The black city
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"The Black City" is a portrait of New York City written by Hubert Fichte between 1978 and 1980. One of Germany’s most important postwar authors, Fichte researched the city as the center of the African diaspora, conducting interviews and composing essays about syncretism in culture and the arts, material living conditions in the city, and political and individual struggles(...)
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"The Black City" is a portrait of New York City written by Hubert Fichte between 1978 and 1980. One of Germany’s most important postwar authors, Fichte researched the city as the center of the African diaspora, conducting interviews and composing essays about syncretism in culture and the arts, material living conditions in the city, and political and individual struggles based on race, class, and sexuality.
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In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. As the world’s foremost cycling nation,(...)
Building the cycling city: the Dutch blueprint for urban vitality
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In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. As the world’s foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the only country where the number of bikes exceeds the number of people, primarily because the Dutch have built a cycling culture accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ability, or economic means. Chris and Melissa Bruntlett share the incredible success of the Netherlands through engaging interviews with local experts and stories of their own delightful experiences riding in five Dutch cities.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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'People Cities' discusses the work, theory, life, and influence of Jan Gehl from the perspective of those who have worked with him across the globe. Jan Ghel’s research, theories, and strategies have been helping cities to reclaim their public space and recover from the great post-WWII car invasion. His work has influenced public space improvements in over 50 global(...)
People cities: The life and legacy of Jan Gehl
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'People Cities' discusses the work, theory, life, and influence of Jan Gehl from the perspective of those who have worked with him across the globe. Jan Ghel’s research, theories, and strategies have been helping cities to reclaim their public space and recover from the great post-WWII car invasion. His work has influenced public space improvements in over 50 global cities, including New York, London, Moscow, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, and the authors’ hometown of Perth.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data, digital mapping, and simulated cityscapes are valuable tools for understanding urban space, using them without on-the-ground, human impressions risks creating places that do not reflect authentic local context. "Seeing the Better City" brings our attention(...)
Seeing the better city: how to explore, observe, and improve urban space
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In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data, digital mapping, and simulated cityscapes are valuable tools for understanding urban space, using them without on-the-ground, human impressions risks creating places that do not reflect authentic local context. "Seeing the Better City" brings our attention back to the real world right in front of us, focusing it once more on the sights, sounds, and experiences of place in order to craft policies, plans, and regulations to shape better urban environments.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Pour beaucoup, l'affaire est entendue : d'ici peu, le véhicule autonome aura amélioré nos villes, facilité nos déplacements, réduit les accidents et les embouteillages, modéré notre impact sur l'environnement. Faut-il prendre ces affirmations pour argent comptant ? Les auteurs passent au crible ces certitudes après avoir rassemblé les études disponibles dans le monde(...)
Piloter le véhicule autonome : au service de la ville
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Pour beaucoup, l'affaire est entendue : d'ici peu, le véhicule autonome aura amélioré nos villes, facilité nos déplacements, réduit les accidents et les embouteillages, modéré notre impact sur l'environnement. Faut-il prendre ces affirmations pour argent comptant ? Les auteurs passent au crible ces certitudes après avoir rassemblé les études disponibles dans le monde entier, débattu de leurs points d'accord et de désaccord. Ils livrent la première analyse d'envergure sur le véhicule autonome. Ils proposent un concept, TRUST, centré sur la confiance et fondé sur un postulat simple : un objet technique est toujours un objet social. Aucune technologie ne peut être appréciée sans en appréhender les enjeux sur la vie des citoyens. Alors, le véhicule autonome sera-t-il la révolution annoncée ? Fera-t-il progresser la ville dans le sens du bien-être collectif ou accentuera-t-il ses déséquilibres actuels ? Tout dépend de la façon dont nous piloterons son arrivée sur nos territoires.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Au début des années 1950, Nanterre, communiste depuis 1935 et tardivement industrialisée, comporte encore d’immenses friches, futurs bidonvilles où s’installeront de nombreux immigrés venus d’Algérie, du Maroc et du Portugal. La forte politisation ouvrière, la guerre d’Algérie, la construction de l’université où éclateront les révoltes de Mai 68, l’éloignement du(...)
Nanterre, du bidonville à la cité
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Au début des années 1950, Nanterre, communiste depuis 1935 et tardivement industrialisée, comporte encore d’immenses friches, futurs bidonvilles où s’installeront de nombreux immigrés venus d’Algérie, du Maroc et du Portugal. La forte politisation ouvrière, la guerre d’Algérie, la construction de l’université où éclateront les révoltes de Mai 68, l’éloignement du communisme municipal d’avec la toute jeune cause des étrangers, en feront un laboratoire social de l’immigration au coeur du bouillonnement politique et intellectuel des années 1960 et 1970.
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L'urbanisme
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La notion d'urbanisme est née au début du XXe siècle. Ce professeur retrace sa naissance, ses pratiques professionnelles ainsi que son évolution après la loi Solidarité et renouvellement urbains de 2000.
L'urbanisme
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La notion d'urbanisme est née au début du XXe siècle. Ce professeur retrace sa naissance, ses pratiques professionnelles ainsi que son évolution après la loi Solidarité et renouvellement urbains de 2000.
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Charles Waldheim traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing out of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism, the concept was further informed by the nineteenth-century invention of landscape architecture as a "new art" charged with reconciling the design of the(...)
Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory
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Charles Waldheim traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing out of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism, the concept was further informed by the nineteenth-century invention of landscape architecture as a "new art" charged with reconciling the design of the industrial city with its ecological and social conditions. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as urban planning shifted from design to social science, and as urban design committed to neotraditional models of town planning, landscape urbanism emerged to fill a void at the heart of the contemporary urban project.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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A city’s infrastructure—its tangle of streets, tunnels, routes and lines—can be much more than a mere functional necessity or an ad hoc constellation. Designed and constructed carefully and purposefully, "infratecture" can add significant sociological, cultural, ecological and economic value to a city. In this volume, Rotterdam-based traffic engineer, academic and(...)
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Infratecture: Infrastructure by Design
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A city’s infrastructure—its tangle of streets, tunnels, routes and lines—can be much more than a mere functional necessity or an ad hoc constellation. Designed and constructed carefully and purposefully, "infratecture" can add significant sociological, cultural, ecological and economic value to a city. In this volume, Rotterdam-based traffic engineer, academic and architect Marc Verheijen discusses the infrastructure of cities from 15 different perspectives and features 30 examples of international best practices in infrastructure design. A practically oriented book about designing and building everything from roads and viaducts to environmental habitats and noise barriers, Infratecture is also an argument for these integrated design solutions, all the more urgent at a moment of accelerated global urbanization. Infratecture argues that, with the right mind set, genuine cooperation and sophisticated design, infrastructure can form a significant, and positive, part of the everyday environment.
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Making Room is an anthology of texts on art, media and aesthetic practice in the context of squatting, occupation and urban-space activism. It includes pieces by activist researchers working between the academy and the movements they write about, as well as journalistic first-person narratives by squatters, original photography and interviews with artists, theorists and(...)
Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces
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Making Room is an anthology of texts on art, media and aesthetic practice in the context of squatting, occupation and urban-space activism. It includes pieces by activist researchers working between the academy and the movements they write about, as well as journalistic first-person narratives by squatters, original photography and interviews with artists, theorists and activists involved in struggles over urban space and creative production in the city. Topics include brief histories of squatting in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands; the creation of Temporary Autonomous Zones; Puerto Rican occupations in New York; the influence of the Situationists on French squatting; and activism and camping at Documentas 10, 11 and 13. Throughout, cultural production appears in various forms ranging from conventional art practices to the organizing of communities and networks, to the production of media and setting up of information systems.
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