Cities Vocabularies The Influences And Formations

Author : Nabil Mohareb,Antonella Versaci,Yasser Mahgoub,Sreetheran Maruthaveeran,Francesco Alberti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030519612

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Cities’ Vocabularies: The Influences and Formations by Nabil Mohareb,Antonella Versaci,Yasser Mahgoub,Sreetheran Maruthaveeran,Francesco Alberti Pdf

This book discusses several topics regarding different vocabularies, such as sacred architecture, heritage buildings, open spaces, landmarks, and street escapes, all of which have a direct influence on the city form. The city form is also affected by the indirect impact of the citizens themselves, for example their culture, which in turn depends on the arts, as can be seen and embodied in morals, paintings, media, digital art, and sculpture. The book also examines the fundamental elements that are responsible for the identity of the city. Presenting case studies that demonstrate the how implementing the concept of the responsibility of architecture and arts affects the development of our cities, the book offers a new approach that is based on the available features of a city and explores how planners and decision-makers can use these features to address the myriad problems that our cities are facing.

Author : Nabil Mohareb,Antonella Versaci,Yasser Mahgoub,Sreetheran Maruthaveeran,Francesco Alberti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030519627

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Cities' Vocabularies: The Influences and Formations by Nabil Mohareb,Antonella Versaci,Yasser Mahgoub,Sreetheran Maruthaveeran,Francesco Alberti Pdf

This book discusses several topics regarding different vocabularies, such as sacred architecture, heritage buildings, open spaces, landmarks, and street escapes, all of which have a direct influence on the city form. The city form is also affected by the indirect impact of the citizens themselves, for example their culture, which in turn depends on the arts, as can be seen and embodied in morals, paintings, media, digital art, and sculpture. The book also examines the fundamental elements that are responsible for the identity of the city. Presenting case studies that demonstrate the how implementing the concept of the responsibility of architecture and arts affects the development of our cities, the book offers a new approach that is based on the available features of a city and explores how planners and decision-makers can use these features to address the myriad problems that our cities are facing.

Author : Mohd Fairuz Shahidan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031485176

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Urban Narratives: Exploring Identity, Heritage, and Sustainable Development in Cities by Mohd Fairuz Shahidan Pdf

Author : Antonino Di Raimo,Steffen Lehmann,Alessandro Melis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000335750

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Informality through Sustainability by Antonino Di Raimo,Steffen Lehmann,Alessandro Melis Pdf

Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their local inhabitants. The book opposes simplistic calls to legalise informal settlements or to view them as ‘problems’ to be solved. It comes at a time when common notions of ‘informality’ are being increasingly challenged. In 25 chapters, the book presents contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners whose theoretical or practical work addresses informality and sustainability at various levels, from city planning and urban design to public space and architectural education. Whilst previous studies on informal settlements have mainly focused on cases in developing countries, approaching the topic through social, cultural and material dimensions, the book explores the concept across a range of contexts, including former Communist countries and those in the so-called Global North. Contributions also explore understandings of informality at various scalar levels – region, precinct, neighbourhood and individual building. Thus, this work helps reposition informality as a relational concept at various scales of urbanisation. This book will be of great benefit to planners, architects, researchers and policymakers interested in the interplay between informality and sustainability.

Author : González-Lezcano, Roberto Alonso
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781668469262

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Intersecting Health, Livability, and Human Behavior in Urban Environments by González-Lezcano, Roberto Alonso Pdf

The promotion of sustainable urban development and livable cities in the past three decades has effectively merged the themes of urban health, urban sustainability, and urban livability into an integrated research field. As more people are predicted to live in a relatively confined space, the balance between the physical/built environment, social environment, and urban dwellers becomes more delicate. Urban systems have evolved to be more complex than ever during this process. While complex systems often offer relative stability, delicate balance requires carefully designed plans and management to avoid collapse. It is, hence, of great interest and importance to know what future sustainable and livable cities look like. Intersecting Health, Livability, and Human Behavior in Urban Environments considers how to improve the quality of the environment and healthy living in contemporary and future urban environments. Covering key topics such as environmental health, smart cities, and urban health, this premier reference source is ideal for policymakers, government officials, scholars, researchers, academicians, instructors, and students.

Author : Stella Kostopoulou,Gricelda Herrera-Franco,Jacob Wood,Kheir Al-Kodmany
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031310270

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Cities’ Vocabularies and the Sustainable Development of the Silkroads by Stella Kostopoulou,Gricelda Herrera-Franco,Jacob Wood,Kheir Al-Kodmany Pdf

This book discusses how cities’ identities are formed and developed over time and portrays architecture and the arts as the embodiment of the historical, cultural, and economic characteristics of cities. Furthermore, it explores strategies and solutions to preserve the cultural heritage along the Silk Road, representing a compilation of research addressing the economic and social opportunities and challenges related to the development of a more sustainable and responsible approach to tourism development and the preservation of heritage. As such, it covers a wide range of audiences including economists, architects, planners, tourism experts, and decision-makers interested in making use of cities' available resources and features, offering strategies to explore development opportunities through sustainable and responsible tourism along the Silk Road. This book is a culmination of selected research papers from the first version of the International Conference on "Silk Road Sustainable Tourism Development and Cultural Heritage (SRSTDCH)" which was held in 2021 in collaboration with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the European Interdisciplinary Silk Road Tourism Centre, Greece and the 5th Edition of the International Conference on “Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA)” which was held in 2021 in collaboration with University of Pisa, Italy.

Author : Charlie Qiuli Xue,Guanghui Ding
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789811927867

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Exporting Chinese Architecture by Charlie Qiuli Xue,Guanghui Ding Pdf

This book studies the unexplored history of China-aided architecture erected in the developing world since the 1950s. By 2019, over 1,000 buildings had been delivered to more than 160 countries, including parliament houses, convention centers, stadiums, gymnasiums, theaters, schools, hospitals, libraries, railways, and stations. These projects, which have played a significant role in promoting economic transformation, cultural engagement and social and environmental well-being, have largely been overlooked or misunderstood by the international community. Why did China donate so many foreign-aid buildings? How were these buildings built in the remote land of developing countries with intricate influences and limited resources? Have they helped modernize the recipient countries? The authors of this book use a wide range of representative projects built in different historic periods and geographical locations as case studies to address the above questions from various perspectives. This book fills an enormous gap in modern architecture in China and the world. It offers architectural students and scholars in various disciplines the necessary knowledge on "diplomatic architecture"; informs architects the appropriate methods of cross-border design and low-tech building; teaches government officials the best practice of donating and receiving foreign-aid buildings; and enhances public awareness of cultural diversity in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America. With abundant first-hand materials, historical pictures, and drawings, the book is a must-read for those who are interested in modern architecture and developmental aid in the world. China’s architecture abroad, notably in Africa and Asia, has been perceived with both fascination and anxiety. Based on a wealth of sources often difficult to access for scholars from outside China, this book links the history and present of China’s architectural mobilities in ways that will stimulate new debates in architectural history and urban studies. - Łukasz Stanek, Professor of Architectural History, The University of Manchester, UK

Author : Christian Schmid,Monika Streule
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035623017

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Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison by Christian Schmid,Monika Streule Pdf

Cartography as an instrument for the analysis of urbanisation processes The speed, scale and scope of urbanisation have increased dramatically in recent decades. To decipher the rapidly changing urban territories across the planet, we need a radical shift in the analytical perspective on urbanisation. In this book, a transdisciplinary international research team presents an expanded vocabulary of urbanisation processes through a comparison of Tokyo, Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City and Los Angeles. Based on a novel cartography and on detailed ethnographic and historical explorations, this book systematically analyses the diversity of responses to urgent contemporary urban challenges. It proposes a series of new concepts that allow us to assess the practical consequences of different urban strategies in everyday life. Essential book on urbanism New evaluation models for urbanisation processes Comprehensive analyses and illustrations of the urban patterns of international metropolises Comparison of urbanisation processes in eight metropolises around the world

Author : Babak Rahimi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004209794

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Theater State and the Formation of Early Modern Public Sphere in Iran by Babak Rahimi Pdf

This first systematic study of a wide range of Persian and European archival and primary sources, analyzes how the Muharram rituals changed from being an orginally devotional practice to public events of political significance, setting the stage for the emergence of the early modern Iranian public sphere in the Safavid period.

Author : Zhongjie Lin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000926637

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Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement by Zhongjie Lin Pdf

Amid Japan’s political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzō Tange’s Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban expansion as organic processes and pushed city design to an unprecedented scale. Metabolists’ visionary schemes of the city gave birth to revolutionary design paradigms, which reinvented the discourse of modern Japanese architecture and propelled it through the years of Economic Miracle to a global prominence. Their utopian concepts, which often envisaged the sea and the sky as human habitats of the future, reflected fundamental issues of cultural transformation and addressed environmental crises of the postindustrial society. This new edition expands Zhongjie Lin’s pathbreaking account on Tange and Metabolism centered at the intersection of urbanism and utopianism. The thorough historical survey, from Metabolism’s inauguration at the 1960 World Design Conference to the apex of the movement at Expo ’70 and further to the recent demolition of Nakagin Capsule Tower, leads to a definition of three Metabolist urban paradigms – megastructure, group form, and ruins – which continue to inspire experiments in architecture, city design, and conservation. Kenzō Tange and the Metabolist Movement is a key book for architectural and urban historians, architects, and all those interested in avant-garde design, Japanese architecture, and contemporary urbanism.

Author : Ronald Wardhaugh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405150217

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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Ronald Wardhaugh Pdf

This fully revised textbook is a new edition of RonaldWardhaugh’s popular and accessible An Introduction toSociolinguistics. Provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction tosociolinguistics that reflects new developments in the field. Fully revised, with 130 new and updated references to bring thebook completely up-to-date. Includes suggested readings, discussion sections, andexercises. Features increased emphasis on issues of identity, solidarity,and power Discusses topics such as language dialects, pidgins andcreoles, codes, bilingualism, speech communities, variation, wordsand culture, ethnographies, solidarity and politeness, talk andaction, gender, disadvantage, and planning. Designed for introductory and post-introductory students, andideal for courses including introduction to sociolinguistics,aspects of sociolinguistics, and language and society.

Author : Saba George Shiber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000008288745

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The Kuwait Urbanization by Saba George Shiber Pdf

Author : Mark La Gory,John Pipkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005355131

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Urban Social Space by Mark La Gory,John Pipkin Pdf

Author : Attila Gyucha
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438472775

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Coming Together by Attila Gyucha Pdf

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms “urban” and “city” has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed. Based on the premise that similar social dynamics to a great extent governed nucleation trajectories throughout human history, Coming Together focuses on both prehistoric aggregated and early urban settlements. Drawing from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how nucleation unfolded in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The major themes of the volume are nucleation’s origins, pathways to sustainability, and the transformative role of these sites in sociopolitical and cultural change.

Author : Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317180401

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Anthropology in the City by Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato Pdf

With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology in the City brings together a leading team of anthropologists to address the complex methodological and theoretical challenges posed by field-research in urban settings, clearly identifying the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality both to mainstream academic debates and to society more broadly. With essays from experts on wide-ranging ethnographic research from fields as diverse as China, Europe, India, Latin and North America and South East Asia, this book demonstrates the contribution that empirically-based anthropological analysis can make to our understanding of our increasingly urban world.