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Titre:
Green obsession: trees towards cities, humans towards forests

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Cities have contributed for centuries to the promotion of some of humanity’s greatest ideas, we must now urgently include them as among the principal players in the environmental debate and at the forefront of any policy tackling and countering – possibly reversing - climate change. Nevertheless, even today one of the most significant technologies capable of absorbing CO2 and restoring our environment is photosynthesis. Planting trees, in addition to protecting existing natural areas and biodiversity, together with de-carbonization, renewable energies, digitalization, smart mobility and the circular economy could be the set of strategies necessary to tackle climate change. Today the effects of the Anthropocene age are ever more visible, changing our environment and affecting every species that lives within it. ''Green obsession'' offers a path to be taken, a hard but still necessary paradigm shift – even for architecture and urbanism – that aims to give a voice to this much needed ecological transition. This book aims to unveil the processes and the complexity involved in the search for a new kind of urbanism, while raising questions and opening old wounds related to the relationship between the human species and Nature and finally putting these fragments together to create a portrait of our era. We need to conceive cities as new green catalysts. Now more than ever, it is essential to act together as separate individuals and professionals, joining the cause as members of the global community with a shared environmental strategy. We all have to open the era of a new alliance between Nature and City.

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Gio Ponti and MIlan: a guide to the works 1920-1970

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This book presents a collection of the works of architecture designed by Gio Ponti in Milan between 1925 and 1971. There are around forty buildings. Apart from a few works that have undergone radical alterations, these houses, churches, and offices have been left as they were, a delightful heritage for the Milanese who have been living and working in them or just looking at them for almost a century. The book contains a map of Milan with all Ponti’s buildings.

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A vertical forest

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'A vertical forest' is the book in which Stefano Boeri said the project of what has become one of the most emblematic buildings in Milan. An attempt to introduce a concept in architecture that until now it has been completely alien: biodiversity. The vertical forest is indeed not only a building thought to be inhabited by humans, but also from other species (birds, insects) that the unstoppable dominance of the concrete has been driven from our city.

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Mimmo Jodice : visible cities

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Born in 1934 in Naples--where he still lives and works--Mimmo Jodice has been at the top of his profession, one of the great Italian masters of photography, for more than 45 years. This volume celebrates Jodice's architectural work, uniting his portraits of eight world capitals into a kind of self-portrait. Four of the cities have been the subjects of previous titles: Paris: City of Light; Inlands: A Vision of Boston; São Paulo and La città invisibile: Nuove vedute di Napoli; and four are new to print, including Rome, Moscow, Tokyo and New York. When Jodice's Medeterranean appeared, which includes some Rome images, the architecture critic Herbert Muschamp observed of it in the New York Times that "Mr. Jodice depicts a mythical place, a romantic intertwining of wholeness and solitude: the oceanic sensation of merger between a self and its surroundings." That impression of unity is as strong--if not as relaxing--in his contemporary urban landscapes as in his ancient ones. With text from Stefano Boeri of Domus magazine and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist. Jodice's previous books, in addition to those above, include Light, Eden and Tempo Interiore.

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Italy : cross sections of a country

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The research represented in this book, conducted in 1996 by Gabriele Basilico (photographs) and Stefano Boeri (text), studies the haphazard, significant changes that have taken place over the last twenty years in the Italian landscape.

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Biomilano: glossary of ideas for a metropolis based around bio-diversity

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Biomilano is a glossary of ideas - a mosaic of pieces put together by combining different ways of investigating and using the city, involving biologists, architects, agronomists, politicians and residents. Ideas, thoughts and urban lifestyle habits initially listed verbally and visually are then put together again differently to form six metropolitan frescoes. In each of which the fragments are regrouped to create a concrete vision of the city’s present and its future. It is only when you take a step back, raise your eyes and continue reading that the overall view becomes clearer and more recognizable: it is the plan of a city that potentially already exists. The book contains detailed illustrations of the six Biomilano projects – the Orto Botanico Planetario for Expo 2015, Metrobosco, Bosco Verticale , Casa Bosco, Cascine, Ruralità Urbane – using a glossary to describe the economic and territorial energies required to achieve a new balance between the urban sphere, rural areas (cultivated forms of nature) and the natural world.

Titre:
Les Unités perdues

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Sous forme d’évocations brèves et laconiques, Henri Lefebvre dresse une liste d’œuvres inachevées, disparues, oubliées, détruites ou parfois même jamais réalisées. Cet inventaire des manques s’élève en une mélopée incantatoire qui, l’espace d’un instant, rend présentes ces « unités » perdues pour l’histoire de la création et de la pensée humaines. Mais son véritable pouvoir est de faire œuvre nouvelle, récitatif dont le rythme résonne en nous comme celui d’une unité retrouvée.

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L'Antiville

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La ville qui apparaît sur le territoire européen n’a plus rien à voir avec la ville telle qu’on l’entendait il y a encore trente ans. Cette ville, fragmentée, sans limites claires apparentes, faite de maisons individuelles et de zones commerciales, est-elle encore une ville ? Ne devrait-on pas plutôt parler d’une Antiville ? Stefano Boeri engage une réflexion sur cette ville qui se défait au moment même où elle se fait, sur les conditions de surgissement de l’Antiville.