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Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream
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ISBN: 9780865477506 0865477507 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, N.Y. North Point


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Regeneratie van de oude stad
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ISBN: 9060957555 Year: 1971 Volume: 17 Publisher: 's-Gravenhage Vuga


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Stadsvernieuwing: sociaal-ekonomische verkenning van de bedreigingen en nieuwe levenskansen van de stad
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ISBN: 902321675X Year: 1979 Publisher: Assen Van Gorcum

Transurbanism
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ISBN: 9056622366 Year: 2002 Publisher: Rotterdam NAi

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TransUrbanism is urbanism plus transformation. TransUrbanism is urbanism plus globalization. The city is no longer a clearly localizable spatial unit, but has transformed into an 'urban field', a collection of activities instead of a material structure. Cities today are in a state of continuous decomposition, but are also continually reorganizing and rearranging themselves, expanding and shrinking. TransUrbanism is a design strategy that allows cities to organize themselves as complex systems, where small local structures incorporate global flows.


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Engineering the eternal city : infrastructure, topography, and the culture of knowledge in late sixteenth-century Rome
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ISBN: 9780226543796 9780226591285 022659128X Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. The University of Chicago Press

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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the “engineering pope” Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before. This portrait of an early modern Rome examines the many conflicts, failures, and successes that shaped the city, as decision-makers tried to control not only Rome’s structures and infrastructures but also the people who lived there. Taking up visual images of the city created during the same period—most importantly in maps and urban representations, this book shows how in a time before the development of modern professionalism and modern bureaucracies, there was far more wide-ranging conversation among people of various backgrounds on issues of engineering and infrastructure than there is in our own times. Physicians, civic leaders, jurists, cardinals, popes, and clerics engaged with painters, sculptors, architects, printers, and other practitioners as they discussed, argued, and completed the projects that remade Rome.


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Journal of urban design.
ISSN: 13574809 14699664 Year: 1996 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Carfax, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Verb connection
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ISBN: 8495951061 9788495951069 Year: 2004 Publisher: Barcelona Actar

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Faced with an increasing blurring of the frontiers between the physical and the informational dimension of our cities, Verb Connection explores the relation between virtual connections - the effect of digital networks on the spaces and uses of the city - and the persistent role of architecture in creating physical connections between people, programs and uses. We look here into a series of projects that reveal the unpredictable effects of the evolution of our cities, while highlighting architecture's function as catalyst of public life and urban activity.

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