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Masterplanning for Change
Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated in to practice. This book presents a practical approach to masterplanning the city and its areas (existing and new) as urban environments for the 21st century, addressing the design of cities as complex adaptive systems.
Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies
This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, developed over more than three decades. At the core of the discussion are the efforts, processes, and outcomes of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA). The AKAA recognises excellence in architectural and urban interventions within cities and settlements in the Islamic world which are continuously challenged by dramatic changes in economies, societies, political systems, decision-making, and environmental requirements. Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies responds to the recurring question about the need for architectural awar...
The Affective Agency of Public Space
The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within various settings, including Europe and the United States. This scholarly work underscores the critical importance of developing inclusive public zones that enhance urban life and promote integration and interaction among diverse community groups. It also confronts and debunks common myths about ‘different people,’ actively addressing misconceptions while promoting the recognition of diverse identities and voices. Through a comparative lens, the book presents insightful case studies that illustrate its core themes. Serving as a timely and important academic resource, this text is indispensable for urban planners, educators, architects, designers, and sociologists committed to progressive urban planning methodologies.
Everyday Streets
Everyday streets are both the most used and most undervalued of cities’ public spaces. They are places of social aggregation, bringing together those belonging to different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities and nationalities. They comprise not just the familiar outdoor spaces that we use to move and interact but also urban blocks, interiors, depths and hinterlands, which are integral to their nature and contribute to their vitality. Everyday streets are physically and socially shaped by the lives of the people and things that inhabit them through a reciprocal dance with multiple overlapping temporalities. The primary focus of this book is an inclusive approach to understanding and design...
Giornale di bordo. Forme dell’atto: etica, politica, psicanalisi
Sotto questo titolo complessivo saranno raccolti in singoli brevi volumi dei testi che derivino da confronti ed incontri su temi che riguardino in primo luogo l’atto, e quindi l’etica. L’atto, essendo libero, non ha una forma, ma la dà ai vari campi del sapere ed alle varie pratiche. Pubblicare questi scritti sarà perciò come tenere il giornale di bordo d’una navigazione in mari nonostante tutto ancora inesplorati. Perciò nel nostro tempo, sempre più determinato dai meccanismi dell’informazione, appare urgente ridare al sapere ed al pensiero un valore formativo, al di là delle varie competenze specialistiche (universitarie) e professionali. Raccogliamo qui gli interventi di alcuni filosofi e psicanalisti in due incontri di presentazione del libro di Ettore Perrella, "Dialogo sui tre principi della scienza. Perché una fondazione etica è necessaria all’epistemologia", svoltisi via Zoom il 14 gennaio e l’11 febbraio 2022.
Smart City in India
This book is a critical reflection on the Smart City Mission in India. Drawing on ethnographic data from across Indian cities, this volume assesses the transformative possibilities and limitations of the program. It examines the ten core infrastructural elements that make up a city, including water, electricity, waste, mobility, housing, environment, health, and education, and lays down the basic tenets of urban policy in India. The volume underlines the need to recognize liminal spaces and the plans to make the ‘smart city’ an inclusive one. The authors also look at maintaining a link between the older heritage of a city and the emerging urban space. This volume will be of great interest to planners, urbanists, and policymakers, as well as scholars and researchers of urban studies and planning, architecture, and sociology and social anthropology.
Order without Design
An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe their objectives is qualitative—“sustainable,” “livable,” “resilient”—often with no link to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, on the other hand, is a quantitative science, based on theories, models, and empirical evidence largely developed in academic settings. In this book, ...
Formes résilientes, urbanisme et métropole
La forme urbaine est l’héritage des choix et des politiques du passé, elle est la partie matérielle d’une culture urbaine, l’organisation dans l’espace d’une intelligence collective. À partir de l’exemple niçois, cet ouvrage étudie les potentiels ou les freins d’adaptation que contiennent ces formes urbaines et évalue leur capacité de résilience. Les cahiers POPSU rassemblent les connaissances produites au fil des travaux de recherche-action menés par la Plateforme d’observation des projets et stratégies urbaines (POPSU) dans le cadre du programme « Métropoles ».
Rethinking Masterplanning
Written in a clear and accessible matter, the approaches described throughout this book are relevant to all professionals and researchers involved in planning and designing the urban environment, such as urban planners, urbanists, urban designers, architects, policy makers, developers as well as local communities.
