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The installations inside the book are made with public interaction in mind, representing their location and the hopes and cultures of locals, and inspiring passers-by to explore the neighborhood or just pause, put their feet up, and take some time to think. The publication also includes precise diagrams and text detailing each piece from conception through construction.
Landscape installation art II
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The installations inside the book are made with public interaction in mind, representing their location and the hopes and cultures of locals, and inspiring passers-by to explore the neighborhood or just pause, put their feet up, and take some time to think. The publication also includes precise diagrams and text detailing each piece from conception through construction.
Urban Landscapes
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Intervenant dans des contextes sensibles, les projets infrastructurels contemporains constituent un puissant levier de transformation urbaine. Mais comment, selon une logique de mutualisation des potentiels, concevoir de nouvelles architectures complexes, intégrant différents programmes, ainsi qu'un environnement social et paysager particulier ? Ce livre explore la(...)
Objets risqués : le pari des infrastructures intégratives
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Intervenant dans des contextes sensibles, les projets infrastructurels contemporains constituent un puissant levier de transformation urbaine. Mais comment, selon une logique de mutualisation des potentiels, concevoir de nouvelles architectures complexes, intégrant différents programmes, ainsi qu'un environnement social et paysager particulier ? Ce livre explore la thématique des « infrastructures intégratives », à partir des travaux du Laboratoire d'Architecture et de Mobilité Urbaine de l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
Urban Landscapes
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Scientific, philosophical, and artistic contributions offer detailed explanations of the various aspects of urban wilderness and present a differentiated look at our urban environment. This book also provides a way for the interested reader to increase his or her perception of nature in order to experience urban space as more vibrant.
Urban wilderness: encounter urban nature
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Scientific, philosophical, and artistic contributions offer detailed explanations of the various aspects of urban wilderness and present a differentiated look at our urban environment. This book also provides a way for the interested reader to increase his or her perception of nature in order to experience urban space as more vibrant.
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The integration of nature in architecture is a key concern of sustainability. 'Dense + Green' explores new architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components such as sky terraces, vertical parks and green facades, in high-density buildings. In-depth case studies on the most relevant building types are complemented by expert essays that(...)
Dense + Green: innovative building types for sustainable urban architecture
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The integration of nature in architecture is a key concern of sustainability. 'Dense + Green' explores new architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components such as sky terraces, vertical parks and green facades, in high-density buildings. In-depth case studies on the most relevant building types are complemented by expert essays that demonstrate the current paradigm shift in the sustainable urban environment.
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Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's greatest harbors andstoried skylines, Brooklyn Bridge Park is among the largest and most significant public projects to be built in New York in a generation. It has transformed a decrepit industrial waterfront into a new public use that is both a reflection and an engine of Brooklyn's resurgence in the(...)
Brooklyn bridge park: a dying waterfront transformed
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Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's greatest harbors andstoried skylines, Brooklyn Bridge Park is among the largest and most significant public projects to be built in New York in a generation. It has transformed a decrepit industrial waterfront into a new public use that is both a reflection and an engine of Brooklyn's resurgence in the twenty-first century. Brooklyn Bridge Park unravels the many obstacles faced during the development of the park and suggests solutions that can be applied to important economic and planning issues around the world.
Urban Landscapes
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As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure—the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning— has become pressing. Predominant challenges facing urban regions and territories today—including shifting climates, material flows, and population mobilities, are addressed and(...)
Landscape as infrastructure: a base primer
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As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure—the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning— has become pressing. Predominant challenges facing urban regions and territories today—including shifting climates, material flows, and population mobilities, are addressed and strategized here. Responding to the under-performance of master planning and over-exertion of technological systems at the end of twentieth century, this book argues for the strategic design of "infrastructural ecologies," describing a synthetic landscape of living, biophysical systems that operate as urban infrastructures to shape and direct the future of urban economies and cultures into the 21st century.
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Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests is a natural history of the tree in American cities over the course of the past two centuries. Jonnes’s survey ranges from early sponsors for the Urban Tree Movement to the fascinating stories of particular species (including Washington, DC’s famed cherry trees, and the American chestnut and elm, and the diseases that almost destroyed them) to(...)
Urban Forests: a natural history of trees and people in the American cityscape
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Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests is a natural history of the tree in American cities over the course of the past two centuries. Jonnes’s survey ranges from early sponsors for the Urban Tree Movement to the fascinating stories of particular species (including Washington, DC’s famed cherry trees, and the American chestnut and elm, and the diseases that almost destroyed them) to the institution of Arbor Day to the most recent generation of tree evangelists who are identifying the best species to populate our cities’ leafy canopies. The book examines such questions as the character of American urban forests and the effect that tree-rich landscaping might have on commerce, crime, and human well-being. As we wrestle with how to repair the damage we have wrought on nature and how to slow climate change, urban forests offer an obvious, low-tech solution.
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"The public chance" is a visual analysis of 30 urban landscapes of opportunity. The projects selected are grouped according to scene of origin: ·Industrial areas ·Peripheral voids ·Infrastructures ·Waterfronts Each project is located: · within surroundings of 60 km2 at a scale of 1:20,000 · within surroundings of 3.5 km2 at a scale of 1:10,000. Each(...)
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The public chance : new urban landscapes
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"The public chance" is a visual analysis of 30 urban landscapes of opportunity. The projects selected are grouped according to scene of origin: ·Industrial areas ·Peripheral voids ·Infrastructures ·Waterfronts Each project is located: · within surroundings of 60 km2 at a scale of 1:20,000 · within surroundings of 3.5 km2 at a scale of 1:10,000. Each intervention undergoes a layer analysis: ·water ·vegetation ·buildings ·routes ·rooms ·activities The 20 most used strategies arise from the comparison of all the projects. This is the first book published by a+t ediciones in the "In common" series, which came about in 2005 in the pages of a+t magazine. "The public chance" offers a renewed vision of some of those projects and a third of new interventions, all of them under thematic analysis.
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The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to(...)
Guerrilla gardening : a manualfesto
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The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world. These modern-day Johnny Appleseeds perform random acts of gardening, often without the property owner's prior knowledge or permission. Typical targets are vacant lots, railway land, underused public squares, and back alleys. The concept is simple, whimsical and has the cheeky appeal of being a not-quite-legal call to action. Dig in some soil, plant a few seeds, or mend a sagging fence - one good deed inspiring another, with win-win results all around.
Urban Landscapes
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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often,(...)
Green city : people, nature and urban places
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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often, a warning. Featuring chapters on Babylon, Provins (France), London and Bloomsbury, Hamilton, Chicago, Irvine, Singapore, Tanga (Tanzania), Kochi (India), Shanghai, and São Paulo, as well as recommendations on what must be done so that everyone has a bit of green to call their own. Also includes photographs and extensive notes.
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