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In "The Geography of Nowhere", James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" and put himself at the heart of a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first century America. Now, Kunstler turns his eye on urban life both in America and across the world. From classical Rome to the(...)
The city in mind : notes on the urban condition
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In "The Geography of Nowhere", James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" and put himself at the heart of a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first century America. Now, Kunstler turns his eye on urban life both in America and across the world. From classical Rome to the "gigantic hairball" of contemporary Atlanta, he offers a far-reaching discourse on the history and current state of urban life. "The City in Mind" tells the story of urban design and how the architectural makeup of a city directly influences its culture as well as its success. From the ingenious architectural design of Louis-Napoleon's renovation of Paris to the bloody collision of cultures that occurred when Cortés conquered the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, from the grandiose architectural schemes of Hitler and Albert Speer to the meanings behind the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, Kunstler opens up a new dialogue on the development and effects of urban construction. In his investigations, he discovers American communities in the Sunbelt and Southwest alienated from each other and themselves, Northeastern cities caught between their initial civic construction and our current car-obsessed society, and a disparate Europe with its mix of pre-industrial creativity, and war-marked reminders of the twentieth century. Expanding on ideas first discussed in Jane Jacobs' seminal work, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities", Kunstler looks to Europe to discover what is constant and enduring in cities at their greatest, and at the same time, how a city's design can be directly linked to its decline. In these excursions he finds the reasons that America got lost in its suburban wilderness and locates the pathways in culture that might lead to a civic revival here. Kunstler's examination of these cities is at once a concise history of their urban lives and a detailed criticism of how those histories have either aided or hindered the social and civil progress of the cities' occupants. By turns dramatic and comic, and always authoritative, "The City in Mind", is an exceptional glimpse into the urban condition.
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January 2002, New York
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How green is the city?
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This book introduces "sustainability assessment," a new concept that aims to help steer societies in a more sustainable direction, and applies this concept to cities. It deals with practical ways to reach a more sustainable state in urban areas through such tools as strategic environmental assessment, sustainability assessments, direction analysis and ecological(...)
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August 2001, New York
How green is the city?
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This book introduces "sustainability assessment," a new concept that aims to help steer societies in a more sustainable direction, and applies this concept to cities. It deals with practical ways to reach a more sustainable state in urban areas through such tools as strategic environmental assessment, sustainability assessments, direction analysis and ecological footprint analysis.
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August 2001, New York
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The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years. The editors have selected a set of classic and contemporary writings to address a central question : what role can planning theory play in making the good city region within the constraints of a capitalist political economy(...)
Readings in planning theory / second edition
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The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years. The editors have selected a set of classic and contemporary writings to address a central question : what role can planning theory play in making the good city region within the constraints of a capitalist political economy and democratic political system? The volume draws on a wide range of authors who address planning history, challenges to public planning, competing planning styles, planning ethics, the public interest, and issues such as race and gender.
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Cities in transition
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***ÉPUISÉE / OUT OF PRINT*** "Cities in transition" deals with the effects of globalization and internationalization in relation to urbanism and critical assessment in contemporary theory. The book brings together internationally known authors from many countries including England, the USA, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands. A diversity of critical(...)
Cities in transition
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***ÉPUISÉE / OUT OF PRINT*** "Cities in transition" deals with the effects of globalization and internationalization in relation to urbanism and critical assessment in contemporary theory. The book brings together internationally known authors from many countries including England, the USA, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands. A diversity of critical positions on spatial and social questions is discussed on an international level. The theme of globalization is queried concerning the relation of urban and port developments in Tokyo's Bay Area and in Rotterdam. Cities have historically allowed the coming about of national economies, politics and societies we can think of as centralized. In several contributions this aspect is examined from the viewpoint of the flâneur, a creature of the metropolis, Parisian above all. As for their present day economic function, cities provide agglomeration economies, with a massive concentration of information on the latest developments. The book argues for a new reflexivity related to both economic and cultural understanding of our world. Cities in Transition is the third volume in the "Stylos critical landscape" series, issued by the Faculty of architecture of Delft university of technology.
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March 2001, Rotterdam
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After the city
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The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being is outmoded. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city. The new building materials are non-material: electricity, telephony, weather, time, and so forth. Consequently, according to Lars Lerup, architecture and architects must be rethought. Until now, architects have been trained to serve the(...)
After the city
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The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being is outmoded. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city. The new building materials are non-material: electricity, telephony, weather, time, and so forth. Consequently, according to Lars Lerup, architecture and architects must be rethought. Until now, architects have been trained to serve the elite few, as reflected in a belief in customization and the uniqueness of each project. Instead, Lerup holds, architectural educators should promote teamwork and the design of authorless objects, combined with an integration of design and practice. Before we can rethink the architectural curriculum, however, we must rethink the metropolis. And rethink the metropolis is just what Lerup does. In an intellectually far-ranging yet intensely personal manner, he moves from contemplation of the form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residents seek and create community. The result is an exhilarating work with profound practical implications. Unlike the many who view suburbia with paranoid dismay, Lerup takes an optimistic view of the new, open metropolis--for him not the site of unavoidable uniformity and mediocrity, but an exciting new frontier.
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May 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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"Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design" springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that(...)
Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design
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"Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design" springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlights both the futility of social engineering and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Rotterdam's history has left it particularly marked by movement and transit. Construction of a modern transport infrastructure began before 1940, and continued with renewed vigour during and after the postwar reconstruction. The cityscape is defined by waterways, bridges, streets, arterial canals, avenues and a rhomboid motorway system. The city serves as a good case(...)
In transit : mobility, city culture and urban development in Rotterdam
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Rotterdam's history has left it particularly marked by movement and transit. Construction of a modern transport infrastructure began before 1940, and continued with renewed vigour during and after the postwar reconstruction. The cityscape is defined by waterways, bridges, streets, arterial canals, avenues and a rhomboid motorway system. The city serves as a good case study and illustration of the relationship between mobility and urban development. This book uses word and image to examine the social significance of mobility. The authors draw on Rotterdam examples to illustrate the link between mobility and urban development.
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Les villes confrontées à l'immigration ont-elles un autre avenir possible que celui, sans issue, d'une ségrégation spatiale chaque jour plus sévère? N'y a-t-il pas d'autre voie pour les métropoles européennes que la dérive vers le modèle américain des « gated communities » et des ghettos ethniques, véritable bombe sociale à retardement? Militant en faveur d'une urbanité(...)
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November 2022
Immigration et ségrégation spatiale : L'exemple de Marseille
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Les villes confrontées à l'immigration ont-elles un autre avenir possible que celui, sans issue, d'une ségrégation spatiale chaque jour plus sévère? N'y a-t-il pas d'autre voie pour les métropoles européennes que la dérive vers le modèle américain des « gated communities » et des ghettos ethniques, véritable bombe sociale à retardement? Militant en faveur d'une urbanité plus inclusive et pacifiée, un collectif d'urbanistes et d'architectes engagés livre ici le fruit de ses réflexions et expérimentations menées à Marseille, au cœur de certains des quartiers parmi les plus pauvres et délabrés d'Europe.Sous leur regard dépassionné et vierge de toute stigmatisation, les redoutés « Quartiers Nord?» de la cité phocéenne apparaissent pour ce qu'ils sont : le résultat d'une succession d'erreurs architecturales, urbanistiques et politiques. Et en conséquence, affirment les auteurs, si des solutions existent à la mise à l'écart des migrants et des plus démunis de la ville centre et de ses activités, c'est dans l'intervention architecturale et la révision des règlements urbains qu'il faut les chercher. Inventives, audacieuses, attaquant de front les aménageurs d'une urbanité capitaliste et exclusive, leurs propositions sont d'autant plus stimulantes qu'elles sont simples, efficaces et durables. Et si certaines sont ouvertement utopiques, elles ne le seront jamais plus que celles des architectes modernistes qui, dans les années soixante, ont conçu ces tours et ces barres dans l'idée d'exalter le bien-être de leurs habitants.
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Ingénieur formé à l'architecture, Franck Boutté est de ceux qui considèrent l'environnement comme faisant partie intégrante des processus d'aménagement. C'est d'abord à ce titre, et pour saluer la qualité de ses interventions dans des projets emblématiques tels que ceux de l'Île de Nantes, des villes et quartiers marocains d'Anfa et Zenata - avec Bernard Reichen -, ou de(...)
L'urbanisme, vecteur de transitions : Franck Boutté
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Ingénieur formé à l'architecture, Franck Boutté est de ceux qui considèrent l'environnement comme faisant partie intégrante des processus d'aménagement. C'est d'abord à ce titre, et pour saluer la qualité de ses interventions dans des projets emblématiques tels que ceux de l'Île de Nantes, des villes et quartiers marocains d'Anfa et Zenata - avec Bernard Reichen -, ou de Bordeaux Euratlantique que le jury du Grand Prix de l'urbanisme l'a choisi pour lauréat 2022. Mais ce choix tient également à l'originalité de sa démarche, qui associe la rigueur de la méthode scientifique et la souplesse de l'adaptation aux contextes territoriaux. S'appuyant sur la première, il identifie très en amont la spécificité écologique et le profil énergétique des territoires au travers d'une approche matricielle garante de cohérence entre les échelles ; quant à la seconde, elle prend corps sous la forme d'un urbanisme négocié et co-construit, soucieux des usages, misant sur le principe de mutualisation - entre autres énergétique - à l'origine de nouvelles réciprocités urbaines et territoriales. Ce travail, guidé par une recherche constante de résilience, de sobriété et de moyens pour protéger les villes du réchauffement climatique, entre en dialogue avec celui des six personnalités et collectifs sélectionnés cette année : Dominique Alba, Nicolas Détrie, Sébastien Marot, Claire Schorter, Simon Teyssou et TVK (Pierre Alain Trévelo et Antoine Viger-Kohler). Six voix fortes porteuses, chacune à leur manière, de transitions souhaitables, pour un Grand Prix qui, année après année, explore les facettes d'un monde professionnel de plus en plus rétif à la standardisation.
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Présentation des travaux des six équipes lauréates du Palmarès des jeunes urbanistes 2022. Ayant assimilé le caractère peu soutenable du modèle de développement dominant, tous ont cherché à bousculer les barrières mentales et ont élaboré des démarches expérimentales à la recherche de nouvelles méthodes de projet pour faire société.
Justes milieux : palmarès des jeunes urbanistes 2022
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Présentation des travaux des six équipes lauréates du Palmarès des jeunes urbanistes 2022. Ayant assimilé le caractère peu soutenable du modèle de développement dominant, tous ont cherché à bousculer les barrières mentales et ont élaboré des démarches expérimentales à la recherche de nouvelles méthodes de projet pour faire société.
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