Libros de URBANISMO

MIND, MAPS AND INFOGRAPHICS

The book looks inside great graphic designers and mapmakers' notebooks such as Nicolas Felton, Joost Grootens, Paula Scher, Akkurat Studio and many others, showing ...

CONCURRENT URBANITIES. DESIGNING INFRAESTRUTURES OF INCLUSION

Design has been employed as an agent of social and political change, and a catalyst for spatial and urban transformations in cities across the ...

FUNDAMENTALS OF PLAN MAKING. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

Urban and regional planning programs aspire to prepare practitioners to write and implement plans, primarily at the local level of government. These programs are ...

CITY THAT NEVER WAS, THE. RECONSIDERING THE SPECULATIVE NATURE OF CONTEMPORARY URBANIZATION

The City That Never Was considers the increasingly speculative nature of contemporary urbanization by exploring the consequences of the massive building boom and bust ...

TERRITORIES IN CRISIS. ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM FACING CHANGES IN EUROPE

Europe's current crisis is also a crisis of the European city. The economic, social, and political insecurity has changed our perception of territories, institutions, ...

PERSPECTIVES IN METROPOLIS RESEARCH 1. SELF- INDUCED SHOCKS: MEGA- PROJECTS AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Perspectives in Metropolitan Research is a joint project of the HafenCity University Hamburg [HCU] and the foundation ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. The series's ...

PARTICIPATORY CITY, THE

Participation" has been a pivotal focus of urban studies since the 1960s. However, it is only over the last decade that new research aspects ...

DESIGNING PARKS. BERLIN'S PARK AM GLEISDREIECK OR THE ART OF CERATING LIVELY PLACES

How can one design urban parks not only as decorative elements and as the green lungs of a city, but in a way that ...

WHITE CITY. BLACK CITY. ARCHITETURE AND WAR IN TEL AVIV AND JAFFA

White City, Black City is a story of two intertwining narratives which reveals the hidden history of the region where now stands modern-day Tel ...

SMART CITIES: A SPATIALISED INTELLIGENCE - AD PRIMER

As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart Cities are employing ...

MASS-CUSTOMISED CITIES

What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited ...

CASABELLA Nº 855. ISOZAKI- MAFFEI, FALOCI, LE CORBUSIER, CHIPPERFIELD

CARTOGRAPHIC JAPAN. A HISTORY IN MAPS

Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are ...

SEQUEL TO SUBURBIA. GLIMPSES OF AMERICA'S POST- SUBURBAN FUTURE

In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban development emerged. The expansive rings of outer suburbs that formed around ...

EL MITO LEGAL DE LA CIUDAD COMPACTA

En los últimos treinta años, el mapa español ha sufrido en sus carnes un impresionante proceso de urbanización dispersa. Las densidades de población han ...

MEDELLIN. TOPOGRAPHY OF KNOWLEDGE

Taking a closer look at contemporary practices in the architecture and urban planning of Latin America, Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin explores the forms ...

L'ESPRIT DES VILLES T.2

La planète s'urbanise. Le rendez-vous annuel que veut être L'esprit des villes veillera à associer toutes les disciplines et indisciplines, tous les points de ...

TACTICAL URBANISM : SHORT-TERM ACTION FOR LONG-TERM CHANGE

Short-term, community-based projects - from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives - have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activists, planners, ...

DECRECER PARA CRECER. CAMINANDO HACIA EL DECRECIMIENTO

Qué le está pasando al sistema actual? ¿Qué es el Decrecimiento? ¿Cuáles son sus orígenes? ¿Qué relación establece con otros movimientos? ¿Que plantea? Estas ...

A LA LUZ DE HILBERSEIMER. LA GENESIS Y EL LEGADO DE THE NEW CITY

Plácido González Martínez es doctor arquitecto y urbanista, Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado de la Universidad de Sevilla en 2010. Profesor Asociado de Historia, Teoría ...