Nightscapes
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This book shows how night redefines the framework of thought and action in the realm of the imaginary, of territorial planning and of the practice of landscape, the aim being to arrive at a contemporary urbanism based on perceptual experience. The book is structured in three parts: the first covers the originality and value of the experience of the nocturnal landscape(...)
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This book shows how night redefines the framework of thought and action in the realm of the imaginary, of territorial planning and of the practice of landscape, the aim being to arrive at a contemporary urbanism based on perceptual experience. The book is structured in three parts: the first covers the originality and value of the experience of the nocturnal landscape for thought and creativity, the second defines infrastructure as the nocturnal landscape’s real scale and strategy, while the third illustrates examples of nocturnal contemporary architecture and landscape.
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Latinscapes tries to display an attitude common to various countries: that of landscape understood as raw material, as a search procedure for successfully defining a group portrait made up of different faces that have certain common origins and histories.
Latinscapes: Landscape as raw material
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Latinscapes tries to display an attitude common to various countries: that of landscape understood as raw material, as a search procedure for successfully defining a group portrait made up of different faces that have certain common origins and histories.
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Urban Landscapes
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"Landscape + 100 words to inhabit it" is a title that intends to present a condition of contemporary landscape by measuring it through a direct and immediate form : terms, definitions, ideas, microstories, short texts, notes. It is a collection of instant snaps rather than a complete critical and theoretical look at the subject. It is a group of terms asked for and(...)
Landscape + 100 words to inhabit it
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"Landscape + 100 words to inhabit it" is a title that intends to present a condition of contemporary landscape by measuring it through a direct and immediate form : terms, definitions, ideas, microstories, short texts, notes. It is a collection of instant snaps rather than a complete critical and theoretical look at the subject. It is a group of terms asked for and formulated by authors that are not only architects and landscape architects, but also urbanists, philosophers, critics, poets, geographers and writers. It is a collection of reflections that underlie aesthetic and cultural categories as much as technical-professional values and practices. It is a Tower of Babel of meanings, each having its specific characteristics, which, far from exhausting all the issues of a particular point, propose 'listening' to it from various multifaceted standpoints. These concepts do not guide this book towards a definition of landscape but towards a search for the most suitable instruments for dealing with it.
Urban Landscapes
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La campagne est vivante, comme lieu de vie et comme imaginaire. La pandémie de Covid-19 a encore accéléré ces tendances?: vivre à la campagne serait «?la?» solution face aux crises sanitaires, écologiques, économiques ou sociales de nos vies citadines contemporaines. Pour aller au-delà d’un certain fantasme, Valérie Jousseaume réalise un état des lieux et remet la(...)
Un nouveau récit pour les campagnes
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La campagne est vivante, comme lieu de vie et comme imaginaire. La pandémie de Covid-19 a encore accéléré ces tendances?: vivre à la campagne serait «?la?» solution face aux crises sanitaires, écologiques, économiques ou sociales de nos vies citadines contemporaines. Pour aller au-delà d’un certain fantasme, Valérie Jousseaume réalise un état des lieux et remet la campagne en perspective. Elle interroge le rôle et les atouts des territoires dans la transition sociétale. Et, surtout, elle redonne aux ruraux une place d’acteurs dans ce changement de civilisation en cours. Le livre déconstruit les cadres de pensée et les vocabulaires, pour sortir la «?France périphérique?» du cul-de-sac intellectuel où elle se trouve.
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Cet ouvrage propose de construire une histoire animale de Paris en articulant deux principaux objectifs. D’une part, il s’agit de rendre visibles le rôle et la place des bêtes dans l’histoire de la ville et de révéler que ce sont aussi les vaches, les mésanges, les loups, les fouines, les faucons, les girafes, les chevaux, les brochets et les cerfs qui ont fait le Paris(...)
Paris animal : Histoire et récits d'une ville vivante
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Cet ouvrage propose de construire une histoire animale de Paris en articulant deux principaux objectifs. D’une part, il s’agit de rendre visibles le rôle et la place des bêtes dans l’histoire de la ville et de révéler que ce sont aussi les vaches, les mésanges, les loups, les fouines, les faucons, les girafes, les chevaux, les brochets et les cerfs qui ont fait le Paris d’aujourd’hui. Alors que les animaux ont longtemps été effacés ou minorés des récits dominants, l’histoire que nous campons tente de mettre en lumière ce que la présence animale a généré dans la capitale. D’autre part, en menant cette enquête sur le temps long, en observant les lieux de partage entre l’humain et l’animal, qu’ils soient l’expression de tension, de collaboration ou de domination, il s’agit de dégager des indices pour imaginer ce que pourrait être un Paris à même de créer une altérité avec l’animal ; pour reprendre les mots de la philosophe Donna Haraway : « Nous devons apprendre ainsi, au coeur d’un présent épais, à bien vivre et à bien mourir, ensemble. »
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Loving the High Line
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As an elevated rail line, designed to lift freight trains serving the Hudson River docks above street level circulation, The High Line was originally constructed as material infrastructure for an industrial city. It was closed in 1960s and stood abandoned for the next forty years. In this time organic debris accumulated and decayed, and seeds landed on the newly forming(...)
Loving the High Line
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As an elevated rail line, designed to lift freight trains serving the Hudson River docks above street level circulation, The High Line was originally constructed as material infrastructure for an industrial city. It was closed in 1960s and stood abandoned for the next forty years. In this time organic debris accumulated and decayed, and seeds landed on the newly forming soil creating a meadow on the derelict railbed. This microcosmic biome then also became a heterotopic, other space, in the social ecology of the city as an efflorescence of new art forms and underground subcultures flourished in the evacuated post-industrial spaces of Chelsea. These processes would unfold as New York City was being transformed into a global center in an emerging political-economy defined by the integration of finance capital with media and information industries. In this, marginal spaces of the kind that developed in Chelsea, and the cultures that create them, became important sources of new aesthetic and cultural innovation, that offer an exploitable social ground from which to extract semiotic value. As the Bloomberg administration gave shape to this new regime, a project was initiated to convert the High Line into a publicly accessible, linear park. This would be realized through a convoluted process in which the manifold tensions and contradictions of the postmodern city would be dramatically played out and the disjunctions between ideal image regimes and the reality of the material substrates that support them would be brought to light, if only to be newly obscured. The High Line urban park has been both heralded as a definitive model for new urban development, and denounced as a driver, or at least a morbid symptom, of devastating gentrification, and the destructive financialization of urban space. This text, originally published in 2015 as part of the Deconstructing the High Line anthology, edited by Mark Linder and Brian Rosa, tracks a collection of interconnected historical treads that converge in the reconstruction of the High Line, and situates the project within architectural discourse and practice, and social and material conditions with which it struggles to engage.
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Résister et fleurir
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Printemps 2020. En plein confinement, un professeur donne un cours sur l’utopie et la dystopie en s’inspirant d’une lutte menée dans le quartier Hochelaga à Montréal. Les résident·e·s du secteur se mobilisent pour défendre un terrain vague, où la nature a repris ses droits, contre la construction d’un terminal de transbordement de conteneurs. Bruit, poussière et(...)
Résister et fleurir
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Printemps 2020. En plein confinement, un professeur donne un cours sur l’utopie et la dystopie en s’inspirant d’une lutte menée dans le quartier Hochelaga à Montréal. Les résident·e·s du secteur se mobilisent pour défendre un terrain vague, où la nature a repris ses droits, contre la construction d’un terminal de transbordement de conteneurs. Bruit, poussière et vibrations 24 heures sur 24… Le projet de Ray-Mont Logistiques, emblématique de la mondialisation économique, fait craindre le pire. Quel pourrait être le point de bascule dans cette lutte citoyenne ? En quoi les utopies peuvent-elles être le moteur d’une communauté ? Comment contrer la destruction des écosystèmes ? Alors que les « zones à défendre » se multiplient, ''Résister et fleurir'' livre une réflexion profonde sur le monde que nous voulons bâtir... ou détruire.
Urban Landscapes
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This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia. The book features visualizations of climate adaptation and resilience, developed by award-winning landscape architects and academics from Canada, the United States, the United(...)
Representing landscapes: Visualizing climate action
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This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia. The book features visualizations of climate adaptation and resilience, developed by award-winning landscape architects and academics from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, Finland, South Africa, Singapore, and China. ''Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action'' illustrates the imaginative ways in which climate action and climate resilient concepts are visually presented, communicated, and perceived. The book will be especially valuable for students and practitioners in landscape architecture, urban planning, and related fields to understand how to visually capture climate change issues and design solutions, and to deliver this message to the public.
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How green is your garden ?
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This book is an examination of green architecture. Illustrated with photographs, architectural and garden designs, and drawings and computer images, the book demonstrates how technologically and visually cutting-edge green architecture has become. The book also offers commentary on such questions as, what is sustainable design? and can architecture contribute to our(...)
How green is your garden ?
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This book is an examination of green architecture. Illustrated with photographs, architectural and garden designs, and drawings and computer images, the book demonstrates how technologically and visually cutting-edge green architecture has become. The book also offers commentary on such questions as, what is sustainable design? and can architecture contribute to our awareness of green living? In collaboration with Bartlett architecture lab, Christine Hawley, Studio 8.
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Urban wild ecology
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Following the calamitous events of 2011 in Japan, Fuminori Nousaku and Mio Tsuneyama began to look at the link between materials and energy related to daily life, such as household goods, homes, food, and waste. They sought ways to reinvent how we live, from dependence on infrastructure and industry to another relationship: off-grid homes that generate solar power,(...)
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Following the calamitous events of 2011 in Japan, Fuminori Nousaku and Mio Tsuneyama began to look at the link between materials and energy related to daily life, such as household goods, homes, food, and waste. They sought ways to reinvent how we live, from dependence on infrastructure and industry to another relationship: off-grid homes that generate solar power, gardens that harness the power of microbes in the soil, shared homes in vacant buildings, and construction using discarded materials. The wildness that survives the city enjoys fluctuation and overcomes inconvenience. This book introduces the collectives involved in these activities along with practices and resources.
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