Urban geography
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A contemporary introduction to urban geography by a renowned scholar in the field. As the growing world population increasingly comes to live in cities, the field of urban geography will continue to expand in numbers and significance. This book encompasses both systems of cities and the internal geography of metro areas.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
octobre 2003, Hoboken
Urban geography
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A contemporary introduction to urban geography by a renowned scholar in the field. As the growing world population increasingly comes to live in cities, the field of urban geography will continue to expand in numbers and significance. This book encompasses both systems of cities and the internal geography of metro areas.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Se gardant d'être un modèle, ni même à proprement parler une méthode, la Maîtrise d'Œuvre Urbaine est une nouvelle façon de penser et de produire la ville. Elle place l'urbaniste en amont de la commande afin de susciter une organisation urbaine progressive et cohérente. Les Ateliers de Cergy-Pontoise n'en sont pas seulement les promoteurs, ils en sont les instigateurs(...)
Maîtrise d'oeuvre urbaine : la théorie voilée
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Se gardant d'être un modèle, ni même à proprement parler une méthode, la Maîtrise d'Œuvre Urbaine est une nouvelle façon de penser et de produire la ville. Elle place l'urbaniste en amont de la commande afin de susciter une organisation urbaine progressive et cohérente. Les Ateliers de Cergy-Pontoise n'en sont pas seulement les promoteurs, ils en sont les instigateurs aussi bien en Asie qu'en Ile-de-France. A l'heure où les rêves les plus étranges émergent des confluences de toute sorte, à l'heure où la planète devient pour tous une scène dramatique et les villes de simples instruments, la Maîtrise d'Œuvre Urbaine est en passe de trouver dans l'Art une autre résistance, une autre pratique du monde, cet autre regard oblique que lui permet la théorie voilée qui l'anime.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Austrian born, Gruen based his idea for the mall on an idealized America : the dream of concentrated shops that would benefit the business person as well as the consumer and that would foster a sense of shared community.
Mall maker : Victor Gruen, architect of an American dream
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Austrian born, Gruen based his idea for the mall on an idealized America : the dream of concentrated shops that would benefit the business person as well as the consumer and that would foster a sense of shared community.
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Mapping tourism
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At first glance, the relationships among tourists, tourism maps, and the spaces of tourism seem straightforward enough: tourists use maps to find their way to and through the sites of history, culture, nature, or recreation represented there. Less apparent is how tourism maps and those using them construct such spaces and identities. As the essays in "Mapping Tourism"(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
avril 2003, Minneapolis
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At first glance, the relationships among tourists, tourism maps, and the spaces of tourism seem straightforward enough: tourists use maps to find their way to and through the sites of history, culture, nature, or recreation represented there. Less apparent is how tourism maps and those using them construct such spaces and identities. As the essays in "Mapping Tourism" clearly demonstrate, the extraordinary interactions of work with leisure and the everyday with the exotic make tourism maps ideal sites for exploring the contested construction of place and identity. Construction sites in the "New Berlin," Alabama's civil rights trail, Québec City, a California ghost town, and Bangkok's sex trade are among the spaces the essays examine. Taken together, these essays allow us to see tourist space as it truly is: contested, ever changing, and replete with issues of power.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Every civilization has a story to tell, according to Anne Buttimer, and exploring those stories brings fresh light to modern ideas about the relationship between humanity and its environment. In "Geography and the Human Spirit", Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the Upanishads to Goethe, taking an interdisciplinary look at the ways in which human(...)
Geography and the human spirit
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Every civilization has a story to tell, according to Anne Buttimer, and exploring those stories brings fresh light to modern ideas about the relationship between humanity and its environment. In "Geography and the Human Spirit", Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the Upanishads to Goethe, taking an interdisciplinary look at the ways in which human beings have turned to natural science, theology, and myth to form visions of the earth as a human habitat.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In this book, Larry Ford casts a critical and practiced eye on sixteen contemporary urban centers to offer an expert's view of the best--and worst--of downtown America. Ford begins with a brief history of U.S. urban development. He then explains his criteria for evaluating downtowns before proceeding with an on-the-street examination of the featured sixteen cities.(...)
America's new downtown : revitalization or reinvention ?
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In this book, Larry Ford casts a critical and practiced eye on sixteen contemporary urban centers to offer an expert's view of the best--and worst--of downtown America. Ford begins with a brief history of U.S. urban development. He then explains his criteria for evaluating downtowns before proceeding with an on-the-street examination of the featured sixteen cities. Each is rated based on use of physical site, particularly for housing (unlike suburbs, Ford notes, most downtowns are located in challenging physical locales, such as harbors, rivers, hills, or peninsulas), street morphology, civic space, functional aspects (office space, retail stores, and convention centers), and the support districts in the fringe areas surrounding the downtown core. Ford concludes with a suggested model of downtown structure based upon the case studies and with a look at the possible effects of increasing globalization on the downtowns of the late twenty-first century. Featured cities: Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Cleveland, Columbus, Denver, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, San Antonio, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event.(...)
Wounded cities : destruction and reconstruction in a globalized world
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Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event. In the wake of recent terrorist activities, this timely book explores how urban populations are affected by "wounds" inflicted through violence, civil wars, overbuilding, drug trafficking, and the collapse of infrastructures, as well as "natural" disasters such as earthquakes. Mexico City, New York, Beirut, Belfast, Bangkok and Baghdad are just a few examples of cities riddled with problems that undermine, on a daily basis, the quality of urban life. What does it mean for urban dwellers when the infrastructure of a city collapses – transport, communication grids, heat, light, roads, water, and sanitation? What are the effects of foreign investment and huge construction projects on urban populations and how does this change the "look" and character of a city? How does drug trafficking intersect with class, race, and gender, and what impact does it have on vulnerable urban communities? How do political corruption and mafia networks distort the built environment? Drawing on in-depth case studies from across the globe, this book answers these intriguing questions through its rigorous consideration of changing global and national contexts, social movements, and corrosive urban events. Adopting a "grass roots up" approach, it places emphasis on people’s experiences of uneven development and inequality, their engagement with memory in the face of continual change, and the relevance of political activism to bettering their lives. It is especially attentive to the historical interaction of particular cities with wider political and economic forces, as these interactions have shaped local governance over time. Imagining each city as a "body politic", the authors consider its capacity both to mediate local conflict and to broach the healing of wounds.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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"Public Places - Urban Spaces" is a guide to the many complex and interacting dimensions of urban design. The discussion moves systematically through ideas, theories, research and the practice of urban design from an unrivalled range of sources. It aids the reader by gradually building the concepts one upon the other towards a total view of the subject.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
juin 2003, Oxford
Public places - urban spaces : the dimensions of urban design
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"Public Places - Urban Spaces" is a guide to the many complex and interacting dimensions of urban design. The discussion moves systematically through ideas, theories, research and the practice of urban design from an unrivalled range of sources. It aids the reader by gradually building the concepts one upon the other towards a total view of the subject.
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City : urbanism and its end
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A new understanding of the modern city, its challenges, and why old ideas about urban renewal won’t work. "City : urbanism and its end" begins with a richly textured portrait of New Haven in the early twentieth century, a period of centralized manufacturing, civic vitality, and mixed-use neighborhoods. As social and economic conditions changed, the city confronted its(...)
City : urbanism and its end
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A new understanding of the modern city, its challenges, and why old ideas about urban renewal won’t work. "City : urbanism and its end" begins with a richly textured portrait of New Haven in the early twentieth century, a period of centralized manufacturing, civic vitality, and mixed-use neighborhoods. As social and economic conditions changed, the city confronted its end of urbanism first during the Depression, and then very aggressively during the mayoral reign of Richard C. Lee (1954–70), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending. But government spending has repeatedly failed to restore urban vitality. Rae argues that strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Cities need not reach their old peaks of population, or look like thriving suburbs, to be once again splendid places for human beings to live and work.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Objet relativement insaisissable, tant pour le citadin que pour le gestionnaire de l’urbain, la ville excède les représentations qu’on peut en avoir. Le dilemme, pour les pouvoirs publics, est le même d’une ville à l’autre : faut-il intervenir en produisant une esthétique par l’implantation des œuvres, par la création architecturale, ou faut-il tirer du tissu urbain(...)
Critique de l'esthétique urbaine
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Objet relativement insaisissable, tant pour le citadin que pour le gestionnaire de l’urbain, la ville excède les représentations qu’on peut en avoir. Le dilemme, pour les pouvoirs publics, est le même d’une ville à l’autre : faut-il intervenir en produisant une esthétique par l’implantation des œuvres, par la création architecturale, ou faut-il tirer du tissu urbain lui-même ses potentialités et les mettre en œuvre ? Comment travailler la cohérence interne d’une ville, celle qui est “ déjà là ” ? Le développement contemporain de l’esthétique urbaine semble confirmer combien l’art en ville doit exercer une fonction sociale. Ce sont les pouvoirs publics qui offrent un “ cadre institutionnel ” aux projets comme aux œuvres réalisées et qui configurent leurs modes de légitimation. Pourquoi l’art serait-il destiné à transformer la ville et la vie sociale en ville ? Cette croyance serait le fruit d’une volonté actuelle des pouvoirs publics qui démontrent ainsi leur volonté de créer une esthétique du lien social. La reconnaissance de cet art citoyen contraint l’ensemble des pratiques artistiques à entrer dans ce paysage d’une légalisation politique et sociale de leur mise en œuvre. Dans quelle mesure alors “ le mythe de la création artistique ” ne serait-il pas devenu le moteur même de la construction du lien social dans l’espace urbain ?
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