L’hypothèse collaborative
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« L'hypothèse collaborative » est sorti dans le cadre du projet « Lieux infinis » de l'équipe Encore Heureux, commissaire du Pavillon français de la seizième biennale internationale d'architecture de Venise. Ce projet éditorial vise à établir une cartographie problématisée des savoir-faire inventifs, expérimentations heureuses ou malheureuses des “collectifs” français.(...)
L’hypothèse collaborative
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« L'hypothèse collaborative » est sorti dans le cadre du projet « Lieux infinis » de l'équipe Encore Heureux, commissaire du Pavillon français de la seizième biennale internationale d'architecture de Venise. Ce projet éditorial vise à établir une cartographie problématisée des savoir-faire inventifs, expérimentations heureuses ou malheureuses des “collectifs” français. Les nouveaux enjeux écologiques, possibilités technologiques et données économiques posent questions, et poussent architectes, urbanistes et paysagistes à se tourner vers d’autres voies, méthodologies et finalités alternatives. Comment penser le devenir des territoires dans l’optique d’intégrer l’imprévu, le spontané, l’autonomie habitante? Sur quelles bases et énergies s’appuyer pour concevoir des dynamiques urbaines et rurales plus cohérentes et soutenables ? Notre hypothèse est celle de la collaboration. C’est à un travail de cartographie et d’interrogation de ces nouvelles capacités collaboratives que tente de se livrer ce projet : une éloge de la collaboration, mais aussi une tentative d’en cerner les potentialités latentes, limites, dangers et dérives.
Urban Theory
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"City of Play" shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city. From playgrounds to theme parks, skittle alleys to swimming pools, to the countless uncontrolled spaces which the urban habitat affords play is by no means just a childhood affair. A myriad essentially unproductive playful pursuits have, through time, modelled the modern city and landscape.(...)
City of play: an architectural and urban history of recreation and leisure
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"City of Play" shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city. From playgrounds to theme parks, skittle alleys to swimming pools, to the countless uncontrolled spaces which the urban habitat affords play is by no means just a childhood affair. A myriad essentially unproductive playful pursuits have, through time, modelled the modern city and landscape. Architect and scholar Rodrigo Pérez de Arces erudite, original, and often surprising study explores a curiously neglected dimension of architectural design and practice: ludic space. It is an architectural history of the playground from the hippodrome to the Situationist city of space released from productive ends in the pursuit of leisure. The ludic imagination impregnated modernist ideals, and what begins with the playground ends with a re-consideration of the whole sweep of the modern movement through the filter of leisure and play.
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Under the unforgiving sun of southern California's Colorado Desert lies Slab City, a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, survivalists, and homeless people. Called by some “the last free place” and by others “an enclave of anarchy,” Slab City is also the end of the road for many. Without official electricity, running water, sewers, or trash pickup, Slab(...)
Slab city: dispatches from the last free place
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Under the unforgiving sun of southern California's Colorado Desert lies Slab City, a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, survivalists, and homeless people. Called by some “the last free place” and by others “an enclave of anarchy,” Slab City is also the end of the road for many. Without official electricity, running water, sewers, or trash pickup, Slab City dwellers also live without law enforcement, taxation, or administration. Built on the concrete slabs of Camp Dunlap, an abandoned Marine training base, the settlement maintains its off-grid aspirations within the site's residual military perimeters and gridded street layout; off-grid is really in-grid. In this book, architect Charlie Hailey and photographer Donovan Wylie explore the contradictions of Slab City.
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Inventing future cities
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In ''Inventing Future Cities'', Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future. Batty outlines certain themes- principles- that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional(...)
Inventing future cities
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In ''Inventing Future Cities'', Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future. Batty outlines certain themes- principles- that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional functions of cities as places of exchange and innovation. By the end of this century, most of the world's population will live in cities, large or small, sometimes contiguous, and always connected; in an urbanized world, it will be increasingly difficult to define a city by its physical boundaries.
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Las Vegas annonce le futur des métropoles : organisation de la ville en fonction des galeries marchandes et des parcs d'attractions, animation permanente, architecture thématique qui mélange la situation commerciale et l'imaginaire enfantin, etc. Une suite de courts textes qui sont autant de tableaux urbains.
Zéropolis
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Las Vegas annonce le futur des métropoles : organisation de la ville en fonction des galeries marchandes et des parcs d'attractions, animation permanente, architecture thématique qui mélange la situation commerciale et l'imaginaire enfantin, etc. Une suite de courts textes qui sont autant de tableaux urbains.
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Social design
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Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping society. ''Social Design'' presents a long-overdue survey of current international activity in this realm, from new infrastructures and the reclaiming of cities by their inhabitants as seen in the work of Assemble and Gehl Architects to build-it-yourself housing by Urban Think Tank, all the way to GRAFT's(...)
Social design
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Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping society. ''Social Design'' presents a long-overdue survey of current international activity in this realm, from new infrastructures and the reclaiming of cities by their inhabitants as seen in the work of Assemble and Gehl Architects to build-it-yourself housing by Urban Think Tank, all the way to GRAFT's solar kiosk, an energy source that is driving sustainable development opportunities for communities.
Urban Theory
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''Herlands'', a compelling ethnography of women’s land networks in the United States, highlights the ongoing relevance of these communities as vibrant cultural enclaves that also impact broader ideas about gender, women’s bodies, lesbian identity, and right ways of living
Herlands: exploring the women's land movements in the United States
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''Herlands'', a compelling ethnography of women’s land networks in the United States, highlights the ongoing relevance of these communities as vibrant cultural enclaves that also impact broader ideas about gender, women’s bodies, lesbian identity, and right ways of living
Urban Theory
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Community newspapers, community radio stations, citizen assemblies- all forums of public debate being re-vitalized in ''The Public Place.''
The public place: citizen participation in the neighbourhood and the city
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Community newspapers, community radio stations, citizen assemblies- all forums of public debate being re-vitalized in ''The Public Place.''
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Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow-up to his bestselling ''Walkable City'' is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. ''Walkable City(...)
Walkable city rules: 101 steps to making better places
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Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow-up to his bestselling ''Walkable City'' is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. ''Walkable City Rules'' is a doer's guide to making change in cities, and making it now.
Urban Theory
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"Shaping Cities in an Urban Age" is the third and final addition to Phaidon's hugely successful Urban Age series, published in collaboration with the London School of Economics (LSE). Generously illustrated with photographs, visual data, and statistics, and featuring a series of essays written by leading people in their fields, "Shaping Cities in an Urban Age" addresses(...)
Shaping cities in an urban age
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"Shaping Cities in an Urban Age" is the third and final addition to Phaidon's hugely successful Urban Age series, published in collaboration with the London School of Economics (LSE). Generously illustrated with photographs, visual data, and statistics, and featuring a series of essays written by leading people in their fields, "Shaping Cities in an Urban Age" addresses our most urgent contemporary and future urban issues by examining a set of key forces that have combined to create the city as we know it today.
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