Researching The Contemporary City

Author : Peter Kellett,Jaime Hernández-García,Mona Abdelwahab,Tamer Abdelfattah Ahmed,Antika Sawadsri,Musyimi Mbathi,Rittirong Chutapruttikorn,Mauricio Hernández-Bonilla,Brenda Galván-López,Muhammad Faqih,Agam Marsoyo
Publisher : Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789587166347

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Researching the Contemporary City. by Peter Kellett,Jaime Hernández-García,Mona Abdelwahab,Tamer Abdelfattah Ahmed,Antika Sawadsri,Musyimi Mbathi,Rittirong Chutapruttikorn,Mauricio Hernández-Bonilla,Brenda Galván-López,Muhammad Faqih,Agam Marsoyo Pdf

The city is perhaps the most complex of all human constructs. In the 21st century when cities are bigger than ever, and the majority of the world’s population now live in urban areas, the need for research into this complexity to address the large scale challenges of urban life has never been greater. This collection of research studies from different parts of the world, brings together case studies, underpinned by theory, to contribute to the urgent search to make our cities more just, more livable, more accessible, more participatory and more democratic: in short, more humane places to live and work. These cross-cutting themes of social inclusion, spatial integration and poverty alleviation are the ever present motifs and motivations throughout this volume. The eleven chapters are grouped into four interrelated sections: the creation and representation of the urban; the production and transformation of the informal; the construction and appropriation of public spaces; and finally, the transformation, use and meaning of home. Collectively the essays engage with the city at a range of scales, but underpinning all of them is a concern for the everyday realities of ordinary people’s lives. These detailed and fine-grain analyses of complex processes are a modest contribution towards the creation of cities which are not simply more economically viable and environmentally sustainable, but also embody the ideals of social justice.

Author : Paola Pucci,Matteo Colleoni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319225784

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Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities by Paola Pucci,Matteo Colleoni Pdf

This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context. At the same time, it investigates the challenges arising from the interpretation of mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon both in the social sciences and in urban studies. Leading sociologists, economists, urban planners and architects address the ways in which spatial mobilities contribute to producing diversified uses of the city and describe forms and rhythms of different life practices, including unexpected uses and conflicts. The individual sections of the book focus on the role of mobility in transforming contemporary cities; the consequences of interpreting mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon for urban projects and policies; the conflicts and inequalities generated by the co-presence of different populations due to mobility and by the interests gathered around major mobility projects; and the use of new data and mapping of mobilities to enhance comprehension of cities. The theoretical discussion is complemented by references to practical experiences, helping readers gain a broader understanding of mobilities in relation to the capacity to analyze, plan and design contemporary cities.

Author : Alessia Allegri,Angélica Benatti Alvim,Eunice Helena Abascal,Joaquin Sabaté,João Pedro Costa,Maria Cristina Schicchi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000464139

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Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories by Alessia Allegri,Angélica Benatti Alvim,Eunice Helena Abascal,Joaquin Sabaté,João Pedro Costa,Maria Cristina Schicchi Pdf

Maybe the Global Village metaphor has never been more accurate than it is today, where societies join forces in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic, in a global coordinated effort, possibly never tested before in the known history of Humankind. Although we are sure that in the past some other shared demands have united the different peoples of the world, this has never been so strongly necessary, mainly in what the global scientific community is concerned. This is a fight for the survival of a society. However, we should not lose sight of what we are fighting for. We fight together for people. Not just for the abstract value of Human life, but for life in society as a whole, including its moral and ethical aspects. The topics of this book are based on this claim, on what makes it possible. We do not build our lives in a vacuum, or in distant Invisible Cities, but through a higher value, which represents physical life in society: the City, built by the discipline of Urbanism. This book is a spin-off of the International Research Seminar on Urbanism_SIIU2020. Inspired by the contents of twelve research seminars, a group of researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Lisbon and São Paulo discuss the contemporary agenda of research in Urbanism. Following the conference, a selection of 35 original double-blind peer-reviewed research papers were brought together with different perspectives about such an agenda.

Author : Uta Staiger,Henriette Steiner,Andrew Webber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230246959

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Memory Culture and the Contemporary City by Uta Staiger,Henriette Steiner,Andrew Webber Pdf

These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York.

Author : Geert Bekaert,Xaveer de Geyter Architecten
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055847043

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Xaveer De Geyter Architects by Geert Bekaert,Xaveer de Geyter Architecten Pdf

Increasing urban sprawl throughout Western Europe is giving rise to more and more areas characterized by a diffuse urbanization or urban network. In After Sprawl, the Brussels-based firm of Xaveer de Geyter Architects examines this phenomenon by focusing on six such areas: London, England; Randstad, Holland; Brussels-Antwerp-Ghent, Belgium; the Ruhr area, Germany; Zurich-Basle, Switzerland; and the Veneto region, Italy. Their research distills a method for analysing the spatial hallmarks of today's city, replacing old urban strategies with new methodologies appropriate to the new questions being raised by these new types of cities. With a modest batch of projects to their name, Xaveer de Geyter Architects have amassed an international reputation for unpretentious architecture and urban design born of a discerning and radical strategy. De Geyter himself is noted for his longterm practice with OMA, the office of Rem Koolhaas.

Author : Lena Mattheis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030666873

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Translocality in Contemporary City Novels by Lena Mattheis Pdf

Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two novels—by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo—set in a total of ninety-seven cities. Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the world narratable and turn them into relatable stories: simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches, and techniques from a variety of research fields—including narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces, and postcolonial perspectives—Mattheis develops a set of cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.

Author : Nicolas Whybrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137120069

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Performance and the Contemporary City by Nicolas Whybrow Pdf

Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology, visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus, however, is performance. Underscoring the importance of the field, it shows how performance functions as a dynamic, interdisciplinary mechanism which is central not only to understanding the multiplicity of urban living but also to the way the identities of cities are shaped. Gathering together key writings on the city and performance by authors ranging from Walter Benjamin to Tim Etchells to Carl Lavery, the reader can be navigated in any number of ways. Supported by extensive introductory material, it will be essential and evocative reading for anyone interested in making connections between performance and urban life.

Author : S. Nombuso Dlamini,Angela Stienen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429785399

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Spatialized Injustice in the Contemporary City by S. Nombuso Dlamini,Angela Stienen Pdf

This volume documents research illustrating public dissents and interventions to injustice in modern-day cities. Authors present everyday occurrences of city life and place making; still, they show how the ordinary city grows from historical dimensions of injustice, violence and fear. Yet, ordinary citizens continue to make the city their own, to contribute to the creation of city structures and to contest those practices of spatial demarcation, which limit rather than uplift their everyday social livelihood. Chapters show how marginalized populations, from racial, to gendered, to the working poor, are part of the apparatus that makes the city function. However, their contributions to city arrangement and endurance are perpetually at the margins, and city spaces continue to be designed in ways that ignore and negate the existence of those who protest inequity. Novel to the volume are chapters that document and illustrate contestations of city spaces through artistic representation. Public spaces like schools, art galleries and museums are presented as central to projects of inhabiting, remembering and reimagining (in) the just city. Still, ordinary city spaces, like the public washroom, illustrate issues of gender inequity, spatial bias and other art-based protests. City dwellers interested in learning about ‘the making’ of the city; and those interested in the city as a space of possibilities – and the good life, will benefit from this volume. Scholars of geography, space, art and social justice will marvel and simultaneously be appalled by the everyday minute, yet shocking descriptions of the complexity – and unfairly structured city spaces in which they dwell.

Author : Giorgio Verdiani,Per Cornell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326112080

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ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY CITY PLANNING - Proceedings of the workshop by Giorgio Verdiani,Per Cornell Pdf

Author : Teresa-M. Sala,Mariona Bruzzo
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788491682769

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I-Media-Cities. Innovative e-Environment for Research on Cities and the Media by Teresa-M. Sala,Mariona Bruzzo Pdf

I-Media-Cities. Innovative e-Environment for Research on Cities and the Media presents the results of an innovative project undertaken by the film archives of Athens, Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Turin and Vienna, in conjunction with several leading research centres and technological innovators. Together they have developed a digital platform for viewing a wide range of images and motion pictures. More than 1,000 films dating from 1890 to 1989 have been incorporated in the platform, expressly selected to give the project coherence and meaning. Each city is represented both singularly and generally, revealing similarities and differences between them. The producers, actors, directors, places, people, and historical, social and political events are listed to facilitate analysis in areas such as sociology, urban anthropology, town planning, and architectural history, among others. The objective is to propose a new way of disseminating film collections, bringing them to a wider public, and stimulating research into cities in the fields of the humanities.

Author : Isabella M. Lami
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030355500

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Abandoned Buildings in Contemporary Cities: Smart Conditions for Actions by Isabella M. Lami Pdf

Is it possible to energise the reuse of urban abandoned spaces with low financial capital investment? Addressing this question requires a normative and cultural change, where the rules are less focused on the material processes of producing space and more aimed at fostering the construction of relationships. The reality of several European cities shows how traditional forms of stimulating urban renewal – with respect to the financing of operations, how to design and build, and urban planning legislation – no longer work. This book examines an alternative culture of design and regulation, drawing on the richness of the various approaches to the subject to present an integrated study of the phenomenon of reuse across its economic, architectural and urban dimensions. From this theoretical base, it empirically analyses six Italian case studies in terms of the broadness of geography and in their governance models, and of the important role of the unity of cultural destination for their reuse proposal. The book is intended for all those involved in the cultural challenge of reusing urban abandoned spaces, including public administrators, entrepreneurs, architects, planners and academics.

Author : Manuel Jorge Rodrigues Couceiro da Costa,Filipa Roseta,Susana Couceiro da Costa,Joana Pestana Lages
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351652650

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Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges Volume 2 by Manuel Jorge Rodrigues Couceiro da Costa,Filipa Roseta,Susana Couceiro da Costa,Joana Pestana Lages Pdf

The EAAE/ARCC International Conference, held under the aegis of the EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) and of the ARCC (Architectural Research Centers Consortium), is a conference organized every other year, in collaboration with one of the member schools / universities of those associations, alternatively in North America or in Europe. The EAAE/ARCC Conferences began at the North Carolina State University College of Design, Raleigh with a conference on Research in Design Education (1998); followed by conferences in Paris (2000), Montreal (2002), Dublin (2004), Philadelphia (2006), Copenhagen (2008), Washington (2010), Milan (2012) and Honolulu (2014). The conference discussions focus on research experiences in the field of architecture and architectural education, providing a critical forum for the dissemination and engagement of current ideas from around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Urban Research Methods: Central Place, Hierarchical and City Size Models -- Volume 5. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Sauda,Ginette Wessel,Alireza Karduni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Information technology
ISBN : 0367902508

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Social Media and the Contemporary City by Eric Sauda,Ginette Wessel,Alireza Karduni Pdf

Social Media in the Contemporary City focuses on the effects of social media on local communities and urban space in a variety of political and economic settings related to social activism, informal economic activity, public art, and global extremism.

Author : Mike Hodson,Simon Marvin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135114183

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After Sustainable Cities? by Mike Hodson,Simon Marvin Pdf

A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Central to this vision are two ideas: cities should meet social needs, especially of the poor, and not exceed the ability of the global environment to meet needs. After Sustainable Cities critically reviews what has happened to these priorities and asks whether these social commitments have been abandoned in a period of austerity governance and climate change and replaced by a darker and unfair city. This book provides the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the new eco-logics reshaping conventional sustainable cities discourse and environmental priorities of cities in both the global north and south. The dominant discourse on sustainable cities, with a commitment to intergenerational equity, social justice and global responsibility, has come under increasing pressure. Under conditions of global ecological change, international financial and economic crisis and austerity governance new eco-logics are entering the urban sustainability lexicon – climate change, green growth, smart growth, resilience and vulnerability, ecological security. This book explores how these new eco-logics reshape our understanding of equity, justice and global responsibility, and how these more technologically and economically driven themes resonate and dissonate with conventional sustainable cities discourse. This book provides a warning that a more technologically driven and narrowly constructed economic agenda is driving ecological policy and weakening previous commitment to social justice and equity. After Sustainable Cities brings together leading researchers to provide a critical examination of these new logics and identity what sort of city is now emerging, as well as consider the longer-term implication on sustainable cities research and policy.