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ABOUT THIS BOOK From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work. The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their time and timeless. He often wrote(...)
Hearts of the city: the selected writing of Herbert Muschamp
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ABOUT THIS BOOK From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work. The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their time and timeless. He often wrote about how the right architecture could be inspiring and uplifting, and he uniquely drew on film, literature, and popular culture to write pieces that were passionate and often personal, changing the landscape of architectural criticism in the process.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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The computer game SimCity may have had its best time, but professional urban simulation and gaming programmes that model the development and growth of a city are increasingly complex. Presented here in this illustrated publication are the results of research by the International New Town Institute that examines these developments in connection with urban strategic(...)
Model Town : using urban simulation in New Town Planning
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The computer game SimCity may have had its best time, but professional urban simulation and gaming programmes that model the development and growth of a city are increasingly complex. Presented here in this illustrated publication are the results of research by the International New Town Institute that examines these developments in connection with urban strategic planning and the creation of new towns. Some ten chapters present a variety of essays and research, accompanied by a substantial body of plans and models.
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Cities such as New York, Almere and Melbourne where once created behind a drawing table and delivered in a new condition, according to the master-plan. Yet from the moment that people started to occupy these places, the design has changed with substantial additions and alterations. Can architects and city-planners anticipate unplanned activities, contributions from(...)
New towns for the 21st Century
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Cities such as New York, Almere and Melbourne where once created behind a drawing table and delivered in a new condition, according to the master-plan. Yet from the moment that people started to occupy these places, the design has changed with substantial additions and alterations. Can architects and city-planners anticipate unplanned activities, contributions from citizens, along with changing political, economic and cultural conditions? The International New Town Institute (INTI) situated in the young Dutch town of Almere, conducts research into the development of new towns. In this book the institute searches for the relationships between planned and un-planned cities.
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La comédie urbaine
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Ce livre propose de voir et apprécier autrement les villes, de les regarder comme des œuvres collectives à l’évolution desquelles contribuent des concepteurs, certes, mais également une multitude d’autres acteurs. Comme le langage, la ville se transforme sans cesse et surprend toujours.Est-ce si grave ? Pas pour le promeneur qui, en chaque lieu ou presque, comme le(...)
La comédie urbaine
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Ce livre propose de voir et apprécier autrement les villes, de les regarder comme des œuvres collectives à l’évolution desquelles contribuent des concepteurs, certes, mais également une multitude d’autres acteurs. Comme le langage, la ville se transforme sans cesse et surprend toujours.Est-ce si grave ? Pas pour le promeneur qui, en chaque lieu ou presque, comme le libertin de Kundera, est mu par « le désir de s’emparer de l’infi nie diversité du monde ». Surtout s’il ne projette pas sur les villes un idéal subjectif. Bien sûr, personne ne vit dans un état permanent de bien-être absolu. Mais chacun peut apprécier les moments où il est en paix avec la ville telle qu’elle est, malgré ce qu’elle est.
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Imagines d'infrastructure
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Les infrastructures inscrivent sur le territoire des imaginaires réalisés de la ville, de la mobilité et des transports, un système de communication symbolique aussi puissant que les infrastructures matérielles. Cette dimension peu souvent approchée des infrastructures est investie par cet ouvrage. La culture mythologique, fictionnelle ou fantasmatique des(...)
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Les infrastructures inscrivent sur le territoire des imaginaires réalisés de la ville, de la mobilité et des transports, un système de communication symbolique aussi puissant que les infrastructures matérielles. Cette dimension peu souvent approchée des infrastructures est investie par cet ouvrage. La culture mythologique, fictionnelle ou fantasmatique des infrastructures s'explore dans l'analyse des productions filmiques et discursives, et dans les pratiques et expériences de la route que développe et exporte "en masse" la culture américaine d'après-guerre. La puissance de l'imaginaire infrastructurel se révèle dans ce qui lie l'infrastructure aux récits du futur, futurs des villes ou de l'architecture. Il n'y a alors pas de futur sans infrastructure. Approchées dans toutes les échelles de ses perceptions, passant de l'oeil à fouie avec les infrastructures sonores, du monument unique au réseau mondial des flagship, du symbole du progrès à un outil de communication de la société post-industrielle, de la présence dure et durable à la flexibilité, au détournement ou à l'adaptation, les infrastructures dessinent le paysage multicouche de notre environnement bâti, sensoriel et spectaculaire.
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The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, overextended government farm subsidies and zealous transit police, to show what happens when the moral systems of commerce collide with those of politics.
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The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, overextended government farm subsidies and zealous transit police, to show what happens when the moral systems of commerce collide with those of politics.
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Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of(...)
The Death and life of great American cities
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Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities.
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L'eau des villes
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La maîtrise des sources, le pompage des lacs et rivières ou l'élargissement de la distribution relèvent d'un pan méconnu de l'histoire de la Suisse et de ses villes. Les municipalités, pour créer leur réseau d'eau, l'étendre et s'assurer des revenus confortables, ont agi en concurrence, parfois épique, avec les entreprises privées et l'Etat. De petits empires de l'eau se(...)
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La maîtrise des sources, le pompage des lacs et rivières ou l'élargissement de la distribution relèvent d'un pan méconnu de l'histoire de la Suisse et de ses villes. Les municipalités, pour créer leur réseau d'eau, l'étendre et s'assurer des revenus confortables, ont agi en concurrence, parfois épique, avec les entreprises privées et l'Etat. De petits empires de l'eau se sont constitués à Genève, Lausanne, Bâle, Berne, Zurich, ailleurs encore, avec votes et rebondissements. Ces problèmes, très actuels dans toute l'Europe, ont pour enjeux le pouvoir politique sous la poussée de l'urbanisation, le commerce, la technique, les investissements, la santé, l'environnement. Comment notre eau quotidienne coulera-t-elle demain?
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Great public squares
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Here, analysed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison, are forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world. Robert Gatje explores the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice and Florence, the elegant places of Paris, via less familiar gathering places in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal. From the former marketplaces and graceful Georgian squares of the(...)
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Here, analysed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison, are forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world. Robert Gatje explores the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice and Florence, the elegant places of Paris, via less familiar gathering places in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal. From the former marketplaces and graceful Georgian squares of the United Kingdom to the most interesting and impressive squares of the New World-Santa Fe, Portland, Boston and New York-Gatje offers new insights, computer-generated plans and colour photographs to convey the spatial experience.
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John Kriken of the planning firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has been at the forefront of urban planning for over forty years, and he brings both his wealth of experience and his great optimism for the future to "City Building". In writing that both experienced designers and typical city-dwellers will enjoy, he illustrates a means for comprehensive problem solving rather(...)
City building : nine planning principles for the twenty-first century
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John Kriken of the planning firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has been at the forefront of urban planning for over forty years, and he brings both his wealth of experience and his great optimism for the future to "City Building". In writing that both experienced designers and typical city-dwellers will enjoy, he illustrates a means for comprehensive problem solving rather than symptom-based problem solving. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 examines the past and defines the current practice of city building, addressing its shortcomings and proposing a comprehensive framework for rethinking the approach to cities in the future. Part 2 translates this framework into nine best-practice principles that are common to successful, livable, urban environments : sustainability, accessibility, diversity, open space, compatibility, incentives, adaptability, density, and identity. These principles are illustrated in a global portfolio of city building projects, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, that show how best practices have been applied successfully — and sometimes not so. Part 3 makes the case that, far from being the problem, cities, properly organized, can be a mechanism for sensible, sustainable uses of increasingly scarce resources. The book concludes with a call for a national planning process and a comprehensive framework for settlement.
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