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Book forA on the Urban Issue  1

Download or read book forA on the Urban Issue 1 written by Andrea Börner and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Für einen erweiterten Architekturbegriff Die erste Ausgabe des interdisziplinären Periodikums forA on the Urban untersucht die offene, vielschichtige, vernetzte, komplexe und entfesselte Natur urbaner Manifestationen. Anhand von elf Beiträgen von sechszehn internationalen Expert:innen aus den Bereichen Architektur, Kunst, Kritik und Aktivismus beleuchtet diese Ausgabe spezifische Gegebenheiten spannungsgeladener Räume – Friktionen – in verschiedenen Teilen der Welt. Beschrieben, besprochen, bezeichnet und gehört, werden alltägliche Frustrationen, manifeste Ungleichheiten sowie soziale und politische Konflikte untersucht. Gleichzeitig spiegeln diese Beziehungen die Entstehung von Pluralität und Koexistenz innerhalb und jenseits dessen wider, was unter einem erweiterten Architekturbegriff als das Urbane angesehen und verstanden werden kann. Erste Ausgabe des Periodikums forA on the Urban des Instituts für Architektur der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien Mit Beiträgen von Keller Easterling, Phineas Harper, Hira Nabi, Ou Ning und Xu Tiantian, Lola Sheppard und Mason White u. a. Innovative und aufwendige Gestaltung (Studio Lin)

Book Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World

Download or read book Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World written by Miko Flohr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the fi rst centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history. The contributions explore how these cities developed landscapes full of civic memory and ritual, saw commercial priorities transforming the urban environment, and began to expand signifi cantly beyond their wall circuits. These interrelated developments not only changed how cities looked and could be experienced, but they also affected the functioning of the urban community and together contributed to keeping increasingly complex urban communities socially cohesive. By focusing on the transformation of urban landscapes in the Late Republican and Imperial periods, the volume adds a new, explicitly historical angle to current debates about urban space in Roman studies. Confronting archaeological and historical approaches, the volume presents developments in Italy, Africa, Greece, and Asia Minor, thus significantly broadening the geographical scope of the discussion and offering novel theoretical perspectives alongside well- documented, thematic case studies. Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism or Roman history in the Late Republic and early Empire.

Book Urban Network Evolutions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rubina Raja
  • Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
  • Release : 2018-12-31
  • ISBN : 8771846387
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Urban Network Evolutions written by Rubina Raja and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millenia, urban networks have shaped the development of human societies. Today, new archaeological approaches are unveiling the evolution of these networks in unprecedented detail. Urban Networks Evolutions reviews the new approaches to urban evolution as archaeology endeavours to characterise both the scale and pace of historical events and processes. Issuing from the work of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence, the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), the book compares the archaeology of urbanism from medieval Northern Europe to the Ancient Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean World. The 40 contributors demonstrate how new techniques for refining archaeological dates, contexts, and the provenance ascribed to material culture, afford a new high-definition approach to the study of global and interregional dynamics. This opens up for far-reaching questions as to how and to what extent urban networks catalysed societal and environmental expansions and crises in the past.

Book The Power of Urban Water

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  • Author : Nicola Chiarenza
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 3110677067
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Power of Urban Water written by Nicola Chiarenza and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wasser ist eine globale Ressource für heutige Gesellschaften – Wasser war eine globale Ressource vormoderner Gesellschaften. Die manigfaltigen unterschiedlicher Wassersysteme für Prozesse der Urbanisierung und das urbane Leben in der Antike und dem Mittelalter ist bislang kaum erforscht. Die zahlreichen Beiträge dieses Bandes fragen nach der grundlegenden kulturellen Bedeutung von Wasser ( bzw. power of water) in der Stadt und Wasser für die Stadt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Symbolische, ästhetische oder kultische Aspekte werden ebenso thematisiert wie die Rolle von Wasser in Politik, Gesellschaft oder Wirtschaft und dem alltäglichen Handeln, aber auch in Stadtplanungsprozessen oder städtischen Teilräumen. Nicht zuletzt stellen die Gefahren von verschmutzten Wasser oder Überschwemmungen die städtische Gesellschaft vor Herausforderungen. Die Beiträge diesen Band lenken den Blick auf die komplexen und vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Wasser und Menschen. Das Sammelwerk präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung in Kiel 2018. Es wendet sich gleichermaßen an Leser aus den altertumskundlichen wie mediävistischen Fächern und darüberhinaus an alle Interessierten, die sich über die Vielfalt von Wassersystemen im Stadtraum der Antike und des Mittelalters informieren möchten.

Book Urban forests  a global perspective

    Book Details:
  • Author : Borelli, S., Conigliaro, M., Di Cagno, F.
  • Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
  • Release : 2023-10-16
  • ISBN : 9251382697
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Urban forests a global perspective written by Borelli, S., Conigliaro, M., Di Cagno, F. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban forestry is not a one-size-fits-all solution; each city and region, with its own unique set of challenges and opportunities, requires tailored strategies. In recognition of the diversity and distinctiveness of urban forestry issues and their potential for mitigating environmental and socioeconomic inequality across the globe, FAO has asked experts around the world to share their views on how urban forests and trees are perceived and managed in their respective geographical areas, bringing together a broad range of regional perspectives. The primary goal of this publication is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of urban forestry worldwide. By showcasing the regional perspectives, insights, experiences and case studies in urban and peri-urban forestry (UPF), we hope to inspire individuals, communities and policymakers to reimagine their relationships with urban green spaces.

Book ForA on the Urban

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald Bast
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9783950503661
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book ForA on the Urban written by Gerald Bast and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Violence and Insecurity

Download or read book Urban Violence and Insecurity written by Caroline O N Moser and published by IIED. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City and Environment

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  • Author : Boone
  • Publisher : Pearson Education India
  • Release : 2007-09
  • ISBN : 9788131711026
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book City and Environment written by Boone and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity

Download or read book Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique variety of approaches to all aspects of urban culture in the ancient world can be found in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity, a collection of 19 essays addressing ancient cities from an interdisciplinary perspective. As the title indicates, the volume considers both how ancient people lived in their cities as physical structures and how they thought with them as ideas and symbols. Essays in this volume deal with texts and sites from Spain to South India, but there is a particular focus on the archaeology and epigraphy of Roman-era Italy, civic identity in the Roman provinces, the Hebrew Bible and Early Christian literature, Vergil and other imperial Latin authors.

Book OECD Urban Studies National Urban Policy Review of Colombia

Download or read book OECD Urban Studies National Urban Policy Review of Colombia written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This OECD National Urban Policy Review of Colombia provides a comprehensive assessment of the country’s national urban policy ‘the System of Cities’ and of different sectoral policies that affect urban life: transport, housing, land use, and digitalisation. Colombia has entered the 2020s facing five intertwined crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, rising levels of poverty and inequality, a wave of mass international migration, the peace process consolidation, and the climate emergency.

Book Debating Governance

Download or read book Debating Governance written by Jon Pierre and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars in the field of governance examine the effectiveness of the different non-institutional strategies at the disposal of modern governments in tackling issues of urban decline, public administrations, governmental regionalization, budget deficits and global economics. The governance approach to political science yields a new perspective on the role of the state, domestically as well as in the international arena. Globalization, internationalization, and the growing influence of networks in domestic politics means that the notions of state strength and the role of the state in society must re-examined.

Book Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities

Download or read book Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities written by Rashmi Dyal-Chand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a theory of collaborative capitalism that produces economic stability for businesses and workers in American urban cores.

Book Written Space in the Latin West  200 BC to AD 300

Download or read book Written Space in the Latin West 200 BC to AD 300 written by Gareth Sears and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the creation of 'written spaces' through the accretion of monumental inscriptions and non-official graffiti in the Latin-speaking West between c.200 BC and AD 300. The shift to an epigraphic culture demonstrates new mentalities regarding the use of language, the relationship between local elites and the population, and between local elites and the imperial power. The creation of both official and non-official inscriptions is one of the most recognisable facets of the Roman city. The chapters of this book consider why urban populations created these written spaces and how these spaces in turn affected those urban civilisations. They also examine how these inscriptions interacted to create written spaces that could inculcate a sense of 'Roman-ness' into urban populations whilst also acting as a means of differentiating communities from each other. The volume includes new approaches to the study of political entities, social institutions, graffiti and painting, and the differing trajectories of written spaces in the cities of Roman Africa, Italy, Spain and Gaul.

Book Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples

Download or read book Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples written by Mantha Zarmakoupi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores Roman luxury villa lifestyle and architecture to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Through an analysis of five villas from around the bay of Naples, it shows how the Romans developed a sophisticated interplay between architecture and landscape.

Book Cities welcoming refugees and migrants

Download or read book Cities welcoming refugees and migrants written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire

Download or read book Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire written by Ricardo González-Villaescusa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West. With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This book provides a basic introduction to Roman cities, not through the lens of architecture and urbanism, but from a social, legal, cultural, spatial, and functional perspective. It focuses on the Roman civitas – the city and its territory – as the spatial model par excellence of Roman colonialism and expansion. Exploring primarily the cities and territories of the Western Empire, such as the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, and Britain, González-Villaescusa revives from their ruins those central places that facilitated the circulation of people, goods, and information, forming the large urban network of a unified imperial territory. Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire: 4th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD is suitable for school and university students, as well as the general reader interested in the subject of Roman cities in the Western Empire.

Book Encyclopedia of Urban Studies

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Urban Studies written by Ray Hutchison and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia about various topics relating to urban studies.