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Author : WORK Architecture Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : City planning
ISBN : OCLC:761271425
Compares 49 cities--some actually built, and others that never reached beyond the planning stages--in terms of total site area, total built area, total greenspacem, total water area, total population density, and other factors.
Author : Amale Andraos,Dan Wood
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580934992
This book surveys the projects that define WORKac (WORK Architecture Company) as one of the most progressive and playful architecture firms in practice today. WORKac: We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge traces fifteen years of collaboration between architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood. Structured as a conversation between the two partners, the book alternates between explorations of seminal projects and discussions framing a series of issues that are key to their work. The book follows the firm’s career over the course of three Five-Year Plans (Say Yes to Everything, Make No Medium-Sized Plans, Stuff the Envelope), examining the relationships between work and life, and the limits and opportunities of collaborative creativity and practice. WORKac has achieved international acclaim, winning design competitions in Russia, Gabon, and China, and in 2015 the practice was named the 2015 AIANY State Firm of the Year. Showcasing projects for MoMA PS1, Edible Schoolyards NYC, Anthropologie, Diane von Furstenberg, Creative Time, and many more, the book is a tasting menu of everything the practice embraces: never assuming what architecture “is” but always imagining together what it can become. From residential interiors to futuristic masterplans of ecological cities, WORKac samples the wide spectrum of their critical, witty, and dialogued work.
Author : Robert A. Beauregard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226535418
We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that this line of thinking is not only hyperbolic—it is too celebratory by half. For Beauregard, the city is a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions; indeed, he doesn’t necessarily hold that they need to be resolved, since they are generative of city life. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.
Author : Jason Corburn
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642831726
In cities around the world, planning and health experts are beginning to understand the role of social and environmental conditions that lead to trauma. By respecting the lived experience of those who were most impacted by harms, some cities have developed innovative solutions for urban trauma. In Cities for Life, public health expert Jason Corburn shares lessons from three of these cities: Richmond, California; Medellín, Colombia; and Nairobi, Kenya. Corburn draws from his work with citizens, activists, and decision-makers in these cities over a ten-year period, as individuals and communities worked to heal from trauma--including from gun violence, housing and food insecurity, poverty, and other harms. Cities for Life is about a new way forward with urban communities that rebuilds our social institutions, practices, and policies to be more focused on healing and health.
Author : Michigan. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CHI:56026581
Author : Mark Humphries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004422612
This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Commerce
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087740662
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Education
ISBN : UCAL:B4077846
Author : Sophia Psarra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351363327
The Production Sites of Architecture examines the intimate link between material sites and meaning. It explores questions such as: how do spatial configurations produce meaning? What are alternative modes of knowledge production? How do these change our understanding of architectural knowledge? Featuring essays from an international range of scholars, the book accepts that everything about the production of architecture has social significance. It focuses on two areas: firstly, relationships of spatial configuration, form, order and classification; secondly, the interaction of architecture and these notions with other areas of knowledge, such as literature, inscriptions, interpretations, and theories of classification, ordering and invention. Moving beyond perspectives which divide architecture into either an aesthetic or practical art, the authors show how buildings are informed by intersections between site and content, space and idea, thought and materiality, architecture and imagination. Presenting illustrated case studies of works by architects and artists including Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, OMA, Koen Deprez and John Soane, The Production Sites of Architecture makes a major contribution to our understanding of architectural theory.
Author : H.V. Savitch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317474562
This book is about urban terror - its meaning, its ramifications, and its impact on city life. Written by a well-known expert in the field, "Cities in a Time of Terror" draws on data from more than a thousand cities across the globe and traces the evolution of urban terrorism between 1968 and 2006. It explains what kinds of cities have become prime targets, why terrorism has become increasingly lethal, and how its inspiration has changed from secular to religious. The author describes urban terrorism as an attempt to use the city's own strength against itself, forcing it to implode, and delineates three basic logics of terrorist choices for targeting cities. The book also includes a discussion of local resilience - the city's capacity to bounce back from attack - and suggests how that can be sustained. Examples from New York, London, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Moscow, Paris, and Madrid illustrate the book's central themes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X030771143
Author : Saravanan Krishnan,Raghvendra Kumar,Valentina Emilia Balas
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780323954068
Green Blockchain Technology for Sustainable Smart Cities presents a detailed exploration of the adaptation and implementation of green blockchain technology for sustainable and eco-friendly smart city applications. This book covers all aspects of the topic and explores smart cities ecosystem applications of blockchain technology. Novel architectural and business blockchain use case solutions in smart city implementations are at the core of this book, which will be beneficial for all researchers, engineers, graduate students, smart city practitioners, and city administrators who are engaged in green blockchain and smart cities-related technologies. Covers a wide variety of topics Offers readers multiple perspectives from a variety of disciplines Written by an internationally diverse group of experts in their respective fields Includes a section on use cases as well as current challenges and future directions
Author : Jan Gehl
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597269841
For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast- growing cities of developing countries. A “Toolbox,” presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl’s work around the globe.
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OSU:32435063578843
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Michigan
ISBN : UOM:35112103839520
