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A modern history of European cities : 1815 to the present
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ISBN: 9781350017658 1350017655 9781350017665 9781350017672 9781350017689 1350017663 Year: 2020 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey to cities and towns across the continent, in search of the patterns of development that have shaped the urban landscape as indelibly European. The focus is on the built environment, the social and cultural transformations that mark the patterns of continuity and change, and the transition to modern urban society. Including over 60 images that serve to illuminate the analysis, the book examines whether there is a European city, and if so, what are its characteristics? Wakeman offers an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates concepts from cultural and postcolonial studies, as well as urban geography, and provides full coverage of urban society not only in western Europe, but also in eastern and southern Europe, using various cities and city types to inform the discussion. The book provides detailed coverage of the often-neglected urbanization post-1945 which allows us to more clearly understand the modernizing arc Europe has followed over the last two centuries. --


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Stedenbouw : kern en perspectieven
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ISBN: 9789024409235 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam Boom

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De stedenbouwkunde schept de ruimtelijke condities voor het functioneren van de burgerlijke samenleving. Fundamenteel daarin is het onderscheid tussen openbaar en privaat domein. De kerntaak van de stedenbouwkunde is daarom het ontwerp van de stadsplattegrond, waarmee de indeling van het grondgebied in openbare en private gronden wordt vastgelegd. Bij zo'n ontwerp spelen ontwikkelingen in het programma en het ruimtegebruik van de stad een rol, wordt de openbare ruimte ontworpen en ingericht, en worden regels voor het bouwen geformuleerd. Stedenbouw biedt een overzicht van de grondslagen van de stedenbouwkundige discipline en behandelt de relevantie van deze grondslagen voor de opgaven van de 21e eeuw.


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In the images of development
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ISBN: 9780262044707 9780262361118 0262361116 0262044706 9780262361125 0262361124 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press


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A history of street networks : from grids to sprawl and beyond
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ISBN: 9781734345872 173434587X Year: 2020 Publisher: Hyattsville Pedshed Press

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A survey history of urban roadway networks and the origins of sprawling suburban patterns. To improve traffic, various individuals and groups sought to radically remold urban environments. Their city-planning and traffic-engineering efforts are traced from the industrial revolution, to twentieth-century sprawl, to later countermovements.


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Five Stories of São Paulo
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ISBN: 9782960253023 2960253027 Year: 2020 Publisher: Brussels Accattone

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In summer 2019, artist Eva Le Roi and architect Pierre Burquel travelled to São Paulo to research its particular urban conditions. Five subjective axonometric drawings on a 1:1000 scale ensued: Telhados, Piscinões, Condomínios, Campos and Galerias. Their project proposes to examine through drawings the specific urban conditions of a city (São Paulo), where rapid growth and the overlap of multiple, even contradictory, dynamics have resulted in the creation of powerful urban landscapes.The staggering growth of São Paulo and accumulation of what are often contradictory urban dynamics have created a complex urban landscape. Rather than an exhaustive study of this metropolitan environment, their project provides a narrative vision of five particular situations in the city of São Paulo. Each situation is described with a diptych of complementary visuals. On the one hand, an axonometry which, using processes of selection, framing, isolation and compilation, offers a new perspective and reveals specific aspects of the location. On the other hand, an image depicting the daily, often imperceptible routines in the appropriate context.


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Open city : re-thinking the post-industrial city
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ISBN: 9781948765459 1948765454 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Actar Publishers

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This publication inquires into the future of post-industrial cities framing and speculating on different industrial contexts: archipelagos (Eibar), fabrics (Cobo Calleja), assemblies (Detroit). Currently 55% of the world's population lives in cities, predictably reaching 70% in 2050. Cities are organisms in continuous transformation: growth, change, but also shrinking or collapse. 'Open City' explores and speculates from contemporaneity about the future of the post-industrial city, where industrial archipelagoes (S), frames (XL) and obsolete or deprogrammed singularities (M/L) represent critical contexts but also opportunities for a new Open City. Open Systems have been the research focus of CoLab since 2013. This book collects some relevant and engagingly contemporary insights. It also includes new unpublished interviews and articles with international participants leading players in this field.


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Fundamenten van het stadsontwerp
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ISBN: 9789491789250 9491789252 Year: 2020 Publisher: Place of publication unknown Public Space

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In dit theoretische traktaat gaat Marcel Smets op zoek naar de fundamenten van het stadsontwerp. Twintig korte hoofdstukken ontleden centrale concepten uit de praktijk van urbanisatie en stedenbouw, en dit aan de hand van complementaire begrippenparen en kenschetsende voorbeelden. Na zijn jarenlange ervaring in onderwijs, onderzoek, ontwerp en beleid bundelt professor Marcel Smets, grondlegger van het stadsontwerp en voormalig Vlaams Bouwmeester, zijn inzichten over stad en stedenbouwkundig ontwerp in een persoonlijk boekje. In zijn zoektocht naar de fundamenten van het stadsontwerp schuift Marcel Smets twintig complementaire begrippenparen naar voren. Hij vertrekt van archetypische nederzettingsvormen (lint en tros, ladder en ster), typeert morfologische categorieën (straat en weg, eiland en archipel) en belicht veranderende ontwerpprocessen (creator en curator, stappenplan en groeitraject). De begrippenparen zijn geïllustreerd met tekeningen van Heinrich Altenmüller.


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Jaarboek landschapsarchitectuur en stedenbouw in Nederland : 2020
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ISBN: 9789492474339 Year: 2020 Publisher: Wageningen Uitgeverij Blauwdruk

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Dit jaarboek toont de beste en mooiste projecten van 2020. Zoals een gloednieuwe eilandengroep in het Markermeer, bijzondere dijkvormen op Texel en langs de Maas, een circulaire woonwijk in Amsterdam-Noord, een met bewoners ontwikkeld fabrieksterrein in Eindhoven, een nieuw stadshart voor Uithuizen, en een nieuw station mét omgeving in Assen. Stuk voor stuk prachtige plekken en plannen waarin - dat is de focus van dit boek - diversiteit, duurzaamheid en innovatie voorop staan.De projecten zijn gekozen door een onafhankelijke commissie van vakmensen. De redactie van het tijdschrift Blauwe Kamer verzorgde de samenstelling. Naast de bevindingen van de commissie en een beschrijving van de geselecteerde projecten bevat het jaarboek onder andere een portret van Yttje Feddes - winnaar van de Bijhouwerprijs voor haar bijdrage aan de landschapsarchitectuur - en een essay van rijksadviseur Berno Strootman over 'landschapsinclusieve' landbouw. The yearbook compiled by the editors of 'Blauwe Kamer' magazine consists of out- standing projects showcasing the range of urban and landscape design that the Netherlands has to offer. Among them are new housing in both densified cities and the countryside, activism in design, engineer- ing through beauty in infrastructure, and remarkable ways to create public space. The chosen projects were selected by an independent committee, and in addition to the committee's findings the book con- tains a photo reportage on public space in current times of worldwide pandemic and demonstrations.


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What can a body do? How we meet the built world
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ISBN: 9780735220003 9780735220027 073522000X Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Riverhead Books

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A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets--nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider--or reconsider--the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built. In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it--from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture --Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body's stunning capacity for adaptation--rather than a rigid insistence on "normalcy"--look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.

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