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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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"Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neo-pastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists--all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose...
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"A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea. Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati across Europe couldn't get enough of its blend of social fantasy with a deep desire for a better world. Five...
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Cities in Asia and the Pacific are expanding rapidly. With this growth, persons with disabilities, older persons, women, and children face significant challenges in accessing urban services and fully participating in city life. To address such barriers, inclusive environments are needed wherein infrastructure and services are built considering the different needs of everyone. The inclusive cities guidelines provide universal design solutions, accessibility...
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Problemas como la migración de poblaciones y de habitantes, y el crecimiento urbano acelerado de las capitales han promovido el debate alrededor de la suburbanización y el crecimiento periférico. Se ha hecho necesario ampliar el diseño urbano y las consideraciones de desarrollo más allá de los centros urbanos, con el propósito de analizar los esquemas de crecimiento y expansión urbana de forma racional e integrada a lo existente. En este libro...
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Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York, as did government subsidies for middle-class housing....
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El presente libro aborda una serie de obras de la literatura contemporánea de la Ciudad de México, en particular —aunque no exclusivamente— de los escritores José Emilio Pacheco, Juan Villoro y Fabrizio Mejía Madrid desde el punto de vista de la geocrítica y de la imaginería de la Ciudad de México ligada a los cuatro elementos. En este sentido, pretende demostrar que, a través de las sustancias primordiales y de las figuras míticas y...
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Axé sur les enjeux sociaux, économiques et politiques de notre temps, cet ouvrage est une réflexion sans complaisance sur le vieillissement. Il met en lumière les savoirs actuels sur les habitats et leur aménagement au regard de la demande implicite de la société qui vise à ce que les gens vieillissent chez eux, dans leur communauté. O en est la recherche à ce sujet au Québec et dans les collectivités francophones? Quelles sont les politiques...
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Con el propósito de aportar al uso racional y sostenible del territorio, este libro aborda la confrontación del interés público y privado en la construcción de ciudad, desde enfoques teóricos y profesionales. A partir de una visión multidisciplinar, y con base en el análisis de casos de estudio españoles y costarricenses, la obra contribuye a la reflexión del problema mediante la aportación de 15 autores participantes, quienes suman a la...
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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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Food security and housing a nation with an expanding population should be key priorities for a small island like Britain. Yet both are being thwarted by record land prices. In the last 10 years, farm land has risen by almost 200% - with feeding the nation a secondary consideration to speculators buying up thousands of acres annually to avoid tax. If planning permission is given for new housing, prices can rise fifty-fold - making a vast profit for...
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Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-building for low and middle income groups in urban areas. Although social, economic and urban prosperity differs across these contexts, there exists a recurring, cross-continental, tension between formal governance and self-regulation. Contributors examine the multi-faceted regulation dilemmas...
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There are big plans for a small town in Nevada. When a world-famous architect is commissioned to design a completely enclosed city, he hires a young apprentice named Burke Isadore to translate his sketches into a three-dimensional computer model. The ambitious project is called New Moon City.
Burke is a man of his word. When he makes a promise, he intends to keep it. He has promised himself to make a difference in the world, and he sees the new city's...
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Cuaderno urbano es una publicación científica con arbitraje internacional dirigida a la difusión de artículos y ensayos que se ocupan desde las disciplinas científicas a la cuestión urbana -en el sentido más amplio del término-, combinando trabajos de caracteres empíricos, teóricos y ensayísticos que den cuenta de problemáticas locales, regionales y universales. La intención de la publicación es favorecer y promover la generación de...
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The author is a well-known educator and planner who has written extensively about architecture and city planning in his 13 books and 90 professional and academic articles. He has practiced planning as a consultant, and was involved in several of the developments discussed in this book.
He believes that New Urbanism offers a family-centered, small town approach that ius an alternative to urban sprawl. He sees it as a lifestyle choice over central city...
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Gilles Clément ha escrito un recorrido por la historia del jardín que parte de sus significados más profundos y atávicos; un libro breve y delicioso que nos conecta con los sentidos que, desde nuestra condición de seres humanos, le hemos ido dando a la naturaleza domesticada.
"El primer jardín es un cercado. Conviene proteger el bien preciado del jardín: las hortalizas, las frutas; luego las flores, los animales, el arte de vivir. todo aquello...
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La réinvention de l'habitat familial par le développement de la ville satellite, de la cité jardin et plus largement de la banlieue a suscité (et suscite encore) beaucoup d’enthousiasme; or, les effets pervers de la prolifération de ces formes urbaines, notamment par la disqualification des quartiers anciens et des espaces publics, puis par la dépendance à l'automobile, sont de plus en plus évidents. Aujourd'hui, le défi de mieux arrimer...
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Este libro los lectores encontrarán una guía de alto valor empírico y conceptual para emprender sus propios proyectos de investigación y discusión acerca de la planificación y ordenamiento territorial en Colombia. El desarrollo sostenible, el urbanismo social y los proyectos urbanos integrales forman parte del paradigma de los gobiernos locales para intervenir el territorio con fines sociales. Los autores indagan en este paradigma, describen...
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In this accessible and passionately argued book, Bob Colenutt goes to the roots of the long-term crisis in housing and planning in the UK. Providing a much-needed, in-depth critique of the nexus of power of landowners, housebuilders, financial backers, and politicians that makes up the property lobby, this radical book reveals how this complex, self-serving and intimidating network perpetuates a cycle of low supply, high prices, and poor building...
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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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