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Ecopolis
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Designing Disorder
Rethinking the open city Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed? Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking work The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. The need for the Open City, the alternative, is now more urgent that ever. In this provocative essay, Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the life of our cities. What the authors call 'infrastructures for disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide, remain open to change rather than rapidly stagnate. Designing Disorder is a radical and transformative manifesto for the future of twenty-first-century cities.
Preprints
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Sustainable Development for Engineers
It is crucial that engineers – from students to those already practising – have a deep understanding of the environmental threats facing the world, if they are to become part of the solution and not the problem. Is there a way to reconcile modern lifestyles with the compelling need for change? Could new improved technologies play a key role? If great leaps in the environmental efficiency of technologies are needed, can they be produced? Engineers are in a privileged and hugely influential position to innovate, design and build a sustainable future. But are they engaged or uninterested? Are they knowledgeable or ignorant? This book has been developed by a number of committed educators in ...
Arquitectura i sostenibilitat
Introducció. Sostenibilitat i tècnica. La sostenibilitat feble. La sostenibilitat forta. Sostenibilitat i arquitectura. L'ensenyament de la tecnologia arquitectònica. Crítica a la situació actual. La resposta necessària. L'arquitecte com a gestor de recursos. L'organització de la docència actual: estratègies i continguts. El missatge ambiental subjacent. Els objectius docents per a una formació sostenibilista de l'arquitecte. Els cicles materials a l'arquitectura. Els residus domèstics. Els materials de construcció. La fusta. La terra. La pedra. Els fluxos energètics. Conclusions. Comentari bibliogràfic.
Repensar Canfranc
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Towards Green Campus Operations
Matters related to sustainable development, albeit global in nature, are best handled at the local level. This line of thinking is particularly true to the higher education context, where the design and implementation of sustainability initiatives on campuses can demonstrate how a given university translates the principles of sustainable development into practice, at the institutional level. Yet, there is a paucity of specific events where a dialogue among sustainability academics and practitioners concerned with a) research, projects b) teaching and c) planning and infra-structure leading to campus greening takes place, so as to allow a transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral exchange of ideas...
Desarrollo sostenible para ingenieros
Este libro ha sido desarrollado por un grupo de docentes comprometidos, pertenecientes a distintos departamentos académicos europeos de ingeniería, bajo la dirección de la Universidad Tecnológica de Delft y la UPC, con el propósito de reducir la distancia entre lo que los ingenieros saben y lo que deberían saber en relación con el desarrollo sostenible. Ya en 1998, la Universidad Tecnológica de Delft decidió que sus graduados tenían que estar preparados para el desafío del desarrollo sostenible, para poder desarrollar sus carreras de diseño, gestión o investigación. En este sentido, al salir de la universidad tenían que ser capaces de incorporar el concepto de desarrollo soste...
Architecture & Sustainable Development (vol.1)
This book of Proceedings presents the latest thinking and research in the rapidly evolving world of architecture and sustainable development through 255 selected papers by authors coming from over 60 countries.
