The anxious city
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A unique and provocative history of the development of the idea of the city in recent years. Key public spaces and buildings in England, Europe and the USA are discussed in relation to their socio-political context. The book argues that contemporary city spaces are uniquely "anxious" - uncertain as to their use and role.
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A unique and provocative history of the development of the idea of the city in recent years. Key public spaces and buildings in England, Europe and the USA are discussed in relation to their socio-political context. The book argues that contemporary city spaces are uniquely "anxious" - uncertain as to their use and role.
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In this volume Peter Calthorpe, renowned West Coast town planner and author, presents the case for New Urbanism, a movement that has enjoyed meteoric success since he co-founded it in the early 1990s. More utopian and civic than Everyday Urbanism, it promotes mixed-use and transit-oriented development and redevelopment of our cities, as well as walkability and(...)
New urbanism : Peter Calthorpe vs. Lars Lerup, Michigan debates on urbanism vol.II
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In this volume Peter Calthorpe, renowned West Coast town planner and author, presents the case for New Urbanism, a movement that has enjoyed meteoric success since he co-founded it in the early 1990s. More utopian and civic than Everyday Urbanism, it promotes mixed-use and transit-oriented development and redevelopment of our cities, as well as walkability and socio-economic diversity. Less avant-garde than Post Urbanism, it embraces traditional urban and architectural scale and typologies. Lars Lerup, Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University and author, responds with counter-arguments and case studies in a passionate but constructive exchange. Historian Robert Fishman, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at Taubman College and the author of several seminal books on urbanism, introduces and moderates the discussion, and offers a postscript. This compelling and insightful publication, with scores of images, features timely topics for architects, urban planners and designers, developers, government officials, landscape architects, students, and citizens interested in the fate of their urban environment.
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février 2005, Ann Arbor
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Everyday urbanism : Margaret Crawford vs. Michael Speaks, Michigan debates on urbanism vol. I
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Everyday Urbanism is one of three books in the "Michigan Debates on Urbanism" series that also features New Urbanism and Post Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism, and is an elaboration on public debates held at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning during the(...)
Everyday urbanism : Margaret Crawford vs. Michael Speaks, Michigan debates on urbanism vol. I
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Everyday Urbanism is one of three books in the "Michigan Debates on Urbanism" series that also features New Urbanism and Post Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism, and is an elaboration on public debates held at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning during the winter of 2004. In this volume Margaret Crawford, co-author of "Everyday Urbanism" and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University, is the protagonist. She presents the case for an informal, bottom-up urbanism that celebrates and builds on everyday, ordinary life and reality, with little pretense about the possibility of a tidy or ideal built environment. Michael Speaks, Graduate Program Director at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and a widely published author, is the respondent. Rahul Mehrotra, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Michigan and award-winning Bombay designer, introduces and moderates the exchange.
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février 2005, Ann Arbor
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For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In “Ornaments of the Metropolis”, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his "sociobiography" of(...)
Ornaments of the metropolis : Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture
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For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In “Ornaments of the Metropolis”, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his "sociobiography" of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Kracauer (1889-1966), often associated with the Frankfurt School and the intellectual milieu of Walter Benjamin, is best known for his writings on cinema and the philosophy of history. Reeh examines Kracauer's lesser-known early work, much of it written for the trendsetting newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in the 1920s and early 1930s, and analyzes Kracauer's continuing reflections on modern urban life, through the pivotal idea of ornament. Kracauer deciphers the subjective experience of the city by viewing fragments of the city as dynamic ornaments; an employment exchange, a day shelter for the homeless, a movie theatre, and an amusement park become urban microcosms. Reeh focuses on three substantial works written by Kracauer before his emigration to the United States in 1940. In the early autobiographical novel “Ginster, Written by Himself”, a young architect finds aesthetic pleasure in the ornamental forms that are largely unused in the profession of the time. The collection “Streets of Berlin and Elsewhere”, with many essays from Kracauer's years in Berlin, documents the subjectiveness of urban life. Finally, “Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time” shows how the superficial -- in a sense, ornamental -- milieu of the operetta evolved into a critical force during the Second Empire. Reeh argues that Kracauer's novel, essays, and historiography all suggest ways in which the subjective can reappropriate urban life. The book also includes a series of photographs by the author that reflect the ornamental experience of the metropolis in Paris, Frankfurt, and other cities.
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mars 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Making a better world : public housing, the Red Scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles
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During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public housing projects that had come to symbolize decades of failed urban policies. But public housing was not always regarded with such disdain. In the years surrounding World War II, it had been a popular New Deal program, viewed as a force for positive social change and supported(...)
Making a better world : public housing, the Red Scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles
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During the 1990s, Los Angeles - like many other cities across America - began demolishing public housing projects that had come to symbolize decades of failed urban policies. But public housing was not always regarded with such disdain. In the years surrounding World War II, it had been a popular New Deal program, viewed as a force for positive social change and supported by a broad coalition of civic, labor, religious, and community organizations. Socially conscious architects and planners developed innovative and livable projects that embodied the latest theories in urban design. With sharp historical perspective, "Making a better world" traces the rise and fall of a public housing ethic in Los Angeles and its impact on the city’s built environment. In the caustic political atmosphere of Joseph McCarthy’s America, public housing opponents accused the city’s housing authority of communist infiltration, effectively eliminating the left from debates over the city’s development. In place of public housing, conservative forces promoted a pro-private growth agenda that redefined urban renewal and reshaped modern Los Angeles. No conventional public housing projects have been constructed in Los Angeles since 1955. In this era of skyrocketing housing prices, especially in urban areas, Don Parson’s examination not only gives us the recent history of a city but also opens up a new debate on a current national crisis in providing shelter for low-income Americans. Foreword by Kevin Starr.
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This comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition 'Sociópolis: Project for a City of the Future' at the Architekturzentrum Wien. Sociópolis was created to develop "a living place with a sense of solidarity" to explore how to promote better social interaction between residents in the city of Valencia and to propose new ways of living that are typical for the social,(...)
Sociópolis : project for a city of the future
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This comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition 'Sociópolis: Project for a City of the Future' at the Architekturzentrum Wien. Sociópolis was created to develop "a living place with a sense of solidarity" to explore how to promote better social interaction between residents in the city of Valencia and to propose new ways of living that are typical for the social, technological and ecological conditions of our time. In the words of Dietmar Steiner, ”for the first time in the new millennium the Sociópolis project is designing a truly integrative and hybrid vision of the European town for the future. Sociópolis is setting new standards by realising a dream of social balance where all people potentially have the same opportunities – a dream of lifting all the borders between town and country by farming within the town limits. Sociópolis does this employing all-new technology and has engaged some of the most talented and interesting architects in the world to provide their contribution.” The publication presents comprehensive coverage of the projects submitted by the invited teams with a focus on architecture/social interaction/nature and new technology.
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décembre 2004, Barcelona
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Le chez-soi, dans les pratiques de l'habiter ou dans les idéologies et conceptions du logement, est intrinsèquement marqué par la dualité ouverture/fermeture l'ouvrir à l'air, à la lumière et aux vues agréables ainsi qu'à la proximité avec des familiers ; le refermer et préserver son intimité des regards et de l'intrusion. Une telle dialectique ne concerne pas que les(...)
Les abords du chez-soi : en quête d'espaces intermédiaires
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Le chez-soi, dans les pratiques de l'habiter ou dans les idéologies et conceptions du logement, est intrinsèquement marqué par la dualité ouverture/fermeture l'ouvrir à l'air, à la lumière et aux vues agréables ainsi qu'à la proximité avec des familiers ; le refermer et préserver son intimité des regards et de l'intrusion. Une telle dialectique ne concerne pas que les limites et dispositifs physiques qui relient ou séparent les sphères privatives, collectives et publiques de l'habitat, mais touche aux questions des rapports entre individus. Ainsi peut se comprendre la longue lignée de discours et projets sur ces liens supposés à la fois sociaux et spatiaux, aux visées tantôt défensives, tantôt conviviales. Transition, prolongement, espace intermédiaire, voisinage : l'auteur éclaire les enjeux et références de cette quête d'un entre-deux, en s'attachant aux apports des sciences humaines au même titre que des doctrines des architectes et urbanistes. Utopies sociétaires ou communautaires, apologie de la maison, hygiène et pittoresque de la rue, essor de la copropriété, clarification gestionnaire des espaces libres, exigences sécuritaires : ces conjonctures de l'entre ville et logement ont pour dernier avatar l'engouement actuel pour la résidentialisation.
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« Maître d'ouvrage » : ce terme bien connu dans le monde de l'architecture trouve aussi sa légitimité dans celui de l'urbanisme - un monde en bouleversement face aux évolutions constatées dans l'échelle, la nature et l'ambition des projets urbains. La multiplicité des facettes qu'embrasse l'action urbaine, la diversité des acteurs, publics ou privés, qu'elle mobilise ont(...)
La maîtrise d'ouvrage urbaine
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« Maître d'ouvrage » : ce terme bien connu dans le monde de l'architecture trouve aussi sa légitimité dans celui de l'urbanisme - un monde en bouleversement face aux évolutions constatées dans l'échelle, la nature et l'ambition des projets urbains. La multiplicité des facettes qu'embrasse l'action urbaine, la diversité des acteurs, publics ou privés, qu'elle mobilise ont ainsi rendu indispensable la nouvelle fonction de maîtrise d'ouvrage urbaine. Partant de la réalité du terrain - l'aménagement des emprises Renault à Boulogne-Billancourt, la Cité internationale, le quartier de Vaise et le projet Confluent à Lyon, les opérations Euroméditerranée, Mantes-en-Yvelines, Montpellier Grand-Cœur, Île-de-Nantes et Plaine-de-France -, ce livre offre un éclairage inédit sur le chef d'orchestre de l'aménagement qu'est le maître d'ouvrage urbain. Celui-ci assure l'ensemble des missions de pilotage stratégique et de management d'un projet urbain portées par la collectivité publique, depuis la conception jusqu'à la mise en œuvre.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Parmi les stigmatisations formulées par l'Internationale situationniste, l'urbanisme occupe une place spécifique en tant que forme spatiale de domination de la marchandise ou comme décor naturel du capitalisme. Ses diatribes et attaques constituent une véritable déclaration de guerre contre l'idéologie dominante du fonctionnalisme et du modernisme, entendue comme voie(...)
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Le grand jeu à venir: textes situationnistes sur la ville
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Parmi les stigmatisations formulées par l'Internationale situationniste, l'urbanisme occupe une place spécifique en tant que forme spatiale de domination de la marchandise ou comme décor naturel du capitalisme. Ses diatribes et attaques constituent une véritable déclaration de guerre contre l'idéologie dominante du fonctionnalisme et du modernisme, entendue comme voie royale du progrès économique et social. Nulle part mieux que dans les transformations de l'art de bâtir, la prégnance de cette nouvelle doxa n'est manifeste. En dépit de quelques travestissements culturels, l'architecture renoue avec sa fonction politique d'inscrire la division de la société dans l'espace, imposant à chaque classe sociale sa place.
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Que sont devenus les jardins ouvriers, ces potagers amoureusement cultivés qui firent les beaux dimanches de nos aïeux ? Le jardin familial, héritier direct du jardin ouvrier témoigne, aujourd'hui, d'un phénomène social original sur lequel se penchent urbanistes, professionnels de l'horticulture, historiens et sociologues. La nécessaire mise en place d'une politique(...)
Cent ans d'histoire des jardins ouvriers
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Que sont devenus les jardins ouvriers, ces potagers amoureusement cultivés qui firent les beaux dimanches de nos aïeux ? Le jardin familial, héritier direct du jardin ouvrier témoigne, aujourd'hui, d'un phénomène social original sur lequel se penchent urbanistes, professionnels de l'horticulture, historiens et sociologues. La nécessaire mise en place d'une politique commune visant à les protéger est aujourd'hui d'actualité. Chercheurs, photographes, amateurs, professionnels… mettent ici en commun leur regard sur ces coins de terre.
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