Smithson pour les cultures populaires, Raphaël Zarka se documente et écrit au sujet du skateboard depuis plusieurs années. Cet ouvrage décrit l’évolution du skateboard, de ses origines aquatiques jusqu’à l’ambivalente popularité médiatique dont elle jouit depuis quelques années. Tout aussi lacunaire qu'elle puisse être, cette chronologie du skateboard est, sans précédant, le seul ouvrage sur ce thème disponible en langue française.
Une journée sans vague : chronologie lacunaire du skateboard, 1779-2005
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Dans une position qui n’est pas sans rappeler l’intérêt d’artistes tels que Dan Graham ou Robert Smithson pour les cultures populaires, Raphaël Zarka se documente et écrit au sujet du skateboard depuis plusieurs années. Cet ouvrage décrit l’évolution du skateboard, de ses origines aquatiques jusqu’à l’ambivalente popularité médiatique dont elle jouit depuis quelques années. Tout aussi lacunaire qu'elle puisse être, cette chronologie du skateboard est, sans précédant, le seul ouvrage sur ce thème disponible en langue française.
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November 2006, Paris
November 2006, Paris
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Le Lieu Unique, installé dans l'ancienne biscuiterie Lefèvre-Utile à Nantes, est l'aboutissement d'un défi : la rencontre entre un projet culturel innovant et une démarche architecturale inhabituelle.
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Le Lieu Unique, installé dans l'ancienne biscuiterie Lefèvre-Utile à Nantes, est l'aboutissement d'un défi : la rencontre entre un projet culturel innovant et une démarche architecturale inhabituelle.
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Le lieu unique : lee chantier, un acte culturel / Nantes
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Le Lieu Unique, installé dans l'ancienne biscuiterie Lefèvre-Utile à Nantes, est l'aboutissement d'un défi : la rencontre entre un projet culturel innovant et une démarche architecturale inhabituelle.
Le lieu unique : lee chantier, un acte culturel / Nantes
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Le Lieu Unique, installé dans l'ancienne biscuiterie Lefèvre-Utile à Nantes, est l'aboutissement d'un défi : la rencontre entre un projet culturel innovant et une démarche architecturale inhabituelle.
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September 2006, Arles
September 2006, Arles
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Parallel strokes
Parallel strokes
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Parallel strokes is a collection of interviews with 19 contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world (Akira Kobayashi, Barry McGee, Daim and Seak, Ed Fella, among others). The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider(...)
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Parallel strokes is a collection of interviews with 19 contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world (Akira Kobayashi, Barry McGee, Daim and Seak, Ed Fella, among others). The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider(...)
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Parallel strokes
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Parallel strokes is a collection of interviews with 19 contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world (Akira Kobayashi, Barry McGee, Daim and Seak, Ed Fella, among others). The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering.
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Parallel strokes is a collection of interviews with 19 contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world (Akira Kobayashi, Barry McGee, Daim and Seak, Ed Fella, among others). The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering.
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June 2008, Tokyo
June 2008, Tokyo
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Une vague de morosité s'abattit sur les villes françaises au cours des années 1970. En fait, depuis dix ans déjà, l'incertitude avait gagné les milieux de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, laissant désemparés ceux qui s'étaient ralliés d'enthousiasme au Mouvement moderne et constataient brutalement que ses charmes s'étiolaient. Les vieilles villes y trouvèrent une(...)
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Une vague de morosité s'abattit sur les villes françaises au cours des années 1970. En fait, depuis dix ans déjà, l'incertitude avait gagné les milieux de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, laissant désemparés ceux qui s'étaient ralliés d'enthousiasme au Mouvement moderne et constataient brutalement que ses charmes s'étiolaient. Les vieilles villes y trouvèrent une(...)
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January 2008, Rennes
January 2008, Rennes
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Art public et projet urbain: Brest, 1970-2000
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Une vague de morosité s'abattit sur les villes françaises au cours des années 1970. En fait, depuis dix ans déjà, l'incertitude avait gagné les milieux de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, laissant désemparés ceux qui s'étaient ralliés d'enthousiasme au Mouvement moderne et constataient brutalement que ses charmes s'étiolaient. Les vieilles villes y trouvèrent une rédemption. Mais cette brutale révision doctrinale, qui glorifiait la longue durée et proclamait que l'histoire garantissait l'avenir, compliquait évidemment la tâche de ceux qui ne pouvaient s'en prévaloir. Elle rendait spécialement angoissante la situation des villes qui avaient connu une brutale interruption de leur destinée et qu'il avait fallu reconstruire. Déjà, pour d'obscures raisons, leur souvenir était remisé dans la médiocre catégorie des réalisations de l'urgence, dépourvues d'inspiration et de ressources. Elles rencontraient même la défiance de leurs habitants taraudés par la nostalgie ou le regret et la critique des spécialistes dépités que leur relèvement rient manifesté plus d'audace. Pourtant, ces villes sans mérite apparent constituaient un remarquable laboratoire pour interroger les raisons mêmes de l'urbain et leur relation au passé. Surtout, leur incapacité hâtivement proclamée à offrir des conditions propices à l'épanouissement d'un espace public satisfaisant rejoignait l'actualité d'une question qui ne pouvait espérer un plus vaste champ d'élucidation. Brest fut alors pionnière. On y conduisit des recherches originales ponctuées d'hypothèses qui justifièrent des expérimentations inédites et à très grande échelle. La plus ambitieuse d'entre elles, la plus spectaculaire et la plus commentée, la plus polémique aussi, mit à contribution des artistes parmi les plus en vue de l'époque ou à l'aube de leur œuvre, invités ou surgis spontanément. Bien loin en l'occurrence du rôle " d'enlumineurs " de la ville qu'on leur concédait parfois, ils furent promus acteurs principaux de sa transfiguration morale. A la reconstruction architecturale, jugée responsable de bien des maux réels ou psychosomatiques, on opposait ainsi une " reconstruction mentale " capable pensait-on d'apporter un supplément d'âme et de conduire à l'apaisement. En relatant et commentant les trois décennies de cette saga brestoise, l'intention est bien d'éclairer quelques questions universelles, auxquelles l'urbanisme se trouve confronté, et d'apprécier le secours que l'art et les artistes peuvent lui apporter.
Art public et projet urbain: Brest, 1970-2000
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Une vague de morosité s'abattit sur les villes françaises au cours des années 1970. En fait, depuis dix ans déjà, l'incertitude avait gagné les milieux de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, laissant désemparés ceux qui s'étaient ralliés d'enthousiasme au Mouvement moderne et constataient brutalement que ses charmes s'étiolaient. Les vieilles villes y trouvèrent une rédemption. Mais cette brutale révision doctrinale, qui glorifiait la longue durée et proclamait que l'histoire garantissait l'avenir, compliquait évidemment la tâche de ceux qui ne pouvaient s'en prévaloir. Elle rendait spécialement angoissante la situation des villes qui avaient connu une brutale interruption de leur destinée et qu'il avait fallu reconstruire. Déjà, pour d'obscures raisons, leur souvenir était remisé dans la médiocre catégorie des réalisations de l'urgence, dépourvues d'inspiration et de ressources. Elles rencontraient même la défiance de leurs habitants taraudés par la nostalgie ou le regret et la critique des spécialistes dépités que leur relèvement rient manifesté plus d'audace. Pourtant, ces villes sans mérite apparent constituaient un remarquable laboratoire pour interroger les raisons mêmes de l'urbain et leur relation au passé. Surtout, leur incapacité hâtivement proclamée à offrir des conditions propices à l'épanouissement d'un espace public satisfaisant rejoignait l'actualité d'une question qui ne pouvait espérer un plus vaste champ d'élucidation. Brest fut alors pionnière. On y conduisit des recherches originales ponctuées d'hypothèses qui justifièrent des expérimentations inédites et à très grande échelle. La plus ambitieuse d'entre elles, la plus spectaculaire et la plus commentée, la plus polémique aussi, mit à contribution des artistes parmi les plus en vue de l'époque ou à l'aube de leur œuvre, invités ou surgis spontanément. Bien loin en l'occurrence du rôle " d'enlumineurs " de la ville qu'on leur concédait parfois, ils furent promus acteurs principaux de sa transfiguration morale. A la reconstruction architecturale, jugée responsable de bien des maux réels ou psychosomatiques, on opposait ainsi une " reconstruction mentale " capable pensait-on d'apporter un supplément d'âme et de conduire à l'apaisement. En relatant et commentant les trois décennies de cette saga brestoise, l'intention est bien d'éclairer quelques questions universelles, auxquelles l'urbanisme se trouve confronté, et d'apprécier le secours que l'art et les artistes peuvent lui apporter.
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January 2008, Rennes
January 2008, Rennes
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This publication offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. We understand nostalgia, desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not material, they are nevertheless real and must be accounted for. The authors take up affect, emotion, and emplacement and consider them in relation to one another and how they(...)
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This publication offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. We understand nostalgia, desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not material, they are nevertheless real and must be accounted for. The authors take up affect, emotion, and emplacement and consider them in relation to one another and how they(...)
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December 2010
December 2010
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Ecologies of affect: placing nostalgia, desire, and hope
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This publication offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. We understand nostalgia, desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not material, they are nevertheless real and must be accounted for. The authors take up affect, emotion, and emplacement and consider them in relation to one another and how they work to produce and are produced by certain temporal and spatial dimensions.
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This publication offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. We understand nostalgia, desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not material, they are nevertheless real and must be accounted for. The authors take up affect, emotion, and emplacement and consider them in relation to one another and how they work to produce and are produced by certain temporal and spatial dimensions.
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December 2010
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