Resilient Communities And The Peccioli Charter
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Resilient Communities And The Peccioli Charter
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Author : Maurizio Carta
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-04-25
Resilient Communities And The Peccioli Charter written by Maurizio Carta and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-25 with Architecture categories.
This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities. The second part of the book presents mini-essays discussing the strategic points of the paper, and enabling more casual readers with the ability to access information on urban resilience. The book then explores urban resilience through the work and understanding of the institutions responsible for regulating the professions of urban planner, educators, professionals, and those involved in communication. Providing numerous illustrations and examples, Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter will be of interest to researchers, postgraduates, architects, urban designers and planners alike.
Designing Sustainable And Resilient Cities
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Author : Alessandro Melis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-27
Designing Sustainable And Resilient Cities written by Alessandro Melis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-27 with Architecture categories.
This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities (Eindhoven, Gdańsk, Miami, Southend-on-Sea, Taipei, and Uppsala) to co-define context-specific challenges, the results from each city are collated into an Integrated Decision Support System to guide and improve robust decision-making on future urban development. The book presents contributions from CRUNCH, a transdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners whose expertise spans urban climate modelling; food, water, and energy management; the design of resilient public space; collecting better urban data; and the development of smart city technology. Whilst previous works on the Food-Water-Energy nexus have focused on large, transnational cases, this book explores local ways to use the Food-Water-Energy nexus to improve urban resilience. It suggests tangible ways in which the cities and communities around us can become both more efficient and more climate resilient through small changes to their existing infrastructure. Over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and this is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. We urgently need to make our cities more resilient. This book provides a planning tool for decision-making and concludes with policy recommendations, making it relevant to a range of audiences including urbanists, environmentalists, architects, urban designers, and city planners, as well as students and scholars interested in alternative approaches to sustainability and resilience. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Informality Through Sustainability
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Author : Antonino Di Raimo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-30
Informality Through Sustainability written by Antonino Di Raimo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with Architecture categories.
Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their local inhabitants. The book opposes simplistic calls to legalise informal settlements or to view them as ‘problems’ to be solved. It comes at a time when common notions of ‘informality’ are being increasingly challenged. In 25 chapters, the book presents contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners whose theoretical or practical work addresses informality and sustainability at various levels, from city planning and urban design to public space and architectural education. Whilst previous studies on informal settlements have mainly focused on cases in developing countries, approaching the topic through social, cultural and material dimensions, the book explores the concept across a range of contexts, including former Communist countries and those in the so-called Global North. Contributions also explore understandings of informality at various scalar levels – region, precinct, neighbourhood and individual building. Thus, this work helps reposition informality as a relational concept at various scales of urbanisation. This book will be of great benefit to planners, architects, researchers and policymakers interested in the interplay between informality and sustainability.
The Resilience Of Cultural Landscapes
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Author : Fabrizio Aimar
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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The Resilience Of Cultural Landscapes written by Fabrizio Aimar and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Architectural Exaptation
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Author : Alessandro Melis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-03-29
Architectural Exaptation written by Alessandro Melis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-29 with Architecture categories.
Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience. The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and architecture, which seem even more relevant in times of global environmental crises. This book aims to make a critique of the pre-existing and extensive paternalistic literature. Exaptation will be described as a functional shift of a structure that already had a prior, but different, function. In architecture, a functional shift of a structure that already had a function may apply to forms of decorative elements embedded in architectural components, and to both change of function of tectonic elements and the change of use of an architectural space. The book is illustrated with examples from around the globe, including China, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, the USA and the UK, and looks at different civilizations and diverse historical periods, ranging from the urban to the architectural scale. Such examples highlight the potential and latent human creative capacity to change the use and functions, something that cities and buildings could consider when facing disturbances. Exaptation is shown as an alternative narrative to the simplifications of evolutionary puritanism. It also offers an innovative perspective and presents an opportunity to re-think the manner in which we design and redesign our cities. This book will be of interest to architecture, planning, urban design and biology researchers and students.
Post Un Lock
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Author : Grazia Brunetta
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-07-03
Post Un Lock written by Grazia Brunetta and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-03 with Political Science categories.
This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local vulnerabilities, to the use of modern survey techniques to support planning. What is the role of urban and regional planning in achieving the sustainable development goals of our communities considering the major issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in urban planning? And how do these medium- and long-term objectives interact with the needs that the emergency has given rise to? Post Un-Lock—from territorial vulnerabilities to local resilience—aims to provide the reader with a useful key to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic can be seen as a catalyst for a restart based on the concepts of sustainability and resilience. In fact, the COVID-19 experience evidences the need to propose a planning system able to integrate multiple scales according to an interdisciplinary approach focused on in-depth knowledge of the territorial risks and vulnerabilities. Besides, with the contribution of the new technologies, it is able to rethink spaces on a neighbourhood scale, conceived as a "local resilience unit" that ensures the population high standards of safety, liveability, and accessibility to proximity services. In this view, planning is increasingly concerned about social aspects and the well-being of communities, supported by indicators and evaluation tools. With the proposal of the concept of local resilience unit, Post Un-Lock takes a step forward towards the definition of a new paradigm of local planning and a topic for urban regeneration.
Digital Signifiers In An Architecture Of Information
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Author : Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-31
Digital Signifiers In An Architecture Of Information written by Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-31 with Architecture categories.
This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architecture to understand and unleash potential means to open up creativity in the field. Historically, architecture has led to spatial representation. Today, computation has established new representational paradigms that can be compared to spatial representations, such as the revolution of perspective in the Renaissance. Architects now use software, robotics, and fabrication tools with very little understanding and participation in how these tools influence, revolutionize, and determine both architecture and its construction today. Why does the discipline of architecture not have a higher degree of authorship in the conception and development of computational technologies that define spatial representation? This book critically explores the relationship between history, theory, and cultural criticism. Lorenzo-Eiroa positions new understandings through parallel historical sections and theories of many revolutionary representational architecture canons displaced by conventional spatial projection. He identifies the architects, artists, mathematicians, and philosophers that were able to revolutionize their disciplines through the development of new technologies, new systems of representation, and new lenses to understand reality. This book frames the discussion by addressing new means to understand and expand architecture authorship in relation to the survey, information, representation, higher dimensional space, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence – in the pursuit of activating an architecture of information. This will be important reading for upper-level students and researchers of architecture and architectural theory, especially those with a keen interest in computational design and robotic fabrication.
Digital Fabrication And The Design Build Studio
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Author : William Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Digital Fabrication And The Design Build Studio written by William Carpenter and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Architecture categories.
This book explores the connection between digital fabrication and the design build studio in both academic and professional studios. The book presents 17 essays and cases studies from well-known scholars and practitioners, including Kengo Kuma, Joseph Choma, Dan Rockhill, Keith Zawistowski, and Marie Zawistowski, whose theoretical and practical work addresses design build at various levels. Four introductory essays trace the history of the design build movement, exploring the emergence of design build in the pedagogy of the Bauhaus, the integration of technology into architectural design, and the influence of the act of making on the design build studio. The rest of the book is divided into two parts; the first part looks at traditional pedagogical models for the design build studio, and the second part focuses on experimental methods used in design build programs. Together, these works discuss human behavior, social-cultural trends, and motivations in socially minded studios which are based on a service-learning model. They look at component-based studios where innovation allows for an increased level of research and testing of new materials and assemblies, sustainable principles, and zero-energy prototypes. Illustrated with over 200 color images, this book will be a valuable resource for architecture students, educators, and practitioners seeking to explore the impact of digital fabrication on the global design build movement.
Fare Urbanistica Oggi
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Author : Laura Montedoro
language : it
Publisher: Donzelli Editore
Release Date : 2022-12-22T00:00:00+01:00
Fare Urbanistica Oggi written by Laura Montedoro and has been published by Donzelli Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-22T00:00:00+01:00 with Political Science categories.
Il volume restituisce un confronto sull’urbanistica in Italia oggi e sull’idea del progetto che cambia, sensibile ai temi che attraversano la condizione contemporanea, con specifico riferimento alle culture, alle pratiche, all’insegnamento e alla ricerca. Si tratta di una prima ricognizione sui molti modi di declinare la disciplina. Dai ventuno saggi qui raccolti emerge un’idea ampia e multidimensionale di progetto come attitudine a prefigurare visioni di futuro, come sguardo esplorativo e interpretativo che produce conoscenza, come sistema di azioni tecnicamente pertinenti, come campo di interazione sociale e di conflitto, come capacità di elaborazione di strumenti multiscalari e integrati di pianificazione del territorio e della città. Un’idea costantemente riferita allo spazio fisico e sociale della città, alle esplorazioni possibili del campo del visibile, alle sensibilità per la morfologia urbana e territoriale, per i paesaggi, per i territori palinsesto. Un’idea di progetto, dunque, in grado di recuperare una tradizione culturale italiana ricca di senso, per mettere sistematicamente in tensione spazio e società, con specifica attenzione ai contesti culturali e materiali intesi come riflesso della società, delle economie e delle istituzioni. Il governo del territorio e delle città ha crescente necessità di sperimentare forme di progetto più flessibili, duttili, contestuali e adattive, per far fronte a questioni sociali emergenti – come il calo demografico e l’andamento recessivo dell’economia, la crisi di welfare nelle grandi aree urbane, l’incipiente condizione di peri-urbanizzazione della campagna, l’emergenza dei temi ambientali e della transizione ecologica – ma anche per presidiare in modo nuovo temi consolidati, come le grandi trasformazioni urbane e l’elaborazione di nuove forme di masterplan, fortemente condizionati dalla finanziarizzazione del settore immobiliare: questioni rilevanti da cui l’urbanistica è sospinta e sfidata a revisionare paradigmi e a formulare prospettive metodologiche innovative.
Homo Urbanus
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Author : Maurizio Carta
language : it
Publisher: Donzelli Editore
Release Date : 2022-07-21T00:00:00+02:00
Homo Urbanus written by Maurizio Carta and has been published by Donzelli Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-21T00:00:00+02:00 with Architecture categories.
La città è da millenni la matrice del progresso dell’umanità, ma è anche luogo delle contraddizioni di uno sviluppo senza progresso. E oggi è chiamata ad essere il progetto di futuro per la specie umana in evoluzione dall’Homo sapiens all’Homo urbanus. Il libro affronta l’Antropocene, l’era, iniziata con la rivoluzione industriale, in cui gli esseri umani sono diventati una specie dominante con un’enorme capacità trasformativa in maniera estrattiva e predatoria nei confronti della natura, comportandosi come specie imperfetta ma arrogante nel nascondere la fragilità dentro sistemi urbani troppo minerali, ecologicamente insostenibili e generatori di diseguaglianze. Abbiamo creduto di entrare in un’era di meraviglie antropocentriche e ci siamo ritrovati in un incubo, una vera e propria Antropocalisse. Per uscirne, l’ecosistema urbano deve cambiare radicalmente, passando da una modalità predatoria a una relazione che torni simbiotica con il pianeta, producendo progresso non a discapito di altre specie, forgiando cultura senza consumare la materia prima vivente del pianeta. Come saranno le città dell’Homo urbanus? In un processo di coevoluzione tra spazio e società, dobbiamo ripensare le città per riequilibrare i rapporti ecosistemici, per ridurre le diseguaglianze sociali e per affrontare le ingiustizie spaziali. Il libro descrive le città in cui vivrà l’Homo urbanus come una rete planetaria di condizioni urbane, come un arcipelago di intensità e identità urbane differenziate, abitate da comunità cosmopolite che riduca i primi esemplari di Homo urbanus dovranno superare vari fallimenti, conflitti e crisi, che ne potenzieranno l’organismo, portando con sé verso le generazioni successive le nuove caratteristiche di un’umanità che riattivi una relazione ecologica con il pianeta, e con le altre specie, in un rinnovato rapporto simbiotico con le città.