Books about CITIES AND COUNTRIES

BRASILIA A UTOPIA COME TRUE UN UTOPIA REALIZZATA 1960-2010

II lavoro di autorevoli ricercatori italiani e brasiliani si interroga sui motivi che hanno portato alla decisione di una nuova capitale. Dal progetto al/a ...

TOPOGRAFIAS DEL PARAISO LA CONSTRUCCION DE LA CIUDAD DE MALAGA 1897

BRASILIA - CHANDIGARH. LIVING WITH MODERNITY

In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realisation of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the ...

HIPER ADRIATICA VENEZIA, ASCOLI, PESCARA

Una ricerca articolata sulle trasformazioni del sistema di città lineari lungo la costa adriatica da Pescara a Venezia, condotta dalle tre università e rivolta ...

MANHATTAN PROJECTS. THE RISE AND FALL OR URBAN RENEWAL IN COLD WAR NEW YORK

Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on ...

URBAN CHINA. WORK IN PROGESS. TIMEZONE Nº 8

Work In Progress is a multidisciplinary publication that brings together a number of China's most influential contemporary writers, photographers and critics to assess the ...

COLONIAL MODERN. AESTHETICS OF THE PAST REBELLION FOR THE FUTURE

Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future is a reader on the relationship between modernism and the project of modernisation in ...

EJE ELCHE-ALICANTE. TERRITORIO DE INNOVACION

Este libro recoge una síntesis del trabajo realizado por los alumnos de la signatura de 5º curso de ordenación Territorial y Metropolitana, que corresponde ...

MIAMI MODERN METROPOLIS. PARADISE AND PARADOX IN MEDCENTURY ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

The two decades that followed World War II were a period of extraordinary growth in Miami. During that time architectural modernism provided a framework ...

FIRENZE. IL ROGETTO URBANISTICO SCRITTI E CONTRIBUTI 1975- 2010

Il concitato susseguirsi di idee, proposte e progetti, di diverso spessore e qualità - alcuni di indubbio valore, ma comunque il più delle volte ...

7 ELEVEN CITY. POETRY, ARCHITECTURE, NEW COMMUNITIES

Taiwan has the highest density of convenient stores in the world, many of which belong to the American chain 7-Eleven. The phenomenon of these ...

ROTTERDAM. PORTRAIT DE VILLE

Malgré la relative petite taille de la deuxième ville des Pays-Bas, son aura et son dynamisme sont une réalité, non seulement du point de ...

COMPETITIVIDAD URBANA. UNA PERSPECTIVA GLOBAL Y PARA MEXICO

En esta obra se presentan 13 capítulos cuyo propósito genera consiste en ofrecer elementos conceptuales, metodológicos e instrumentales para el estudio de la competitividad ...

THE PLAN Nº 39 URBAN DEVELOPMENT. ABU DHABI / ASTANA / COPENHAGEN / MUNICH / BIRD'S EYE VIEW ON EUROPE

Interview with Rolf And Federica Fehlbaum Abu Dhabi. A new metropolitan city emerges from the desert Astana. Development of a new capital city Copenhagen. ...

SHAPING LONDON. THE PATTERNS AND FORMS THAT MAKE THE METROPOLIS

In this wholly new and dynamic view of London, Farrell looks beyond the contribution of individual buildings to the city. He creates a larger, ...

HISTORIA CIVIL, DIPLOMATICA, ECLESIASTICA, ANTIGUA Y MODERNA DE LA CIUDAD DE SAN SEBASTIAN

RE-CONSTRUCCION MATERIAL Y SIMBOLICA DEL ESPACIO URBANO. EL ALBAIZIN DE GRANADA PATRIMONIO DE LA HUMANID

ARQUITECTURA DE LA CIUDAD GLOBAL, LA

La arquitectura de la ciudad global entrelaza métodos de diferentes disciplinas -la crítica de arquitectura, la teoría urbana y las ciencias sociales- para proceder ...

HAUSSMANN LE GRAND

Son nom évoque la norme bourgeoise de l'appartement parisien prisé des agents immobiliers. Mais l'oeuvre d'Haussmann est outremer plus vaste. Durant dix-sept années d'un ...

NEW RHYTHMS OF THE CITY. MOULDING THE METROPOLIS IN AMSTERDAM

Everyday about as many visitors as commuters come into the city of Amsterdam. These visitors are an important part of the city’s population, changing ...