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Lessons from the British and French new towns : paradise lost?
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ISBN: 9781839094316 1839094311 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing

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Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? explores the evolution of the New Towns in both France and the UK from several perspectives including public policy, sociology, geography and heritage. UK and French New Towns have many similarities in terms of the role of the national state in tackling urgent problems of housing and urban growth and in promoting innovative design and architecture. These innovative planned settlements have left a contested and complex legacy, but are once again on the political and urbanisation agenda in Europe, where a push for growth of housing and the desire for sustainability are the new drivers of urban planning and design. After years of the private development market being seen as the principal instrument of urban growth and planning, it is time to assess the urban legacy and the heritage of the UK and French New Towns. This book contrasts their evolution on both sides of the Channel and shows what can be learned about post war state planning and the future planning of new settlements.


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Trophy Cities : A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals
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ISBN: 9781839100437 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cheltenham Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

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Projet El Pocero : dans une ville fantôme de la crise espagnole
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ISBN: 9782360841141 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paris : Inculte,

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El Quiñon a été construite en quelques années sur le territoire de la commune de Seseña, à environ trente-cinq kilomètres au sud de Madrid. Cet énorme ensemble d’immeubles exhibe l’évidence de son exécution rapide. Tout est également neuf.C’est la combinaison du lourd gigantisme et du sentiment de brièveté de réalisation qui stupéfie le plus, certainement, et qui donne consistance à l’image mentale d’un furieux déferlement de béton, d’un délire maçonné venant à peine moins vite qu’un raz-de-marée recouvrir le monde, inondant de plateformes, d’immeubles et de routes toute la surface des paysages, et qu’on imaginerait capable en une seule nuit d’édifier une ville au milieu de laquelle se réveilleraient, croyant avoir été téléportées ou être soudain devenues folles, quelques familles qui n’occupaient encore qu’un hameau de campagne lorsque, la veille au soir, elles éteignirent les lumières des chambres à coucher pour s’abandonner au sommeil. Projet El Pocero est une déambulation dans cette ville fantôme, symbole parfait de la folie spéculative qui s’est emparée de l’Espagne au milieu de la première décennie 2000. Symbole également d’un capitalisme sauvage, outrancier, qui a précipité l’économie mondiale dans une chute vertigineuse.


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Swissness : learning from New Glarus
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ISBN: 9783038602446 Year: 2021 Publisher: Zurich Park Books

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A unique and fascinating transcultural study on the role of imagery and appropriation in architecture and urban planning. Founded by Swiss settlers in 1845, New Glarus in Wisconsin evolved from being a dairy farming and cheese production village to a popular tourist destination. Following a grave economic downturn in the 1960s and 1970s, the community discovered embracing the image of its cultural heritage, particularly traditional architectural details, as a way of survival. Consequently, they began to change their commercial building façades to appear even more Swiss. Since 1999, the town has even regulated the production of new buildings via its building codes to preserve this particular aesthetic evoking the familiar traditional Swiss chalet style. 'Swissness Applied' investigates the transformation of European immigrant towns in the United States, exemplified by New Glarus. It features the results of extensive fieldwork on buildings in the village as well as design projections based on the local building code and evaluates the outcomes through different representation techniques. Expert authors including Courntey Coffman, Kurt Forster, Whitney Moon, Philip Ursprung, and Jesús Vassallo contribute essays that pick up on aspects such as the role of cultural imagery and immigration history in architecture, and on Swissness as a cultural concept in particular.

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