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La transformación del paisaje urbano, los elementos que son parte de ese complejo proceso y sus efectos son los temas que abordan los ensayos reunidos en Ciudad, urbanización y urbanismo en el siglo XX venezolano. La revisión y el balance de estos asuntos tienen como eje, por supuesto, las ideas de ciudad y urbanismo y, a la vez, toman en cuenta tres elementos: la revolución petrolera, la urbanización y la modernización, tríada esencial para...
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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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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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In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it in houses, sheds, or secure vessels; and creating elaborate cemeteries and manipulating the landscape. All of these behaviors were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which turns out have...
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An incisive view of Toronto's development over the last fifty years.
In Toronto Reborn, Ken Greenberg describes the emerging contours of a new Toronto. Focusing on the period from 1970 to the present, Greenberg looks at how the work and decisions of citizens, NGOs, businesses, and governments have combined to refashion Toronto. Individually and collectively, their actions - renovating buildings and neighbourhoods, building startling new structures...
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Architect and artist Roger Kemble has demonstrated his ideas of urban design with images from sixteen major Canadian cities-among others. He has walked, measured, and sketched their streets, squares and places, scanned their horizons, probed the relationships between structures, land and landscape with unprecedented energy. More significantly, he has reacted to the negative effect that all the busy business of urban development is having on our daily...
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Marta Llorente lleva la mirada allí donde se desliza la luz "a partir de la experiencia de habitar el mundo, el paisaje, y en especial la arquitectura". Dice la autora: "he seguido el camino que recorre el trazo de la luz desde las fuentes más distantes hasta los espacios que habitamos. Escribirlo ha sido como ver brillar de nuevo la arquitectura: sentir el poder de la luz en construcciones del pasado y del presente que se han levantado bajo el...
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Una propuesta colectiva para plantear un nuevo escenario donde poder transformar las ciudades y los territorios donde desarrollamos nuestras vidas. Una propuesta que crecerá con las aportaciones de diferentes expertos en urbanismo, ecología y medio ambiente para presentarnos otras maneras de vivir posibles. Con cada nueva actualización podrás descargarde manera gratuita las nuevas aportaciones de los autores a este texto en crecimiento.
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51) The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Construction of the Virginia Kendall Reserve, 1933 - 1939
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In the spring of 1933, the United States was in the midst of the worst economic calamity it had ever experienced. Newly inaugurated president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to approve funding allowing legions of out-of-work young men to find employment reclaiming and developing the nation's natural spaces. The Civilian Conservation Corps became a reality in April 1933 and forever changed the way the American people viewed their parks, rivers,...
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Los pocos estudios que se han realizado sobre los inmigrantes judíos que llegaron a Bogotá durante la primera mitad del siglo XX han establecido que una gran mayoría de ellos siguió el mismo patrón al verse enfrentados a la necesidad de reconstruir su vida en la ciudad. Primero, fueron vendedores ambulantes que experimentaron un gran éxito gracias a la implementación de créditos flexibles dirigidos a los habitantes más pobres de la ciudad...
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Ordenamiento local del territorio en el Magdalena Medio: Barrancabermeja y Vallecito relata la formación de sectores de origen informal, tanto de la periferia urbana de Barrancabermeja como de sectores rurales apartados, como, por ejemplo, el corregimiento de Vallecito (municipio de San Pablo, sur de Bolívar), por donde discurrió la diáspora del desplazamiento forzado por la violencia atroz que caracterizó particularmente a esta parte del territorio...
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Territorios Territorios colectivos propone pensar el proceso de formación del Estado en el Pacífico Colombiano a partir de una mirada etnográfica centrada en la cotidianidad de los actores que intervienen en las múltiples escalas de la acción estatal, tanto en la escala local, donde las comunidades negras se organizan según los parámetros que especifica la ley para poder titular colectivamente sus tierras, como en la escala "central", donde...
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San Antonio de Guajui es una aldea mayor del consejo comunitario Rio Guajui, uno de los seis consejos comunitarios del Municipio de Guapi Cauca. Queda en el área selvática del municipio. Población de vocación minera. Aldea mayor compuesta por mas de 200 familias con grandes problemas de saneamiento básico y viviendas con deficiencias constructivas. La comunidad de la Aldea mayor desde un ejercicio de Diseño participativo busca mejorar su hábitat...
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Back to the Future explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy trends such as regional governance and the role of nonprofits. The purpose of this book is to provide students and professionals alike with a context for examining the beginnings of new urbanism, as well as to illustrate how this movement has become a nationwide trend in response to changing demographics and the real estate crisis. The book primarily...
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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 LA Forum Reader brings together three decades of discursive writings and publications on architecture, urbanism, and Los Angeles culled from the archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Published under thematic sections: Experiments, Detours, Hunches, and Santa Anas, with interludes dedicated to Art and Architecture, Downtown, and the long-running LA Forum Newsletter, the collected essays and interviews track an uneven...
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A wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development that are shaping China's urban future.
Superblocks are the basic unit of China's urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined 'Megablocks' then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential...
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This book is conceived as evidence supporting the qualities of dense, urban living, and as a hopeful antidote against sprawl. Necessity and investigation are prerequisites for the design of housing: Total Housing refers to the need to understand that social, environmental, and economic factors affect form, and that living space is a base for our increasingly complex and varied societies. This new survey into multi-family housing focuses on the responses...
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