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Book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles

Download or read book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles

Download or read book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles written by Luigi Mazza and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles

Download or read book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles written by Luigi Mazza and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles

Download or read book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles written by Luigi Mazza and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles

Download or read book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles written by Luigi Mazza and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles

Download or read book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rethinking the French City

Download or read book Rethinking the French City written by Monique Yaari and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the post-68 French city as a prism through which to understand the contemporary world and France's specificity within it. The reader is invited to join in a series of exploratory strolls through texts, buildings, and neighborhoods, and thereby share in a process of discovery. Zeroing in on international architectural debates, a range of key Parisian exhibitions, and major urban design decisions in Paris, Montpellier, and Lille, Yaari unravels an often-acerbic French critique of both modern and postmodern positions on culture, technology, and the city. This critique-stemming from the competing claims of national identity, the ethics of architecture and display, and an anthropologically informed revision of prevailing views on the city-has sparked in France a passionate search for a third path, which the author proposes to term apres-moderne. Breaking new ground in the field of French Studies through cultural analysis of the contemporary city, this study brings new insight to scholars and professionals in architecture and urbanism, and will interest all others for whom France and cities in general hold special appeal. Monique Yaari is a specialist of twentieth-century French literary and cultural studies. For the past decade, her research has focused on the contemporary city. The author of Ironie paradoxale et ironie poetique: sur les traces de Gide dans Paludes (Summa Publications, 1988) as well as numerous articles on contemporary French art and architecture, Professor Yaari teaches in the Culture and Civilization option of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

Book The Urban Condition

Download or read book The Urban Condition written by Ghent Urban Studies Team and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized? How can the urban self still be defined? What role does consumer aestheticism have to play in this? These and many more questions are addressed by this uniquely conceived multidisciplinary study. The Urban Condition seeks to interfere in current debates over the future and interpretation of our urban landscapes by reuniting studies of the city as a physical and material phenomenon and as a cultural and mental (arte)fact. The Ghent Urban Studies Team responsible for the writing and editing of this volume is directed by Kristiaan Versluys and Dirk De Meyer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. It is an interdisciplinary research team of young academics that further consists of Kristiaan Borret, Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs, and Bart Keunen. The collective expertise of GUST ranges from architectural theory, urban planning, and art history to philosophy, literary criticism and cultural theory.

Book World Cities Report 2020

    Book Details:
  • Author : United Nations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-30
  • ISBN : 9789211328721
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book World Cities Report 2020 written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rapidly urbanizing and globalized world, cities have been the epicentres of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The virus has spread to virtually all parts of the world; first, among globally connected cities, then through community transmission and from the city to the countryside. This report shows that the intrinsic value of sustainable urbanization can and should be harnessed for the wellbeing of all. It provides evidence and policy analysis of the value of urbanization from an economic, social and environmental perspective. It also explores the role of innovation and technology, local governments, targeted investments and the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda in fostering the value of sustainable urbanization.

Book Urban Design Downtown

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  • Author : Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1998-10-19
  • ISBN : 0520209303
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Urban Design Downtown written by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-10-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's case studies of individual West Coast downtown projects capture the essence of late 20th-century urbanism with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions. The authors explore both the poetics of design and the politics and economics of development decisions. 98 photos. 26 line illustrations. 23 maps.

Book World cities and the future of the metropolis

Download or read book World cities and the future of the metropolis written by Eugenio Peggio and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development and Planning

Download or read book Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development and Planning written by Carlone, Guiseppe and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growth of the global population, the expansion of metropolitan areas has become an essential aspect of land development. With the need for more space to accommodate the growing population, discussion on the best methods of expansion has arisen. Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development and Planning is a critical scholarly resource that explores the expansion and extension of metropolitan areas following “orthogonal” development plans. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics, such as built environment, grid cities, and orthogonal urban matrix, this publication is geared towards engineers, city development planners, professionals, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the advantages of using orthogonal development plans for metropolitan expansion.

Book Bas van Fraassen   s Approach to Representation and Models in Science

Download or read book Bas van Fraassen s Approach to Representation and Models in Science written by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models in science. In this regard, it presents the philosophical coordinates of his approach and pays attention to his structural empiricism as a framework for his views on scientific representations and models. These are developed here through two new contributions made by van Fraassen. In addition, there are analyses of the relation between models and reality in his approach, where the complexity of this conception is considered in detail. Furthermore, there is an examination of scientific explanation and epistemic values judgments. This volume includes a wealth of bibliographical information on his philosophy and relevant philosophical issues. Bas van Fraassen is a key figure in contemporary philosophy of science, as the prestigious Hempel Award shows. His views on scientific representation offer new ideas on how it should be characterized, and his conception of models shows a novelty that goes beyond other empiricists’ approaches of recent times. Both aspects — the characterization of scientific representation and the conception of models in science — are part of a deliberate attempt to forge a “structural empiricism,” an alternative to structural realism based on an elaborated version of empiricism.

Book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles  Beyond the City  the Metropolis   Ausstellungskatalog 17  Trienale Mailand

Download or read book World Cities and the Future of the Metropoles Beyond the City the Metropolis Ausstellungskatalog 17 Trienale Mailand written by Georges Teyssot and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: