$29.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Van Alen Institute mounted the exhibition "Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering" to demonstrate how cities, after incomparable loss of people and places, find ways to plan, design, and reconstruct the life of the city. The book is both a catalogue and a special edition of our series of "Van Alen Reports," the publication both documents the exhibit and expands on it with(...)
Information exchange : how cities renew, rebuild, and remember
Actions:
Prix:
$29.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Van Alen Institute mounted the exhibition "Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering" to demonstrate how cities, after incomparable loss of people and places, find ways to plan, design, and reconstruct the life of the city. The book is both a catalogue and a special edition of our series of "Van Alen Reports," the publication both documents the exhibit and expands on it with personal essays, articles and interviews. The point of the exhibition was not to compare catastrophes, but to compare, contrast, and try to explicate and understand initiatives, projects, plans, and actions that took place after the bomb, the earthquake, the war. After that, what worked, what would they do differently, what mattered right away, what mattered for the long-term? In October, the Institute put out a call for ideas for the exhibit. Students, designers, planners, artists, professors, photographers, public officials and a wide range of respondents from around the world were generous in suggesting places, projects, issues, and designs that were telling for the future of New York. From this response and ongoing research, the Institute chose to focus on specific processes and projects in seven cities. In Beirut, a public art installation that progressed through the city was a first step in reclaiming its war-torn districts, and the Lebanese capital has continued not only with master plans and major new developments, but also with works such as the Garden of Forgiveness, grappling with a hard history to contemplate. In Berlin, a center for information about the city and its reconstruction rose above the ruins of the Berlin Wall, half a century after the city had been devastated and divided. In San Francisco, an earthquake left the elevated highway downtown in such precarious decision that the city decided to tear it down-and implement a long-held dream of reopening the city to the waterfront. In Kobe, where an earthquake resulted not only in billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure, but also in a terrible loss of life, architects responded with an outpouring of energy to survey the damage and construct innovative emergency housing, proving the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention. In addition, they strove to understand the disaster, building a museum about, and at, the geological fault that brought down so much of their city. Manchester had a terrorist attack in the mid-1990s, and rebuilt its center city better than before, as well as setting up an institute for the study of cities around the world, to better understand that the life of the city and its public realm can not be taken for granted. So, too, did Oklahoma City, where a public process led to an international design competition for a memorial, and the city has rebuilt itself around it. Sarajevo, after years of civil war, pulled together its citizens through restoring the landmarks of their public life.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
$47.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This selection of groundbreaking essays offers an overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished(...)
Modernism and the spirit of the city
Actions:
Prix:
$47.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This selection of groundbreaking essays offers an overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished scholars focus on the city as the dominant generator of social, political and cultural institutions and structures in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
$38.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002 it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighborhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend? Behind the Gates is Low's revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years(...)
Behind the gates : life, security, and the pursuit of happiness in fortress America
Actions:
Prix:
$38.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002 it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighborhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend? Behind the Gates is Low's revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years researching and interviewing families in Long Island, New York and San Antonio, Texas, Low provides an inside view of gated communities to help explain why people flee to these enclaves. Parents with children, young married couples, "empty-nesters," and retirees express their need for safety, their secret fears of a more ethnically diverse America, and their desire to recapture the close-knit, picket-fenced communities of their childhood. Ironically, she shows, gated neighborhoods are in fact no safer than other suburbs, and many who move there are disheartened by the insularity and restrictive rules of the community. Low probes the hopes, dreams, and fears of her subjects to portray the subtle change in American middle-class values marked by the emergence of enclosed communities in the suburbs.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
$140.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Ce vocabulaire de l'Espace urbain s'inscrit dans la lignée du vocabulaire de l'Architecture de Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, et de celui plus récent du Jardin de Marie-Hélène Bénetière. Il a pour ambition de mettre à la disposition des acteurs et concepteurs de l'urbain, des élus, des chercheurs et de tout public un outil complet de description des espaces de la ville.(...)
Espace urbain : vocabulaire et morphologie
Actions:
Prix:
$140.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Ce vocabulaire de l'Espace urbain s'inscrit dans la lignée du vocabulaire de l'Architecture de Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, et de celui plus récent du Jardin de Marie-Hélène Bénetière. Il a pour ambition de mettre à la disposition des acteurs et concepteurs de l'urbain, des élus, des chercheurs et de tout public un outil complet de description des espaces de la ville. Il réunit les termes les plus anciens et ceux apparus en grand nombre depuis un siècle. Chaque mot est défini et assorti d'une notice. Sous des allures immuables, l'espace urbain est toujours en mouvement. Il se caractérise par l'accumulation, au fil d'interventions plus ou moins planifiées. Cet ouvrage s'attache à montrer cette évolution à travers les aménagements liés à l'espace public, au mobilier urbain, à l'architecture et au parcellaire.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
$12.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Philippe Arnaud propose une promenade commentée entre ruelles et grands ensembles. Quand architecture et urbanisme ont partie ou argent liés, nous sommes tous le piéton de Paris... ou d'ailleurs. Ce dossier est précédé d'une nouvelle intitulée «le concetto Bernini».
L'architecte, bâtisseur de la ville ?
Actions:
Prix:
$12.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Philippe Arnaud propose une promenade commentée entre ruelles et grands ensembles. Quand architecture et urbanisme ont partie ou argent liés, nous sommes tous le piéton de Paris... ou d'ailleurs. Ce dossier est précédé d'une nouvelle intitulée «le concetto Bernini».
Théorie de l’urbanisme
$29.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Sous le titre Enclaves, le premier numéro de la nouvelle série des Cahiers de l'Institut Supérieur d'Architecture La Cambre regroupe trois études qui traitent, à partir d'exemples radicaux, d'une même problématique contemporaine : les implications formelles et spatiales, architecturales et urbaines, des fractures socio-économiques et culturelles que subissent nos(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
novembre 2002, Bruxelles
Les cahiers de la Cambre - architecture no.1 : enclaves ou la ville privatisée
Actions:
Prix:
$29.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Sous le titre Enclaves, le premier numéro de la nouvelle série des Cahiers de l'Institut Supérieur d'Architecture La Cambre regroupe trois études qui traitent, à partir d'exemples radicaux, d'une même problématique contemporaine : les implications formelles et spatiales, architecturales et urbaines, des fractures socio-économiques et culturelles que subissent nos sociétés contemporaines. Ces réflexions, menées dans le cadre de leur travail de fin d'études par des étudiants récemmet diplômés, sont précédées de brèves présentations d'enseignants de l'Institut et suivies de réactions de spécialistes des questions évoquées. Pour nourrir le débat, le philosophe Lieven De Cauter apporte, en introduction, des éléments de contextualisation. Au-delà de ces analyses critiques, c'est bien entendu la question de l'architecture, comme de celle de l'engagement de l'architecte et du statut de sa profession, qui se trouve posée. Les photographies sont de Gaëtan Massaut.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
L'urbanisme
$13.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Ce livre s'attache à analyser le système institutionnel français, les pratiques du métier et les formes contemporaines de l'urbanisme.
L'urbanisme
Actions:
Prix:
$13.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Ce livre s'attache à analyser le système institutionnel français, les pratiques du métier et les formes contemporaines de l'urbanisme.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Métropolitique
$18.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Serions-nous arrivés à la fin de l’histoire de la démocratie, la métamorphose de la ville classique en mégalopole chaotique en signant l’arrêt ? Pour évaluer la pertinence de cette question et penser le moment actuel, il faut procéder à une généalogie des formes urbaines afin de cerner l’horizon qu’ouvre la nouvelle période historique, à savoir la déterritorialisation et(...)
Métropolitique
Actions:
Prix:
$18.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Serions-nous arrivés à la fin de l’histoire de la démocratie, la métamorphose de la ville classique en mégalopole chaotique en signant l’arrêt ? Pour évaluer la pertinence de cette question et penser le moment actuel, il faut procéder à une généalogie des formes urbaines afin de cerner l’horizon qu’ouvre la nouvelle période historique, à savoir la déterritorialisation et le déplacement en masse des populations. Par une ironie de l’histoire, cette situation d’exil et d’étrangeté généralisée peut constituer une nouvelle figure de la Ville monde comme lieu de déploiement et d’intégration des excentricités symboliques et par la même, inaugurer un nouvel âge de la politique : la métropolitique.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
livres
The city builders : property development in New York and London, 1980-2000 - second edition, revised
$72.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In the last twenty years, urban centers worldwide have experienced enormous booms and busts as real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials first poured resources into physical redevelopment, then watched as the market collapsed before booming again in the 1990s. In this extensively revised edition of her highly regarded The City Builders, Susan(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
septembre 2001, Lawrence, Kansas
The city builders : property development in New York and London, 1980-2000 - second edition, revised
Actions:
Prix:
$72.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In the last twenty years, urban centers worldwide have experienced enormous booms and busts as real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials first poured resources into physical redevelopment, then watched as the market collapsed before booming again in the 1990s. In this extensively revised edition of her highly regarded The City Builders, Susan Fainstein examines major redevelopment efforts in New York and London to uncover the forces behind these investment cycles and the role that public policy can play in moderating market instability. Fainstein chronicles the progress of three development projects in New York (Times Square, downtown Brooklyn, and Battery Park City) and three in London (King's Cross, Spitalfields, and Docklands). Analyzing the political and economic processes underlying physical changes in these two cities during the last two decades, she uncovers the role played by developers' perceptions and strategies in their interactions with both public policy-makers and property markets. This new edition follows each development effort to the present and places the discussion in a newly strengthened theoretical framework. In her investigation of the convergence between London and New York during the 1980s and then the divergence that began in the 1990s, Fainstein traces similarities and differences in the effects of globalization, ideology, and institutional structure in each city's experience. This comparative framework also sheds considerable light on the contributing roles of structure and agency in creating final outcomes. Fainstein concludes by assessing the impact of "theme park" development on the urban fabric and recommending a set of realistic strategies to both redevelop cities and improve the lives of urban residents.
livres
septembre 2001, Lawrence, Kansas
Théorie de l’urbanisme
livres
$47.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
janvier 2000, New York
Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American dream
Actions:
Prix:
$47.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip malls, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns.
livres
janvier 2000, New York
Théorie de l’urbanisme