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Joan Busquets
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Urban Grids
Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design' is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingliang Yang at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The research that is the foundation for this publication emphasizes the value of open forms for city design, a publication that specifically insists that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. 'Urban Grids' analyzes cities and urban projects that utilize the grid as the main structural device for allowing rational development, and goes further to propose speculative design projects capable of suggesting new urban paradigms drawn from the grid as a design tool. Consisting of six major parts, it is divided into the following topics: 1) the atlas of grid cities, 2) grid projects through history, 3) the 20th-century dilemma, 4) the atlas of contemporary grid projects, 5) projective tools for the future, and 6) goodgrid city as an open form coping with new urban issues.
Barcelona
Barcelona is regarded as a prototype of a European Mediterranean city with a long urban tradition. It has undergone a specific process of historic formation: density and compactness of urban form, evolution by extension rather than by reform. A history of urban planning necessarily includes a summary of the territorial and urban experience, the physical dimensions of the city that condition its cultural and economic development. This book centers on the construction of Barcelona, taking as its basis the most important planning operations and city projects, and drawing from diverse sources and phases. The local scale of many of the projects contrasts with the cosmopolitan aspirations that have made these interventions so innovative; including major projects for special events, such as the 1888 (World Exhibition), 1929 (Electrical Industries Exhibition) and 1992 (Olympic Games). New prospects are emerging from the recent European institutional framework, particularly changes in the economic system to a post-industrial phase. The urban planning history of Barcelona shows how the city has overcome major contradictions.
Joan Busquets
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Barcelona and Modernity
Catalogus van een tentoonstelling van werk van Catalaanse kunstenaars.
Transforming Barcelona
This work, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona. It will be of interest to architects, planners and urban designers, as well as those interested in the social and economic impacts of regeneration.
Deconstruction/construction
Someone ought to walk to Washington to tell the government to stop this war - Louise Bruyn Louise Bruyn did just that 1971 - America has been at war in Vietnam for almost six years. The death toll is rising, both for the U.S., and for the "enemy." Louise Bruyn had enough It was time to do something. What could one woman do that would make Congress take notice of her protest? She decided to walk-from her home in Newton, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. to make her point. Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy and Representative Robert Drinan met her on the Capitol steps. What a point she made People all over the country rallied to support her. Finally, someone was saying what so many citizens wan...
Modern Architecture and City
This book traces the different histories in modern architecture in order to define the founding period of the masters and the avant-garde and to understand the spread of the Modern Movement, with all its critiques and contradictions. Without using specialized language, a second block lets us talk about current architecture and confront the problems of the contemporary city. With this in mind, five questions are posed on the current role of architecture, and then ten different "project strategies" are discussed. Finally, in a period of intense digital mutation, the challenges that architecture can resolve are considered in pursuit of a more sustainable society.
Morbo
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