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Privileging Water in Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans
Privileging Water in Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans: An Environmental History charts the development of the indigenous hydro-social territories and their colonial transformations into “modern” political ecologies. This book begins with a summary of the environmental histories of these regions before the arrival of people. To give water its due as an agent of historical processes, it is important to understand its role in shaping these three distinct ecosystems – a role it still plays today despite thousands of years of human intervention in the hydrological nature of those systems. It is certain that, as human-caused climate changes rework ecosystems worldwide, surviving the Anthro...
The Petropolis of Tomorrow
In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial waters, inciting the construction of a series of cities along its coast and in the ocean. We could term these developments as Petropolises, or cities formed from resource extraction. The Petropolis of Tomorrow is a design and research project, originally undertaken at Rice University that examines the relationship between resource extraction and urban development in order to extract new templates for sustainable urbanism. Organized into three sections: Archipelago Urbanism, Harvesting Urbanism, and Logistical Urbanism, which consist of theoretical, technical, and photo articles as well as design proposals, The Petropolis of Tomorrow elucidates not only a vision for water-based urbanism of the floating frontier city, it also speculates on new methodologies for integrating infrastructure, landscape, urbanism and architecture within the larger spheres of economics, politics, and culture that implicate these disciplines. Contributions: Oriol Bohigas, Arnold Reijdorp and Casanova+Hernandez
Beyond the City
During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal pr...
Global Street Design Guide
The Global Street Design Guide is a timely resource that sets a global baseline for designing streets and public spaces and redefines the role of streets in a rapidly urbanizing world. The guide will broaden how to measure the success of urban streets to include: access, safety, mobility for all users, environmental quality, economic benefit, public health, and overall quality of life. The first-ever worldwide standards for designing city streets and prioritizing safety, pedestrians, transit, and sustainable mobility are presented in the guide. Participating experts from global cities have helped to develop the principles that organize the guide. The Global Street Design Guide builds off the successful tools and tactics defined in NACTO's Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide while addressing a variety of street typologies and design elements found in various contexts around the world.
Beyond the Supersquare
Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and urban design practices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. Drawing from the exuberant architectural projects of the 1940s to the 1960s, as well as from critically engaged artistic practices of the present day, the essays in this collection reveal how the heroic visions and utopian ideals popular in architectural discourse during the modernist era bore complicated leg...
Urbanismo ecológico en América Latina
"Urbanismo ecológico es una iniciativa de la Graduate School of Design de la Harvard University que entiende el proyecto como una síntesis capaz de conectar la ecología y el urbanismo. La iniciativa intenta poner de manifiesto métodos imaginativos y prácticos para abordar los cambios climáticos y la sostenibilidad en el entorno urbano, entendiendo la ecología como un proyecto ético y político que engloba el medio ambiente, no solo como realidad física, sino también desde las relaciones sociales y la subjetividad humana." En 2014 se publicó en castellano y portugués el primer volumen de Urbanismo ecológico, una compilación de los textos surgidos de esta línea de investigación...
Antípolis
La expresión Cinturón del Sol (Sunbelt) designa la franja de Estados Unidos comprendida entre el paralelo 37 y la frontera con México. En ella se ubican los catorce estados y las decenas de ciudades que protagonizan este libro: Los Ángeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, etc. Sin embargo, el Cinturón del Sol es algo más que un término geográfico: es un estilo de vida; un cóctel compuesto de conservadurismo político, ultraliberalismo económico, modos de vida suburbanos, alta movilidad, buen clima y ocio. En las dos últimas décadas numerosos teóricos han vuelto su mirada hacia esta zona, convencidos de que allí se está forjando el futuro de la ciudad estadounidense. Algunos, incluso, han ido más allá y aventuran ?la cuarta revolución urbana?, que daría paso a una nueva fase de la historia de la ciudad. *Las fotografías de Alex S. MacLean no están disponibles en la edición digital.
Ecological Urbanism
With the aim of projecting alternative and sustainable forms of urbanism, the book asks: What are the key principles of an ecological urbanism? How might they be organized? And what role might design and planning play in the process? While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. The premise of the book is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities. Ecological urbanism approaches the city without any one set of instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in sca...
Política y arquitectura
Casi diez años después de la primera edición de "Arquitectura y política" y tras su paso por la política institucional, los autores revisan en esta segunda parte los postulados clave de la arquitectura contemporánea —su responsabilidad respecto a la sociedad—, para adaptarlos a las nuevas maneras de hacer política, que incluyen el feminismo como componente principal. Para ello, realizan un recorrido histórico y temático sobre el papel social de los arquitectos y los urbanistas hasta la actual era de la globalización. A partir de cuestiones como la vida comunitaria, la participación, la igualdad de género o la sostenibilidad, el libro identifica y analiza las vulnerabilidades contemporáneas de la arquitectura.
