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After the project
It is often argued that the future city will be that one built on the already urbanized territory. This statement asks for a new approach to Urban Planning, more attentive to regenerating existing urban fabrics than extending them. Within this context, Mass Housing Estates and their renovation become an issue of great relevance. Being one of the 20th century's genuine forms of urban growth, their accelerated and very explicit obsolescence demands profound reflection on strategies and interventions. This book shows some descriptions, thoughts and tentative designs on this particular urban form. Opened to an international scope, most of the presented materials and writings are referred to Barc...
The Boulevard Book
A celebration of the multiway boulevard and an argument for its revival, with design guidelines and historic examples. First built in Europe and grandly imported to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, the classic multiway boulevard has been in decline for many years, victim of a narrowly focused approach to street design that views unencumbered vehicular traffic flow as the highest priority. The American preoccupation with destination and speed has made multiway boulevards increasingly rare as artifacts of the urban landscape. This book reintroduces the boulevard, tree-lined and with separate realms for through traffic and for slow-paced vehicular-pedestrian movement, as an impo...
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Urbaner Wandel und Öffentlichkeit
Madrid und Barcelona, die beiden größten Städte Spaniens, erlebten seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts infolge massiver Landfluchtbewegungen ein starkes Wachstum. Dieser Prozess beschleunigte sich in der Zeit der Franco-Diktatur aufgrund intensiver Förderung des Industriesektors durch das Regime. Im Zuge dieser Entwicklung entstanden neue städtische Peripherien, an denen sich der gesamtgesellschaftliche Wandel von einer agrarischen in eine urbane Gesellschaft manifestierte. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmals umfassend die Entwicklungsprozesse an den Peripherien beider Metropolen von den 1950er Jahren bis in die 1970er Jahre. Mit einem komparativen Ansatz untersucht Anna Pelka das Zus...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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