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This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983)was begun in the mid-1940s. As assembled and annotated here, Visual Planning and the Picturesque comprises three parts. The first part analyzes English planning tradition before 1800. The second surveys English planning theory or, by Pevsner's lights, the theory of the picturesque. The third part is(...)
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This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983)was begun in the mid-1940s. As assembled and annotated here, Visual Planning and the Picturesque comprises three parts. The first part analyzes English planning tradition before 1800. The second surveys English planning theory or, by Pevsner's lights, the theory of the picturesque. The third part is(...)
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This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983)was begun in the mid-1940s. As assembled and annotated here, Visual Planning and the Picturesque comprises three parts. The first part analyzes English planning tradition before 1800. The second surveys English planning theory or, by Pevsner's lights, the theory of the picturesque. The third part is essentially a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the nineteenth century and, potentially, the twentieth as well. The work as a whole is a surprisingly fresh plea for a visual approach to urban design and common sense in architecture, one that sought to incorporate and mediate rather than idealize and exclude.
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This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983)was begun in the mid-1940s. As assembled and annotated here, Visual Planning and the Picturesque comprises three parts. The first part analyzes English planning tradition before 1800. The second surveys English planning theory or, by Pevsner's lights, the theory of the picturesque. The third part is essentially a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the nineteenth century and, potentially, the twentieth as well. The work as a whole is a surprisingly fresh plea for a visual approach to urban design and common sense in architecture, one that sought to incorporate and mediate rather than idealize and exclude.
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The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth is about the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy. This book provides practical guidance for sorting through the ethical implications surrounding metropolitan growth, bringing the most immediate concerns of ordinary people to(...)
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The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth is about the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy. This book provides practical guidance for sorting through the ethical implications surrounding metropolitan growth, bringing the most immediate concerns of ordinary people to(...)
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The ethics of metropolitan growth
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The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth is about the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy. This book provides practical guidance for sorting through the ethical implications surrounding metropolitan growth, bringing the most immediate concerns of ordinary people to the centre of environmental ethics.
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The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth is about the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy. This book provides practical guidance for sorting through the ethical implications surrounding metropolitan growth, bringing the most immediate concerns of ordinary people to the centre of environmental ethics.
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Comics emerged parallel to, and in several ways intertwined with, the development of modern urban mass societies at the turn of the 20th century. On the one hand, urban topoi, self-portrayals, forms of urban cultural memories, and variant readings of the city (strolling, advertising, architecture, detective stories, mass phenomena, street life, etc.) are all incorporated(...)
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Comics emerged parallel to, and in several ways intertwined with, the development of modern urban mass societies at the turn of the 20th century. On the one hand, urban topoi, self-portrayals, forms of urban cultural memories, and variant readings of the city (strolling, advertising, architecture, detective stories, mass phenomena, street life, etc.) are all incorporated(...)
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Comics and the city: urban space in print, picture and sequence
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Comics emerged parallel to, and in several ways intertwined with, the development of modern urban mass societies at the turn of the 20th century. On the one hand, urban topoi, self-portrayals, forms of urban cultural memories, and variant readings of the city (strolling, advertising, architecture, detective stories, mass phenomena, street life, etc.) are all incorporated into comics. On the other hand, comics have unique abilities to capture urban space and city life because of their hybrid nature, consisting of words, pictures, and sequences. These formal aspects of comics are also to be found within the cityscape itself: one can see the influence of comic book aesthetics all around us today.
Comics and the city: urban space in print, picture and sequence
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Comics emerged parallel to, and in several ways intertwined with, the development of modern urban mass societies at the turn of the 20th century. On the one hand, urban topoi, self-portrayals, forms of urban cultural memories, and variant readings of the city (strolling, advertising, architecture, detective stories, mass phenomena, street life, etc.) are all incorporated into comics. On the other hand, comics have unique abilities to capture urban space and city life because of their hybrid nature, consisting of words, pictures, and sequences. These formal aspects of comics are also to be found within the cityscape itself: one can see the influence of comic book aesthetics all around us today.
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Contre l'architecture
Contre l'architecture
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Contre l'architecture est une charge érudite contre l'esprit dans lequel travaillent actuellement les grands architectes. A travers une multitude d'exemples - New York, Tirana, Barcelone, ou encore Paris et ses banlieues -, l'auteur stigmatise les fourvoiements d'une profession qui, selon lui, a dénaturé sa fonction. L'architecture est devenue un jeu formel où l'on a(...)
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Contre l'architecture est une charge érudite contre l'esprit dans lequel travaillent actuellement les grands architectes. A travers une multitude d'exemples - New York, Tirana, Barcelone, ou encore Paris et ses banlieues -, l'auteur stigmatise les fourvoiements d'une profession qui, selon lui, a dénaturé sa fonction. L'architecture est devenue un jeu formel où l'on a(...)
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Contre l'architecture est une charge érudite contre l'esprit dans lequel travaillent actuellement les grands architectes. A travers une multitude d'exemples - New York, Tirana, Barcelone, ou encore Paris et ses banlieues -, l'auteur stigmatise les fourvoiements d'une profession qui, selon lui, a dénaturé sa fonction. L'architecture est devenue un jeu formel où l'on a perdu de vue le bien public, ce qui est désastreux pour la ville et ses habitants. Franco La Cecla s'insurge contre la transformation des villes en marques " labellisées, et insiste sur la nécessité de repenser l'espace urbain et les pratiques architecturales afin de protéger et d'améliorer nos conditions de vie. La crise des banlieues, la détérioration de l'environnement, l'épuisement des ressources, tout devrait nous pousser à réagir pour éviter que nos villes deviennent inhabitables.
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Contre l'architecture est une charge érudite contre l'esprit dans lequel travaillent actuellement les grands architectes. A travers une multitude d'exemples - New York, Tirana, Barcelone, ou encore Paris et ses banlieues -, l'auteur stigmatise les fourvoiements d'une profession qui, selon lui, a dénaturé sa fonction. L'architecture est devenue un jeu formel où l'on a perdu de vue le bien public, ce qui est désastreux pour la ville et ses habitants. Franco La Cecla s'insurge contre la transformation des villes en marques " labellisées, et insiste sur la nécessité de repenser l'espace urbain et les pratiques architecturales afin de protéger et d'améliorer nos conditions de vie. La crise des banlieues, la détérioration de l'environnement, l'épuisement des ressources, tout devrait nous pousser à réagir pour éviter que nos villes deviennent inhabitables.
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L'aménagement du territoire
L'aménagement du territoire
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Comment expliquer cette préoccupation, désormais répandue sur tous les continents, d'aménager, c'est-à-dire de " disposer avec ordre ", le territoire quand on sait que cet objectif était ignoré des générations précédentes ? Autrement dit, quelle est l'utilité de cette nouvelle discipline ? Quels sont ses enjeux, ses acteurs, ses résultats ? Le présent livre explore les(...)
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Comment expliquer cette préoccupation, désormais répandue sur tous les continents, d'aménager, c'est-à-dire de " disposer avec ordre ", le territoire quand on sait que cet objectif était ignoré des générations précédentes ? Autrement dit, quelle est l'utilité de cette nouvelle discipline ? Quels sont ses enjeux, ses acteurs, ses résultats ? Le présent livre explore les(...)
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L'aménagement du territoire
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Comment expliquer cette préoccupation, désormais répandue sur tous les continents, d'aménager, c'est-à-dire de " disposer avec ordre ", le territoire quand on sait que cet objectif était ignoré des générations précédentes ? Autrement dit, quelle est l'utilité de cette nouvelle discipline ? Quels sont ses enjeux, ses acteurs, ses résultats ? Le présent livre explore les fondements de cette nouvelle dimension politique, ses tenants et aboutissants sur le plan national mais aussi dans l'espace de l'union européenne. Il en étudie les voies politiques et institutionnelles (la Délégation à l'aménagement du territoire, la décentralisation) et économiques (les régions, les villes et les campagnes). Il en dresse le bilan et en dessine l'avenir.
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Comment expliquer cette préoccupation, désormais répandue sur tous les continents, d'aménager, c'est-à-dire de " disposer avec ordre ", le territoire quand on sait que cet objectif était ignoré des générations précédentes ? Autrement dit, quelle est l'utilité de cette nouvelle discipline ? Quels sont ses enjeux, ses acteurs, ses résultats ? Le présent livre explore les fondements de cette nouvelle dimension politique, ses tenants et aboutissants sur le plan national mais aussi dans l'espace de l'union européenne. Il en étudie les voies politiques et institutionnelles (la Délégation à l'aménagement du territoire, la décentralisation) et économiques (les régions, les villes et les campagnes). Il en dresse le bilan et en dessine l'avenir.
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Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, this publication exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in the North Eastern US in 2003. But the book also excavates the politics of(...)
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Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, this publication exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in the North Eastern US in 2003. But the book also excavates the politics of(...)
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Disrupted cities : when infrastructure fails
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Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, this publication exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in the North Eastern US in 2003. But the book also excavates the politics of more hidden disruptions : the clogging of city sewers with fat; the day-to-day infrastructural collapses which dominate urban life in much of the global south; the deliberate devastation of urban infrastructure by state militaries; and the ways in which alleged threats of infrastructural disruption have been used to radically reorganise cities as part of the ‘war on terror’.
Disrupted cities : when infrastructure fails
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Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, this publication exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in the North Eastern US in 2003. But the book also excavates the politics of more hidden disruptions : the clogging of city sewers with fat; the day-to-day infrastructural collapses which dominate urban life in much of the global south; the deliberate devastation of urban infrastructure by state militaries; and the ways in which alleged threats of infrastructural disruption have been used to radically reorganise cities as part of the ‘war on terror’.
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October 2009
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Reveals the untested urban planning that transforms not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust. This book argues for an alternative, continental approach that celebrates shared space.
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Reveals the untested urban planning that transforms not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust. This book argues for an alternative, continental approach that celebrates shared space.
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Ground control: fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city
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Reveals the untested urban planning that transforms not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust. This book argues for an alternative, continental approach that celebrates shared space.
Ground control: fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city
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Reveals the untested urban planning that transforms not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust. This book argues for an alternative, continental approach that celebrates shared space.
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A revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What we see invites thirty practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for(...)
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A revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What we see invites thirty practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for(...)
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What we see: Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs
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A revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What we see invites thirty practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
What we see: Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs
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A revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What we see invites thirty practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
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New city life
New city life
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New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society's essential city life to the elective city life if a leisure and consumer society. Whereas city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. Based on the comprehensive and detailed study of city life in Copenhagen over the past four decades.
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New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society's essential city life to the elective city life if a leisure and consumer society. Whereas city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. Based on the comprehensive and detailed study of city life in Copenhagen over the past four decades.
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New city life
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New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society's essential city life to the elective city life if a leisure and consumer society. Whereas city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. Based on the comprehensive and detailed study of city life in Copenhagen over the past four decades.
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New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society's essential city life to the elective city life if a leisure and consumer society. Whereas city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. Based on the comprehensive and detailed study of city life in Copenhagen over the past four decades.
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The battle for Gotham
The battle for Gotham
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New(...)
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New(...)
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The battle for Gotham
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Moses's urban philosophy. As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobs's philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life.
The battle for Gotham
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Moses's urban philosophy. As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobs's philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life.
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