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• Quality
of Urban Forms
"Nantes,
a pleasant town to live in" by Romeo
Farinella. The paper opens the section Results of this
topic, describing the application of the French procedures
identified with the expression "projet urbain"
to the renewal of the city of Nantes. Here from the 1990's
the construction of urban strategies has not been based
on the drawing of general master plans, but on the development
of many projects of structural relevance...
• Lessons by Bernardo Secchi
"Three
stories for the XXth century"
A Bernardo Secchi lecture for the II International
Ph.D Seminar on Urbanism, Barcelona, 27.06.05
" Like many people who have spent most of their lives
in the 20th century, I tried to understand the sense and
meaning of that century for the European city..."
• Themes online
- Some autobiographic
considerations, two articles and a book presentation
by Giuseppe Campos Venuti, one of the fathers of
Italian town planning...
"Autobiographic Considerations" (English, Italian)
"L'urbanisme en Italie, avec un oeil sur la France"
(French, Italian)
"Una estrategia para el reequilibrio de las transformaciones
territoriales"
(Spanish, Italian)
- "Tyranny
of the Urban Majority " by Richard Carson
"When urbanites clash with rural landowners, the
outcome is always the same: the country folks lose. Back
at home, the urbanists want their espresso bars, boutiques,
and drive-throughs, but they want rural areas to remain
a pastoral land museum, preserved for their visits by
SUV..."
- Public transport and infrastructures strategies in Curitiba,
a Brazilian city becoming metropolis...
"Curitiba,
una experiencia continua en soluciones de transporte"
by Clodualdo Pinheiro Junior, IPPUC Instituto de
Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de Curiti
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• Best sites of the month
"Practices
of traffic calming" by Luca Rubino
European projects for new models of traffic calming and
controlling... |
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• Bookreviews
A selection of captivating books proposed and reviewed
by Planum
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• Urbanistica
n.126,
2005
Contemporary city and urban project in Italy; Genoa, a
strategic plan for
effectiveness and its results; and more
The English version can be downloaded for free
• Raumplanung
n.120/121, 2005.
Regions, regional planning, cities planning the regions...and
more...
Region, Städte planen die Regionen...
• Planungsrundscahu
n.12
Landliebe - Landleben
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11-14 May 2006 Warsaw, Poland
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