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Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: NetCulture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging environments of the modern city. Important questions have been brought up to date and reasked, taking current positions and discourses into account. The major question still remains,(...)
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Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: NetCulture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging environments of the modern city. Important questions have been brought up to date and reasked, taking current positions and discourses into account. The major question still remains,(...)
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Urban hacking: cultural jamming strategies in the risky spaces of modernity
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Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: NetCulture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging environments of the modern city. Important questions have been brought up to date and reasked, taking current positions and discourses into account. The major question still remains, namely how to create culturally based resistance under the influence of capitalistic pressure and conservative politics. This collection of essays and contributions attempts to address this question and its implications for different scientific and artistic fields.
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Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: NetCulture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging environments of the modern city. Important questions have been brought up to date and reasked, taking current positions and discourses into account. The major question still remains, namely how to create culturally based resistance under the influence of capitalistic pressure and conservative politics. This collection of essays and contributions attempts to address this question and its implications for different scientific and artistic fields.
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L'Afghanistan est plus connu pour ses steppes mythiques, ses montagnes arides et ses fiers habitants que pour ses zones urbaines. Pourtant, les "villes afghanes" sont confrontées depuis quelques dizaines d'années à un phénomène d'urbanisation d'une grande ampleur, mais qui reste chaotique et la plupart du temps illégal. Kaboul est devenue une ville phare, focalisant(...)
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L'Afghanistan est plus connu pour ses steppes mythiques, ses montagnes arides et ses fiers habitants que pour ses zones urbaines. Pourtant, les "villes afghanes" sont confrontées depuis quelques dizaines d'années à un phénomène d'urbanisation d'une grande ampleur, mais qui reste chaotique et la plupart du temps illégal. Kaboul est devenue une ville phare, focalisant(...)
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Villes afghanes, défis urbains
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L'Afghanistan est plus connu pour ses steppes mythiques, ses montagnes arides et ses fiers habitants que pour ses zones urbaines. Pourtant, les "villes afghanes" sont confrontées depuis quelques dizaines d'années à un phénomène d'urbanisation d'une grande ampleur, mais qui reste chaotique et la plupart du temps illégal. Kaboul est devenue une ville phare, focalisant l'attention internationale sur les évolutions du processus de reconstruction. S'y côtoient la majorité des structures d'intervention en situations de post-crise. A côté des aléas politiques et des engagements militaires plus ou moins contestés un immense effort reste à faire, pour aider le pays et la société afghane à se reconstruire.
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L'Afghanistan est plus connu pour ses steppes mythiques, ses montagnes arides et ses fiers habitants que pour ses zones urbaines. Pourtant, les "villes afghanes" sont confrontées depuis quelques dizaines d'années à un phénomène d'urbanisation d'une grande ampleur, mais qui reste chaotique et la plupart du temps illégal. Kaboul est devenue une ville phare, focalisant l'attention internationale sur les évolutions du processus de reconstruction. S'y côtoient la majorité des structures d'intervention en situations de post-crise. A côté des aléas politiques et des engagements militaires plus ou moins contestés un immense effort reste à faire, pour aider le pays et la société afghane à se reconstruire.
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Our cities are "smart" and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of city traffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favorite espresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk(...)
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Our cities are "smart" and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of city traffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favorite espresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk(...)
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Sentient city : ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the future of urban space
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Our cities are "smart" and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of city traffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favorite espresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk past a Starbucks. This publication explores the experience of living in a city that can remember, correlate, and anticipate. Five teams of architects, artists, and technologists imagine a variety of future interactions that take place as computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the city.
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Our cities are "smart" and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of city traffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favorite espresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk past a Starbucks. This publication explores the experience of living in a city that can remember, correlate, and anticipate. Five teams of architects, artists, and technologists imagine a variety of future interactions that take place as computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the city.
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Alors que se développent de manière incontrôlable des villes sans limites qui polarisent le nouvel ordre mondial, il apparaît nécessaire de reconstruire un cadre de référence critique permettant de se confronter aux mutations à venir des métropoles de la grande échelle. Les phénomènes les plus contemporains - hyper-extension, apparition de concentrations humaines(...)
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Alors que se développent de manière incontrôlable des villes sans limites qui polarisent le nouvel ordre mondial, il apparaît nécessaire de reconstruire un cadre de référence critique permettant de se confronter aux mutations à venir des métropoles de la grande échelle. Les phénomènes les plus contemporains - hyper-extension, apparition de concentrations humaines(...)
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L'Enjeu capital(es): Les métropoles de la grande échelle / Large-scale metropolises
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Alors que se développent de manière incontrôlable des villes sans limites qui polarisent le nouvel ordre mondial, il apparaît nécessaire de reconstruire un cadre de référence critique permettant de se confronter aux mutations à venir des métropoles de la grande échelle. Les phénomènes les plus contemporains - hyper-extension, apparition de concentrations humaines spontanées, inter-connexion des grandes capitales dans un réseau mondial, recouvrement de ces logiques territoriales par un réseau d'informations globalisées - imposent de reconsidérer les schémas de développement des grandes métropoles selon des logiques innovantes et plus adaptées. Rassemblant les contributions de vingt figures majeures de l'architecture contemporaine ainsi que de nombreux projets récents, cet ouvrage propose une lecture plurielle des grands modèles de fabrication de l'urbain et esquisse les hypothèses d'une nouvelle perception de la ville et de ses séquences de développement.
L'Enjeu capital(es): Les métropoles de la grande échelle / Large-scale metropolises
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Alors que se développent de manière incontrôlable des villes sans limites qui polarisent le nouvel ordre mondial, il apparaît nécessaire de reconstruire un cadre de référence critique permettant de se confronter aux mutations à venir des métropoles de la grande échelle. Les phénomènes les plus contemporains - hyper-extension, apparition de concentrations humaines spontanées, inter-connexion des grandes capitales dans un réseau mondial, recouvrement de ces logiques territoriales par un réseau d'informations globalisées - imposent de reconsidérer les schémas de développement des grandes métropoles selon des logiques innovantes et plus adaptées. Rassemblant les contributions de vingt figures majeures de l'architecture contemporaine ainsi que de nombreux projets récents, cet ouvrage propose une lecture plurielle des grands modèles de fabrication de l'urbain et esquisse les hypothèses d'une nouvelle perception de la ville et de ses séquences de développement.
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L'avantage métropolitain
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Le paradoxe des métropoles est bien connu : principaux centres de création de richesse, elles cumulent également les difficultés (sociales, environnementales, démocratiques) de nos sociétés modernes. Il est désormais clair que les politiques destinées à choyer des populations et des fonctions « stratégiques » au titre de la compétitivité économique ne parviennent pas à(...)
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Le paradoxe des métropoles est bien connu : principaux centres de création de richesse, elles cumulent également les difficultés (sociales, environnementales, démocratiques) de nos sociétés modernes. Il est désormais clair que les politiques destinées à choyer des populations et des fonctions « stratégiques » au titre de la compétitivité économique ne parviennent pas à(...)
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L'avantage métropolitain
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Le paradoxe des métropoles est bien connu : principaux centres de création de richesse, elles cumulent également les difficultés (sociales, environnementales, démocratiques) de nos sociétés modernes. Il est désormais clair que les politiques destinées à choyer des populations et des fonctions « stratégiques » au titre de la compétitivité économique ne parviennent pas à dépasser ces tensions. Rejetant cette vision d'une « ville d'exception », l'ouvrage s'appuie sur les apports de l'économie territoriale pour repenser ce qui fonde l'avantage métropolitain dans la globalisation. Loin de la prétendue dilution des capacités locales dans la mondialisation et de l'inexorable déconnexion entre les villes mondiales et leurs territoires environnants, l'ère des métropoles offre des marges de manoeuvre aux sociétés qui se donnent les moyens collectifs d'exploiter leurs ressources.
L'avantage métropolitain
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Le paradoxe des métropoles est bien connu : principaux centres de création de richesse, elles cumulent également les difficultés (sociales, environnementales, démocratiques) de nos sociétés modernes. Il est désormais clair que les politiques destinées à choyer des populations et des fonctions « stratégiques » au titre de la compétitivité économique ne parviennent pas à dépasser ces tensions. Rejetant cette vision d'une « ville d'exception », l'ouvrage s'appuie sur les apports de l'économie territoriale pour repenser ce qui fonde l'avantage métropolitain dans la globalisation. Loin de la prétendue dilution des capacités locales dans la mondialisation et de l'inexorable déconnexion entre les villes mondiales et leurs territoires environnants, l'ère des métropoles offre des marges de manoeuvre aux sociétés qui se donnent les moyens collectifs d'exploiter leurs ressources.
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Reprise d'une enquête anthropologique sur le quartier de Bethnal Green, oeuvre fondatrice de l'étude de la parenté en zone urbaine dans l'Occident moderne.
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Reprise d'une enquête anthropologique sur le quartier de Bethnal Green, oeuvre fondatrice de l'étude de la parenté en zone urbaine dans l'Occident moderne.
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Le village dans la ville: famille et parenté dans l'Est londonien
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Reprise d'une enquête anthropologique sur le quartier de Bethnal Green, oeuvre fondatrice de l'étude de la parenté en zone urbaine dans l'Occident moderne.
Le village dans la ville: famille et parenté dans l'Est londonien
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Reprise d'une enquête anthropologique sur le quartier de Bethnal Green, oeuvre fondatrice de l'étude de la parenté en zone urbaine dans l'Occident moderne.
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The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New(...)
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The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New(...)
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Streetlife: The untold story of Europe's twentieth century
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The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and isolation were not simply a by-product of prosperity, but because people planned new ways of living, new forms of housing in suburbs and estates across the continent. In Streetlife, Leif Jerram presents a totally new history of the twentieth century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about the century, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was fundamentally shaped by the great urban centres which defined it.
Streetlife: The untold story of Europe's twentieth century
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The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and isolation were not simply a by-product of prosperity, but because people planned new ways of living, new forms of housing in suburbs and estates across the continent. In Streetlife, Leif Jerram presents a totally new history of the twentieth century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about the century, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was fundamentally shaped by the great urban centres which defined it.
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Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas - Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city’s community gardens. Like Jane Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to(...)
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Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas - Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city’s community gardens. Like Jane Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to(...)
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Naked city: The death and life of authentic places
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Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas - Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city’s community gardens. Like Jane Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood “characters” that Jacobs so evocatively idealized.
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Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas - Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city’s community gardens. Like Jane Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood “characters” that Jacobs so evocatively idealized.
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Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert—precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai’s rulers and merchant elite. "In Dubai, the City as Corporation", Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural(...)
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Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert—precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai’s rulers and merchant elite. "In Dubai, the City as Corporation", Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural(...)
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Dubai, the city as corporation
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Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert—precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai’s rulers and merchant elite. "In Dubai, the City as Corporation", Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural and political forces in shaping both the image and the reality of Dubai. Exposing local struggles over power and meaning in the making and representation of Dubai, Kanna examines the core questions of what gets built and for whom. This publication offers an instructive picture of how different factions—from local and non-Arab residents and expatriate South Asians to the cultural and economic elites of the city—have all participated in the creation and marketing of Dubai. The result is an unparalleled account of the ways in which the built environment shapes and is shaped by the experience of globalization and neoliberalism in a diverse, multinational city.
Dubai, the city as corporation
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Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert—precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai’s rulers and merchant elite. "In Dubai, the City as Corporation", Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural and political forces in shaping both the image and the reality of Dubai. Exposing local struggles over power and meaning in the making and representation of Dubai, Kanna examines the core questions of what gets built and for whom. This publication offers an instructive picture of how different factions—from local and non-Arab residents and expatriate South Asians to the cultural and economic elites of the city—have all participated in the creation and marketing of Dubai. The result is an unparalleled account of the ways in which the built environment shapes and is shaped by the experience of globalization and neoliberalism in a diverse, multinational city.
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects(...)
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects(...)
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Mediterranean crossroads: Marseille and Modern architecture
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects and theorists of urban modernity. Drawing together architects, photographers, and cultural theorists, including Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Benjamin, and László Moholy-Nagy, Mediterranean Crossroads examines how mythic ideas about Marseille helped to shape its urban landscape. Tracing successive planning proposals in tandem with shifting representations of the city in photographs, film, guidebooks, and postcards, Sheila Crane reconstructs the history and politics of architecture in Marseille from the 1920s through the years of rebuilding after World War II.
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects and theorists of urban modernity. Drawing together architects, photographers, and cultural theorists, including Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Benjamin, and László Moholy-Nagy, Mediterranean Crossroads examines how mythic ideas about Marseille helped to shape its urban landscape. Tracing successive planning proposals in tandem with shifting representations of the city in photographs, film, guidebooks, and postcards, Sheila Crane reconstructs the history and politics of architecture in Marseille from the 1920s through the years of rebuilding after World War II.
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