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In the middle of the night they quickly build houses and seize land before the police destroy their fragile homes. They're squatters, families that risk the wrath of governments and property owners by building dwellings on land they don't own, and they represent one out of every ten people on the planet. Investigative journalist Robert Neuwirth lived among squatter(...)
Shadow cities: a billion squatters, a new urban world
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In the middle of the night they quickly build houses and seize land before the police destroy their fragile homes. They're squatters, families that risk the wrath of governments and property owners by building dwellings on land they don't own, and they represent one out of every ten people on the planet. Investigative journalist Robert Neuwirth lived among squatter communities from Rio to Bombay to Nairobi to Istanbul to give us an impassioned, inside view of squatter life and a glimpse into the urban future. He met people in Nairobi who built homes with their bare hands, Turkish families who plot land invasions, and children in Rio whose parents justify outfoxing the authorities as the only path to a better life. And he shows us that in cities like Rio, squatter settlements have become decent places to live for formerly landless people. Tracing the notion of private property from the enclosure movement in Europe to the settlement of the U.S., Neuwirth shows how squatting rights may actually be seen as more "natural" than the current laws practiced in the U.S. In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community.
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décembre 2004, New York
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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What can be done to create a mental and physical connection of the HafenCity and the river Elbe to the city of Hamburg and its inhabitants? This was the guiding idea of an international competition of 15 schools of architecture of three continents. The responsibles for the town planning of Hamburg and especially the HafenCity are convinced that the city of Hamburg has(...)
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septembre 2003, Paris
Harbourpolis Hamburg : 15 schools of architecture
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What can be done to create a mental and physical connection of the HafenCity and the river Elbe to the city of Hamburg and its inhabitants? This was the guiding idea of an international competition of 15 schools of architecture of three continents. The responsibles for the town planning of Hamburg and especially the HafenCity are convinced that the city of Hamburg has to abandon a part of its old attractive harbour and must give up the partly reserved attitude concerning the river Elbe. Consequently initiated by the architect and professor Dr. Peter Sturzebecher, Hamburg faces new ideas that have officially opened a reflection among the students and their professor about the new centre of the HafenCity and, in addition, about the second motorway bridge crossingthe harbour south of the Elbe. The resultats of the competition being presented close to the official model of the whole HafenCity in october 2003, results that are seen by thousands, have incited political courage and a certain destabilisation giving room for critical questions concerning the actual planning.
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septembre 2003, Paris
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Le projet local
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La presse italienne de tous bords politiques a été unanime à saluer la parution de "Il progetto locale," dont le premier tirage, épuisé en quelques mois, a été suivi de deux réimpressions. Sur fond de mondialisation et à rebours des idées reçues, le lecteur est initié aux concepts de patrimoine territorial et d'autodéveloppement local durable, il découvre l'épaisseur(...)
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La presse italienne de tous bords politiques a été unanime à saluer la parution de "Il progetto locale," dont le premier tirage, épuisé en quelques mois, a été suivi de deux réimpressions. Sur fond de mondialisation et à rebours des idées reçues, le lecteur est initié aux concepts de patrimoine territorial et d'autodéveloppement local durable, il découvre l'épaisseur sémantique de l'aménagement du territoire à travers ses dimensions politique, anthropologique, écologique... en même temps qu'une vision concrète de l'utopie. A l'heure où la question locale et le développement durable sont enfin à l'ordre du jour en France, c'est dire le précieux outil de réflexion et de travail offert aux élus, aux praticiens et aux citoyens par cet ouvrage qui associe étroitement la théorie et l'expérience concrète.
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The new urban elite live a lifestyle that benefits from and heavily depends on the service economy, a development with potential consequences for architecture and urban planning. "Serve City" explores this latest challenge to the city via an Australian study: the development of an urban-planning strategy for a new service site in Sydney where information and communication(...)
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mars 2004, Berlin
Serve city : interactive urbanism
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The new urban elite live a lifestyle that benefits from and heavily depends on the service economy, a development with potential consequences for architecture and urban planning. "Serve City" explores this latest challenge to the city via an Australian study: the development of an urban-planning strategy for a new service site in Sydney where information and communication technologies play decisive roles in the plan.
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Europan 2003 is a call for ideas to revitalize suburban life in Europe. With 68 sites across the continent to choose from, the design theme this time round is 'Suburban challenge, urban intensity and housing diversity'. Transforming the post-war growth areas into enduring urban districts with a diversity of house types and up-to-date amenities is an issue of great(...)
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avril 2004, Rotterdam
Europan 7 : suburban challenge, urban intensity and housing diversity
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Europan 2003 is a call for ideas to revitalize suburban life in Europe. With 68 sites across the continent to choose from, the design theme this time round is 'Suburban challenge, urban intensity and housing diversity'. Transforming the post-war growth areas into enduring urban districts with a diversity of house types and up-to-date amenities is an issue of great relevance in Europe today. Over 280 projects were submitted for the Dutch sites by young architects from the Netherlands and beyond. The winning designs will be announced at the end of January 2004 during a special event at the Netherlands Architecture Institute when an exhibition of all the submitted plans will be opened. The book "Europan 7: Suburban challenge, urban intensity and housing diversity" gives an overview of the prizewinners, exhaustively documenting their design proposals with model photographs, plans and conceptual sketches. Interviews with the designers shed further light on the projects. The project section of the book also includes an essay on the central theme of urban intensity, a description of the four Dutch sites and an analysis of the entries from a European perspective.
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avril 2004, Rotterdam
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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La ville est partout, la ville est nulle part. La notion de ville est une nébuleuse dans laquelle on se perd avec plus ou moins de bonheur et il n'est plus certain que l'on puisse continuer à penser la ville contemporaine en termes propres à notre culture européenne des 19e et 20e siècles. Tel un tissu vivant, les espaces qui la composent sont remodelés, transformés pour(...)
Fo(u)r cities : Milan, Paris, Londres, New York
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La ville est partout, la ville est nulle part. La notion de ville est une nébuleuse dans laquelle on se perd avec plus ou moins de bonheur et il n'est plus certain que l'on puisse continuer à penser la ville contemporaine en termes propres à notre culture européenne des 19e et 20e siècles. Tel un tissu vivant, les espaces qui la composent sont remodelés, transformés pour s'adapter aux nouvelles formes de mobilité et au processus de modification fonctionnelle d'une entité toujours croissante, constamment densifiée mais toujours vibrante. La ville est aussi lieu d'échange à la fois constructif et destructeur, lieu de forte densité et de grande béance, lieu d'attirance et de répulsion. Et c'est paradoxalement dans l'interstice de ces dialectiques qu'elle peut trouver son avenir. Comment la pensée architecturale peut-elle y contribuer ? En quoi l'architecture des villes peut-elle construire la ville et participer à la planification urbaine ?
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Les villes sont des hauts lieux de la mémoire. Elle a son versant officiel (celui de l'auto-représentation) constitué par des bâtiments publics et des monuments. Et puis il y a tout le reste, un ensemble peu programmatique de signes ou de traces, souvent de nature plus discrète et plus fugitive, offerts au décryptage des artistes et des auteurs. En tant que dépositaires(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
novembre 2003, Saint-Étienne
La mémoire des villes / The memory of cities
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Les villes sont des hauts lieux de la mémoire. Elle a son versant officiel (celui de l'auto-représentation) constitué par des bâtiments publics et des monuments. Et puis il y a tout le reste, un ensemble peu programmatique de signes ou de traces, souvent de nature plus discrète et plus fugitive, offerts au décryptage des artistes et des auteurs. En tant que dépositaires de ces divers codes historiques, les villes sont aussi des espaces de prédilection pour le travail de la mémoire subjective, elles suscitent des textes (et des images), invitent à se souvenir, à découvrir et à construire le passé.
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This publication is based on a thesis that studies global mobility and territories in dispersion. Based in Rotterdam, Diego Barajas concentrates his research on the urban dispersals shaped by migration, looking first at the Cape Verdean Diaspora and its territorial structure, and then focused on the case of the 'belhuis' - 'call-house'. By 'territories in dispersion',(...)
Dispersion : a study of global mobility and the dynamics of a fictional urbanism
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This publication is based on a thesis that studies global mobility and territories in dispersion. Based in Rotterdam, Diego Barajas concentrates his research on the urban dispersals shaped by migration, looking first at the Cape Verdean Diaspora and its territorial structure, and then focused on the case of the 'belhuis' - 'call-house'. By 'territories in dispersion', Barajas refers to social habitats that are no longer physically contained in geographically continuous areas, but have been spread out and re-articulated by artificial means. The de-territorialized condition created by increased mobility - particularly by migration - had led to an urbanism of artificial re-territorializaton. This is a functional urbanism - as based on mental constructions but tangible - that is manifested in the city as fragments, micro environments of global circuits, each of which establishes its own identity, time, rules and aesthetics - its own atmospheres. These fragments are globally connected and articulated by abstract infrastructures like telecommunication systems, as much as by physical places - ethnic shops, religious centers, et cetera - and by the imaginary and idealized realms through which dispersed societies operate. This is an urbanism ruled by traditional values, by intuitive and emotional forces, as much by efficiency and functionality. This research argues that as patterns of dispersion intensify, they generate not just fragmented societies, but a new territorial cohesion - a realm in which 'the collective' has gained a new dimension. Cultural identity is no longer necessarily linked to geographical place, or to traditional territorial structures like the nation-state, but has become a particular concept attached to individual imaginations though subjected to and conditioned by the contradictory pressures of self-determination and commoditization. This research is an attempt to trace the patterns of urban dispersals shaped by migration to the city of Rotterdam. A city whose harbour has made it one of the most concentrated points of settlement for Cape Verdean emigrants.
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"Story and Sustainability" explores the role of story in planning theory and practice, with the goal of creating U.S. cities able to balance competing claims for economic growth, environmental health, and social justice. In the book, urban practitioners and scholars from fields as diverse as American studies, English, geography, history, planning, and criminal justice(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
janvier 1900, Cambridge, Mass.
Story and sustainability : planning, practice, and possibility for American cities
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"Story and Sustainability" explores the role of story in planning theory and practice, with the goal of creating U.S. cities able to balance competing claims for economic growth, environmental health, and social justice. In the book, urban practitioners and scholars from fields as diverse as American studies, English, geography, history, planning, and criminal justice reflect critically on the traditional exclusionary power of storytelling and on its potential to facilitate the transformations of imagination, theory, and practice necessary to create sustainable, democratic American cities.
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Cities
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A magisterial exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to the conurbations of today.
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A magisterial exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to the conurbations of today.
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