Ways of knowing cities
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Technology mediates how we know and experience cities, and the nature of this mediation has always been deeply political. Today, the production and deployment of data is at the forefront of projects to grasp and reshape urban life. ''Ways of knowing cities'' considers the role of technology in generating, materializing, and contesting urban epistemologies- tracing an arc(...)
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Technology mediates how we know and experience cities, and the nature of this mediation has always been deeply political. Today, the production and deployment of data is at the forefront of projects to grasp and reshape urban life. ''Ways of knowing cities'' considers the role of technology in generating, materializing, and contesting urban epistemologies- tracing an arc from ubiquitous sites of ''smart'' urbanism, to discrete struggles over infrastructural governance, to forgotten histories of segregation now naturalized in urban algorithms, to exceptional territories of border policing. Bringing together architects, urbanists, artists, and scholars of critical migration studies, media theory, geography, anthropology, and literature, the essays stage a deeply interdisciplinary conversation, interrogating the ways in which certain ways of knowing are predicated on the erasure of others. In this opening, the book engages the information systems that structure urban space and social life in it, historically and in the present moment, to imagine alternative practices and generate new critical perspectives on spatial research.
Urban Theory
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The design of every aspect of the urban landscape -- from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing -- fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there. It can affect people's stress levels and determine whether they walk or drive, the quality of the air they breathe, and how free they are from crime. "Changing(...)
Changing places: the science and art of new urban planning
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The design of every aspect of the urban landscape -- from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing -- fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there. It can affect people's stress levels and determine whether they walk or drive, the quality of the air they breathe, and how free they are from crime. "Changing Places" provides a compelling look at the new science and art of urban planning, showing how scientists, planners, and citizens can work together to reshape city life in measurably positive ways.
Urban Theory
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''Southern Exposure: The overlooked architecture of Chicago's South Side'' is the first book devoted to the South Side's rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and colour photographs by noted Chicago architecture expert Lee Bey, this book documents the remarkable and largely unsung architecture of the South Side. The book features(...)
Southern exposure: the overlooked architecture of Chicago's South Side
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''Southern Exposure: The overlooked architecture of Chicago's South Side'' is the first book devoted to the South Side's rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and colour photographs by noted Chicago architecture expert Lee Bey, this book documents the remarkable and largely unsung architecture of the South Side. The book features an array of landmarks-from a Space Age dry cleaners to a nineteenth-century lagoon that meanders down the middle of a working-class neighborhood street-that are largely absent from arts discourse, in no small part because they sit in a predominantly African American and Latino section of town that's better known as a place of disinvestment, abandonment, and violence.
Urban Theory
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In "Punctuations" Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation—conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility—opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Roland Barthes, Shapiro demonstrates how punctuation's capacity to(...)
Punctuations: how the arts think the political
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In "Punctuations" Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation—conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility—opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Roland Barthes, Shapiro demonstrates how punctuation's capacity to create unexpected rhythmic pacing makes it an ideal tool for writers, musicians, filmmakers, and artists to challenge structures of power. In works ranging from film scores and jazz compositions to literature, architecture, and photography, Shapiro shows how the use of punctuation reveals the contestability of dominant narratives in ways that prompt readers, viewers, and listeners to reflect on their acceptance of those narratives. Such uses of punctuation, he theorizes, offer models for disrupting structures of authority, thereby fostering the creation of alternative communities of sense from which to base political mobilization.
Art Theory
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"I have a weakness for a touch of red" is a selection of essays on the art and architecture of Portugal by Yehuda Safran, who has been a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, as well as the director of Potlach journal. Safran, who has previously written books on Adolf Loos, Mies van der(...)
I have a weakness for a touch of red: essays on architecture and Portugal
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"I have a weakness for a touch of red" is a selection of essays on the art and architecture of Portugal by Yehuda Safran, who has been a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, as well as the director of Potlach journal. Safran, who has previously written books on Adolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Anthony Gormley and Anish Kapoor, is not himself Portuguese; he writes here from the perspective of a traveler, enamored with the work of major architects Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura and artist Pedro Cabrita Reis, among others. In an interview with the Portuguese website Virose, Safran said of Siza: “there is always a Portuguese accent to it, but he is really addressing universal architectural issues. The great poet writes normally in his own language."
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Urban design lab handbook: dialogue oriented urban transformation processes and practical approaches
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After North America, the second-most urbanized region in the world is Latin America and the Caribbean, 78% of whose population lives in cities. The result of five years of recent research by Vienna’s Urban Design Lab, this handbook contextualizes emergent planning issues at hand in the region, where cities are continuing to grow at considerably high rates. Case studies(...)
Urban design lab handbook: dialogue oriented urban transformation processes and practical approaches
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After North America, the second-most urbanized region in the world is Latin America and the Caribbean, 78% of whose population lives in cities. The result of five years of recent research by Vienna’s Urban Design Lab, this handbook contextualizes emergent planning issues at hand in the region, where cities are continuing to grow at considerably high rates. Case studies conducted between 2013 and 2018 in over 20 cities, accompanied by 250 color illustrations, offer a detailed survey of the issues facing Latin American and Caribbean urban planning in the 2010s. Topics covered include social participation in the planning process, the role of culture in urban transformation, “human-scale” city development, and creative reinterpretation of existing municipal structures. Several detailed examinations of specific buildings- including Panamanian and Argentinian railway stations, airports and gardens- present focused and practical accounts of these new urban strategies.
Urban Theory
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"Make City" collects contributions from architects, planners, landscape designers and municipal policymakers on the crises facing contemporary cities, presenting a variety of strategies to reconfigure and reimagine urban life. The intertwined problems of continuous development and rising real estate prices are rendering cities increasingly uninhabitable for many, a(...)
Make city: a compendium of urban alternatives
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"Make City" collects contributions from architects, planners, landscape designers and municipal policymakers on the crises facing contemporary cities, presenting a variety of strategies to reconfigure and reimagine urban life. The intertwined problems of continuous development and rising real estate prices are rendering cities increasingly uninhabitable for many, a situation that will continue to be exacerbated by the mounting pressure of climate change on metropolitan infrastructures. This volume proposes models of localized food production, community-centered planning and sustainable architecture design that renew and optimize existing structures in alternative models of urban economy. Developed in tandem with Berlin’s Make City festival, design proposals are displayed across over 350 colour illustrations and writings from contributors including AFF Architects, Anupama Kundoo, Michel Bouwens/P2P Foundation, Francesca Bria SESC, Tessy Britton, Bureau SLA, Marco Casagrande, Eva de Klerk, De Urbanisten, FAR frohn and Kraftwerk 1.
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City of comings and goings
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"City of Comings and Goings" explores how architectural design and planning play crucial roles in Western European cities marked by migration—such as London, Berlin or Vienna. The book collects essays by local scholars in these cities and presents 100 projects tackling the issue of migration on different scales.
City of comings and goings
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"City of Comings and Goings" explores how architectural design and planning play crucial roles in Western European cities marked by migration—such as London, Berlin or Vienna. The book collects essays by local scholars in these cities and presents 100 projects tackling the issue of migration on different scales.
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Et pourtant elle tourne
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Première édition française d'un manifeste de l'art moderne écrit par l'écrivain, poète et journaliste russe Ilya Ehrenbourg en 1921, caractérisé par le soin apporté à sa mise en page autant que par le regard singulier porté par son auteur sur le cours de l'art de son temps et l'espoir d'une union entre les créateurs du monde entier, livrant une réflexion originale sur les(...)
Et pourtant elle tourne
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Première édition française d'un manifeste de l'art moderne écrit par l'écrivain, poète et journaliste russe Ilya Ehrenbourg en 1921, caractérisé par le soin apporté à sa mise en page autant que par le regard singulier porté par son auteur sur le cours de l'art de son temps et l'espoir d'une union entre les créateurs du monde entier, livrant une réflexion originale sur les rapports entre art et politique.
Art Theory
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Des BD de Hergé, Objectif Lune et On a marché sur la Lune (1950-1954), au documentaire mythique Opération Lune de William Karel (2001), on pensait quasiment tout savoir sur les fictions et réalités du plus « grand pas » de toute l'histoire de l'humanité. Or l'odyssée spatiale américaine a capitalisé une abondante culture matérielle sur la Conquête de cette nouvelle(...)
On va marcher sur la lune : une odyssée américaine
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Des BD de Hergé, Objectif Lune et On a marché sur la Lune (1950-1954), au documentaire mythique Opération Lune de William Karel (2001), on pensait quasiment tout savoir sur les fictions et réalités du plus « grand pas » de toute l'histoire de l'humanité. Or l'odyssée spatiale américaine a capitalisé une abondante culture matérielle sur la Conquête de cette nouvelle Frontière... Dans son essai, l'auteur en dévoile quelques jalons oubliés : non seulement les centres de Cap Canaveral et de Houston (qui plus tard épouseront les noms de Kennedy et Johnson), mais aussi le simulateur d'alunissage à Langley, le pavillon américain à l'Expo '67, le propulseur Saturn-V, le module Eagle, le rover lunaire, sans oublier la combinaison spatiale fabriquée par Playtex.
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