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Marta Llorente lleva la mirada allí donde se desliza la luz "a partir de la experiencia de habitar el mundo, el paisaje, y en especial la arquitectura". Dice la autora: "he seguido el camino que recorre el trazo de la luz desde las fuentes más distantes hasta los espacios que habitamos. Escribirlo ha sido como ver brillar de nuevo la arquitectura: sentir el poder de la luz en construcciones del pasado y del presente que se han levantado bajo el...
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Architect and artist Roger Kemble has demonstrated his ideas of urban design with images from sixteen major Canadian cities-among others. He has walked, measured, and sketched their streets, squares and places, scanned their horizons, probed the relationships between structures, land and landscape with unprecedented energy. More significantly, he has reacted to the negative effect that all the busy business of urban development is having on our daily...
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Una propuesta colectiva para plantear un nuevo escenario donde poder transformar las ciudades y los territorios donde desarrollamos nuestras vidas. Una propuesta que crecerá con las aportaciones de diferentes expertos en urbanismo, ecología y medio ambiente para presentarnos otras maneras de vivir posibles. Con cada nueva actualización podrás descargarde manera gratuita las nuevas aportaciones de los autores a este texto en crecimiento.
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Ordenamiento local del territorio en el Magdalena Medio: Barrancabermeja y Vallecito relata la formación de sectores de origen informal, tanto de la periferia urbana de Barrancabermeja como de sectores rurales apartados, como, por ejemplo, el corregimiento de Vallecito (municipio de San Pablo, sur de Bolívar), por donde discurrió la diáspora del desplazamiento forzado por la violencia atroz que caracterizó particularmente a esta parte del territorio...
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Après des décennies d'absence, la vente de rue est finalement de retour dans plusieurs villes du Québec. Mais son rle ne se limite pas à nourrir le travailleur pressé ou le festivalier affamé. Comment donner une réelle utilité sociale à ce grand redéploiement commercial?
66) The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Construction of the Virginia Kendall Reserve, 1933 - 1939
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In the spring of 1933, the United States was in the midst of the worst economic calamity it had ever experienced. Newly inaugurated president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to approve funding allowing legions of out-of-work young men to find employment reclaiming and developing the nation's natural spaces. The Civilian Conservation Corps became a reality in April 1933 and forever changed the way the American people viewed their parks, rivers,...
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An incisive view of Toronto's development over the last fifty years.
In Toronto Reborn, Ken Greenberg describes the emerging contours of a new Toronto. Focusing on the period from 1970 to the present, Greenberg looks at how the work and decisions of citizens, NGOs, businesses, and governments have combined to refashion Toronto. Individually and collectively, their actions - renovating buildings and neighbourhoods, building startling new structures...
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Los pocos estudios que se han realizado sobre los inmigrantes judíos que llegaron a Bogotá durante la primera mitad del siglo XX han establecido que una gran mayoría de ellos siguió el mismo patrón al verse enfrentados a la necesidad de reconstruir su vida en la ciudad. Primero, fueron vendedores ambulantes que experimentaron un gran éxito gracias a la implementación de créditos flexibles dirigidos a los habitantes más pobres de la ciudad...
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Territorios Territorios colectivos propone pensar el proceso de formación del Estado en el Pacífico Colombiano a partir de una mirada etnográfica centrada en la cotidianidad de los actores que intervienen en las múltiples escalas de la acción estatal, tanto en la escala local, donde las comunidades negras se organizan según los parámetros que especifica la ley para poder titular colectivamente sus tierras, como en la escala "central", donde...
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Back to the Future explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy trends such as regional governance and the role of nonprofits. The purpose of this book is to provide students and professionals alike with a context for examining the beginnings of new urbanism, as well as to illustrate how this movement has become a nationwide trend in response to changing demographics and the real estate crisis. The book primarily...
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"Soules's excellent book makes sense of the capitalist forces we all feel but cannot always name... Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin arms architects and the general public with an essential understanding of how capitalism makes property. Required reading for those who think tomorrow can be different from today."— Jack Self, coeditor of Real Estates: Life Without Debt
In Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin,...
In Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin,...
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This publication presents the results of more than five consecutive years of focused research initiatives and designs from The University of Virginia School of Architecture towards the revitalization of New Delhi, India's water bodies.
In collaboration with the Delhi Jal Board, The University of Virginia's Yamuna River Project is an inter-disciplinary research program, proposing to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in Delhi and creating...
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The LA Forum Reader brings together three decades of discursive writings and publications on architecture, urbanism, and Los Angeles culled from the archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Published under thematic sections: Experiments, Detours, Hunches, and Santa Anas, with interludes dedicated to Art and Architecture, Downtown, and the long-running LA Forum Newsletter, the collected essays and interviews track an uneven...
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This dissertation is over 50 years old. Written painstakingly by hand at a time when there were no computers or the Internet, Carol Winteringham takes you through a thorough first-hand analysis of urban developments in north-western Leeds. She takes into consideration the housing, industry and shopping facilities, looking at their historical development from 1940 to 1961 as well as the future plans up to 1981.
75) At Extremes
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Bracket [at Extremes] includes critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipping points and test limit states. We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated on an...
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This book contains multiple short critiques, reflections and manifestos, affording each contributing architect and intellectual the time and space to imagine new social paradigms in China. Emerging from a tumultuous history of high culture and complex territorial conditions, there is nothing straightforward about the social development of China. The complexity of the social practices developed by architects and shapers of the built environment can...
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A wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development that are shaping China's urban future.
Superblocks are the basic unit of China's urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined 'Megablocks' then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential...
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This book is conceived as evidence supporting the qualities of dense, urban living, and as a hopeful antidote against sprawl. Necessity and investigation are prerequisites for the design of housing: Total Housing refers to the need to understand that social, environmental, and economic factors affect form, and that living space is a base for our increasingly complex and varied societies. This new survey into multi-family housing focuses on the responses...
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"Award-winning author, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America's most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism, and feminist art. Hailed for "the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with which she considers the things that define place" (The New York Times), Lippard now turns her keen eye to the politics of land use and art in an evolving New West. Working from...
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Fraser Island was listed as a World Heritage Area in 1992 for its outstanding natural heritage values. This program takes viewers on a trip to the World's largest sand island, with half the World's perched dune lakes and the planet's only rainforest growing on sand. The landscapes and ecosystems are shown, including the purest breed of dingoes seen in Australia. Reasons for the World Heritage listing and ways of protecting the natural wonders are...
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