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City : Rediscovering the center
Abstract from the publisher :
For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior,…
City visions 1910 / 2010 : Urban planning in Berlin, London, Paris and Chicago 1910 and 2010
Extract from the catalogue :
The exhibition City Visions 1910 | 2010 is a celebration of the anniversary of the General Town Planning Exhibition. It compares two key moments in time: The years around 1910 and 2010.
1910
The planning exhibition…
Civitas by design : Building better communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
Abstract from the publisher :
Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From…
Cleveland and sprawl : A global perspective
Bruegmann's fields of research and teaching are architectural, urban, landscape, and planning history and historic preservation. He has received scholarships and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, the…
Community Growth: Crisis and Challenge (ca. 1959)
Présentation :
Ce documentaire de la National Association of Home Builders déplore l'urbanisation non planifiée et encourage à chercher de nouveaux concepts de planification urbaine.
Il présente un…
Company town : The industrial Edens and satanic mills that shaped the American economy
Abstract from the publisher : Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam—each is the signature product of a…
Company towns in the Americas : Landscape, power, and working-class communities
Abstract from the publisher : Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding…
Complexity theories of cities have come of age
Organisers' description :
Three decades of research have established the field of complexity theories of cities as a dominant approach to cities. Now that the field has come of age, it is time to stop for a moment, look back at what has been…
Contemporary urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…
Creative knowledge cities: Myths, visions and realities
Abstract from the publisher: This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative…
Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines
Présentation par l'éditeur :
« Les villes forment un immense laboratoire pour faire des expériences, commettre des erreurs, échouer ou réussir en matière d’architecture et…
Des villes qui marchent
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Yves Winkin est directeur de la recherche à l'ENS-LSH de Lyon. De nombreux facteurs contribuent à la bonne marche des villes. Yves Winkin à une hypothèse : "Les villes qui marchent sont des villes où l'on marche".…
Yves Winkin est directeur de la recherche à l'ENS-LSH de Lyon. De nombreux facteurs contribuent à la bonne marche des villes. Yves Winkin à une hypothèse : "Les villes qui marchent sont des villes où l'on marche".…
Desseins de villes. Un retour de l'Etat aménageur ?
Présentation par l'éditeur :
"Desseins de villes revient à juste titre sur le rôle et la place des différents acteurs depuis une quarantaine d'années et sur ce qu'ils pourraient être dans l'avenir.…
Distributed urbanism : Cities after Google Earth
Abstract from the publisher :
What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and average length of stay three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and…
Dubai amplified : The engineering of a port geography
Abstract from the publisher : Following the British withdrawal in 1971, the Gulf Region entered a heady period of political restructuring, awash with oil money that helped fund national aspirations. Infrastructure investment became a central part…