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Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous – our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks from São Paolo present surprisingly idiosyncratic city scenes: People dancing along the motorway, strolling through the(...)
Sao Paulo Heterotopia: Urban spaces in suspense
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Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous – our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks from São Paolo present surprisingly idiosyncratic city scenes: People dancing along the motorway, strolling through the stone archipelago, splashing around in front of the city skyline… Many of the case studies are linked to the ideas of the Brazilian urban planner Francisco Prestes Maia. As early as in the 1930s, he developed concepts that combine traffic, open space and architecture – a surprisingly contemporary approach.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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The book questions how ''artifice'' and the ''social world'' can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. Taking the example of Tokyo, it takes up the two major traits in urban transformation – the large-scale development model on the one hand, and the small-scale model of neighborhood development or preservation(...)
Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the social world
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The book questions how ''artifice'' and the ''social world'' can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. Taking the example of Tokyo, it takes up the two major traits in urban transformation – the large-scale development model on the one hand, and the small-scale model of neighborhood development or preservation on the other – and instead seeks alternative ideas and new strategies. A variety of innovative practices are presented by a diverse group of contributors including renowned scholars, architects, urbanists, and photographers from Japan and the US, and the research team at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. While the discourses and architectural works presented deal with the specificity of Tokyo, they were carefully selected to formulate together a collection of insights, new perspectives, and speculative experiments in urbanism and architecture that can also be used in other contexts.
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Ouvrage inédit, qui s’attache à décrire les mécanismes de touristification des villes côtières, cet essai montre comment ceux-ci mettent au ban une partie importante et précarisée des populations locales. À partir de l’exemple de la ville de Douarnenez, le collectif a mené une riche enquête dont ce livre restitue les principaux éléments. Analyses, entretiens et focus(...)
Habiter une ville touristique : Une vue sur mer pour les précaires
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Ouvrage inédit, qui s’attache à décrire les mécanismes de touristification des villes côtières, cet essai montre comment ceux-ci mettent au ban une partie importante et précarisée des populations locales. À partir de l’exemple de la ville de Douarnenez, le collectif a mené une riche enquête dont ce livre restitue les principaux éléments. Analyses, entretiens et focus historiques, c’est par un travail fourni et protéiforme que le collectif produit la critique de ce processus déjà à l’œuvre dans de nombreuses villes européennes et mondiales.
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Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens reassesses the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoikía, and its different connotations through the decades: from a monotonous and ugly element of the city to the role it might play in the urban sustainability. Sprawling beneath the Acropolis, modern Athens(...)
Builders, housewives, and the construction of modern Athens
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Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens reassesses the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoikía, and its different connotations through the decades: from a monotonous and ugly element of the city to the role it might play in the urban sustainability. Sprawling beneath the Acropolis, modern Athens is commonly viewed in negative terms: congested, ugly and monotonous. Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens questions this stereotype, reassessing the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type: the polykatoikía (a small-scale multistory apartment block). Theocharopoulou re-evaluates the polykatoikía as a low-tech, easily constructible innovation that stimulated the postwar urban economy, triggering the city's social mid-twentieth-century transformation. The interiors of the polykatoikía apartments reflect a desire for modernity as marketed to housewives through film and magazines. Regular builders became unlikely allies in designing these polykatoikía interiors, enabling inhabitants to exert agency over their daily lives and the shape of the postwar city. This revised edition of Theocharopoulou's study draws on popular media as well as urban and regional planning theory, cultural studies and anthropology to examine the evolution of this phenomenon. Written in the light of Greece's recent financial crisis, the book's updated Postscript considers the role polykatoikía might play in building an equitable and sustainable twenty-first-century city.
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Foundations of urban design
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The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, ''the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary.''
Foundations of urban design
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The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, ''the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary.''
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Hybrid factory, hybrid city
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Now that urban industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet it can be integrated at the city and building scale with other uses. Although little explored as of yet, we don’t yet know what this new hybrid will look like and how can it support new entrepreneurs, equitable jobs, and vital urban forms? How can hybrid models change with new technologies, sustainable(...)
Hybrid factory, hybrid city
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Now that urban industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet it can be integrated at the city and building scale with other uses. Although little explored as of yet, we don’t yet know what this new hybrid will look like and how can it support new entrepreneurs, equitable jobs, and vital urban forms? How can hybrid models change with new technologies, sustainable manufacturing, and advanced production systems to create new open city? Can we break the planning and land-use patterns of segregated zoning by class and function and encourage mixed-use zoning that transforms new building and zoning codes and this the mix in the city? These questions and more are addressed in Hybrid Factory / Hybrid City, through a collection of essays by participants in the eponymous symposium organized by Nina Rappaport at the Future Urban Legacy Lab of the Politecnico di Torino. Divided into two sections, the essays describes projects and research by architects and urbanists regarding the aura of industry and its smells, its place in relationship to the body, building structures, logistics centers, reused factory buildings, and their current and future potential for mixed-use. Social and economic equity can be integrated through light manufacturing jobs, community uses, and affordable housing.
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Small Scale presents fifty ingenious yet simple projects ranging from the purely conceptual to the fully realized. From a bridge that curls up into itself when not in use, to a stacked rental car dispenser, to a bus-stop like shelter that uses bright lights to treat seasonal affective disorder in the winter, these projects energize our cities' leftover spaces and help us(...)
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Small scale: Creative solutions for better living
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Small Scale presents fifty ingenious yet simple projects ranging from the purely conceptual to the fully realized. From a bridge that curls up into itself when not in use, to a stacked rental car dispenser, to a bus-stop like shelter that uses bright lights to treat seasonal affective disorder in the winter, these projects energize our cities' leftover spaces and help us imagine the future of our urban infrastructure.
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Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. City Bound explores how state law determines what cities can and cannot do to raise revenue, control(...)
City bound: How states stifle urban innovation
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Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. City Bound explores how state law determines what cities can and cannot do to raise revenue, control land use, and improve city schools.
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Le projet urbain
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Quel est le sens d’un projet urbain pour peu qu’on le considère dans sa globalité ? Expression d’une politique particulière, mais aussi d’une culture spécifique, celui-ci touche, par son réalisme même, aux innombrables problèmes soulevés par un territoire et sa population. Il est donc à la croisée des chemins de diverses disciplines, ne prend tout son sens que dans leur(...)
Le projet urbain
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Quel est le sens d’un projet urbain pour peu qu’on le considère dans sa globalité ? Expression d’une politique particulière, mais aussi d’une culture spécifique, celui-ci touche, par son réalisme même, aux innombrables problèmes soulevés par un territoire et sa population. Il est donc à la croisée des chemins de diverses disciplines, ne prend tout son sens que dans leur interaction tout en concernant directement la vie quotidienne de tout un chacun, qu’il habite une grande ville, une banlieue ou une zone rurale.
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L'urbanisme d'après crise
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Dubaï collectionnait les records : le plus grand hôtel du monde, la plus grande tour, la plus grande concentration de grues... Or, fin 2009, Dubaï et son fleuron, la société publique Dubaï World, échappent difficilement à la faillite : dette estimée à 59 milliards de dollars! Cette chute symbolise la fin d'un cycle dans le développement urbain - et dans la manière de(...)
L'urbanisme d'après crise
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Dubaï collectionnait les records : le plus grand hôtel du monde, la plus grande tour, la plus grande concentration de grues... Or, fin 2009, Dubaï et son fleuron, la société publique Dubaï World, échappent difficilement à la faillite : dette estimée à 59 milliards de dollars! Cette chute symbolise la fin d'un cycle dans le développement urbain - et dans la manière de faire la ville - dans l'urbanisme. Tel est le propos de cet essai qui veut, à la fois, saisir les changements profonds dans la manière de "faire la ville" qui se sont opérés depuis trente ans sous la pression de l'urbanisme libéral, les conséquences des bouleversements actuels, et dessiner des pistes possibles pour l'urbanisme d'après crise qui est pour l'instant encore balbutiant.
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