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"What are the best tools for assessing the quality of an urban space or landscape, in terms of social, physiological, aesthetic, and functional well-being? What features – spatial, material, or visual – can make some areas of a city welcoming, and perhaps even inspire a sense of belonging? And how do we define “landscape experience”? These are some of the questions behind Experimenting Proximity, an extensive compendium of the teaching and research experience conducted in EPFL (Construction and Conservation Laboratory) and ETHZ (Institute of Landscape Architecture) about visual representation. Authors present a new approach based upon video and experimental mapping, which deals with the notion of “physicality” and stands as the cornerstone for an improved correlation between built form, landscape and public space. All technical and theoretical aspects are developed in the book, as videos and maps can be examined in detail in the website www.experimentingproximity.net" Présentation de l'éditeur

Géographie urbaine --- Aménagement urbain --- Aménagement du territoire --- Paysage urbain --- Sociologie urbaine

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Durch das Aufeinandertreffen von Gesundheits- und Klimakrise ist ein Rückgriff auf bislang bewährte Forschungsansätze im Bereich des Wohnens nicht mehr zielführend. Wie prägen die geografischen und politischen Entwicklungen das heutige Wohnen?Lifelines ist eine Gemeinschaftsforschungsarbeit zu Räumen, in denen sich Lebensformen vermischen, durchdringen und verflechten – und zwar in ständigem Widerstand gegen die Mechanismen einer techno-kapitalistischen Gegenwart, die soziale und ökologische Unsicherheiten nicht nur abbilden, sondern auch erzeugen und nutzen. Die Autor*innen beleuchten die Herausforderungen, die sich dem heutigen Entwerfen stellen, und untersuchen die Rolle, die dem Entwerfen in prekären Räumen zukommt. Das Buch versammelt empirische Untersuchungen aus Italien, Ecuador, den USA, dem Libanon, Deutschland und Großbritannien. In the face of the radical convergence of a health crisis and an ecological crisis, it is not possible to return to the investigative trajectories on inhabitation and dwelling that yielded good results in the past. What is it that now defines inhabitation within the plurality of conditions, geographies, and politics that connote it? Lifelines is a work of collective research on the spaces where life intertwines, mingles, and twists in constant resistance to the mechanisms that capture, exploit, and create the social and environmental precariousness that characterizes the violent techno-capitalist present.The book investigates the roles and challenges of design in uncertain spaces and brings together empirical explorations from Italy, Ecuador, the US, Lebanon, Germany, and the UK.

Architecture and climate. --- Architecture and society. --- Dwellings --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Climate and architecture --- Climatology --- History. --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Climatic factors --- Influence of climate