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Planning zonder overheid, een toekomst voor planning
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ISBN: 9064506272 Year: 2006 Publisher: Rotterdam OIO


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Density, architecture, and territory : five European stories = Densité, architecture et territoire : cinq histoires européennes
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ISBN: 9783868594362 3868594361 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin: Jovis,

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Le livre propose une réflexion sur la densité comme modèle de développement durable et comme socle urbain des relations humaines, cadre de l'épanouissement des sociétés. Il croise 5 thèmes (la densité, une question territoriale / programmer les territoires / les paysages de la densité / nouvelles typologies d'habitations / les conditions du projet) basés sur l'analyse de cinq projets urbains et architecturaux récents en Europe, nouveaux quartiers d'habitations, à travers leur dimension physique, économique et sociale (îlot de l'Arc de Triomphe à Saintes ; le quartier Langerak 2 à Utrecht ; le quartier Bottière-Chênaie à Nantes ; le port de Sydhavn à Copenhague ; le quartier de Seestadt à Bregenz.

Sprawl : a compact history
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ISBN: 0226076903 9780226076904 9786611959272 1281959278 0226076970 9780226076911 9780226076973 0226076911 9781281959270 6611959270 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside. Detractors call it sprawl and assert that it is economically inefficient, socially inequitable, environmentally irresponsible, and aesthetically ugly. Robert Bruegmann calls it a logical consequence of economic growth and the democratization of society, with benefits that urban planners have failed to recognize. In his incisive history of the expanded city, Bruegmann overturns every assumption we have about sprawl. Taking a long view of urban development, he demonstrates that sprawl is neither recent nor particularly American but as old as cities themselves, just as characteristic of ancient Rome and eighteenth-century Paris as it is of Atlanta or Los Angeles. Nor is sprawl the disaster claimed by many contemporary observers. Although sprawl, like any settlement pattern, has undoubtedly produced problems that must be addressed, it has also provided millions of people with the kinds of mobility, privacy, and choice that were once the exclusive prerogatives of the rich and powerful. The first major book to strip urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, Sprawl offers a completely new vision of the city and its growth. Bruegmann leads readers to the powerful conclusion that "in its immense complexity and constant change, the city-whether dense and concentrated at its core, looser and more sprawling in suburbia, or in the vast tracts of exurban penumbra that extend dozens, even hundreds, of miles-is the grandest and most marvelous work of mankind." "Largely missing from this debate [over sprawl] has been a sound and reasoned history of this pattern of living. With Robert Bruegmann's Sprawl: A Compact History, we now have one. What a pleasure it is: well-written, accessible and eager to challenge the current cant about sprawl."-Joel Kotkin, The Wall Street Journal "There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book."-Witold Rybczynski, Slate

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Cities and towns --- Land use. --- Urban policy. --- City planning. --- Metropolitan areas. --- Growth. --- 711.4 --- 711.121 --- 71.03 --- 711 --- 711.64 --- 504 --- Conurbations --- MAs (Metropolitan areas) --- Metropolitan statistical areas --- Urban areas --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Growth, Urban --- Sprawl, Urban --- Urban growth --- Urban sprawl --- Migration, Internal --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Stedenbouw --- Planloze ontwikkeling --- Sprawl --- Stedenbouw (geschiedenis) --- Ruimtelijke ordening --- Densiteit --- Verdichting --- Duurzaamheid --- Government policy --- Management --- Cities and towns. --- Social Science. --- Geografie --- Sociale geografie --- Bewoning en leefgemeenschap. --- Social geography --- Economic geography --- Metropolitan areas --- Growth --- geography, urban, sprawl, suburban, rural, city, place, office parks, resort, industrial, subdivisions, superhighways, planning, environment, aesthetics, development, rome, paris, los angeles, atlanta, settlement, privacy, mobility, growth, suburbia, land use, metropolitan, london, britain, history, nonfiction, architecture, wealth.

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