Libros de URBANISMO

REGIONS IN TRANSITION. DESIGN & POLITICS Nº 5

With shifting roles among governments and a troubled financial market, Dutch spatial planning is being radically reconfigured, with more and more tasks being tackled ...

DUTCH NEW WORLDS

In the late 1980s, the Dutch planning and design elite went to unprecedented lengths to convince the public of their ideas. But the quest ...

CIUDADES REBELDES. DEL DERECHO DE LA CIUDAD A LA REVOLUCIÓN URBANA

Mucho antes de que se creara el movimiento 15-M u Occupy Wall Street, las ciudades del mundo moderno se habían convertido en focos de ...

PLANNING CHICAGO

Urban planning was born in Chicago, but today's city is not the product of Daniel Burnham or Mrs. O'Leary's cow. It's the Rust Belt ...

CIUDAD A LO LEJOS, LA

Aprehender el sentido siempre excesivo de la ciudad, seguir su actual disposición ilimitada; dicho de otro modo, recorrerla por medio de un contacto que ...

OF PLANTING AND PLANNING. THE MAKING OF BRITISH COLONIAL CITIES. 2ND EDITION

Of Planting and Planning explores how Britain used the formation of towns and cities as an instrument of colonial expansion and control throughout the ...

OVERDRIVE. L.A. CONSTRUCTS THE FUTURE 1940-1990

This is a fascinating and intelligently illustrated study of architectural innovation in Los Angeles. From 1940 to 1990, Los Angeles rapidly evolved into one ...

ARCADIAN AMERICA : THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL TRADITION

Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the ...

CITY SUBURBS. PLACING SUBURBIA IN A POST-SUBURBAN WORLD

The majority of the world's population is now urban, and for most this will mean a life lived in the suburbs. City Suburbs considers ...

RECUPERO DEI CENTRO STORICI. BRASILE E ITALIA, ESPERIENZE A CONFRONTO

METROPOLIS ARCHITECTURE AND SELECTED ESSAYS

In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967) redefined architecture's relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, ...

THE ENGLISH SEASIDE

There is a powerful sense of place at the seaside. You know what to expect. Fishing villages usually have a pier, boats, lobster pots, ...

UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY, THE

Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct ...

HUB'S METROPOLIS, THE. FROM RAILROAD SUBURBS TO SMART GROWTH

Boston's metropolitan landscape has been two hundred years in the making. From its proto-suburban village centers of 1800 to its far-flung, automobile-centric exurbs of ...

PLANNING ASIAN CITIES. RISKS AND RESILIENCE

In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region's most distinguished urbanists to explore ...

CIUDADES MEDIAS

En este libro se analizan los cambios en la estructura de las ciudades medias en contextos socioculturales diferenciados (Estados Unidos y Europa). En ellas ...

OPERACION CHAMARTIN. HISTORIA DE UNA REALIDAD VIRTUAL

En 1993 RENFE adjudicó, en un ominoso concurso público, 'el derecho de adquirir' un suelo que había sido expropiado para la construcción de la ...

JORGE YEREGUI

Las fotografías de Jorge Yeregui, ordenadas en diferentes series y propuestas estructuradas en forma de auténticos proyectos de investigación, reflejan perfectamente la transformación del ...

SEXO DE LA CIUDAD

MEMENTO PRÁCTICO URBANISMO 2013

El Memento Urbanismo 2013 es la obra más directa y eficaz de consulta que le ofrece al instante soluciones concretas sobre todas las materias ...