Profession Urbanisme
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Quel est le rôle, dans la Cité, des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des professeurs, des universitaires en général? Qui sont-ils et que font-ils exactement? Quel a été leur parcours intellectuel? La collection «Profession» répond à ces questions.
Profession Urbanisme
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Quel est le rôle, dans la Cité, des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des professeurs, des universitaires en général? Qui sont-ils et que font-ils exactement? Quel a été leur parcours intellectuel? La collection «Profession» répond à ces questions.
Urban Theory
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�This book is based on my experiences as secretary of the interior up to the time I left office with the coming of a new administration in 2001. It makes the case, through the use of specific examples, for a more assertive and meaningful federal role in land use planning. And the book illustrates how that goal can be achieved, not by a lot of new legislation, but by(...)
Cities in the wilderness : a new vision of land use in America
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�This book is based on my experiences as secretary of the interior up to the time I left office with the coming of a new administration in 2001. It makes the case, through the use of specific examples, for a more assertive and meaningful federal role in land use planning. And the book illustrates how that goal can be achieved, not by a lot of new legislation, but by reshaping existing federal programs that affect the way we use and develop our land and water resources- highway programs, farm programs, flood control, energy development, and urban programs to provide incentives for states to prepare land use and water resource plans that include open space, hazard mitigation, sustainable water supplies, and interconnected landscapes that sustain both wildlife and the human spirit.
Urban Theory
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Planetizen contemporary debates in urban planning is a fascinating rewiew of the major issues discussed in the field of urban planning, assembled by editors at Planetizen, the web's leading source of news and information for the planning and development community.
Planetizen : Contemporary debates in urban planning
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Planetizen contemporary debates in urban planning is a fascinating rewiew of the major issues discussed in the field of urban planning, assembled by editors at Planetizen, the web's leading source of news and information for the planning and development community.
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Et si la perspective moderne n'existait pas? Ne faut-il nuancer la thèse massivement admise qu'au Quattrocento, un dispositif unitaire de représentation se mettrait en place dans la peinture, dont la fonction demeurerait inchangée jusqu'à l'âge classique? En relisant les textes d'Alberti, de Piero della Francesca, de Léonard de Vinci et d'Albert Dürer, en regardant(...)
Archéologie de la perspective : sur Piero della Francesca, Vinci et Dürer
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Et si la perspective moderne n'existait pas? Ne faut-il nuancer la thèse massivement admise qu'au Quattrocento, un dispositif unitaire de représentation se mettrait en place dans la peinture, dont la fonction demeurerait inchangée jusqu'à l'âge classique? En relisant les textes d'Alberti, de Piero della Francesca, de Léonard de Vinci et d'Albert Dürer, en regardant autrement les peintures de la Renaissance, des fresques d'Azzero ou dela Cène de Milan, ce livre met en effet en évidence des dispositifs singuliers, liés pour chaque peintre à des régimes différents de la représentation, du visible, de la vision et du regard. Pourtant, au XVIIe siècle, le discours sur la perspective est soudain convoqué par la philosophie, pour éclairer le nouveau partage entre la représentation du sujet pensant et une matière désormais géométrisable. À quelles conditions, improbables et contingentes, la perspective a-t-elle pu tenir cette place à la fois décisive et ambiguë dans l'émergence de l'âme classique? Par quelles transformations, de la surface de la peinture et de laplace du spectateur, a-t-elle dû passer pour rendre possible la clôture de l'image sur la représentation classique? À l'histoire d'une forme symbolique, ce livre substitue le récit désormais éclaté d'une archéologie ou d'une généalogie de la modernité.
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May 2007, Paris
Architectural Theory
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Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks available for open space, parks, housing, and nonindustrial uses. Urban rivers, which once functioned as open sewers for cities, are now seen as part of larger watershed ecosystems. Rivertown examines(...)
Rivertown : Rethinking urban rivers
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Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks available for open space, parks, housing, and nonindustrial uses. Urban rivers, which once functioned as open sewers for cities, are now seen as part of larger watershed ecosystems. Rivertown examines urban river restoration efforts across the United States, presenting case studies from Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Oregon; Chicago; Salt Lake City; and San Jose. It also analyzes the roles of the federal government (in particular, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and citizen activism in urban river politics. A postscript places New Orleans's experience with Hurricane Katrina in the broader context of the national riverside land-use debate. Each case study in Rivertown considers the critical questions of who makes decisions about our urban rivers, who pays to implement these decisions, and who ultimately benefits or suffers from these decisions. In Los Angeles, for example, local nonprofit and academic research groups played crucial roles, whereas Chicago relied on a series of engineering interventions. In each case, authors evaluate the ecological issues and consider urban river restoration projects in relation to other urban economic and environmental initiatives in the region. Rivertown is a valuable resource for urban planners and citizen groups as well as for scholars.
Landscape Theory
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On lit dans cet ouvrage comment le projet d'espace donne du sens, mais aussi prend du sens à l'être, même en son absence. Toute sémiotique s'inscrit dans l'espace, de proche en proche, puis un peu plus loin, jusqu'à l'absence. Et c'est bien la force de l'espace architectural, force formelle qui s'oppose aux forces matérielles d'attraction et de répulsion, que de donner(...)
Le sens de l'espace : Le project architectural
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On lit dans cet ouvrage comment le projet d'espace donne du sens, mais aussi prend du sens à l'être, même en son absence. Toute sémiotique s'inscrit dans l'espace, de proche en proche, puis un peu plus loin, jusqu'à l'absence. Et c'est bien la force de l'espace architectural, force formelle qui s'oppose aux forces matérielles d'attraction et de répulsion, que de donner sens en articulant présence et absence. Établissant une continuité entre la chose sensible et l'idée que l'on en a. l'espace architectural est relation autant qu'intervalle, connexion autant qu'intercalation, conjonction autant que disjonction. Il faut le franchir, mais on peut le parcourir. Vide, panoptique, il donne à voir; peuplé de corps divers, labyrinthique, il donne à chercher. L'espace architectural est ainsi un mode d'organisation de l'être au monde.
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More and more people are moving into towns and cities to live and work, which is altering the urban/rural balance of countries worldwide. THE Endless City is an unparalleled study of the growth of six of the world's international cities (New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg, and Berlin), exploring key structural, social, and economic factors. This book(...)
The endless city: The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank 's Alfred Herrhausen Society
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More and more people are moving into towns and cities to live and work, which is altering the urban/rural balance of countries worldwide. THE Endless City is an unparalleled study of the growth of six of the world's international cities (New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg, and Berlin), exploring key structural, social, and economic factors. This book was overseen by the London School of Economics, and features extensive research and coherent texts by world-renowned professionals in the field of urban planning and development. The information is presented in a comprehensive and visually compelling sequence, enabling quick and efficient reference as well as offering material that is exciting to study. Each city is examined individually in its own chapter as well as being analyzed comparatively in an observational chapter. THE Endless City is authoritatively edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic in collaboration with the London School of Economics and the Urban Age Project, an expanding international organization seeking a new urban agenda for global cities.
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November 2007, London
Urban Theory
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In the rapidly changing profession of architecture, Thinking Practice presents an extraordinary examination of the increasingly dynamic relationships between academic research, teaching and practice. This book brings together a unique and diverse collection of writings by leading academics and theorists who are also practising architects.
Architectural Theory
September 2007, London
Thinking Practice: reflections on architectural research and building work
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In the rapidly changing profession of architecture, Thinking Practice presents an extraordinary examination of the increasingly dynamic relationships between academic research, teaching and practice. This book brings together a unique and diverse collection of writings by leading academics and theorists who are also practising architects.
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World City
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Cities around the world are striving to be global. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions which are essential for all cities. These questions concern identity, place, and political responsibility in the changing geographies of our times. The book also tells the story of the rise of a new class, of deepening inequality, and of the(...)
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Cities around the world are striving to be global. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions which are essential for all cities. These questions concern identity, place, and political responsibility in the changing geographies of our times. The book also tells the story of the rise of a new class, of deepening inequality, and of the geographical imaginations that are mobilised to legitimate the increasing dominance of these powerful metropoles. In so doing, it sets the global city in its wider geographical and political context. World City focuses its account on London, one of the greatest of these global cities. London is a city of delight and of creativity, of the generation of vast wealth and of acute poverty. It also presides over a country increasingly divided between North and South and over a neo-liberal form of globalisation the deregulation, financialisation and commercialisation of all aspects of life that results in an evermore unequal world.World City explores how we can understand this complex narrative and asks a question that should be asked of any city: what does this place stand for? This book will appeal to students of human geography, politics and sociology as well as to the general reader.
Architectural Theory
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A l'heure de la "mondialisation" et de la mobilité généralisée, alors même que les sociétés modernes ont tendance à occulter le contenu anthropologique de l'espace, comment rendre compte de la complexité des espaces vécus ? De la dimension culturelle des territoires ? Car la banalité des espaces ordinaires recouvre une dimension cosmologique : nos espaces quotidiens, à(...)
Anthropologie de l'espace : Habiter, fonder, distribuer, transformer
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A l'heure de la "mondialisation" et de la mobilité généralisée, alors même que les sociétés modernes ont tendance à occulter le contenu anthropologique de l'espace, comment rendre compte de la complexité des espaces vécus ? De la dimension culturelle des territoires ? Car la banalité des espaces ordinaires recouvre une dimension cosmologique : nos espaces quotidiens, à différentes échelles (domicile, quartier, ville, territoire), sont empreints de règles, obéissent à des conventions, répondent à des valeurs, le plus souvent implicites. La démarche de l'auteure pour répondre à ces interrogations s'ancre ici dans une réflexion sur les formes et les usages de l'espace dans différentes sociétés. Car si toutes partagent des "universaux", Fonder, Habiter, Classer et Distribuer, Transformer et Reformuler, pour autant, ces opérations communes se déclinent de diverses manières que l'ouvrage examine, montrant comment s'instaurent, aujourd'hui comme hier, ces liens entre espaces et sociétés. Ainsi, l'auteure analyse notamment la rencontre et le renforcement des rapports en France, après Mai 1968, entre sciences sociales, architecture et urbanisme. Destiné aux étudiants, chercheurs, professionnels opérant dans et sur l'espace, mais aussi aux citadins "ordinaires", ce travail leur apportera les outils indispensables à une appréhension globale de la problématique anthropologique des espaces.
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