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Internet has changed our lives but it has not yet changed our cities. Any technological revolution takes paired radical transformations in the life styles. If the age of the car and the oil shaped the cities of the 20th century, the society of the information will form those of the 21st century. It is an unstoppable evolution that, nevertheless, it is necessary to be able to lead with criterion. It is a question of taking advantage of the urban experiences...
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La presente obra tiene como objetivo plantear, desde una perspectiva académica multidisciplinaria, los efectos y retos derivados del sismo del 19 de septiembre de 2017 en Ciudad de México, así como generar una agenda estratégica de recomendaciones que sean de utilidad tanto para las autoridades como para la ciudadanía. Para ello, nos hemos guiado a partir de los comendatarios y las recomendaciones planteadas por los 32 investigadores que participaron...
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Producto de la ejecución del proyecto de investigación "Actividad física y parques en Bucaramanga, caracterización y factores relacionados con su uso", se presenta este libro dirigido a la comunidad en general y en especial a la bumanguesa, con el fin de proporcionar información de calidad, actualizada y útil, en términos sencillos, que contribuya al conocimiento de los parques de la ciudad, su importancia dentro del ecosistema urbano y la...
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“The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia” (IAAC) calls its” 9th Advanced Architecture Contest” as a global reflection to rethink human settlements at a time when our natural environments and the human habitats are more clearly intertwined.
We look to the model of Biocities, cities that follow the principles of ecological principles in order to promote life and biodiversity, to provide us with potential design solutions. How can...
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En el estudio del hábitat humano como sistema son pertinentes todas las acciones humanas que se desarrollan en un territorio, pero sobre todo las relaciones que se producen. Por lo tanto, el hábitat es un mundo construido y artificial, compuesto por elementos que interactúan entre sí. El hábitat como sistema de relaciones está definido por una tríada conceptual básica: naturaleza-sociedad-habitante, cuyas relaciones determinan su estructura...
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The Atlas of rural protocols in the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas is structured along eight systems of organization: transport and infrastructure, land subdivision, agricultural production, water management, storage and maintenance, human habitation, animal management, land management. Each of these systems possesses a number of organizational types, material components, normative relationships, and spectra of performance, which become...
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This book's central argument is that plug-ins, situated design outcomes that aim to enrich the complex system of the city and expand its potentialities, are a solid yet supple conceptual framework for rethinking how design can be a key agent in city making.
This book showcases some of the projects developed by Elisava's Design for City Making Research Lab, a research institute that investigates the role of design in the material and social construction...
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The book uses the materials produced during the experience of 2-years of work with the students of the University of Genoa between courses and thesis, dealing with the theme of the relationship between city and nature.
The theme is increasingly important mini European cities where the urban transformations must be able to bring in nature, but it is also very interesting the relationship of new urban contexts those generated by new metropolitan areas...
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A visionary survey of urbanism from the Middle Ages to the late 1930s, with a new introduction by Thomas Fisher Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford-a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker-The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to rebuild the urban world on a sounder human foundation. First published in 1938, this radical investigation into the human...
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La Comunidad Afro descendiente del Consejo Comunitario de Chansara esta asentada en un Eco territorio en el municipio de Santa Bárbara de Iscuande Nariño. Hace parte de los asentantmeintos de Aldeas y Aldehuelas que se dan a borde de rio en el Pacifico Colombiano. Dentro de este contexto se hace una propuesta de diseñar un Hábitat Bioclimático, Sostenible y Sustentable : UNA ECOALDEA teniendo en cuenta la tradición, la cultura y el territorio...
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La renovación urbana constituye hoy en día un fenómeno mundial, vinculado a la lógica del capitalismo neoliberal y a políticas urbanas que enarbolan los mismos discursos y las mismas propuestas en ciudades que poco tienen en común. Las investigaciones que se presentan en este volumen buscan entender los cambios que ocurren actualmente en esa parte de la Ciudad de México donde el fenómeno de la renovación urbana se manifiesta de manera muy...
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The Resili(g)ence publication is part of the outputs produced within the European project KAAU, Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism, Erasmus + program, and consists of two volumes: the first Resili(g)ence Intelligent Cities / Resilient Landscapes offers reflections on the general framework and on the theme of resilience applied to intelligent cities and the landscape, while the second volume GOA Resili(g)ent City, analyzes the case study of Genoa.
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The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences.
These transformations pose complex design challenges and yet offer novel opportunities for the understanding and development of human-centered built environments.
Drawing from a 5-year design research collaboration between the REAL Lab at Harvard GSD and the University of Bergamo,...
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Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory charts the unique spatial realities of Canada's Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities. The region has undergone dramatic transformations in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, resources, and trade, among others. For most of the Arctic's modern history, architecture, infrastructure, and settlements have been the tools of colonialism. Today,...
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Supertight is an exploration of high-density urban life and reducing the footprint of cites through adaptations in design and behavior.
Tightness is a positive urban quality, examined through the observations of designers, with a focus on the cities of Asia.
The rapidly growing large cities of Asia are critical to understanding our future footprint. Asian cities provide insights into new ways of being densely urbanised. The by-product of this unprecedented...
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This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized around the theme, Re-Living the City. It highlights the contributions of dozens of international architects, designers and artists, and offers 12 probing, original essays.
The projects and essays of UABB 2015, Re-Living the City, criticize the status quo of architecture and urbanism, but they also...
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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia calls its 8th Advanced Architecture Contest titled "Design for Living," an opportunity for a global reflection to rethink human habitats where 126 proposals from all around the world help to shape our understanding of contemporary design and architecture.
This effort offers the opportunity for a global reflection to rethink human habitats, at a time when the fight for life and climate allows...
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Imminent Commons: Commoning Cities presents questions and answers concerning the current state and near future of cities of the world through the lens of public initiatives, projects, and urban narratives. Cities are searching for new possibilities that will help them survive and thrive within new systems of municipal governance. The strategies of cities with regard to rapid urbanization, scarcity of public resources, and privatization of commons...
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Houston Genetic City offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. The book speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate-from flooding to sea level rise to volatile storms-as well as new models for development in fast-urbanizing regions.
No city in the United States is a synonymous with unbridled growth...
80) Thermodynamic Interactions: An Exploration into Material, Physiological and Territorial Atmospheres
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An Exploration into Material, Physiological and Territorial Atmospheres. Energy and sustainability is a complex topic that needs to address simultaneously core disciplinary values and ideas that come from other fields of knowledge.
The interconnection between the environment and its climate, its built structures and the human body requires overlying architecture with other disciplines such as meteorology, thermodynamics or physiology to engage them...
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