City Metaphors Urban Constructs
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City Metaphors Urban Constructs
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Author : Melvin Charney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
City Metaphors Urban Constructs written by Melvin Charney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Architecture categories.
Plus de 160 dessins illustrent 34 projets réalisés à Montréal au cours des années 1980. Appuyé par quatre essais qui posent le cadre théorique et les différents aspects de ce discours sur la ville.
Porous City
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Author : Sophie Wolfrum
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Porous City written by Sophie Wolfrum and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Architecture categories.
Some time ago, Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis used the term "porosity" with reference to Naples’ urban characteristics – spaces merging into each other and providing the backdrop for the unforeseen – improvisation as a way of life. Today, the term "porosity" in this context is increasingly used conceptually. Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, town planning, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing, user-friendly city – with reference to this enigmatic term. The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities – to cities with radically mixed urban functions.
Metaphors In Urban Planning
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Author : Terttu Pakarinen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Metaphors In Urban Planning written by Terttu Pakarinen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Garden cities categories.
"The post-industrial disintegration of urban form caused consternation during the latter half of the 20th century. The spatial organisation of the city seemed to be splintering into confusion. From this viewpoint, the breaking up of the hierarchy decentralisation appeared as a weakness and failure of regulation. The immediate reaction, in accordance with prevailing doctrines, was to increase regulation. When it materialised that there had been irrefutable changes in urban development, there were attemps to describe the new urban reality with various loose metaphors, such as collage, mosaic, archipelago, chaos, etc. In their own way these metaphors made it easier to perceive the new urban reality, although they were not able to explain development. Explanations of greater operational value arrived in the 1990s when new interpretations began to arise simultaneously from many different sources. In this book two such ways of explaining the urban reality are discussed in detail, the concept of Zwischenstadt by Thomas Sieverts and Netzstadt by Franz Oswald and Peter Baccini. The discussion is framed firstly by the question of how metaphors are substantiated in both the philosophy of science and hermeneutics, and secondly by the historic model of the Garden City, which still today is often defended as an ideal in urban planning."--P. 4 cover.
Metaphors In Architecture And Urbanism
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Author : Andri Gerber
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2014-03-31
Metaphors In Architecture And Urbanism written by Andri Gerber and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Architecture categories.
Architecture and urbanism seem to be »weak« disciplines, constantly struggling for a better understanding of their nature and disciplinary borders. The huge amount of metaphors appearing in the discourse of both not only reference to their creative nature but also indicate their weakness and the missing piece strengthening their own understanding: a definition of space for architecture and of city for urbanism. But using metaphors in this field implies a problem - though metaphors achieve to bring opposites together, there remains the question how literal they can actually become in order to relate to these subjects properly. In this volume, several authors from various fields using different approaches discuss this question.
The City As Cultural Metaphor
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Author : Arto Haapala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The City As Cultural Metaphor written by Arto Haapala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
The urban environment offers a variety of intriguing problems for scholars in different disciplines. The city milieu is rich and varied enough for different kinds of theoretical and practical approaches. In this collection, aestheticians, architects, art historians, geographers and philosophers address questions of the city from their perspectives. The concept of metaphor is the key term by which some of the variety of the urban environment can be captured. Articles in the collection show how the urban milieu and metaphor are intertwined together both at theoretical and practical levels. The city is connected with wilderness and sin, it is studied through images and imagination, and cities such as Constantinople, Copenhagen, Helsinki and St. Petersburg are interpreted as metaphors or with the help of metaphors. The collection gives a fresh and many-sided picture to the problems we are dealing with daily when living in an urban environment.
Cities And Metaphors
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Author : Somaiyeh Falahat
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Cities And Metaphors written by Somaiyeh Falahat and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Architecture categories.
Introducing a new concept of urban space, Cities and Metaphors encourages a theoretical realignment of how the city is experienced, thought and discussed. In the context of ‘Islamic city’ studies, relying on reasoning and rational thinking has reduced descriptive, vivid features of the urban space into a generic scientific framework. Phenomenological characteristics have consequently been ignored rather than integrated into theoretical components. The book argues that this results from a lack of appropriate conceptual vocabulary in our global body of scholarly literature. It challenges existing theories, introduces and applies the concept of Hezar-tu (‘a thousand insides’) to rethink the spaces in historic cores of Fez, Isfahan and Tunis. This tool constructs a staging post towards a different articulation of urban space based on spatial, physical, virtual, symbolic and social edges and thresholds; nodes of sociospatial relationships; zones of containment; state of intermediacy; and, thus, a logic of ambiguity rather than determinacy. Presenting alternative narrations of paths through sequential discovery of spaces, this book brings the sensual features of urban space into the focus. The book finally shows that concepts derived from local contexts enable us to tailor our methods and theoretical structures to the idiosyncrasies of each city while retaining the global commonalities of all. Hence, in broader terms, it contributes to a growing awareness that urban studies should be more inclusive by bringing the diverse global contexts of cities into the body of our urban knowledge.
Public Religion And The Urban Environment
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Author : Richard Bohannon
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-04-26
Public Religion And The Urban Environment written by Richard Bohannon and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-26 with Religion categories.
'Nature' and the 'city' have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images. Bohannon argues here that cities and natural environments, however, are both connected and continually affected by one another. He shows how such connections become overt during natural disasters, which disrupt the narratives people use to make sense of the world,including especially religious narratives, and make them more visible. This book offers both a theoretical exploration of the intersection of the city, nature, and religion, as well as a sociological analysis of the 1997 flood in Grand Forks, ND, USA. This case study shows how religious factors have influenced how the relationship between nature and the city is perceived, and in particular have helped to justify the urban control of nature. The narratives found in Grand Forks also reveal a broader understanding of the nature of Western cities, highlighting the potent and ethically-rich intersections between religion, cities and nature.
Postcolonial London
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Author : John McLeod
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
Postcolonial London written by John McLeod and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
London's histories of migration and settlement and the resulting diverse, hybrid communities have engendered new forms of social and cultural activity reflected in a wealth of novels, poems, films and songs. Postcolonial London explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s. John McLeod engages freshly with the work of both well-known and emergent writers, including Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Colin MacInnes, Bernardine Evaristo, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Fred D'Aguiar. In reading a select body of writing in its social contexts and exploring contrasting attitudes to London's diasporic transformation, he traces an exciting history of resistance to the prejudice and racism that have at least in part characterised the postcolonial city. Rewritings of London, he argues, bear witness to the determination, imagination and creativity of the city's migrants and their descendants. This is a superb study of the ways in which 'imperial centre' might be rewritten as postcolonial metropolis. It represents essential reading for those interested in British or postcolonial literature, or in theorisations of the city and metropolitan culture.
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia Of Urban And Regional Studies
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Author : Anthony M. Orum
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2019-04-15
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia Of Urban And Regional Studies written by Anthony M. Orum and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures the character of complex urban and regional dynamics across the globe, including timely entries on Latin America, Africa, India and China. At the same time, it contains illuminating entries on some of the current concepts that seek to grasp the essence of the global world today, such as those of Friedmann and Sassen on ‘global cities’. It also includes discussions of recent economic writings on cities and regions such as those of Richard Florida. Comprised of over 450 entries on the most important topics and from a range of theoretical perspectives Features authoritative entries on topics ranging from gender and the city to biographical profiles of figures like Frank Lloyd Wright Takes a global perspective with entries providing coverage of Latin America and Africa, India and China, and, the US and Europe Includes biographies of central figures in urban and regional studies, such as Doreen Massey, Peter Hall, Neil Smith, and Henri Lefebvre The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies is an indispensable reference for students and researchers in urban and regional studies, urban sociology, urban geography, and urban anthropology.
Constructing Narratives For City Governance
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Author : Alistair Cole
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-08
Constructing Narratives For City Governance written by Alistair Cole and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-08 with Political Science categories.
Bringing together transnational perspectives on urban narration, this innovative book analyses how a combination of tales, images and discourses are used to brand, market and (re-)make cities, focusing on the actors behind this and the conflicts of power that arise in defining and governing city futures.