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The modern metropolis : its origins, growth, characteristics, and planning : selected essays
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ISBN: 0262520281 026202022X Year: 1972 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): MIT press


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Megacities : exploring a sustainable future.
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ISBN: 9789064507410 Year: 2010 Publisher: Rotterdam 010

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Urbanization has evolved dramatically from monocentric settlements to polycentric networks and megacities of previously inconceivable size and population. This escalation of quantities and scales has ignited a deep and growing fascination for the phenomenon of megacities. The book’s point of departure is to define megacities and understand their processes and systems of organization. From this discussion it aims to glean lessons for researchers, practitioners, politicians and the general public. The Megacities Foundation, which initiated this discussion and book, has set a benchmark in the architectural profession, and has actively encouraged debate on megacities for the last fifteen years by inviting leading international academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, economics, geography, sociology and urban planning. This book offers a compilation of the best lectures about the definition, evolution, governance and design guidelines of megacities. In addition, it incorporates reflections on what megacities could mean in the Dutch planning context. Megacities is a body of knowledge for comprehending the essence of urban growth and exploring a sustainable future.


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Intersections and ambiguity : urban infrastructural figures of the European Metropolis
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ISBN: 9788899854737 8899854734 Year: 2018 Publisher: [Trento] LISt Lab

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Contemporary large scale interventions, leading ongoing transformation processes of world cities, are often related to mobility systems. Developed around the re-conversion or the implementation of infrastructural nodes, they deeply impact surrounding areas within a more general rethinking of urban conditions. However, the relation between urbanity and infrastructure appears at least ambiguous. On the one hand mobility flows represent key components and engines for transformations, on the other hand their physical presence progressively disappears from the urban scene itself, subtly declaring a figurative irreconcilability between the two. Starting from this observation the book, as a contribution for the architectural and urban discourse, reflects on the status of a conflicting relation, with a specific focus on the 20th century, retracing paradigmatic design positions to outline in which ways these hidden infrastructures are actually reshaping the contemporary city scape and which are the opportunities in the architectural research.

Shaping the city : studies in history, theory and urban design
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ISBN: 0415261880 0415261899 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Routledge

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This unique text looks at the history of the city by focusing on a series of critical issues in urban design that are exemplified by cities like Paris, London, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Chicago at particular times in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each author provides a case study highlightning partiular issues of design characteristic to that city. Eleven cities are examined and chapters on the asian city, the new urbanism, the cybercity and utopia are also included. The panel of authors, each an acknowledged specialist in their chosen city, have provided a unique critique that will attract the attention of anyone with an interest in cultural geography and urban anthropology as well as students of architecture, urban design and planning.


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Los Angeles.
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ISBN: 2916183000 9782916183008 Year: 2005 Volume: 45 (supplément) Publisher: Paris Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine / IFA

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Ce sont sans doute ses contradictions qui rendent fascinante Los Angeles, l'anti-ville qui est pourtant la deuxième ville des États-Unis. Il n'est que de voir la pléiade d'auteurs qui en ont fait la toile de fond de leur roman ou de leur film. Ses défauts majeurs - le paroxysme de l'étalement urbain, une ville-banlieue impraticable sans voiture - portent paradoxalement une part statistique de rêve : celui de la maison individuelle ; celui aussi des strass et paillettes de l'univers hollywoodien...Quand on évoque le paysage de Los Angeles, une plaine côtière entre mer et montagnes (jusqu'à plus de 3000 m), gigantesque oasis suburbaine dans le désert californien, surgissent de multiples clichés : le soleil sur l'océan Pacifique et les grandes plages de sable fin où s'ébrouent les pulpeuses coast-guards en maillot rouge des séries américaines ; les autoroutes urbaines avec leurs échangeurs qui sillonnent les quelque 100 km d'étendue de l'agglomération ; les nappes de lotissements pavillonnaires noyés dans une végétation plus ou moins dense s'étendant à l'infini au fil de tracés viaires en damiers ; l'émergence des tours de Downtown qui, à l'échelle métropolitaine, a plutôt valeur de monument que de centre-ville, ou celle de plusieurs vagues de collines entre montagne et mer.Autre paradoxe, si l'on s'intéresse plus spécialement à l'architecture : Los Angeles est à la fois un océan de banalité - celle de l'habitation ordinaire, des centres commerciaux standards et des stations-service - et un musée d'architecture de plein air où plusieurs générations de grands architectes modernes et contemporains ont laissé leur signature, notamment pour des maisons particulières, comme Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf Schindler et Richard Neutra, puis Charles Eames, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Craig Ellwood et Cesar Pelli, ou plus récemment Charles Moore, Frank Gehry, ou Morphosis.. Extrait du site http://www.archi.fr/IFA-CHAILLOT/index.php?g=571 (11/1/06)

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