Libros a Descargar Gratis

The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization

Autor: Paola Viganò , Chiara Cavalieri , Martina Barcelloni Corte

Número de Páginas: 406

This book provides an overview of the Horizontal Metropolis concept, and of the theoretical, methodological and political implications for the interdisciplinary field in which it operates. The book investigates the contemporary emergence of a new type of extended urbanity across regions, territories and continents, up to the global scale. Further, it explores the diffusion of contemporary urban conditions in an interdisciplinary and original manner by analyzing essential case studies. Offering extensive content on the Horizontal Metropolis concept, the book presents a range of approaches intended to transcend various inherited spatial ontologies: urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, and society/nature. The book is intended for all readers interested in the emergence and development of new approaches in cultural theory, urban and design education, landscape urbanism and geography.

The Horizontal Metropolis

Autor: Martina Barcelloni Corte , Paola Viganò

Número de Páginas: 513

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the “Horizontal Metropolis” concept. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it explores various theoretical, methodological and political implications of the Horizontal Metropolis hypothesis. Assembling a series of textual and cartographic interventions, this book explores those that supersede inherited spatial ontologies (urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, society/nature). It investigates the emergence of a new type of extended urbanity across regions, territories and continents up to the global scale through the reconstruction of a fundamental but neglected tradition. This book responds to the radical nature of the changes underway today, calling for a rethinking of the Western Metropolis idea and form along with the emergence of new urban paradigms. The Horizontal Metropolis concept represents an ambitious attempt to offer new instruction to take on this challenge at the global scale. The book is intended for a wide audience interested in the emergence and development of new approaches in urbanism, architecture, cultural theory, urban and design education, landscape urbanism and geography.

ECOTONOS URBANOS

Autor: Miguel Ángel Bartorila , María Elena De La Torre Escoto , José Javier Alayón González , Sabine Klepser , Mariano Ferretti , María Ríos Carballeira

Número de Páginas: 192

En más de una ocasión, en México me he encontrado con reacciones de incredulidad y escepticismo con respecto de la implementabilidad de propuestas urbanas que reconcilian el medio construido con el natural. Pero el ecotono urbano planteado en esta obra no es una transición entre dos condiciones prístinas, la urbana y la natural, sino un producto híbrido, resultado de un proceso de mutuo acompañamiento e impacto, "coevolutivo". Este acompañamiento es, digamos, un diálogo continuo en el cual existe una constante influencia en ambos sentidos y es específico al lugar. Al serlo, es también sensible a su cultura, a su sociedad, a su economía, a su forma de hacer y deshacer ciudad y territorio. El lindero entre el Área Metropolitana de Guadalajara y la Barranca del Río Grande de Santiago es el borde de un mosaico urbano fragmentado, contradictorio y desigual. Con sus barrios populares de nivel socioeconómico muy bajo a bajo, campos de golf, plantas de tratamiento de aguas residuales, campus universitarios, algunos parches de viviendas de nivel socioeconómico alto y unos pocos parques, esta franja es un reflejo del territorio urbano que permite identificar el ADN de la...

Global Urbanism

Autor: Michele Lancione , Colin Mcfarlane

Número de Páginas: 371

Global Urbanism is an experimental examination of how urban scholars and activists make sense of, and act upon, the foundational relationship between the ‘global’ and the ‘urban’. What does it mean to say that we live in a global-urban moment, and what are its implications? Refusing all-encompassing answers, the book grounds this question, exploring the plurality of understandings, definitions, and ways of researching global urbanism through the lenses of varied contributors from different parts of the world. The contributors explore what global urbanism means to them, in their context, from the ground and the struggles upon which they are working and living. The book argues for an incremental, fragile and in-the-making emancipatory urban thinking. The contributions provide the resources to help make sense of what global urbanism is in its varieties, what’s at stake in it, how to research it, and what needs to change for more progressive urban futures. It provides a heterodox set of approaches and theorisations to probe and provoke rather than aiming to draw a line under a complex, changing and profoundly contested set of global-urban processes. Global Urbanism is...

Capital y dominación social

Autor: Angelo Narváez León , Roberto Vargas Muñoz (editor) , Ivo Gasic Klett (editor)

Número de Páginas: 316

Bajo la noción de crítica de la economía política del espacio, y desde diferentes aproximaciones propuestas, el libro ensaya una delimitación de la crítica del capital y la producción del espacio moderno como totalidad social. En efecto, la crítica de la modernidad, desde la crítica de la economía política del espacio, es una crítica de la lógica abstracta del valor y su expresión en la producción social del espacio, donde este, en su dimensión urbana, corresponde al espacio producido para la reproducción del capital, es decir, el intercambio, aquel lugar que completa el proceso de circulación que realiza la totalidad de la producción mercantil. Autoras y autores reunidos en este libro: Xabier Arrizabalo Montoro, Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos, Martín Arboleda, Neil Brenner, Manoel Fernandes, Ivo Gasic, Felipe Irarrázaval, Geoff Mann, Lisett Márquez López, Angelo Narváez León, Lucas Pohl, Emilio Pradilla Cobos, Łukasz Stanek, Roberto Vargas Muñoz.

Chinese Cities in the 21st Century

Autor: Youqin Huang

Número de Páginas: 338

This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21st century. China is in the midst of a historic developmental inflection point, grappling with a significantly slowing economy, rapidly rising inequality, massive migration, skyrocketing housing prices, alarming environmental problems, and strong pushback from the West. In this volume, Western and Chinese scholars in different disciplines offer the clearest look yet at some of the main challenges China faces, including domestic and international contexts, the new urban development model, inclusion and well-being of migrants and their families, and urban sustainability. This book sheds light on China’s ongoing development and future directions, and has strong policy implications for anyone interested in the future of China.

African Cities Through Local Eyes

Autor: Giuseppe Faldi , Axel Fisher , Luisa Moretto

Número de Páginas: 330

This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning experiments. The international and balanced array of the collected contributions explore emerging research concepts for understanding urban and peri-urban processes in Africa, discuss bottom-up planning and design practices, and present inspirational and innovative co-design methods and participatory tools for steering such change through public spaces, sustainable services and infrastructures. The book is intended for students, researchers, decision-makers and practitioners engaged in planning and design for the built environment in Africa and the Global South at large.

Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network

Autor: João Rafael Santos , Maria Matos Silva , Ana Beja Da Costa

Número de Páginas: 361

This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in search for synergic responses to emerging societal challenges that impact large, urbanised landscapes. The book offers a multidimensional and multi-geographic framework to discuss the role of public space on contemporary metropolitan territories, as part of MetroPublicNet - Building the foundations of a Metropolitan Public Space Network to support the robust, low-carbon and cohesive city: Projects, lessons, and prospects in Lisbon research project. The reader will find a critical and overarching perspective on the conceptual, methodological, and empirical lenses that unfolded throughout the research process, namely a systematised decoding of the public space projects, policies, and rationales that shaped the recent transformation of Lisbon Metropolitan Area. With a diverse range of authors actively engaged in academic research and professorship, in design practice, and in policy-oriented roles, the book concludes with the outlining of...

New Urban Spaces

Autor: Neil Brenner

Número de Páginas: 481

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. In New Urban Spaces, Neil Brenner argues that understanding these mutations of urban life requires not only concrete research, but new theories of urbanization. To this end, Brenner proposes an approach that breaks with inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded settlement unit-the city or the metropolis-and explores the multiscalar constitution and periodic rescaling of the capitalist urban fabric. Drawing on critical geopolitical economy and spatialized approaches to state theory, Brenner offers a paradigmatic account of how rescaling processes are transforming inherited formations of urban space and their variegated consequences for emergent patterns and pathways of urbanization. The book also advances an understanding of critical urban theory as radically revisable: key urban concepts must be continually reinvented in relation to the relentlessly mutating worlds of urbanization they aspire to illuminate.

Innovative Approaches to Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Urban Development: Integrating Tradition and Modernity

Autor: Hourakhsh Ahmad Nia And Rokhsaneh Rahbarianyazd

Número de Páginas: 424

The Book explores the intricate balance of preserving cultural heritage while fostering sustainable urban growth. This comprehensive volume presents a diverse array of chapters, each exploring unique facets of this critical intersection. From the contextual preservation methods in Italy's military landscapes and advanced data fusion techniques in Selinunte, to the phenomenological exploration of Bahrain's architectural identity and the environmental frameworks for its primary health care centers, the book offers multifaceted insights. It navigates through the urban transformations in historic sites like Thamugadi and Tripoli, the digitization for conservation in Algeria, and the sustainable urban futures informed by indigenous knowledge systems. Furthermore, it examines public space dynamics, urban green infrastructure, and the integration of sustainable development into urban planning, with case studies spanning from Turkey to Tehran. The book also addresses contemporary architectural discourse, mobility in architecture, and the significance of unacknowledged tributaries in urban planning. Through a rich tapestry of empirical research, case studies, and theoretical analysis, this ...

Extended Urbanisation

Autor: Christian Schmid , Milica Topalovic

Número de Páginas: 408

Extended methods of analysis for urbanisation processes illustrated in eight world regions. Urbanisation processes are unfolding far beyond the realm of agglomerations, profoundly transforming agrarian areas, rain forests, deserts and oceans. Inextricably bound to the earth’s ecologies, these developments are causing manifold planetary crises which require urgent scrutiny and call for new conceptions and cartographies of the urban beyond-the-city. Through detailed analysis and fieldwork captured in text, photographs and hand-drawn maps, the book portrays the effects of extended urbanisation in eight world regions. It offers a redefinition of the very notions of the “city”, “urban” and “urbanisation” and outlines new urban agendas developed to address planetary challenges. This book decenters the perspective on the urban, foregrounds urban struggle, and transcends rural-urban and north-south divides. Fundamental book for urbanism studies Redefinition of the terms “city”, “urban” and “urbanisation” Analysis of urbanisation processes in eight world regions

Planning Cities in Africa

Autor: Genet Alem Gebregiorgis , Stefan Greiving , Ally Hassan Namangaya , Wilbard Jackson Kombe

Número de Páginas: 251

This open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice and education in Africa are based. With that, it discusses the potentials of African cities to mobilise local knowledge, resources and capacity building for sustained and resilient urban growth. This work is addressed to educationists and practitioners in the field of urban development management, climate change adaptation and urban resilience. Specifically, such audiences include researchers, spatial planners, graduate students and member of civil societies working on urban development management.

La métropole géographique et ses urbanismes

Autor: Charles Ambrosino

Número de Páginas: 61

Cet ouvrage invite à questionner, à partir de l’exemple grenoblois, le rapport entretenu par les politiques publiques avec les géographies et paysages métropolitains, dans la perspective d’un accroissement de la résilience urbaine. En retraçant l’évolution des stratégies d’urbanisme de la métropole au cours des siècles précédents, il s’agit de mettre en lumière le passage d’une logique de domestication de l’environnement alpin à une planification territoriale plus intégrée et adaptée aux besoins et contraintes des plaines comme des pentes. Les cahiers POPSU rassemblent les connaissances produites au fil des travaux de recherche-action menés par la Plateforme d’observation des projets et stratégies urbaines (POPSU) dans le cadre du programme « Métropoles ».

Inclusive Development in South Asia

Autor: Toshie Awaya , Kazuo Tomozawa

Número de Páginas: 367

This book examines the multi-layered aspects and the complexities of inclusive development in South Asia based on recent data and using innovative methodology. The book offers an analysis of the existing ground realities in terms of economic and inclusive development, presenting relevant discussion and findings. It discusses lower castes, tribes, religious/ethnic minorities, and other socially vulnerable people, as well as gender, rural–urban, and educational disparities in South Asia, and highlights that all these issues are interrelated. Structured in two parts—Spatial Dimensions, Labour, and Migration, and Social Dimensions and Beyond Inclusion—the chapters present emerging new concepts related to socio-economic and inclusive development and use effective and valid methods and methodology covering the ground realities-based information and secondary data-based analysis. Evaluating the extent to which inclusive development has been realised in South Asia, the contributors explore a new approach towards the concept of ‘inclusiveness’ by drawing on the experiences of the diverse societies in South Asia. An immensely useful contribution to the analysis of different...

The Asian Megacity Region

Autor: Debnath Mookherjee

Número de Páginas: 239

This book argues that close and disciplined scrutiny of the Asian megacity regions is of critical importance to understanding Asian urbanization. However, any approach to studying these regions must adopt a multi-dimensional and trans-urban perspective; otherwise, we Without such an approach, we cannot truly make meaningful decisions about growth management and sustainable development for such regions. Amidst the sweeping demographic and structural shifts produced by global urbanization, Asian urbanization has a fascinating and prominent role. Asian urbanization is heterogeneous, and more accurately constitutes “phenomena” than a “phenomenon.” However, despite this diversity, there are certain common features that we can identify. One of them is the Asian “megacity region”— the administrative and/or delineated territory of mixed urban-rural landscape surrounding a giant metropolis. The purpose of this book is to: Understand the main features of 21st century urbanization Note the limitations of current approaches (e.g. disparate scales, city-centric views, inadequate data sets) Articulate a pragmatically framed three-pronged approach (scale-based, trans-urban,...

Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities

Autor: Charles Travis , Deborah P. Dixon , Luke Bergmann , Robert Legg , Arlene Crampsie

Número de Páginas: 655

The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields. Employing historical, philosophical, linguistic, literary, and cultural lenses, this handbook explores how the digital environmental humanities (DEH), as an emerging field, recognises its convergence with the environmental humanities. As such, it is empirically, critically, and ethically engaged in exploring digitally mediated, visualised, and parsed framings of past, present, and future environments, landscapes, and cultures. Currently, humanities, geographical, cartographical, informatic, and computing disciplines are finding a common space in the DEH and are bringing the use of digital applications, coding, and software into league with literary and cultural studies and the visual, film, and performing arts. In doing so, the DEH facilitates transdisciplinary encounters between fields as diverse as human cognition, gaming, bioinformatics and linguistics, social media, literature and history, music, painting, philology, philosophy, and the earth and environmental sciences. This handbook...

Alpine Industrial Landscapes

Autor: Marcello Modica

Número de Páginas: 419

This Open Access book presents a pioneering research on brownfield redevelopment in mountain regions, and specifically in the European Alps. The origins and causes, the actual conditions as well as the future challenges and potentials of mountain brownfields are investigated from an interdisciplinary yet landscape-centered perspective. Through the reasoned combination of research-by-design methods and case-study analysis, the book explores the infrastructural relevance of these sites for the specific mountain territory, while advancing an innovative structuralist-systemic approach for their physical and functional transformation. The book includes, among others, a first transnational geo-mapping of Alpine brownfields, whose impressive outcomes in terms of site numbers and distribution can only confirm the urgency of this research.

The Spatial and Economic Transformation of Mountain Regions

Autor: Manfred Perlik

Número de Páginas: 268

Mountain regions are subject to a unique set of economic pressures: they act as collective enterprises which have to valorize rare resources, such as spectacular landscapes. While primarily rural in nature, they often border large cities, and the development of industries such as hydroelectric power and the rapid development of tourism can bring about sweeping socio-economic change and vast demographic alterations. The Spatial and Economic Transformation of Mountain Regions describes the socio-economic changes and spatial impacts of the last four decades, with the transformation of mountain areas held up as an example. Much of the real-world context draws on the Alps, spanning as they do the significant economies of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Chapters address academic discourse on regional development in these mountain areas and suggest alternative approaches to the liberal-productivist societal model. This book will be essential reading for professionals, institutions, and NGOs searching for counter-models to the existing marketing approaches for peripheral areas. It will also be of interest to students of regional development, economic geography,...

Neighbourhoods in Transition

Autor: Emmanuel Rey , Martine Laprise , Sophie Lufkin

Número de Páginas: 257

This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical and practical approach to the topic, offering a thorough introduction to urban brownfields and regeneration projects as well as an operational monitoring tool. Neighbourhoods in Transition begins with an overview of historic urban development and strategic areas in the hearts of towns to be developed. It then defines several key issues related to the topic, including urban brownfields, regeneration projects, and sustainability issues related to neighbourhood development. The second part of this book is focused on support tools, explaining the challenges faced, the steps involved in a regeneration process, and offering an operational monitoring tool. It applies the unique tool to case studies in three selected neighbourhoods and the outcomes of one case study are also presented and discussed, highlighting its benefits. The audience for this book will be both professional and academic. It will support researchers as an up-to-date reference book on urban brownfield regeneration projects, and ...

The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area

Autor: Miodrag Mitrašinović , Timothy Jachna

Número de Páginas: 277

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world’s most populous urban megaregion—the Greater Bay Area of southeastern China—projected to reach eighty million inhabitants by the year 2025. This book assembles diverse approaches to interrogating the forms of public space and the public realm that are emerging in the context of this region’s rapid urban development in the last forty years, bringing together authors from urbanism, architecture, planning, sociology, anthropology and politics to examine innovative ways of framing and conceptualizing public space in/of the Greater Bay Area. The blend of authors’ first-hand practical experiences has created a unique cross-disciplinary book that employs public space to frame issues of planning, political control, social inclusion, participation, learning/education and appropriation in the production of everyday urbanism. In the context of the Greater Bay Area, such spaces and practices also present opportunities for reconfiguring design-driven urban practice beyond traditional...

Spatial Tensions in Urban Design

Autor: Ianira Vassallo , Michele Cerruti But , Giulia Setti , Agim Kercuku

Número de Páginas: 225

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possible to identify the phenomenon of “Tensions” as a specific contemporary both social and spatial urban changes catalyst. Through a collection of essays from various disciplines focusing on international case studies—from India to Europe to Latin America— the publication explores the multifaceted concept of “spatial tensions” as a lens for better understanding contemporary urban transformations. While tensions often depend on spatial dispositives and superstructures, they also offer a powerful key for design practices and strategies.

Advances in Urban Construction and Management Engineering

Autor: Young-jin Cha

Número de Páginas: 637

Advances in Urban Construction and Management Engineering focuses on the research of urban traffic, city engineering, ecological city and management engineering. The proceedings feature the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to Urban Construction. Subjects in the proceedings include: • Urban development and construction • Architectural design and urban planning • Logistics and supply chain management • Management engineering The works of this proceedings can promote development of Urban Construction and Management Engineering, resource sharing, flexibility and high efficiency. Thereby, promote scientific information interchange between scholars from the top universities, research centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.

Land Policies in Europe

Autor: Thomas Hartmann , Andreas Hengstermann , Mathias Jehling , Arthur Schindelegger , Fabian Wenner

Número de Páginas: 255

Land is a scarce resource. How can conflicting claims to land be reconciled? How can more housing be provided and, at the same time, the ecological goal of reducing land take be met? In many European countries, land-use planning is facing increasing and oftentimes contradictory challenges. This forms a land question, which requires land policies that can deal with the fraught relationship between planning and private property rights. A legislative reflex is to adapt planning laws. Oftentimes, such changes lack a deeper reflection of land policy and its implications. Especially an international comparison can foster a structured reflection of the own land policy. This thought-provoking book compiles a remarkable collection of 12 cases unveiling how land policies work. Curated by leading experts in the field, it takes the reader on a journey through the multifaceted realm of land policies across the continent. This book offers valuable insights into the complex interplay between land use, and property rights. "Land Policies in Europe" isn't just a book; it's a conversation starter equally relevant for experienced academics or young students, policymakers, and practitioners. This is...

Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges

Autor: Manuel Jorge Rodrigues Couceiro Da Costa , Filipa Roseta , Joana Pestana Lages , Susana Couceiro Da Costa

Número de Páginas: 1665

The escalating interdependecy of nations drives global geopolitics to shift ever more quickly. Societies seem unable to control any change that affects their cities, whether positively or negatively. Challenges are global, but solutions need to be implemented locally. How can architectural research contribute to the future of our changing society? How has it contributed in the past? The theme of the 10th EAAE/ARCC International Conference, “Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges”, was set to address these questions. This book, Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, includes reviewed papers presented in June 2016, at the 10th EAAE/ARCC International Conference, which was held at the facilities of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. The papers have been further divided into the following five sub-themes: a Changing Society; In Transit – Global Migration; Renaturalization of the City; Emerging Fields of Architectural Practice; and Research on Architectural Education. The EAAE/ARCC International Conference, held under the aegis of the EAAE and of the ARCC, is a conference organized every other year, in collaboration with one of ...

The Urbanism of Exception

Autor: Martin J. Murray

Número de Páginas: 421

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its origins in the grand Western experience of city-building. At the start of the twenty-first century, the familiar idea of the 'city' - or 'urbanism' as we know it - has experienced such profound mutations in both structure and form that the customary epistemological categories and prevailing conceptual frameworks that predominate in conventional urban theory are no longer capable of explaining the evolving patterns of city-making. Global urbanism has increasingly taken shape as vast, distended city-regions, where urbanizing landscapes are increasingly fragmented into discontinuous assemblages of enclosed enclaves characterized by global connectivity and concentrated wealth, on the one side, and distressed zones of neglect and impoverishment, on the other. These emergent patterns of what might be called enclave urbanism have gone hand-in-hand with the new modes of urban governance, where the crystallization of privatized regulatory regimes has effectively shielded wealthy enclaves from public oversight and...

Designing the Rural

Autor: Joshua Bolchover , John Lin , Christiane Lange

Número de Páginas: 142

The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Established categories such as rural /urban and village/city no longer hold true. Rural and urban conditions have become increasingly blurred, so how can we identify and distinguish their specific characteristics? Where is the rural, and what role does it play in an urbanised world? In developing countries the countryside is a volatile and contradictory landscape: legally designated rural areas look like dense slums; factories intersect fields and farmers no longer farm. In contrast, in developed regions, the rural has become a highly controlled landscape of production and consumption: industrialised agriculture coexists with leisure landscapes for tourism, retirement and recreation. This issue of AD investigates how architects and researchers are critically engaging with the rural as an experimental field of exploration. Contributors: Neil Brenner, Christiane Lange, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Sandra Parvu, Cole Roskam, Grahame Shane, Deane Simpson, and Milica Topalovic and Bas Princen Architects: Anders...

Transforming Rural China

Autor: Guy M. Robinson

Número de Páginas: 371

Over the last four decades, China has witnessed dramatic economic growth, transforming into an economic powerhouse with considerable consequences for its rural regions. In this timely book, Guy M. Robinson adeptly navigates the principal elements, key events and significant changes of the transformation of China’s countryside.

The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory

Autor: Elie G. Haddad

Número de Páginas: 286

This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice. Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues of today, 17 original contributions address the relevance of architectural theory in the contemporary world from various perspectives, including but not limited to: politics, gender, representation, race, environmental crisis, and history. The chapters are grouped into two distinct sections: the first section explores various historical perspectives on architectural theory, mapping theory’s historiographical turn and its emergence and decline from the 1960s to the present; the second offers alternative visions and new directions for architectural theory, incorporating feminist and human rights perspectives, and addressing contemporary issues such as Artificial Intelligence and the Age of Acceleration. This edited collection features contributions from renowned scholars as well as emergent voices, with a Foreword by David Leatherbarrow. This book will be of great interest to graduate and upper-level students of architecture, as...

Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges Volume 1

Autor: Manuel Jorge Rodrigues Couceiro Da Costa , Filipa Roseta , Susana Couceiro Da Costa , Joana Pestana Lages

Número de Páginas: 1320

The EAAE/ARCC International Conference, held under the aegis of the EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) and of the ARCC (Architectural Research Centers Consortium), is a conference organized every other year, in collaboration with one of the member schools / universities of those associations, alternatively in North America or in Europe. The EAAE/ARCC Conferences began at the North Carolina State University College of Design, Raleigh with a conference on Research in Design Education (1998); followed by conferences in Paris (2000), Montreal (2002), Dublin (2004), Philadelphia (2006), Copenhagen (2008), Washington (2010), Milan (2012) and Honolulu (2014). The conference discussions focus on research experiences in the field of architecture and architectural education, providing a critical forum for the dissemination and engagement of current ideas from around the world.

Porous City

Autor: Sophie Wolfrum

Número de Páginas: 304

Some time ago, Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis used the term "porosity" with reference to Naples’ urban characteristics – spaces merging into each other and providing the backdrop for the unforeseen – improvisation as a way of life. Today, the term "porosity" in this context is increasingly used conceptually. Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, town planning, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing, user-friendly city – with reference to this enigmatic term. The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities – to cities with radically mixed urban functions.

Emancipatory Urbanization

Autor: Dan Narita

Número de Páginas: 351

Peripheral mountain territories are often a critical backbone resource for metropolitan areas. Redefined relationships can catalyze new synergies for urbanization and alternative livelihood strategies. The overdevelopment of the South-East coastal cities in Greater China has caused environmental degradation, unbalanced economic growth, and acute social disparities between the developed Pearl River Delta and the remote mountain territories in Guangdong Province. In this book, the Dongjiang River Basin in Guangdong is taken as a laboratory for alternative and bottom up urbanization scenarios. Opportunities are presented for micro-economic scenarios, livelihood diversification and the development of rural-urban habitats located in the hinterland of the coastal zone. The rediscovery of ancient mountain territories as a productive resource is emphasized for a new phase of urbanization. Overshadowed by the dominance of global city networks – liveable cities responsive to climate change, conscious of the scarcity of resources, and aware of widening social inequalities, may not be found in densely populated urban areas. The underestimated potential of mountain territories with dispersed ...

HistoriANT 2023-11

Autor: Genootschap Voor Antwerpse Geschiedenis

Número de Páginas: 258

Het jaarboek HistoriANT bundelt vlot leesbare, wetenschappelijke artikelen over de rijke geschiedenis van de stad Antwerpen. In dit jaarboek krijgt de lezer een primeur met de bespreking van het ontdekte schilderij in een der sodaliteitsvertrekken, gelegen tegenover de Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk: de Nottebohmzaal. Daarna wordt de lezer meegenomen naar twee sneeuwbeeldenfestivals die in 1716 en 1776 in Antwerpen plaatsvonden. Dat er weinig of geen aandacht ging naar de armen en behoeftigen, wordt aangetoond in een bijdrage over de migratiepolitiek op het einde van de achttiende eeuw. Een sprong naar de twintigste eeuw voert de lezer naar de Eerste Wereldoorlog tijdens de Duitse bezetting. Het toenmalige stadsbestuur onder leiding van Jan De Vos was verantwoordelijk voor de openbare orde en de veiligheid in de stad. Dit jaarboek duikt in het thema ‘urbanisatie in Antwerpen van ca. 1900 tot de Tweede Wereldoorlog’ en bericht over de studiecommissie die in 1907 mee aan de basis lag van de ruimtelijke planning. Op architecturaal gebied wordt de modernistische ingreep van architect Eduard Van Steenbergen in Deurne toegelicht. Vervolgens wordt de transformatie van het...

Il paesaggio agrario italiano

Autor: Autori Vari

Número de Páginas: 725

Gli studi sul paesaggio agrario di Emilio Sereni restano tuttora di grande attualità. La storia dei territori, nel loro intrinseco rapporto tra uomo e natura, è la storia del suolo modellato dal lavoro dei contadini, delle trasformazioni fondiarie, degli ordinamenti colturali, degli insediamenti e delle infrastrutture, ma anche dei rapporti di produzione, con esiti che si caricano di valenze sociali, culturali e visive. I contributi qui presenti raccolgono l’eredità di Emilio Sereni e dimostrano l’attualità della sua lezione, la robustezza delle sue argomentazioni e il fascino che il mondo delle campagne non smette di esercitare. Riprendere oggi a studiare Emilio Sereni ha un significato forte, che richiama i valori dell’antifascismo, della resistenza e le lotte per la giustizia sociale.

The New Blackwell Companion to The City

Autor: Gary Bridge , Sophie Watson

Número de Páginas: 786

This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities

Italia di mezzo

Autor: Arturo Lanzani

Número de Páginas: 615

L’Italia di mezzo rappresenta una realtà complessa, composta da una molteplicità di territori in cui vive e lavora oltre la metà della popolazione italiana. Si estende su una superficie vasta e diversificata, caratterizzata da una condizione intermedia che sfugge alle categorie tradizionali. In questi luoghi, infatti, i confini tra centro e periferia, innovazione e tradizione, urbano e rurale diventano sfumati, richiedendo nuove visioni e approcci. Nonostante la rilevanza demografica e il peso elettorale di questi territori, essi rimangono ai margini del discorso pubblico. I luoghi dell’Italia di mezzo, territori intermedi della provincia italiana, scompaiono dall’agenda politica e dai programmi di sviluppo, oscurati da narrazioni che privilegiano la metropoli o, all’opposto, i borghi e le aree più periferiche. Due convinzioni sono alla base di questo libro. La prima è che questa parte d’Italia conti e pesi anche in una prospettiva di lungo periodo, verso il passato e verso il futuro: ha svolto un ruolo cruciale nella storia complessiva del paese, garantendone plasticità e svolgendo un ruolo intermediario rispetto ad altre sue componenti territoriali; rappresenta...

The Urban Design Reader

Autor: Michael Larice , Elizabeth Macdonald

Número de Páginas: 1089

The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of The Urban Design Reader, this updated edition continues to provide the most important historical material of the urban design field, but also introduces new topics and selections that address the myriad challenges facing designers today. The six part structure of the second edition guides the reader through the history, theory and practice of urban design. The reader is initially introduced to those classic writings that provide the historical precedents for city-making into the twentieth century. Part Two introduces the voices and ideas that were instrumental in establishing the foundations of the urban design field from the late 1950s up to the mid-1990s. These authors present a critical reading of the design professions and offer an alternative urban design agenda focused on vital and...

Confini, movimenti, luoghi

Autor: Camilla Perrone , Giancarlo Paba

Número de Páginas: 446

Gli insediamenti urbani e territoriali stanno attraversando un periodo turbolento di cambiamenti materiali e immateriali, morfologici e sociali, tutti segnati da una progressiva erosione dei confini tra urbano e suburbano, tra centro e periferia, tra città e campagna, nonché da una crescente differenziazione (culturale, sociale, funzionale, simbolica) del territorio ex periferico che ha portato alla diffusione di stili di vita urbana a scala territoriale. Diventa doveroso quindi interrogarsi, e questo libro prova a farlo in un’articolata sequenza di saggi e contributi, sulle conseguenze della transizione in corso sulla forma e sul metabolismo dei territori e degli insediamenti urbani. Esistono ancora le città, secondo le modalità in cui siamo stati abituati tradizionalmente a definirle? Quale forma e quale metabolismo assumono i processi di urbanizzazione a scala regionale e planetaria? In che modo i cambiamenti climatici – e la ribellione della terra – agiscono sull’immenso lavoro di costruzione dei luoghi dell’abitare? Come continuare a garantire alle popolazioni il diritto alla città, al movimento, alla coesione sociale, alla giustizia spaziale? Come estendere...

Drosscape: Wasting Land Urban America

Autor: Alan Berger

Número de Páginas: 260

Annotation Do you really know what's under that new house you just bought? How about what's underneath the neighbourhood playground? Was the big-box retailer down the street built atop a toxic site?These are just a few of the worrisome scenarios as our cities begin a stealthy relocation of industrial facilities from the inner city to the urban periphery. These are the places Alan Berger has coined "drosscapes," and this is his guide to the previously ignored field of waste landscapes.

The Architecture Annual 2006-2007. Delft University of Technology

Número de Páginas: 232

The themes of this "Arcjitecture Annual" focuses on how the materials, design, construction and running of a building can affect the environment.

The Elemental Metropolis

Autor: Qinyi Zhang

Número de Páginas: 246

This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial “elements” in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from there an imagination of a new paradigm of urbanization. The urbanization in Yangtze River Delta today is in need of a new interpretation and paradigm. The delta is a territory with city cores but it also has vast dispersed urbanization where the agricultural and non-agricultural activities and spaces are mixed and interlinked, a desakota (McGee, 1991). This book attempts to answer a basic question: what is the desakota in the Yangtze River Delta made of? The research Horizontal Metropolis led by Prof. Paola Viganò at EPFL, Switzerland focuses on the form of the contemporary city – the fragmentary spatial condition and dispersed urbanity all over the world. The study on Yangtze River delta is part of its research frame.