Wood Urbanism
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Wood Urbanism
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Author : Daniel Ibañez
language : en
Publisher: Actar
Release Date : 2019-04-30
Wood Urbanism written by Daniel Ibañez and has been published by Actar this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with Architecture categories.
From small-scale thermal properties to large-scale forestry, territorial, and carbon cycle issues, wood has latent propensities not well addressed in the current discourse on wood construction. Through a range of design research formats-from material testing to in-situ documentation to speculative urban projects- this book articulates and illustrates future architectural and ecological potentials of wood.
Reciprocal Landscapes
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Author : Jane Hutton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-06
Reciprocal Landscapes written by Jane Hutton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-06 with Architecture categories.
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.
Global Urbanism
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Author : Michele Lancione
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-06-21
Global Urbanism written by Michele Lancione and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-21 with Social Science categories.
Global Urbanism is an experimental examination of how urban scholars and activists make sense of, and act upon, the foundational relationship between the ‘global’ and the ‘urban’. What does it mean to say that we live in a global-urban moment, and what are its implications? Refusing all-encompassing answers, the book grounds this question, exploring the plurality of understandings, definitions, and ways of researching global urbanism through the lenses of varied contributors from different parts of the world. The contributors explore what global urbanism means to them, in their context, from the ground and the struggles upon which they are working and living. The book argues for an incremental, fragile and in-the-making emancipatory urban thinking. The contributions provide the resources to help make sense of what global urbanism is in its varieties, what’s at stake in it, how to research it, and what needs to change for more progressive urban futures. It provides a heterodox set of approaches and theorisations to probe and provoke rather than aiming to draw a line under a complex, changing and profoundly contested set of global-urban processes. Global Urbanism is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students in geography, sociology, planning, anthropology and the field of urban studies, for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines and practices which converge in the study of urbanism. Chapter 36 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429259593
Urbanism And Town Planning
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Author : Jean-Philippe Antoni
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Urbanism And Town Planning written by Jean-Philippe Antoni 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 2024-02-06 with Architecture categories.
Sustainable urban planning and urban renewal are major challenges of the 21st century. In this context, Urbanism and Town Planning proposes a geohistorical approach to urban construction. The city and its neighborhoods are studied through their materials and general layout, which sometimes reveal a logic of economic profitability, prestige and social equity, and sometimes a more innovative approach from an environmental perspective. Across these elements, unbuilt spaces (distinctive streets and squares) and built spaces (commercial and residential areas, both individual and collective) form a three-dimensional grid of “voids” and “solids”, characteristic of urban landscapes and lifestyles. Supported by numerous original examples, this book is a comprehensive summary of the most tangible elements of urban planning and development; elements that must be put into context in order to think concretely about the development of the cities of the future.
Rethinking Wood
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Author : Markus Hudert
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2019-04-18
Rethinking Wood written by Markus Hudert and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-18 with Architecture categories.
Advances in the materials and the digitalization of architecture bring about new methods in design and construction. Whereas traditional timber construction consists of pre-cut and pre-assembled timber sections, modern timber buildings today consist of elaborate wood-based materials. Owing to their flexibility and good properties in terms of building physics and ecology, these wood-based materials are ideal for computer-aided building component production. Fifteen case examples from research, teaching, and practical applications provide inspiring insights into the potential of formable wood-based materials and digital design: Woven Wood, Wood Foam, Living Wood and Organic Joints, Timber Joints for Robotic Building Processes, Efficiencies of Wood, Designing with Tree Form.
Architecture And Urbanism A Smart Outlook
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Author : Shaimaa Kamel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-02
Architecture And Urbanism A Smart Outlook written by Shaimaa Kamel and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-02 with Science categories.
This proceedings addresses the challenges of urbanization that gravely affect the world’s ecosystems. To become efficiently sustainable and regenerative, buildings and cities need to adopt smart solutions. This book discusses innovations of the built environment while depicting how such practices can transform future buildings and urban areas into places of higher value and quality. The book aims to examine the interrelationship between people, nature and technology, which is essential in pursuing smart environments that optimize human wellbeing, motivation and vitality, as well as promoting cohesive and inclusive societies: Urban Sociology - Community Involvement - Place-making and Cultural Continuity – Environmental Psychology - Smart living - Just City. The book presents exemplary practical experiences that reflect smart strategies, technologies and innovations, by established and emerging professionals, provides a forum of real-life discourse. The primary audience for the work will be from the fields of architecture, urban planning and built-environment systems, including multi-disciplinary academics as well as professionals.
Supplementary Report Of The Urbanism Committee To The National Resources Committee Urban Planning And Land Policies
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Author : United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Supplementary Report Of The Urbanism Committee To The National Resources Committee Urban Planning And Land Policies written by United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Cities and towns categories.
"On August 9, 1937, the National Resources Committee submitted to the President its report on 'Our cities--their role in the national economy.' In the course of preparing this report a large volume of basic data and information was collected which could not then be included. The publication of these supplementary volumes has been undertaken to make such data and information available."--Vol. l, p. iii.
The Man In The Street
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Author : Shadrach Woods
language : en
Publisher: Harmondsworth, Eng. ; Baltimore : Penguin Books
Release Date : 1975
The Man In The Street written by Shadrach Woods and has been published by Harmondsworth, Eng. ; Baltimore : Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Political Science categories.
Architecture And The Forest Aesthetic
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Author : Jana VanderGoot
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-22
Architecture And The Forest Aesthetic written by Jana VanderGoot and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-22 with Architecture categories.
Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration in the language of design, thus recognizing the forest as essential rather than just incidental to human well-being. In Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic, forest is a large-scale urban construct that is far more extensive and nuanced than trees and shrubbery. The forest aesthetic opens designers to the forest as a model for an urban architecture of permeable floors, protective canopies, connected food chains, beneficial decomposition, and resilient ecologies. Much can be learned about these features of the forest from the natural sciences; however, when they are given due consideration technically and metaphorically in the design of urban habitat, the places in which humans live become living forests. What is present here in Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic is both a review of many ingenious ways in which the forest aesthetic has already been expressed in design and urbanism, and an encouragement to further use the forest aesthetic in design language and design outcomes. Case study projects featured include the Chilotan building craft of Southern Chile, the yaki sugi of Japan, the Biltmore Forest in the Southeastern United States, the Australian capital city Canberra, Bosco Verticale in Milan, Italy, the Beijing Olympic Forest Park in China, and more.
Transforming Biocities
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Author : Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-07-06
Transforming Biocities written by Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-06 with Science categories.
This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity. Following this principle, the authors propose multiple approaches for sustainable city growth. The discussed concepts are not only relevant for newly constructed cities, but offer transformative perspectives for existing settlements as well. Placing nature at the forefront of city planning is not an entirely new concept, so the authors build on established ideas like the garden city, green city, eco-city, or smart city. All chapters aim to highlight aspects to develop a city that is a resilient nature-based socio-ecological system. Many of these concepts were formed in an effort to copy the best traits of a forest ecosystem: a home for many different species that build complex communities. Much like many of our forests, urban areas are managed by humans for multifunctional purposes, using living and abiotic components. This viewpoint helps to understand the potential and limitations of sustainable growth. With these chapters, the authors want to inspire planners, ecologists, urban foresters and decision makers of the future.