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Each chapter of the book is dedicated to one decade, with an essay outlining general developments during those ten years and a discussion of the most distinctive projects; the most important projects are illustrated. The images consist to a large extent of historic and new photographic material, supplemented where necessary with plans and design drawings. Through the(...)
20th century garden and landscape architecture in the Netherlands
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Each chapter of the book is dedicated to one decade, with an essay outlining general developments during those ten years and a discussion of the most distinctive projects; the most important projects are illustrated. The images consist to a large extent of historic and new photographic material, supplemented where necessary with plans and design drawings. Through the decades, the themes discussed include: the transition from 'utilitarian greenery' to 'greenery for consumption', the Zuiderzee Works - the construction of the massive Afsluitdijk (Enclosing Dike) to close off the Zuiderzee from the Waddenzee, the changes in agriculture, the Ecological Master Plan, garden design on country estates, the transformation of managed nature into 'new nature', and the development of public gardens and parks. The design or the designer are the main focus throughout, always considered in the light of broad social developments, such as fashionable trends, the increase of scale and intensification in agriculture, and changing recreational demands. The book contains work of a.o. Zocher, De Bazel, Granpré Molière, Mien Ruys, Van Eesteren, Dudok, Bijhouwer, Le Roy, Fortuyn/O'Brien, Baljon, Van Gessel and West 8.
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« Le Parlement de la recherche » a réuni 22 architectes et chercheurs en architecture internationaux dans un huis clos scénographié de 48 h au couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette, retraite plongée dans la brume, hors du temps et des urgences. À l'initiative du Fonds de dotation Quartus pour l'architecture, en partenariat avec le ministère de la Culture et piloté par le(...)
Le Parlement de la Recherche : Ce que peut l'architecture
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« Le Parlement de la recherche » a réuni 22 architectes et chercheurs en architecture internationaux dans un huis clos scénographié de 48 h au couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette, retraite plongée dans la brume, hors du temps et des urgences. À l'initiative du Fonds de dotation Quartus pour l'architecture, en partenariat avec le ministère de la Culture et piloté par le duo de commissaires : l'AUC et MBL architectes, le Parlement de la recherche a ainsi offert un temps inédit de réflexion, d'exploration et d'effervescence collective pour interroger les grands enjeux de notre société et questionner ce que peut l'architecture. Cet ouvrage, retranscription intégrale de ces échanges ou presque, offre une masse critique de concepts, d'engagements et de sujets de réflexion qui font état des préoccupations actuelles des architectes. Les communautés, la propriété, la « jungle », la critique nomade, la nostalgie, le projet moderne, la transformation, le logement et, surtout, cette série d'attitudes face aux temps présents sont autant de thèmes à déployer, à explorer pour les temps à venir.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval among northern coastal communities and disrupting a more southern, temperate world as sea levels rise. Economic, academic, and activist stakeholders are increasingly focused on the unsettling potential of ice as they plan for a future shaped by rapid(...)
Ice geographies: The colonial politics of race and indigeneity in the Arctic
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Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval among northern coastal communities and disrupting a more southern, temperate world as sea levels rise. Economic, academic, and activist stakeholders are increasingly focused on the unsettling potential of ice as they plan for a future shaped by rapid transformation. Yet, in "Ice geographies," Jen Rose Smith demonstrates that ice has always been at the center of making sense of the world. Ice as homeland is often at the heart of Arctic and sub-Arctic ontologies, cosmologies, and Native politics. Reflections on ice have also long been a constitutive element of Western political thought, but it often privileges a pristine or empty "nature" stripped of power relations. Smith centers ice to study race and indigeneity by investigating ice relations as sites and sources of analysis that are bound up with colonial and racial formations as well as ice geographies beyond those formations. Smith asks, How is ice a racialized geography and imaginary, and how does it also exceed those frameworks?
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Pourquoi hésite-t-on à agir pour le climat ou la biodiversité, alors que la planète manifeste des signes de plus en plus évidents de profonds bouleversements écologiques ? Qu’est-ce qui nous pousse à franchir le pas et à s’engager dans l’action ? Stein van Oosteren connaît trop bien les rouages de cette hésitation. Rien ne le prédestinait particulièrement à s’engager dans(...)
Désir d'agir : Comment déclencher la transition écologique
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Pourquoi hésite-t-on à agir pour le climat ou la biodiversité, alors que la planète manifeste des signes de plus en plus évidents de profonds bouleversements écologiques ? Qu’est-ce qui nous pousse à franchir le pas et à s’engager dans l’action ? Stein van Oosteren connaît trop bien les rouages de cette hésitation. Rien ne le prédestinait particulièrement à s’engager dans la lutte pour le climat. Pourtant, il y a eu un déclic, le besoin de faire quelque chose, puis le passage à l’action. Dans ce livre plein de verve et d’enthousiasme, Stein van Oosteren réfléchit sur la nature de nos blocages et partage des outils pour surmonter le vertige et les hésitations qui accompagnent toute démarche d’engagement. Puisant dans son propre parcours de militant pour le vélo et d’attaché à l’UNESCO, il parle d’urbanisme, de mobilité, d’alimentation, de santé, d’éducation ou d’art en interrogeant avec philosophie notre rapport au temps, à l’autre, au travail, aux mots… Ses questionnements, ponctués d’humour, jettent un éclairage nouveau et rafraîchissant sur les possibilités de transformation sociale.
Architecture écologique
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Media coverage of Japanese architecture the past twenty years has largely been dominated by the works of SANAA, Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami and their contemporaries. Their skillfully designed, ethereal white spaces and structures, have proved well suited to being exported in an increasingly visual culture. ''Communal Ecologies'', on the other hand, highlights an(...)
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Communal Ecologies: Conversations with Young Japanese Architects
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Media coverage of Japanese architecture the past twenty years has largely been dominated by the works of SANAA, Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami and their contemporaries. Their skillfully designed, ethereal white spaces and structures, have proved well suited to being exported in an increasingly visual culture. ''Communal Ecologies'', on the other hand, highlights an emerging generation of young architects pursuing a very different vision. They strive for an architecture that is rougher, more dynamic, and deeply rooted in social and ecological engagement. With a growing interest in community and network building, and a reevaluation of architecture’s connection to nature, they are developing critical methodologies for practice, and are reimagining the role of the architect in the process. Faced with a lack of opportunities in traditional housing design due to Japan’s economic decline, alongside a heightened awareness of ecological challenges brought on by frequent natural disasters, this generation of architects are crafting innovative strategies to engage with the existing housing stock and address challenges related to sustainability, reuse and transformation.
Alabaster Cities : Urban
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Traces the evolution of urban America since 1950, uncovering the forces behind the full emergence of a metropolitan nation, a suburban society, and a series of fragmented civic communities. With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation.(...)
Alabaster Cities : Urban
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Traces the evolution of urban America since 1950, uncovering the forces behind the full emergence of a metropolitan nation, a suburban society, and a series of fragmented civic communities. With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities. Drawing on numerous studies, first-hand anecdotes, census figures, and other statistical data, Short’s work addresses the globalization of U.S. cities, the increased polarization of urban life in the U.S., the role of civic engagement, and the huge role played by the public sector in shaping the character of cities. With deft analysis the author weaves together the themes of urban renewal, suburbanization and metropolitan fragmentation, race and ethnicity, and immigration, presenting a fascinating and highly readable account of the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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The city that never sleeps also never stops changing. And while New Yorkers are renowned for their trendsetting, this thought-provoking book argues that New York City itself has become a follower rather than a leader. Once-distinctive streets and neighborhoods have become awash in generic stores, apartment boxes, and garish signs and billboards. Legendary neighborhoods(...)
The suburbanization of New York : is the world's greatest city becoming just another town?
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The city that never sleeps also never stops changing. And while New Yorkers are renowned for their trendsetting, this thought-provoking book argues that New York City itself has become a follower rather than a leader. Once-distinctive streets and neighborhoods have become awash in generic stores, apartment boxes, and garish signs and billboards. Legendary neighborhoods (Little Italy, Hell's Kitchen, Harlem, the Lower East Side) have been smoothed over with cute monikers, remade for real-estate investment and for sale to the highest bidder. What does the future hold for the legendary metropolis, gateway to immigrants and strivers, magnet for builders and dealers, muse for artists and dreamers? Will the current political, economic, and social influences dull its once-famous creative edge and culture of opposition? What will become of the special allure of New York? "The suburbanization of New York" presents fourteen timely, provocative articles that explore the radical transformation unfolding in New York City and raise serious questions about the future of any metropolis struggling to maintain its unique identity.
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The contributors announce the demise of the city of broad shoulders and the transformation of its physical, social, cultural, and economic institutions into a new Chicago. In this book, twenty scholars, journalists, and activists, relying on data from the 2000 census and many years of direct experience with the city, identify five converging forces in American(...)
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The new Chicago : a social and cultural analysis
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The contributors announce the demise of the city of broad shoulders and the transformation of its physical, social, cultural, and economic institutions into a new Chicago. In this book, twenty scholars, journalists, and activists, relying on data from the 2000 census and many years of direct experience with the city, identify five converging forces in American urbanization which are reshaping this storied metropolis. The twenty-six essays included here analyze Chicago by way of globalization and its impact on the contemporary city; economic restructuring; the evolution of machine-style politics into managerial politics; physical transformations of the central city and its suburbs; and race relations in a multicultural era. In elaborating on the effects of these broad forces, contributors detail the role of eight significant racial, ethnic, and immigrant communities in shaping the character of the new Chicago and present ten case studies of innovative governmental, grassroots, and civic action. Edited by John P. Koval, Larry Bennett, Michael I. J. Bennett, Fassil Demissie, Roberta Garner and Kiljoong Kim.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Les mobilités transforment la vie urbaine et la production de l'espace et de l'architecture. Dans la société des échanges, les hubs sont les réceptacles premiers de ces transformations en cours. Ils préfigurent les évolutions globales de la ville des déplacements durables, à l'heure de la communication numérique embarquée et des flux intelligents. « Le Projet Hub» ne(...)
Le projet hub : l'architecture de nouvelles mobilités
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Les mobilités transforment la vie urbaine et la production de l'espace et de l'architecture. Dans la société des échanges, les hubs sont les réceptacles premiers de ces transformations en cours. Ils préfigurent les évolutions globales de la ville des déplacements durables, à l'heure de la communication numérique embarquée et des flux intelligents. « Le Projet Hub» ne décrit pas à nouveau l'urbanisme des transports ou la complexité des réseaux, mais aborde la question qui s'impose: comment plus de trente modes de mobilités potentiels peuvent-ils coexister et se relier en un même lieu, à l'image des données qui s'échangent dans l'espace virtuel et ubiquitaire de nos smartphones? Les gares de la mégalopole nippone, de par leur histoire et leur surdéveloppement, ont représenté au 20e siècle l'avenir de telles infrastructures. Elles en incarnent désormais le passé. Bientôt bouleversées par la diversité des nouvelles mobilités écologiques, elles se révèlent être le terrain privilégié pour projeter la transformation du hub des mobilités du futur proche, qui n'existe pas encore et que nous devons faire apparaître.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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First published in 2017 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris, this widely praised and still much sought-after book becomes available again in a new edition. It offers an analytical review from today’s perspective of the French capital’s profound transformation during the late nineteenth century under the direction of Georges Eugène Baron(...)
janvier 2021
Paris Haussmann: A model's relevance. 2nd edition
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First published in 2017 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris, this widely praised and still much sought-after book becomes available again in a new edition. It offers an analytical review from today’s perspective of the French capital’s profound transformation during the late nineteenth century under the direction of Georges Eugène Baron Haussmann. ''Paris Haussmann: a model’s relevance'' explores and analyzes the characteristics of Paris’s homogenous yet fluid cityscape, the result of a lengthy process of changes and evolutions, even in recent times. Research was conducted at all levels to classify and compare roadways, identify public spaces, and organize the blocks and buildings according to their current geometry. For the first time, the qualities of the Haussmann model have been set forth to show how they grapple with the same challenges that contemporary cities face. Topical essays feature alongside rich illustrative material, comprising photographs by celebrated photographer Cyrille Weiner, site plans and maps, floor plans and sections, axonometric projections, and various graphics.