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Exploring locales such as city streets, bus stops, parking lots, bars, retail establishments, and discussion groups, "Together Alone" ventures into what is often thought of as the realm of passing strangers to examine the nature of personal relationships conducted in public spaces. While most studies of social interaction have gone behind closed doors to focus on(...)
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August 2005, Berkeley
Together alone : personal relationships in public places
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Exploring locales such as city streets, bus stops, parking lots, bars, retail establishments, and discussion groups, "Together Alone" ventures into what is often thought of as the realm of passing strangers to examine the nature of personal relationships conducted in public spaces. While most studies of social interaction have gone behind closed doors to focus on relationships in the family, school, and workplace, this innovative collection pushes the boundaries of the field by analyzing both fleeting and anchored relationships in the seldom-studied communal areas where much of contemporary life takes place. The contributors shed light on the diversity and character of day-to-day negotiations in public spaces and at the same time illuminate how these social ties paradoxically blend aspects of durability and brevity, of emotional closeness and distance, of being together and alone.
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Making cities work
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Cities are the human race at its very best and very worst, bringing together wealth and poverty, culture and crime. For the majority of us, and our children, they will define our lives. The challenge is to make them better places to live; to design and operate them successfully, while balencing society's often conflicting demanfds. 'Making cities work' is about(...)
Making cities work
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Cities are the human race at its very best and very worst, bringing together wealth and poverty, culture and crime. For the majority of us, and our children, they will define our lives. The challenge is to make them better places to live; to design and operate them successfully, while balencing society's often conflicting demanfds. 'Making cities work' is about enabling communities to be more successul. It showcases not just theories but ideas in action worldwide - initiatives that enhance the quality of urban life. The book features projects from all over the world, based around three key themes : -arriving in the city -enjoying the city -getting around the city
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La programmation de groupes européens de hip-hop en ouverture de l'édition 2004 de la Biennale de la danse à Lyon est emblématique des changements qui se sont produits, au cours des vingt dernières années, dans les relations entre questions urbaines et pratiques culturelles. Tout comme la création d'événements et l'implantation d'équipements populaires, ce type(...)
Urban Theory
June 2005, La Tour d'Aigues
Culture et politique de la ville
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La programmation de groupes européens de hip-hop en ouverture de l'édition 2004 de la Biennale de la danse à Lyon est emblématique des changements qui se sont produits, au cours des vingt dernières années, dans les relations entre questions urbaines et pratiques culturelles. Tout comme la création d'événements et l'implantation d'équipements populaires, ce type d'ouverture marque la reconnaissance de nouvelles formes d'intervention artistique, en prise directe avec des populations hier délaissées, et une considération accrue pour des pratiques artistique dites amateurs. Mais pourquoi l'action culturelle en milieu urbain fait-elle l'objet d'un tel investissement professionel, politique et militant? Comment les politiques publiques l'accompagnent? Plus précisément, comment s'opère le croisement entre politique de la ville et culture? Tel est l'objet du présent ouvrage qui propose d'interroger les frottements, tensions et hybridations qui naissent de cette rencontre.
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Cities participate in the production of meaning by providing places populated with objects for words to refer to. Inscriptions on these objects (labels, billboards, newspapers, graffiti) provide another layer of meaning. And today, the flow of digital information - from one device to another in the urban scene - creates a digital network that also exists in physical(...)
Architectural Theory
January 1900, Cambridge, Mass.
Placing words : symbols, space and the city
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Cities participate in the production of meaning by providing places populated with objects for words to refer to. Inscriptions on these objects (labels, billboards, newspapers, graffiti) provide another layer of meaning. And today, the flow of digital information - from one device to another in the urban scene - creates a digital network that also exists in physical space. "Placing Words" examines this emerging system of spaces, flows, and practices in a series of short essays - snapshots of the city in the twenty-first century. Mitchell questions the necessity of flashy downtown office towers in an age of corporate web sites. He casts the shocked-and-awed Baghdad as a contemporary Guernica. He describes architectural makeovers throughout history, listing Le Corbusier's Fab Five Points of difference between new and old architecture, and he discusses the architecture of Manolo Blahniks. He pens an open letter to the Secretary of Defense recommending architectural features to include in torture chambers. He compares Baudelaire, the Parisian flaneur, to Spiderman, the Manhattan traceur. He describes the iPod-like galleries of the renovated MoMA and he recognizes the camera phone as the latest step in a process of image mobilization that began when artists stopped painting on walls and began making pictures on small pieces of wood, canvas, or paper. The endless flow of information, he makes clear, is not only more pervasive and efficient than ever, it is also generating new cultural complexities.
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In "Enduring innocence", Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"- resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions-in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces-familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and(...)
Architectural Theory
January 1900, Cambridge, London
Enduring innocence : global architecture and its political masquerades
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In "Enduring innocence", Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"- resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions-in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces-familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and trade-aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, in reality these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. Easterling argues that the study of such "real estate cocktails" provides vivid evidence of the market's weakness, resilience, or violence. "Enduring innocence" collects six stories of spatial products and their political predicaments: cruise ship tourism in North Korea; high-tech agricultural formations in Spain (which have reignited labor wars and piracy in the Mediterranean); hyperbolic forms of sovereignty in commercial and spiritual organizations shared by gurus and golf celebrities; automated global ports; microwave urbanism in South Asian IT enclaves; and a global industry of building demolition that suggests urban warfare. These regimes of nonnational sovereignty, writes Easterling, "move around the world like weather fronts"; she focuses not on their blending- their global connectivity-but on their segregation and the cultural collisions that ensue. "Enduring innocence" resists the dream of one globally legible world found in many architectural discourses on globalization. Instead, Easterling's consideration of these segregated worlds provides new tools for practitioners sensitive to the political composition of urban landscapes.
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In today's society architects are subject to the dictates of the free market, the global trend towards privatization and the gradual dismantlement of state institutions and authorities. The pressure to alter their projects to conform to market and popular taste is increasing. Does successful design in today’s world have to correspond to the wishes of the masses? What(...)
What people want : populism in architecture and design
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In today's society architects are subject to the dictates of the free market, the global trend towards privatization and the gradual dismantlement of state institutions and authorities. The pressure to alter their projects to conform to market and popular taste is increasing. Does successful design in today’s world have to correspond to the wishes of the masses? What exactly are trends and the expectations of the general public based on? Is design always a response contra popular trends, or can adapting to popular tendencies also generate the potential to create a better living environment? This book, which arose from the last DOM conference in Linz, examines the concept of populism in some 30 expert contributions, gathered into 5 chapters, each beginning with an introductory essay.
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La métropole des individus
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L'individu n'est pas une idée nouvelle, mais, dans notre civilisation des individus fortement associée aux métropoles, il devient le centre du monde. Tel est l'argument de cet essai où Alain Bourdin nous montre que cet individu des métropoles répond à une offre plus qu'il ne se soumet à un ordre-comme dans les sociétés d'hier. Aujourd'hui, chacun vit dans un monde où il(...)
La métropole des individus
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L'individu n'est pas une idée nouvelle, mais, dans notre civilisation des individus fortement associée aux métropoles, il devient le centre du monde. Tel est l'argument de cet essai où Alain Bourdin nous montre que cet individu des métropoles répond à une offre plus qu'il ne se soumet à un ordre-comme dans les sociétés d'hier. Aujourd'hui, chacun vit dans un monde où il doit sans cesse choisir, se différencier, changer de place (matériellement ou virtuellement), créer des significations nouvelles... Cette civilisation des individus produit des formes urbaines, une organisation sociale et des modalités d'action totalement nouvelles. Les métropoles s'affirment alors comme le coeur de cette culture de l'offre. Ce livre présente la «nouvelle donne», en propose une théorie et ouvre des pistes à l'action.
Urban Theory
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A publication surveying the diversity of urban planning in Amsterdam since 1986 and placing these developments within a historical context. Projects examined through text and images include: the transformation of the former harbour area (Oostelijk Havengebied, Westerdokseiland), urban renewal projects (Bijlmermeer, Westerlijk Tuinsteden) and Amsterdam's larger scale(...)
Impact : urban planning in Amsterdam after 1986
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A publication surveying the diversity of urban planning in Amsterdam since 1986 and placing these developments within a historical context. Projects examined through text and images include: the transformation of the former harbour area (Oostelijk Havengebied, Westerdokseiland), urban renewal projects (Bijlmermeer, Westerlijk Tuinsteden) and Amsterdam's larger scale urban projects (Noord/Zuidlijn, Zuidas and IJburg).
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Du rond-point au giratoire
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Une figure routière est apparue et prolifère dans l'espace urbain français. On l'appelle «giratoire», ou plus communément «rond-point». Cet ouvrage propose de reconstituer une généalogie qui nous conduit d'abord au coeur des forêts de chasse et des jardins classiques, puis, via les embellissements du XVIIIe siècle et le Paris d'Haussmann, jusqu'à la fin du XIXe(...)
Du rond-point au giratoire
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Une figure routière est apparue et prolifère dans l'espace urbain français. On l'appelle «giratoire», ou plus communément «rond-point». Cet ouvrage propose de reconstituer une généalogie qui nous conduit d'abord au coeur des forêts de chasse et des jardins classiques, puis, via les embellissements du XVIIIe siècle et le Paris d'Haussmann, jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle-moment décisif où les inventeurs d'une nouvelle science nommée «urbanisme» (Cerdà, Sitte, Stubben) cherchent une solution aux conflits des voitures dans les carrefours urbains. Au moment où un véritable réseau de giratoires-balises tend à réorganiser l'espace urbain, des architectes, paysagistes et artistes se penchent sur cette pièce du vocabulaire territorial courant. Ainsi, au travers de nombreux projets présentés, se dessinent les voies d'une possible réinvention du rond-point comme dispositif d'articulation majeur de la matrice viaire contemporaine.
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À l’occasion de Nancy 2005, une exposition réunissant 20 «artistes-architectes» a pour objectif de défricher le futur de la ville par la mise en scène de réflexions et d’utopies. Quel avenir envisagent-ils pour la ville à l’horizon de l’an 3000 ? Ce sont bien des créateurs qui se sont interrogés et leurs réponses mêlent certaines utopies retrouvées, intuitions, constats,(...)
Avenirs de villes / Future for cities
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À l’occasion de Nancy 2005, une exposition réunissant 20 «artistes-architectes» a pour objectif de défricher le futur de la ville par la mise en scène de réflexions et d’utopies. Quel avenir envisagent-ils pour la ville à l’horizon de l’an 3000 ? Ce sont bien des créateurs qui se sont interrogés et leurs réponses mêlent certaines utopies retrouvées, intuitions, constats, amplification du questionnement même ou dérision et jeu. Le travail de ces penseurs du futur est expliqué dans ce livre qui n’est pas un catalogue mais une projection dans les avenirs possibles des villes.
Urban Theory