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What makes a good city? This question has long preoccupied groups interested and involved in the making and remaking of city spaces. In "The moral economy of cities", Evelyn S. Ruppert contends that the vision of the ‘good city’ embraced by professionals in the business of city making recognizes the interests of a dominant public, namely middle class consumers, office(...)
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What makes a good city? This question has long preoccupied groups interested and involved in the making and remaking of city spaces. In "The moral economy of cities", Evelyn S. Ruppert contends that the vision of the ‘good city’ embraced by professionals in the business of city making recognizes the interests of a dominant public, namely middle class consumers, office(...)
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The moral economy of cities : shaping good citizens
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What makes a good city? This question has long preoccupied groups interested and involved in the making and remaking of city spaces. In "The moral economy of cities", Evelyn S. Ruppert contends that the vision of the ‘good city’ embraced by professionals in the business of city making recognizes the interests of a dominant public, namely middle class consumers, office workers, tourists, and families. This vision stigmatizes certain members of the public like street youth, panhandlers, discount-and low-income shoppers, and the language used to extol the virtues of the good city inherently moralizes social conduct in the city. Using the redevelopment of the Yonge-Dundas intersection in downtown Toronto in the mid-1990s as a case study, Ruppert examines the language of planners, urban designers, architects, and marketing analysts to reveal the extent to which moralization legitimizes these professions in the public eye and buttresses the very projects they produce. Ruppert’s conclusion that economic practices are not free from moral investment encourages the considerable task of re-examining the implications of city planning and development worldwide.
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What makes a good city? This question has long preoccupied groups interested and involved in the making and remaking of city spaces. In "The moral economy of cities", Evelyn S. Ruppert contends that the vision of the ‘good city’ embraced by professionals in the business of city making recognizes the interests of a dominant public, namely middle class consumers, office workers, tourists, and families. This vision stigmatizes certain members of the public like street youth, panhandlers, discount-and low-income shoppers, and the language used to extol the virtues of the good city inherently moralizes social conduct in the city. Using the redevelopment of the Yonge-Dundas intersection in downtown Toronto in the mid-1990s as a case study, Ruppert examines the language of planners, urban designers, architects, and marketing analysts to reveal the extent to which moralization legitimizes these professions in the public eye and buttresses the very projects they produce. Ruppert’s conclusion that economic practices are not free from moral investment encourages the considerable task of re-examining the implications of city planning and development worldwide.
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October 2005, Toronto
October 2005, Toronto
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City economics
City economics
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This introductory textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes,(...)
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This introductory textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes,(...)
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This introductory textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.
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This introductory textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.
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October 2005, Cambridge, Mass.
October 2005, Cambridge, Mass.
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The product of 4 years of work from "In the field", an artists collective that explores the complex social constellations around urban land use issues. "In the field" works towards a broader understanding of what it means to creatively generate public spaces and autonomous neighborhood planning. They share ideas and take action inhabiting, transforming, and opening up(...)
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The product of 4 years of work from "In the field", an artists collective that explores the complex social constellations around urban land use issues. "In the field" works towards a broader understanding of what it means to creatively generate public spaces and autonomous neighborhood planning. They share ideas and take action inhabiting, transforming, and opening up(...)
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Belltown paradise / Making their own plans
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The product of 4 years of work from "In the field", an artists collective that explores the complex social constellations around urban land use issues. "In the field" works towards a broader understanding of what it means to creatively generate public spaces and autonomous neighborhood planning. They share ideas and take action inhabiting, transforming, and opening up spaces around the world to new possibilities.
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The product of 4 years of work from "In the field", an artists collective that explores the complex social constellations around urban land use issues. "In the field" works towards a broader understanding of what it means to creatively generate public spaces and autonomous neighborhood planning. They share ideas and take action inhabiting, transforming, and opening up spaces around the world to new possibilities.
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January 2005, Chicago
January 2005, Chicago
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Sprawl : a compact history
Sprawl : a compact history
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As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside.(...)
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As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside.(...)
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Sprawl : a compact history
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As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside. Detractors call it sprawl and assert that it is economically inefficient, socially inequitable, environmentally irresponsible, and aesthetically ugly. Robert Bruegmann calls it a logical consequence of economic growth and the democratization of society, with benefits that urban planners have failed to recognize. In his history of the expanded city, Bruegmann overturns every assumption we have about sprawl. Taking a long view of urban development, he demonstrates that sprawl is neither recent nor particularly American but as old as cities themselves, just as characteristic of ancient Rome and eighteenth-century Paris as it is of Atlanta or Los Angeles. Nor is sprawl the disaster claimed by many contemporary observers. Although sprawl, like any settlement pattern, has undoubtedly produced problems that must be addressed, it has also provided millions of people with the kinds of mobility, privacy, and choice that were once the exclusive prerogatives of the rich and powerful. The first major book to strip urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, Sprawl offers a completely new vision of the city and its growth. Bruegmann leads readers to the powerful conclusion that ''in its immense complexity and constant change, the city-whether dense and concentrated at its core, looser and more sprawling in suburbia, or in the vast tracts of exurban penumbra that extend dozens, even hundreds, of miles-is the grandest and most marvelous work of mankind.''
Sprawl : a compact history
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As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside. Detractors call it sprawl and assert that it is economically inefficient, socially inequitable, environmentally irresponsible, and aesthetically ugly. Robert Bruegmann calls it a logical consequence of economic growth and the democratization of society, with benefits that urban planners have failed to recognize. In his history of the expanded city, Bruegmann overturns every assumption we have about sprawl. Taking a long view of urban development, he demonstrates that sprawl is neither recent nor particularly American but as old as cities themselves, just as characteristic of ancient Rome and eighteenth-century Paris as it is of Atlanta or Los Angeles. Nor is sprawl the disaster claimed by many contemporary observers. Although sprawl, like any settlement pattern, has undoubtedly produced problems that must be addressed, it has also provided millions of people with the kinds of mobility, privacy, and choice that were once the exclusive prerogatives of the rich and powerful. The first major book to strip urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, Sprawl offers a completely new vision of the city and its growth. Bruegmann leads readers to the powerful conclusion that ''in its immense complexity and constant change, the city-whether dense and concentrated at its core, looser and more sprawling in suburbia, or in the vast tracts of exurban penumbra that extend dozens, even hundreds, of miles-is the grandest and most marvelous work of mankind.''
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October 2005, Chicago, London
October 2005, Chicago, London
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In "Chasing the perfect" writer/designer Natalia Ilyin delivers her observations on design and the world it has molded. According to Ilyin, "Modern design is based on deeply idealist notions, and its inherent perfectionism has dovetailed beautifully with our commodity-based economy's need to keep people itching so that they will buy things and keep the society chugging(...)
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In "Chasing the perfect" writer/designer Natalia Ilyin delivers her observations on design and the world it has molded. According to Ilyin, "Modern design is based on deeply idealist notions, and its inherent perfectionism has dovetailed beautifully with our commodity-based economy's need to keep people itching so that they will buy things and keep the society chugging(...)
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Chasing the perfect : thoughts on modernist design in our time
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In "Chasing the perfect" writer/designer Natalia Ilyin delivers her observations on design and the world it has molded. According to Ilyin, "Modern design is based on deeply idealist notions, and its inherent perfectionism has dovetailed beautifully with our commodity-based economy's need to keep people itching so that they will buy things and keep the society chugging along. I began "Chasing the perfect" because I started to become aware of this collusion, this silent pressure that a language of design based in perfectionism had brought to bear on how I developed as a person." "Chasing the perfect" is especially relevant in our times as interest in graphic, industrial, and architectural design moves more and more into mainstream culture. Each of the 10 chapters features Ilyin’s accessible and often hilarious writing, which is highlighted with a broad range of images-some quite unexpected-from the designed world around us.
Chasing the perfect : thoughts on modernist design in our time
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In "Chasing the perfect" writer/designer Natalia Ilyin delivers her observations on design and the world it has molded. According to Ilyin, "Modern design is based on deeply idealist notions, and its inherent perfectionism has dovetailed beautifully with our commodity-based economy's need to keep people itching so that they will buy things and keep the society chugging along. I began "Chasing the perfect" because I started to become aware of this collusion, this silent pressure that a language of design based in perfectionism had brought to bear on how I developed as a person." "Chasing the perfect" is especially relevant in our times as interest in graphic, industrial, and architectural design moves more and more into mainstream culture. Each of the 10 chapters features Ilyin’s accessible and often hilarious writing, which is highlighted with a broad range of images-some quite unexpected-from the designed world around us.
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January 1900, New York
January 1900, New York
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When the public coffers are low, the burden for social policy and urban planning falls more to citizens, and community apathy or simply lack of involvement can have dire consequences. Addressing this globally crucial issue is the second volume in a series from the International Building Exhibition (IBA), an initiative helmed by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation-housed in(...)
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When the public coffers are low, the burden for social policy and urban planning falls more to citizens, and community apathy or simply lack of involvement can have dire consequences. Addressing this globally crucial issue is the second volume in a series from the International Building Exhibition (IBA), an initiative helmed by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation-housed in(...)
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The other city, volume 2 : civic culture
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When the public coffers are low, the burden for social policy and urban planning falls more to citizens, and community apathy or simply lack of involvement can have dire consequences. Addressing this globally crucial issue is the second volume in a series from the International Building Exhibition (IBA), an initiative helmed by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation-housed in Walter Gropius’s former studio-and exploring urban redevelopment in a number of German cities. The aim is that these pilot programs will provide practical models for worldwide urban research and design by 2010. Here, both local administrators and planning experts examine the role of citizen commitment, whether in direct political action or in everyday urban life.
The other city, volume 2 : civic culture
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When the public coffers are low, the burden for social policy and urban planning falls more to citizens, and community apathy or simply lack of involvement can have dire consequences. Addressing this globally crucial issue is the second volume in a series from the International Building Exhibition (IBA), an initiative helmed by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation-housed in Walter Gropius’s former studio-and exploring urban redevelopment in a number of German cities. The aim is that these pilot programs will provide practical models for worldwide urban research and design by 2010. Here, both local administrators and planning experts examine the role of citizen commitment, whether in direct political action or in everyday urban life.
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August 2005, Berlin
August 2005, Berlin
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Urban Theory
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The title is open to interpretation but it’s clear that the subject of the future of architecture is intoxicating. The field is full of tensions-between regionalism and globalism, virtuality and reality, functionality and aestheticism. "Architecture rausch" opens discussion on architectural training in this volatile time, and who better to articulate those challenges (as(...)
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The title is open to interpretation but it’s clear that the subject of the future of architecture is intoxicating. The field is full of tensions-between regionalism and globalism, virtuality and reality, functionality and aestheticism. "Architecture rausch" opens discussion on architectural training in this volatile time, and who better to articulate those challenges (as(...)
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Architectural Theory
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August 2005, Berlin
August 2005, Berlin
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Architektur rausch : eine position zum entwerfen / a position on architectural design
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The title is open to interpretation but it’s clear that the subject of the future of architecture is intoxicating. The field is full of tensions-between regionalism and globalism, virtuality and reality, functionality and aestheticism. "Architecture rausch" opens discussion on architectural training in this volatile time, and who better to articulate those challenges (as well as to challenge the limits of the profession) than the students who will face them in the 21st century? The book presents works by students from a studio at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany’s largest science and engineering school. Among the editors are faculty members whose work includes the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig and projects with Daniel Libeskind.
Architektur rausch : eine position zum entwerfen / a position on architectural design
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The title is open to interpretation but it’s clear that the subject of the future of architecture is intoxicating. The field is full of tensions-between regionalism and globalism, virtuality and reality, functionality and aestheticism. "Architecture rausch" opens discussion on architectural training in this volatile time, and who better to articulate those challenges (as well as to challenge the limits of the profession) than the students who will face them in the 21st century? The book presents works by students from a studio at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany’s largest science and engineering school. Among the editors are faculty members whose work includes the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig and projects with Daniel Libeskind.
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August 2005, Berlin
August 2005, Berlin
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All urban dwellers have seen them: vacant apartment blocks, blighted business districts, destitute streets, industrial wastelands. Exurban growth has led to shrinking cities, a perennial problem. Grappling with this change, both philosophically and practically, is the purpose of this illustrated collection of essays, a rich resource for the generation of architects,(...)
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All urban dwellers have seen them: vacant apartment blocks, blighted business districts, destitute streets, industrial wastelands. Exurban growth has led to shrinking cities, a perennial problem. Grappling with this change, both philosophically and practically, is the purpose of this illustrated collection of essays, a rich resource for the generation of architects,(...)
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Work place city : perspectives of an urban redevelopment culture
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All urban dwellers have seen them: vacant apartment blocks, blighted business districts, destitute streets, industrial wastelands. Exurban growth has led to shrinking cities, a perennial problem. Grappling with this change, both philosophically and practically, is the purpose of this illustrated collection of essays, a rich resource for the generation of architects, engineers, and urban planners who must face the decay. The contributions by a range of politicians, scholars, and planners arose out of the series of "Tatort Stadt" ("Work Place City") events, conferences, and exhibitions sponsored by the German government and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (the research and design center carrying forward the Bauhaus legacy). Exploring both current and proposed projects, these approaches recognize the need for structural change, acknowledging that urban redevelopment requires much more than demolition.
Work place city : perspectives of an urban redevelopment culture
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All urban dwellers have seen them: vacant apartment blocks, blighted business districts, destitute streets, industrial wastelands. Exurban growth has led to shrinking cities, a perennial problem. Grappling with this change, both philosophically and practically, is the purpose of this illustrated collection of essays, a rich resource for the generation of architects, engineers, and urban planners who must face the decay. The contributions by a range of politicians, scholars, and planners arose out of the series of "Tatort Stadt" ("Work Place City") events, conferences, and exhibitions sponsored by the German government and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (the research and design center carrying forward the Bauhaus legacy). Exploring both current and proposed projects, these approaches recognize the need for structural change, acknowledging that urban redevelopment requires much more than demolition.
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August 2005, Berlin
August 2005, Berlin
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Vers une architecture
Vers une architecture
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«L'architecte, par l'ordonnance des formes, réalise un ordre qui est une pure création de son esprit ; par les formes, il affecte intensivement nos sens, provoquant des émotions plastiques ; par les rapports qu'il crée, il éveille en nous des résonances profondes, il nous donne la mesure d'un ordre qu'on sent en accord avec celui du monde, il détermine des mouvements(...)
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«L'architecte, par l'ordonnance des formes, réalise un ordre qui est une pure création de son esprit ; par les formes, il affecte intensivement nos sens, provoquant des émotions plastiques ; par les rapports qu'il crée, il éveille en nous des résonances profondes, il nous donne la mesure d'un ordre qu'on sent en accord avec celui du monde, il détermine des mouvements(...)
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Vers une architecture
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«L'architecte, par l'ordonnance des formes, réalise un ordre qui est une pure création de son esprit ; par les formes, il affecte intensivement nos sens, provoquant des émotions plastiques ; par les rapports qu'il crée, il éveille en nous des résonances profondes, il nous donne la mesure d'un ordre qu'on sent en accord avec celui du monde, il détermine des mouvements divers de notre esprit et de notre coeur ; c'est alors que nous ressentons la beauté.» Le Corbusier. Cette nouvelle édition. est présentée par Jean-Louis Cohen. L'édition originale de cet ouvrage fut publiée en 1923.
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«L'architecte, par l'ordonnance des formes, réalise un ordre qui est une pure création de son esprit ; par les formes, il affecte intensivement nos sens, provoquant des émotions plastiques ; par les rapports qu'il crée, il éveille en nous des résonances profondes, il nous donne la mesure d'un ordre qu'on sent en accord avec celui du monde, il détermine des mouvements divers de notre esprit et de notre coeur ; c'est alors que nous ressentons la beauté.» Le Corbusier. Cette nouvelle édition. est présentée par Jean-Louis Cohen. L'édition originale de cet ouvrage fut publiée en 1923.
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July 2005, Paris
July 2005, Paris
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Si la ville m'était contée est avant tout une introduction à la ville. Les dix clés de lecture permettent de comprendre, pratiquer, gérer ou s'amuser avec la cité d'aujourd'hui. Chacun(e) d'entre nous en possède ses propres cartes intimes. Loin des cartes postales. Loin des murs d'enceintes. Dans ce bric-à-brac, deux fous des villes ont listé les clichés, déniché les(...)
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Si la ville m'était contée est avant tout une introduction à la ville. Les dix clés de lecture permettent de comprendre, pratiquer, gérer ou s'amuser avec la cité d'aujourd'hui. Chacun(e) d'entre nous en possède ses propres cartes intimes. Loin des cartes postales. Loin des murs d'enceintes. Dans ce bric-à-brac, deux fous des villes ont listé les clichés, déniché les(...)
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Si la ville m'était contée...
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Si la ville m'était contée est avant tout une introduction à la ville. Les dix clés de lecture permettent de comprendre, pratiquer, gérer ou s'amuser avec la cité d'aujourd'hui. Chacun(e) d'entre nous en possède ses propres cartes intimes. Loin des cartes postales. Loin des murs d'enceintes. Dans ce bric-à-brac, deux fous des villes ont listé les clichés, déniché les meilleurs angles, pris de la hauteur, exploré les profondeurs. Ce livre, né de la rencontre du géographe Luc Gwiazdzinski et de l'économiste Gilles Rabin, s'est nourri de leur expérience dans l'urbanisme, l'aménagement du territoire et le développement économique.
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Si la ville m'était contée est avant tout une introduction à la ville. Les dix clés de lecture permettent de comprendre, pratiquer, gérer ou s'amuser avec la cité d'aujourd'hui. Chacun(e) d'entre nous en possède ses propres cartes intimes. Loin des cartes postales. Loin des murs d'enceintes. Dans ce bric-à-brac, deux fous des villes ont listé les clichés, déniché les meilleurs angles, pris de la hauteur, exploré les profondeurs. Ce livre, né de la rencontre du géographe Luc Gwiazdzinski et de l'économiste Gilles Rabin, s'est nourri de leur expérience dans l'urbanisme, l'aménagement du territoire et le développement économique.
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December 2004, Paris
December 2004, Paris
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
