Future social: design ideas, essays and discussions on social housing for the 'hardest-to-house'
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Homelessness is a serious problem throughout the world and Vancouver is no exception. In 2009, students of the University of British Columbia's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture produced a series of essays that generate innovative design ideas for Supportive Housing that meaningfully contribute to solving the problem of homelessness, envisioning(...)
Future social: design ideas, essays and discussions on social housing for the 'hardest-to-house'
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Homelessness is a serious problem throughout the world and Vancouver is no exception. In 2009, students of the University of British Columbia's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture produced a series of essays that generate innovative design ideas for Supportive Housing that meaningfully contribute to solving the problem of homelessness, envisioning innovative and exciting new types of design for this serious issue. This book is a collection of their essays that grapple with the issue of housing the homeless of the Downtown Eastside. As editor Matthew Soules, professor at UBC and director of Matthew Soules Architecture, writes, "they aim to glance at a future Vancouver in which its model urbanism folds in the ways that architecture can respond to the issue of homelessness with superior social housing."
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Education and creativity
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Education and Creativity studies the future of the knowledge and creative economies in our changing world. The education sector will be key to the continued success of the economy, but will need to adapt to significant changes in its demographic mix coupled with higher social expectations. The opportunity to both learn and employ new skills will need to extend to embrace(...)
Education and creativity
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Education and Creativity studies the future of the knowledge and creative economies in our changing world. The education sector will be key to the continued success of the economy, but will need to adapt to significant changes in its demographic mix coupled with higher social expectations. The opportunity to both learn and employ new skills will need to extend to embrace all ages and sectors of society.
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Living and community
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The current period of conspicuous consumption will come to an end, requiring more locally-sufficient and resource-careful lifestyles. Much social interaction is likely to be more virtual than real. A wide range of lifestyles, cultures and beliefs will need to find new ways of living in close proximity and sharing experience and resources. Conflict is inevitable but also(...)
Living and community
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The current period of conspicuous consumption will come to an end, requiring more locally-sufficient and resource-careful lifestyles. Much social interaction is likely to be more virtual than real. A wide range of lifestyles, cultures and beliefs will need to find new ways of living in close proximity and sharing experience and resources. Conflict is inevitable but also potentially catalytic.
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juillet 2008
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Protests from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park have brought the crisis of public space to the forefront of our attention: Where can the public congregate? How can city planning, design, and policies support First Amendment rights to public assembly and free speech? Forty experts in social science, planning, design, civil liberties, urban affairs, and the arts use the Occupy(...)
Beyond Zuccotti Park: freedom of assembly and the occupation of public space
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Protests from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park have brought the crisis of public space to the forefront of our attention: Where can the public congregate? How can city planning, design, and policies support First Amendment rights to public assembly and free speech? Forty experts in social science, planning, design, civil liberties, urban affairs, and the arts use the Occupy movement as a springboard for original, multidisciplinary essays that address these exigent questions. This foundational book puts issues of democracy and civic engagement back into the center of dialogue about the built environment.
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août 2012
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Based on careful study of Washington's personal diaries and correspondence and on the lively accounts of visitors to his estate, this book introduces a George Washington unfamiliar to many readers-an avid art collector, amateur architect, and leading landscape designer of his time.
George Washington's eye : landscape, architecture & design at Mount Vernon
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Based on careful study of Washington's personal diaries and correspondence and on the lively accounts of visitors to his estate, this book introduces a George Washington unfamiliar to many readers-an avid art collector, amateur architect, and leading landscape designer of his time.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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In a world of seemingly ever-increasing instability, many urban planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision, but by fear--fear of disaster, of change, of the unknown. What can we learn from this state of affairs? Can such fear be made beneficial? Is it conceivable that 'fear' might even offer a kind of guide in matters of urban planning? Guided by fantasy and(...)
The why factor : city shock, planning the unexpected
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In a world of seemingly ever-increasing instability, many urban planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision, but by fear--fear of disaster, of change, of the unknown. What can we learn from this state of affairs? Can such fear be made beneficial? Is it conceivable that 'fear' might even offer a kind of guide in matters of urban planning? Guided by fantasy and invention rather than science, City Shock: Planning the Unexpected proposes ten 'what if' scenarios, imagining how each of these scenarios could play out in the Dutch landscape between 2018 and 2047. In a narrative composed of feasible but unlikely headlines, a series of newspaper-style spreads report on fictitious future catastrophic events, exposing possible causes and consequences. City Shock is the sixth book in Winy Maas' Why Factory's Future Cities series.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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From Occupy Wall Street activists and corporate adbusters to online hackers and guerilla street artists, the influence of the Situationist International (SI) is written large across our contemporary cultural landscape. Formed in 1957 asa merger of four European avant garde groups with backgrounds in Marxism and Lettrism, the SI would over the next decade introduce many(...)
août 2012
50 years of recuperation of the situationist international
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From Occupy Wall Street activists and corporate adbusters to online hackers and guerilla street artists, the influence of the Situationist International (SI) is written large across our contemporary cultural landscape. Formed in 1957 asa merger of four European avant garde groups with backgrounds in Marxism and Lettrism, the SI would over the next decade introduce many key intellectual and artistic concepts to us. In 50 Years of Recuperation, now available in paperback, critically acclaimed author McKenzie Wark explores how our contemporaryunderstanding of art, politics, andeven reality itself has been shaped by these original culture jammers.
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In this volume, 27 urban planning experts highlight the backgrounds, users and effects of so-called “second hand spaces”--vacant sites which have been repurposed in areas undergoing urban change. The new functions of these spaces range from activities as simple as sunbathing in a defunct swimming pool to the installation of an open-air boxing ring.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
août 2012
Second hand spaces: recycling sites undergoing urban transformation
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In this volume, 27 urban planning experts highlight the backgrounds, users and effects of so-called “second hand spaces”--vacant sites which have been repurposed in areas undergoing urban change. The new functions of these spaces range from activities as simple as sunbathing in a defunct swimming pool to the installation of an open-air boxing ring.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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La ville éclairée constitue un tout, une entité à grande échelle. Le territoire nocturne demeure souvent incompris des élus, des responsables et du grand public. Ce livre présente l'histoire des éclairages urbains, l'identité nocturne des villes, l'urbanisme lumière, les stratégies lumière, l'avenir de la ville nocturne. Il offre ensuite 23 cartes postales nocturnes de(...)
Les éclairages des villes : vers un urbanisme nocturne
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La ville éclairée constitue un tout, une entité à grande échelle. Le territoire nocturne demeure souvent incompris des élus, des responsables et du grand public. Ce livre présente l'histoire des éclairages urbains, l'identité nocturne des villes, l'urbanisme lumière, les stratégies lumière, l'avenir de la ville nocturne. Il offre ensuite 23 cartes postales nocturnes de villes. Nées de voyages professionnels ou de visites touristiques, elles racontent les visions fugitives et les sensations d'un visiteur, conjuguées avec le regard d'un expert.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Ce manuel, publié en anglais en 1909, a joué un rôle pionnier dans l'application de la méthode scientifique à l'aménagement urbain. Prenant appui sur la théorie et la pratique de l'urbanisme en Angleterre, France, Autriche et Allemagne, il propose une méthode opérationnelle aux aménageurs. Il a été traduit dans de nombreuses langues et régulièrement réédité pendant(...)
Raymond Unwin : L'Étude pratique des plans de villes
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Ce manuel, publié en anglais en 1909, a joué un rôle pionnier dans l'application de la méthode scientifique à l'aménagement urbain. Prenant appui sur la théorie et la pratique de l'urbanisme en Angleterre, France, Autriche et Allemagne, il propose une méthode opérationnelle aux aménageurs. Il a été traduit dans de nombreuses langues et régulièrement réédité pendant l'Entre-deux-guerres. A partir des années 1970, il devient la référence de ceux qui désirent se démarquer de la planification moderniste et renouer avec l'art urbain.
Théorie de l’urbanisme