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"A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement"--
"A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. These influential activists aren't waiting for new public housing to be built. Instead, they're calling for more construction and denser cities in order to...
2) Little land
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"An environmental tale of land evolving over the millennia up to present day environmental changes, as well as the role one can take in caring for it"--
3) Pay dirt
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While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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Les architectes, les urbanistes et parfois les architectes de paysage mentionnent dans leurs biographies professionnelles le « design urbain » comme appartenant à leur champ d'expertise. Les architectes, les urbanistes et les architectes de paysage seraient-ils naturellement des designers urbains? Et le design urbain ne serait-il qu'une activité connexe de l'urbanisme, de l'architecture de paysage et plus encore de l’architecture? Cela a été...
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Durante las últimas décadas han tenido lugar numerosas iniciativas artísticas en Bogotá, que han logrado cierta visibilidad y significación, gracias a su capacidad de incidir en la producción de espacios públicos, por su papel en la visibilización de sectores marginados de la ciudad, por la participación de sus agentes en las pugnas por la garantía de los derechos culturales de amplias
franjas poblacionales, por la profundización de procesos...
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Cet ouvrage souhaite montrer la richesse d'une ouverture géographique et thématique des recherches urbaines actuelles en présentant celles qui prennent en considération les villes situées en dehors de l'aire occidentale. Il donne la voix à de jeunes chercheurs et praticiens originaires de six pays et de trois continents qui, par leurs réflexions engagées, proposent de corriger les perceptions souvent négatives, voire catastrophiques, de l'urbanisation...
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We are living in a critical moment, a reality marked by environmental and socio-economic limits that requires innovative and realistic forms of action and planning. This is what regenerative urbanism proposes, a new approach based on utopian pragmatism that seeks to restore balance to the urban territory by designing systems that allow it to adapt and transform. It is a methodology that defines models that do not consume available resources, but rather...
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This dissertation is over 50 years old. Written painstakingly by hand at a time when there were no computers or the Internet, Carol Winteringham takes you through a thorough first-hand analysis of urban developments in north-western Leeds. She takes into consideration the housing, industry and shopping facilities, looking at their historical development from 1940 to 1961 as well as the future plans up to 1981.
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The digital intelligence that is inevitably starting to penetrate every aspect of our previously analogue systems of living, working or social interacting calls for new models of designing our city and opens new territories of experimentation in the processes related to urban design.
While the idea of intelligent machines that simulate "cognitive functions" such as "learning" or "problem solving" is not new, its extensive use, in recent years,...
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Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests. Using San Francisco as an example of how cities employ remote control technology to exploit water, energy, natural resources, and labor from an expansive imperium, it takes the reader from ancient Rome...
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A visionary survey of urbanism from the Middle Ages to the late 1930s, with a new introduction by Thomas Fisher Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford-a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker-The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to rebuild the urban world on a sounder human foundation. First published in 1938, this radical investigation into the human...
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En el estudio del hábitat humano como sistema son pertinentes todas las acciones humanas que se desarrollan en un territorio, pero sobre todo las relaciones que se producen. Por lo tanto, el hábitat es un mundo construido y artificial, compuesto por elementos que interactúan entre sí. El hábitat como sistema de relaciones está definido por una tríada conceptual básica: naturaleza-sociedad-habitante, cuyas relaciones determinan su estructura...
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"A history of how Chicago's lakefront, with its parkland and Lake Shore Drive, has come to be. Beginning with the mid-nineteenth century, this book considers both local and broader social, economic, and legal forces, with particular emphasis on the conflict between public and private rights"--
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"A lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities--from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments--that allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects, and movements that inspired, created, and shaped them. Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way--as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy, and believe....
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The scale, complexity and pace of urban change in the recent past has been disorienting. As individual cities evolve into complex urban agglomerations, sometimes called city-regions, urban scholars battle to find adequate vocabularies for contemporary urban processes while practitioners continually search for meaningful governance responses. Governing Complex City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century explores the ongoing evolution of regional and metropolitan...
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Michael J. Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History at Williams College. His books include Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind, The Gothic Revival, and American Art and Architecture. His essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinking
The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century...
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La préservation des villes impériales marocaines durant le Protectorat met en exergue l'importance de l'architecture, des monuments historiques et de l'urbanisme dans la sauvegarde des cités impériales marocaines pendant la période du Protectorat. Les efforts importants mis en œuvre témoignent de l'attachement du Maroc à son inestimable patrimoine culturel, avec les bâtiments symboliques et les médinas scrupuleusement conservés pour les...
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Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define today's...
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In Mallparks, Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within industrial cities, sports stadiums exemplify urban American consumption at the turn of the twenty-first century. Grounded in Henri Lefebvre and George Ritzer's spatial theories in their analyses of consumption spaces, Mallparks examines how the designers of this generation of baseball stadiums follow the...
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A guide to alternate water collection for green new developments, aimed at conserving water and reusing it wisely.
In an era of dwindling resources, water is poised to become the new oil as the entire world now faces the reality of a decreasing supply of clean water. To avert a devastating shortage, we must not only look at alternate water sources for existing structures, we must also plan our new developments differently.
Design for Water is an...
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