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Contested Legacies
In the light of the current housing and environmental crisis and increasing social inequalities, there is a growing sense of urgency for architecture as a discipline to engage with the transformation in housing evident in the postwar period. Rather than conceiving this task as a technical matter, this book proposes to reassess the conditions and legacy of this large and ubiquitous housing stock. By foregrounding the mismatch between constructed cultural, social and ideological narratives and the everyday realities of residents, the contributors rediscover some of the tropes of modern housing, such as the impact of technological innovations or the often overlooked character of open spaces, an...
Barcelona
Barcelona has existed as a settlement for two millennia. Early civilizations shaped the city before it achieved, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, global power as a trading metropolis and empire capital. After a long struggle with the unifying Spanish state, the city revived, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as an industrial and commercial powerhouse. It became a center of culture, ornamented by modern planning and wondrous works by Gaudí and others. Barcelona became known as “The Rose of Fire”: home to revolutionaries and anarchists. Creativity and conflict continued to shape Barcelona in the twentieth century, as its citizens faced the Spanish Republic, Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. Linking social and cultural currents to the rich architectural and experiential heritage of this multi-layered city, McDonogh and Martínez-Rigol reveal Barcelona’s hidden history to modern-day visitors and residents alike.
Barcelona
"These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home." –The TLS "[ The Passenger] has a strong focus on storytelling, with pages given over to a mix of essays, playlists and sideways glances at subcultures and thorny urban issues." – MONOCLE "Half-magazine, half-book . . . think of [ The Passenger] as an erudite and literary travel equivalent to National Geographic, with stunning photography and illustration and fascinating writing about place." – Independent.ie ( Best series of the year – 2021) The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduc...
Moving Around in Town
The object of this book is intra-urban mobility, namely the diverse forms of mobility occuring within a city: from residential mobility to daily mobility, the latter understood both as commuting and as urban travel for leisure. The specific aim of the volume is to explore mobility in the city at different times, from the XVIIth century to today, and to relate it to the respective social dynamics from different standpoints, moving back and forth from the building to the neighbourhood and the wider metropolis, from Tunis to Paris, from Naples to Barcelone, passing through Rome, Milan and Marseille. The approach adopted is strongly multidisciplinary. The authors come from different disciplines - from History to Demography, from Sociology to Geography -, which has allowed to decline the study of intra-urban mobility both through a look at individuals and their mobility practices and from a territorial and historical context. In so doing, a set of urban issues has been considered, such as social mobility, metropolization processes, migrations and inequalities, access to real estate market.
ciudad y el consumo tras la globalización, La. Perspectivas internacionales del comercio urbano
La ciudad es producto y centro de los flujos debidos a la globalización, un proceso que no solo ha generado nuevas formas de desarrollo urbano, sino que también ha cambiado los hábitos de vida de los ciudadanos y los modelos de negocio. Fruto de las investigaciones de especialistas del Mediterráneo europeo y América Latina, este libro analiza desde diversas perspectivas la ciudad y lo urbano en los tiempos de las crisis contemporáneas, centrando la atención en las actividades ligadas al comercio y el consumo como principales funciones de la economía y de la vida cotidiana. Geógrafos, economistas, sociólogos, urbanistas, estudiosos de las artes y de la comunicación exponen sus conocimientos y experiencias para explicar el mundo que nos rodea y, a la vez, aportar soluciones que mejoren las políticas de gestión.
Global Gentrifications
Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses and tests the meaning and significance of gentrification in places outside the ‘usual suspects’ of the Global North. Informed by a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond, the book (re)discovers the important generalities and geographical specificities associated with the uneven process of gentrification globally. It highlights intensifying global struggles over urban space and underlines gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world. The book will be of value to students and academics, policy makers, planners and community organisations.
Professor Joan Vilà Valentí
El presente volumen recoge un total de 115 artículos, recopilados con motivo del homenaje al Dr. Joan Vilà Valentí, i que se dividen en tres apartados: uno dedicado a glosar la trayectoria académica y científica del Dr. Vilà, otro sobre pensamiento geográfico y el último sobre trabajos de geografía regional.
Juliols de la Universitat de Barcelona. Vint anys d’història, Els
Des que el 1996 la Universitat de Barcelona va tenir la iniciativa d’organitzar els primers cursos d’estiu, ha anat ampliant i diversificant el seu programa fins a esdevenir un dels centres de referència indiscutible en l’oferta docent complementària a l’ensenyament reglat. En el decurs d’aquests anys el seu propòsit ha estat tant difondre el coneixement a amplis sectors socials com fer-ho des de diferents punts geogràfics de Catalunya i l’estranger. Amb la publicació d’aquest volum, en què han participat persones que hi han estat vinculades sobretot com a programadors i com a docents, la UB no sols commemora el vintè aniversari d’Els Juliols amb un balanç notablement positiu de les activitats desenvolupades, sinó que augura un futur prometedor per a la transferència del coneixement més enllà de les aules universitàries.
La Universitat i la ciutat
Els lligams entre ciutat i universitat són complexos i simbiòtics. Barcelona, que tot i algunes discontinuïtats és seu universitària des de 1450, ha mantingut amb les seves institucions d'estudis superiors una relació que, malgrat les fluctuacions, ofereix un balanç molt favorable per a ambdues parts. En aquest llibre s'explica com la ciutat ha incidit en el desenvolupament de la universitat, com aquesta ha estat un agent de creixement i remodelació del teixit urbà i quins reptes planteja el vincle ciutat-universitat en plena revolució de la informació dins d'un món en procés de globalització.
