<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Planum - The journal of Urbanism - Journals & Books</title><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books</link><description /><language>eng</language><item><title>Milano Città Aperta</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Journal of Urban Photography&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Website&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miciap.com/&quot;&gt;www.miciap.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editorial staff&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:info@miciap.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;info@miciap.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&quot;We finally want to declare Milan an &lt;em&gt;open city&lt;/em&gt; and we accept our war within the chaotic continuous changes of our city. We, as photographers, wish to understand and be understood. So that we can change it&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(from Miciap Website, &lt;em&gt;Manifesto&lt;/em&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:29:39 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/miciap</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/miciap</guid></item><item><title>Urbanistica</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rivista trimestrale dell&#039;Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica INU&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Paolo Avarello&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor in Chief:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Paolo Avarello&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editorial Staff: &lt;/strong&gt;Studio Associato Gerald&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publisher:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inu.it/inuedizioni/&quot;&gt;INU Edizioni Srl&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Piazza Farnese 44, 00186, Rome, Italy&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:22:26 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/urbanistica</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/urbanistica</guid></item><item><title>Territorio</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rivista del Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione del Politecnico di Milano&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;via Bonardi 3, 20133, Milan, Italy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor: &lt;/strong&gt;Gabriele Pasqui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deputy Editor:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Francesco Infussi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editorial staff: &lt;/strong&gt;Elena Gorla&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:redazioneterritorio@polimi.it&quot;&gt;redazioneterritorio@polimi.it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publisher: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Franco Angeli Editore&quot; href=&quot;http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=63&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Franco Angeli&lt;/a&gt;, Milan, Italy&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:54:15 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/territorio</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/territorio</guid></item><item><title>Smart City Dynamics</title><description>Inspiring views from experts across Europe&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why produce a pubblication about something as broad and undefined as Smart Cities? In many ways,&amp;nbsp;the term itself has become a&amp;nbsp;buzzword. Anyone in any field of work can find a way to plug their projects into the rapidly evolving theme of Smart Cities.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;But whetever people like the term or not, they embrace the diversity of opportunities that come along with it, and they can relate to its aim of creating better, cleaner and more livable cities. Many cities, regions, companies knowledge institutions around Europe have already started smartering processes in cities and communities and there is a strong need for them to learn from each other, this book gives a realistic insight into the complexity and diversity of Smart Cities. It provides an inspiring collection of thoughtful views and concrete actions, which togheter, will help all parties move closer to achieving their sustainability goals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cities, universities and the energy industry, as well as the ICT, transport and building sectors are all exploring Smart City opportunities. What they have in common is a desire to create cleaner and more liavible cities. But what are the first steps? And how can synergies be created between sectors?&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This book provides an inspiring collection of insightful views from experts across Europe. Their concreate advise on the important steps involved in the transition to Smart Cities is illustrated by a series of best practices. Together, they show what really can be achieved through working together on sustainable strategies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Featured interviews include the climate Group, Amsterdam Smart City, Stockolm Royal Seaport, Sustainable Glasgow, IBM and the European Commission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Foreword&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AN EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE RELEVANCE OF ROAD MAPS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;London&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Glasgow&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE RIGHT STAKEHOLDERS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Stockholm&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Rotterdam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SYNERGY BETWEEN SECTORS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Vienna&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Flanders&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Amsterdam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE ROLE OF ICT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Noth Sea Region&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Valencia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The Hague&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Bristol&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Amsterdam&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHOR:&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heidy van Beurden &lt;/strong&gt;is a ommunications specialist and editor working for governments, the private sector and the non-profit sector. She has initiated and produced a diverse range of publications, including &lt;em&gt;CO2 Today, &lt;/em&gt;a book about inspiring energy and climate initiatives in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HVB Communicatie bv, Amsterdam&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title=&quot;Smart Cities in Europe&quot; href=&quot;mailto:info@smartcitiesineurope.com&quot;&gt;info@smartcitiesineurope.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:info@heidyvanbeurden.nl&quot;&gt;Heidy van Beurden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smartcitiesineurope.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.smartcitiesineurope.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:45:39 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/smart-city-dynamics</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/smart-city-dynamics</guid></item><item><title>Handbook of Creative Cities</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the publication of &lt;em&gt;The Rise of Creative Class &lt;/em&gt;by Richard Florida in 2002, the &quot;creative city&quot; became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist&amp;nbsp;Ake E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the other members of this &quot;creative troika&quot;. In the &lt;em&gt;Handbook of Creative Cities&lt;/em&gt;, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors in this timely &lt;em&gt;Handbook&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;extend their insights with a varied set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the contributors reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology and urban planning. The stated policy implications are equally diverse, ranging from libertarian to social democratic visions of our shared creative urban future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PART 1: FOUNDATIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Analysing creative cities &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;David Emanuel Andersson and Charlotta Mellender&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Creative people need creative cities &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ake E. Andersson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The creative class paradigm &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellender and Patrick Adler&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Big-C creativity in the big city &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dean Keith Simonton&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Clusters, networks and creativity &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Charlie Karlsson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PART 2: PEOPLE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The open city &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Peter Jason Rentfrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The value of creativity &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Todd M. Gabe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Understanding Canada&#039;s evolving design economy &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tara Vinodrai&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Technology, talent and tolerance and inter-regional migration in Canada &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Karen M. King&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Higher education and the creative city &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Roberta Communian and Alessandra Faggian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PART 3: NETWORKS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Research nodes and networks &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Annette Winkel Schwaez and Soren Find&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Scenes, innovations and urban development &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daniel Silver, Terry Nichols Clark and Christopher Graziul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The arts: not just artists (and vice versa) &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Kevin M. Stolarick&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The creative potential of network cities &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;David F. Batten&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Why being there matters: Finnish protessionals in Silicon Valley &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Carol Marie Kiriakos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PART 4: PLANNING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Creative cities need less government &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;David Emanuel Andersson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Land-use regulation for the creative city &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stefano Moroni&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The emergence of Vancouver as a creative city &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gus diZerega and David F. Hardwick&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PART 5: MARKETS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Cultivating creativity: market creation of agglomeration economies &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Randall G. Holcombe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The sociability and morality of market settlements &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arielle John and Virgil Henry Storr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Creative environments: the case for local economic diversity &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pierre Desrochers and Samuli Leppala&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Does density matter? &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Peter Gordon and Sanford Ikeda&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Creative milieus in the Stockholm region &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Borje Johansson and Johan Kiaesson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The creative city and its distributional consequences: the case of Wellington &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Phila S. Morrison&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PART 6: VISIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Contract, voice and rent: voluntary urban planning &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fred E. Foldvary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;A roadmap for the creative city &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Charles Landry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Emanuel Andersson:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Associate Professor in the&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oia.nsysu.edu.tw/english/index.php?sec=academics&amp;amp;page=management&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; Institute of Public Affairs Management at the National Sun Yat-sen University&lt;/a&gt;, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ake E. Andersson:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Professor in the Department of Economics at &lt;a href=&quot;http://hj.se/jibs/en/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jonkoping International Buisness School&lt;/a&gt;, Jonkoping, Sweden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlotta Mellander:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Jokoping International Buisness School, Sweden an in the&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.martinprosperity.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; Martin Prosperity Institute&lt;/a&gt;, Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Canada.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTENTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prefazione&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Tra volont&amp;agrave; di riforme e crisi di governo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pier Carlo Palermo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARTE PRIMA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;L&#039;esperienza di un urbanista&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; L&#039;urbanista gentiluomo e la citt&amp;agrave; senza governo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pier Carlo Palermo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Diagnosi e progetto nella&amp;nbsp; ricerca di Fausto Curti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Andrea Arcidiacono, Laura Pogliani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARTE SECONDA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prove di riformismo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Stato e prospettive del riformismo urbanistico in Italia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Andrea Arcidiacono, Laura Pogliani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Per uscire dalla crisi urbanistica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Giuseppe Campos Venuti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Serve ancora il piano?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Federico Oliva&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Dimensione urbana e strumenti di governo del territorio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luigi Mazza&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Strategie e dimensioni metropolitane&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gabriele Pasqui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Per una economia selettiva dei progetti urbani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luca Gaeta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Risorse per l&amp;rsquo;azione urbanistica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Roberto Camagni&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARTE TERZA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Progettare la Grande Milano&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Milano-Bigness. Quando la crescita non &amp;egrave; sviluppo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pier Carlo Palermo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Misure e valutazione dell&amp;rsquo;urbanistica milanese. Piani, progetti e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;politiche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Andrea Arcidiacono, Laura Pogliani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Praticare la dimensione metropolitana. Difficolt&amp;agrave; e opportunit&amp;agrave;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Isabella Susi Botto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Perequazione e trasformazioni urbane. Operativit&amp;agrave; e flessibilit&amp;agrave; tra piano e progetto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Paolo Galuzzi e Giorgio Vitillo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Proposte per un riformismo milanese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Federico Oliva&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Un&amp;rsquo;agenda di politiche territoriali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Matteo Bolocan Goldstein e Gabriele Pasqui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Andrea Arcidiacono&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;egrave; ricercatore al&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diap.polimi.it/&quot;&gt;Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione (DiAP)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;del Politecnico di Milano e&amp;nbsp;docente in Urbanistica. Responsabile scientifico del Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana &amp;ldquo;Fausto Curti&amp;rdquo; &amp;egrave; membro del Consiglio direttivo nazionale dell&#039;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inu.it/sito/&quot;&gt;Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (INU)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;. Tra le pubblicazioni recenti:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Piano e forma urbana&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;(2004) e con D. Di Simine, F. Oliva, S. Pareglio, P. Pileri, S. Salata S. (a cura di),&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;CRCS, Rapporto 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Laura Pogliani&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;egrave; ricercatrice al&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diap.polimi.it/&quot;&gt;Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione (DiAP)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;del Politecnico di Milano,&amp;nbsp; docente di Urbanistica e direttore della rivista&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Urbanistica Dossier&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;dell&amp;rsquo;Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica. Tra le pubblicazioni recenti: &quot;Pianificare per accordi in Lombardia: Innovazioni al bivio tra deregolamentazione e responsabilita&amp;rsquo; negoziale&quot;, in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lo scambio leale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Curti F., a cura di, 2006).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Andrea Arcidiacono&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;e&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Laura Pogliani&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;hanno pubblicato insieme: &quot;Proposte urbanistiche per governare il cambiamento a Milano&quot;, in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;MI06&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;(raccolta a cura di M. Frigerio),&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Proposte per ripensare Milano&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;(2006); &quot;Ma i cittadini cosa ci guadagnano?&quot; in AaVv (2009),&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Per un&amp;rsquo;altra citt&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:30:32 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/milano-al-futuro</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/milano-al-futuro</guid></item><item><title>Starchitecture</title><description>Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;section&quot;&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Internationally renowned architects are at centre stage in public debates, not only with reference to designing aesthetically striking artefacts, but also to urban regeneration programmes and urban branding. The narrative of the &quot;Bilbao effect&quot; has been spreading worldwide, apparently leading cities to compete in collecting spectacular projects and buildings, sometimes with little regard for their urban context, size and functions in the global market. Despite the fact that these forms of urban development have been changing the landscape in several cities, attention and explanations regarding the rationalities implied in such decision making and localization processes are today limited and sometimes misleading.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The authors offer a critical reappraisal of oversimplified interpretations of star architecture and its many urban implications. Drawing on the study of relevant architectural decision-making processes in Bilbao, Abu Dhabi, Paris, New York City and the Vitra Campus and on an original photographic corpus, the book argues that these phenomena have high territorial variety, depending on local as well as more contingent factors.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It explains that architectural and urban spectacles are often used by urban policymakers in order to drive political consensus, maximize media exposure and eventually cover economic and real-estate interests, potentially inducing perverse or even paradoxical effects.&lt;br /&gt;The role and autonomy of architects and planners are evidently weaker in these postmodern urban conditions; nonetheless this book pragmatically outlines critical perspectives for interpreting architectural and urban projects as meaningful elements of contemporary urban landscapes.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SCENES, ACTORS AND SPECTACLES IN CONTEMPORARY CITIES&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Acknowledgements &amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STARCHITECTURE IN CONTEMPORARY CITIES &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull; Global Architecture Firms: Creative and Reliable Strategies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE COMMONPLACE OF BILBAO&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The Dominant Narrative of the Museum That Landed in Bilbao and Its Critics&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Regeneration in Bilbao 1990-2010: An Actual Urban Process&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; McGuggenheim: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Global Museums and Franchise Urban Development&amp;nbsp;Projects?&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Bilbao Effects and Narrative Defects&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABU DHABI: &lt;br /&gt;COLLECTING SPECTACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN AN URBAN AND DEMOCRATIC VACUUM&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Programming the Urban Growth Machine&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Urban Structure and Planning Processes in Abu Dhabi&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Precincts, Key Actors and Large-Scale Development Projects&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Large-Scale Project on a Global Stage: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Saadiyat Island&amp;nbsp;and the Cultural District&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Urban Development Projects and Star Architecture in a Democratic Vacuum &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GRANDS TRAVAUX AND GRANDS TABLEAUX: &lt;br /&gt;URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS AND SPECTACLES IN CONTEMPORARY PARIS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The President&amp;rsquo;s Grands Travaux in Paris&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Two Non-Profit Representations&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Urban Visions and the President&amp;rsquo;s Visibility: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Archistars and Urbanistars of Le Grand Paris&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The Parisian Elite between Symbolic Policy and Urban Transformations &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NEW YORK CITY&amp;rsquo;S PLURAL ARCHITECTURAL PROFILES &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Growing by Project and Piecemeal Market Innovations&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Ground Zero / Year Zero&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Corporate Architectural Representations &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Markitecture and Extra-Luxury Condos&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Architecture for Non-Profit Museums: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Between Identity and Fundraising&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;New York City Publics&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Global Architecture in a Moderately Plural City&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE VITRA CAMPUS IS NOT A CITY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Architectural Collecting on the Vitra Campus&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Immaterial Entrepreneurship and Architectural Distinction&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The Vitra Campus Is Neither an Architectural Collection Nor a City&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STARCHITECTURE: ANY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE? &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Multiple Territories and Scenes of Star Architecture&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Symbolic Logic and Urban Development Paradoxes&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Urban Visions, Iconic Spectacles and Political Consensus&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Archistars in Postmodern Urban Conditions&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;From Architectural Spectacles to Urban Landscapes &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Davide Ponzini&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;received his PhD in Urban Planning from the Politecnico di Milano, where he is currently Assistant Professor of Urban Planning. His research interests are planning theory and urban policy tools, urban and cultural policy. He has been a visiting scholar at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yale.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Yale University&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jhu.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Johns Hopkins University&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.columbia.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Columbia University&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sciencespo.fr/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sciences Po Paris&lt;/a&gt;. His research work has been published in the main scientific journals in the planning and architectural field (&quot;Urban Studies&quot;, &quot;Cities&quot;, &quot;Environment and Planning C&quot;, &quot;European Planning Studies&quot; and others) and has been presented in international congresses, lectures and seminars. Author of the book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.carocci.it/web/index.jsp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Il territorio dei beni culturali&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;(Carocci, Rome 2008) and co-author, with Pier Carlo Palermo, of the book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/population+studies/book/978-90-481-8869-7&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Spatial Planning and Urban Development: Critical Perspectives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Springer, Heidelberg and New York 2010).&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele Nastasi r&lt;/strong&gt;eceived his Master of Science in Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches Architectural Photography. Since 2004 he has been working as a photographer of architecture, urban landscape and interiors for international architectural firms and magazines, as well as developing his own research projects. His pictures have been published in journals and magazines (&quot;Lotus&quot;, &quot;A + U&quot;, &quot;Abitare&quot; and others), books (recently, &lt;em&gt;Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger&lt;/em&gt;, Monacelli Press, New York/Birkh&amp;auml;user, Basel 2008, and &lt;em&gt;Daniel Libeskind and the Contemporary Jewish Museum&lt;/em&gt;, Rizzoli International, New York 2008) and exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia and in other personal and collective exhibitions in Europe and the USA. Since 2007 he has been Managing Editor of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.editorialelotus.it/web/index.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lotus international&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:47:53 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/starchitecture</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/starchitecture</guid></item><item><title>Living in the Endless City</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This book investigates the links between the physical and the social in cities.&amp;nbsp;It is not an academic exercise, but one that stems from a sense of urgency that&amp;nbsp;something needs to be done to address the dynamics of urban change described by&amp;nbsp;the statistics on the front cover. With half of the seven billion people on earth living in&amp;nbsp;cities, a substantial proportion of global GDP will be invested in energy and resources&amp;nbsp;to accommodate a mass of new city dwellers over the next decades.1&amp;nbsp;The form of&amp;nbsp;this new wave of urban construction and the shape of our cities will have profound&amp;nbsp;impacts on the ecological balance of the planet and the human conditions of people&amp;nbsp;growing up and growing old in cities. That is why cities, and their design, matter.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A sequel to The Endless City, this book adds to the global debate on the future of cities&amp;nbsp;with new research on Mumbai, S&amp;atilde;o Paulo and Istanbul, yet builds on the accumulated&amp;nbsp;knowledge and experiences of six other cities &amp;ndash; New York, Shanghai, London,&amp;nbsp;Mexico City, Johannesburg and Berlin.&amp;nbsp;8&amp;nbsp;It is a distillation of more than five years of&amp;nbsp;collaborative work that has brought together several hundred people who perhaps,&amp;nbsp;before the Urban Age project, did not see themselves as &amp;lsquo;urbanists&amp;rsquo; per se. Traffic&amp;nbsp;engineers, mayors, criminologists, architects, sociologists, planners &amp;hellip; perhaps, but&amp;nbsp;not urbanists.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The book is divided into three sections: &amp;lsquo;Cities&amp;rsquo; contains visual essays and analytic&amp;nbsp;texts which mirror the content of Urban Age conferences held in the three core cities&amp;nbsp;from 2007 to 2009; &amp;lsquo;Data&amp;rsquo; is a compendium of vital statistics of all nine Urban Age&amp;nbsp;cities, accompanied by a critical narrative and the results of opinion polls carried out&amp;nbsp;among local residents; &amp;lsquo;Reflections&amp;rsquo; collects the thoughts of scholars and practitioners&amp;nbsp;who have followed our project, offering their perspectives on the lessons learnt for the&amp;nbsp;twenty-first-century city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INTRODUCTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Foreword&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wolfgang Nowak&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Living in the Urban Age -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Architecture of the Endless City -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Deyan Sudjic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Economies of Cities&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saskia - Sassen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CITIES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;MUMBAI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Democracy and Self-Interest -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;K. C. Sivaramakrishnan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;A Matter of People -&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Darryl D&amp;rsquo;Monte&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Looking for the Bird of Gold -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Suketu Mehta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The Static and the Kinetic -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Rahul Mehrotra&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The Long View -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Charles Correa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Beyond the Maximum -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Geetam Tiwari&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;S&amp;Atilde;O PAULO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The Urban Giant -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Deyan Sudjic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Filling the Political Vacuum&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Jeroen Klink&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The Cultures of the Metropolis -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Gareth A. Jones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Looking for a Shared Identity -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Jos&amp;eacute; de Souza Martins&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Worlds Set Apart -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Teresa Caldeira&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The Mirage and Its Limits -&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Raul Juste Lores&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Living on the Edge -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Fernando de Mello Franco&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;ISTANBUL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The City Too Big to Fail -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Deyan Sudjic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Bridging Histories -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;İlhan Tekeli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The Hinge City -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Richard Sennett&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s Istanbul (not Globalization) -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Hashim Sarkis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The Violence of Change -&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Asu Aksoy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The Contours of Concrete -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&amp;Ouml;mer Kanıpak&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Measuring Success -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&amp;Ccedil;ağlar Keyder&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DATA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Vital Statistics: Nine Cities Compared&lt;br /&gt;Understanding the Numbers -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Justin McGuirk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Understanding What People Think -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Tony Travers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REFLECTIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Boundaries and Borders -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Richard Sennett&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;No Frills and Bare Life -&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Alejandro Zaera-Polo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;City Solutions to Global Problems -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Nicholas Stern, Dimitri Zenghelis and Philipp Rode&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Democracy and Governance -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Gerald E. Frug&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The Urban Earthquake -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Anthony Williams&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Uneven Landscapes -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sophie Body-Gendrot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;From Utopia to Youtopia -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Alejandro Aravena&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Surviving in an Urban Age -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;David Satterthwaite&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Getting to Work -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Fabio Casiroli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Facing the Metro Challenge -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Bruce Katz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;On the Ground -&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Adam Kaasa with Marcos Rosa and Priya Shankar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INDEX&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Notes&lt;br /&gt;Credits&lt;br /&gt;Contributors&lt;br /&gt;Urban Age Conference Participants&lt;br /&gt;Index&lt;br /&gt;Editors&amp;rsquo; Acknowledgments&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ricky Burdett&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;is Professor of Urban Studies at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.lse.ac.uk/home.aspx&quot;&gt;London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)&lt;/a&gt; and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age programme. He is a Global Distinguished Professor at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniny.it/&quot;&gt;New York University&lt;/a&gt;. He was Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics and now advises the Olympic Legacy Park Company.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deyan Sudjic&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;is Director of the Design Museum in London. Founded in 1989, the Design Museum is the UK&#039;s cultural champion of design and has won international acclaim for exhibitions of modern design history and contemporary design.&amp;nbsp;From 2000 to 2004 he was Editor of Domus, the international magazine of art, architecture and design, and he was Founding Editor of Blueprint magazine from 1983 to 1996.&amp;nbsp;Before joining the Design Museum in August 2006, Deyan Sudjic was Dean of the Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design at Kingston University, Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art, and the Observer design and architecture writer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:38:31 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/living-in-the-endless-city</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/living-in-the-endless-city</guid></item><item><title>Urban Design Since 1945 - &lt;br/&gt; A Global Perspective</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Urban Design Since 1945 - A Global Perspective reviews the emergence of urban design as a global phenomenon. The book opens with the urgent need to rebuild cities and re-house the millions of refugees living in camps and shantytowns at the end of the Second World War. Against this background, the book traces the collapse of the modernist, comprehensive state-planning schemes on both sides of the Iron Curtain as global corporations emerged, concentrating on networks and enclaves. It describes how Latin America and then Asia began a rapid urbanisation process, shifting the global urban centre away from Europe and overturning existing urban design models. This resulted in global megacities of an unprecedented scale, often with large associated shantytowns.&amp;nbsp;By outlining the dominant models in urban design over the last sixty years - the metropolis, the megalopolis, the fragmented metropolis and the global megacity - the book provides an essential framework for students of the subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dedication&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acknowledgements&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Section I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Chapter 1&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Urban Design &amp;ndash; An Overview&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Chapter 2&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Illustrated Urban Elements&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Section II&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Chapter 3&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Metropolis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Chapter 4&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Illustrated Metropolis&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Section III&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Chapter 5&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Megalopolis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Chapter 6&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Illustrated Megalopolis&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Section IV&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chapter 7&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Fragmented Metropolis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chapter 8&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Illustrated Fragmented Metropolis&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Section V&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Chapter 9&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Megacity/Metecity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Chapter 10&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Illustrated Megacity/Metacity&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Urban Ecologies and Urban Design &amp;ndash; Future Scenarios&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glossary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Author&amp;rsquo;s Caution Endnote Sources and Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Annotated Bibliography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Index&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHOR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Grahame Shane: &lt;/strong&gt;he&amp;nbsp;teaches Graduate Urban Design at the&lt;a title=&quot;Columbia University&quot; href=&quot;http://www.columbia.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; Columbia University&lt;/a&gt; and undergraduate students at &lt;a title=&quot;Cooper Union&quot; href=&quot;http://cooper.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cooper Union&lt;/a&gt; in New York. He also lectures for the &lt;a title=&quot;Bartlett School of Architecture&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Bartlett School of Architecture&lt;/a&gt;, Graduate Urban Design Programme, University of London and at the &lt;a title=&quot;Politecnico di Milano&quot; href=&quot;http://www.polimi.it&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Polytechnic in Milan&lt;/a&gt;, as well as participating in masterclasses at the University of Venice. He has lectured widely and published in architectural journals in Europe, the USA and Asia. He co-edited with Brian McGrath the &lt;em&gt;Architectural Design &lt;/em&gt;title &lt;em&gt;Sensing the 21st Century City: Close-Up and Remote, &lt;/em&gt;published in November 2005. His book &lt;em&gt;Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory &lt;/em&gt;was published by Wiley in June 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:32:21 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/urban-design-since-1945</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/urban-design-since-1945</guid></item><item><title>The Urban Potential of External Territories</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The urban potential of the territory seems first and foremost to evoke the rediscovery of an anchorage to the land, in the sense that the city receives an appeal from the territory to reflect on the sense of man&#039;s home, as a quest for the primary elements of its construction, a search for urban essence. &lt;br /&gt;On a horizon that appears to be urging us towards environmentally-oriented urban life, promising perspectives seem perhaps to be opening up for the vast territories rich in nature and history for the construction of possible urban worlds.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This book explores the current reasons for the relations between territories and urban settlement, outlining a perspective of environmental city that will retrieve the historic depth and sense of the territory to relaunch them in current terms. The authors highlight the original ways the territory is brought to the attention of an urban life that, precisely through these new relations, is renewed and finds the light of a perspective.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;The projects illustrated propose selective re-centring of the city on its environmental cornerstones, to some extent external to the usual dynamics of the city, highlighting structure-territories that reveal in their natural and historic wealth the generating force of a different kind of settlement space. In these territories the project, even with the smallest action, makes public contemporary space emerge, disclosing a common world of urban meanings in the territory of the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(Source: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Urban Potential of External Territories,&lt;/em&gt; FrancoAngeli Editore, English abstract)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Il potenziale urbano del territorio sembra in primo luogo richiamare la riscoperta di un ancoraggio alla terra, nel senso che dal territorio la citt&amp;agrave; riceve un richiamo alla riflessione sul senso della casa dell&#039;uomo, come ricerca degli elementi primari della sua costruzione, una ricerca dell&#039;essenziale urbano. In un orizzonte che sembra spingerci verso una vita urbana orientata in senso ambientale, sembrano forse aprirsi per i vasti territori densi di natura e di storia prospettive promettenti per la costruzione di mondi urbani possibili.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Il volume esplora le ragioni attuali delle relazioni tra i territori e l&#039;insediamento urbano, delineando una prospettiva di citt&amp;agrave; ambientale che recupera la profondit&amp;agrave; storica e il senso del territorio e li rilancia in termini attuali. Gli autori mettono in luce i modi inediti in cui il territorio &amp;egrave; posto all&#039;attenzione di una vita urbana che proprio attraverso queste relazioni inedite si rinnova e trova la luce di una prospettiva.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;I progetti illustrati propongono un ricentramento selettivo della citt&amp;agrave; sui suoi cardini ambientali, in un certo senso esterni alle dinamiche consuetudinarie della citt&amp;agrave; mettendo in luce territori-struttura che rivelano nella loro densit&amp;agrave; di natura e di storia la forza generatrice di un ordine diverso dello spazio insediativo. In questi territori il progetto anche nei suoi gesti pi&amp;ugrave; piccoli fa emergere lo spazio pubblico contemporaneo, scoprendo un mondo comune di significati urbani nel territorio della citt&amp;agrave;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;(Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Urban Potential of External Territories,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;FrancoAngeli Editore, Italian abstract)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I. EXTERNAL TERRITORIES AND CITY PROJECT&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;TERRITORI ESTERNI E PROGETTO DELLA CITTA&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The urban potential of external territories&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Potenziale urbano dei territori esterni&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Scenarios for a territorial future of the city &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Scenari per un futuro territoriale della citt&amp;agrave;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Giovanni Maciocco&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;External territories and environmental city project &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Territori esterni e progetto ambientale della citt&amp;agrave;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Silvia Serreli&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Territory, representation, project &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Territorio, rappresentazione, progetto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Gianfranco Sanna&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;II. FORMATIVE CONTENTS OF EXTERNAL TERRITORIES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; CONTENUTI FORMATIVI DEI TERRITORI ESTERNI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Places, matrices, traces&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Luoghi, matrici, tracce&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;History for places &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; La storia per I luoghi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Giovanni Azzena&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;﻿&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Lingering over &quot;play&quot;: the status of art in relations between men and places &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Indugiare nel &quot;gioco&quot;: lo stato dell&#039;arte nella relazione tra uomini e luoghi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Elena Moreddu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other urban landscapes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Altri paesaggi urbani&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;From a conservative to a project-oriented approach to the contemporary landscape /&amp;nbsp;Da un approccio conservativo a uno progettuale al paesaggio contemporaneo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Paola Pittaluga&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Beyond Bigness. Some reflections on architecture in low-density conditionS&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Oltre la Bigness. Alcune riflessioni sull&#039;architettura della bassa densit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Francesco Spanedda&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spaces of the public sphere&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spazi della sfera pubblica&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Designing spaces, constructing images &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Progettare spazi, costruire immagini&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Enrico Cical&amp;ograve;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Spaces of silence in the construction of a new urban score &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Spazi del silenzio nella costruzione di una nuova partitura urbana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Lidia Decandia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New urban behaviour &amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comportamenti urbani inediti&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Revealing the city on the territory &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Rivelare la citt&amp;agrave; nel territorio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Giovanni Maria Filindeu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Temporary uses as a perspective of the urban project &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Usi temporanei come prospettiva del progetto urbano&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Laura Lutzoni&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Informal micro-economies and new urban catalysts &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Micro-economie informali e nuovi catalizzatori urbani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Daniela Marongiu&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Structures identifying the city&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Strutture di riconoscimento della citt&amp;agrave;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Cities on water &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Citt&amp;agrave; dell&#039;acqua&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Elisa Mura&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;External territories and mobility infrastructure &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Territori esterni e infrastrutture della mobilit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; by Tanja Congiu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INDEXES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name Index &amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subject Index &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credits&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contributors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Giovanni Maciocco&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;is Professor of Town and Regional Planning, Director of the Department of Architecture and Planning and Dean of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.architettura.uniss.it/&quot;&gt;Faculty of Architecture, University of Sassari&lt;/a&gt;. His works include:&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;People and Space. New Forms of Interaction in the City Project&lt;/em&gt;, with S. Tagliagambe (eds., Springer, 2009);&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Enhancing the City. New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure&lt;/em&gt;, with S. Serreli (eds, Springer, 2009);&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Il territorio, la memoria, il progetto&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;(FrancoAngeli, 2010).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gianfranco Sanna&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a researcher in Architectural Design at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.architettura.uniss.it/&quot;&gt;Faculty of Architecture, University of Sassari&lt;/a&gt;. At present he is teaching Architectural Design and Planning. His published works include: &lt;em&gt;Studi sul progetto del paesaggio&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;(FrancoAngeli, 2010); &quot;Territori-struttura e scenari ambientali della citt&amp;agrave;&quot;, in Maciocco G. (ed.),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Laboratori di progetto sul paesaggio&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(FrancoAngeli, 2010).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Silvia Serreli&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a researcher in Landscape and Urban Planning at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.architettura.uniss.it/&quot;&gt;Faculty of Architecture, University of Sassari&lt;/a&gt;. She is a lecture in Territorial Planning. Her recent publications include:&amp;nbsp;&quot;Derelict places as alternative territories of the city&quot;, in Maciocco G. (ed.);&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Territorial Future of the City&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;(Springer, 2008);&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Enhancing the City. New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;with G. Maciocco (eds., Springer, 2009);&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Paesaggi costieri e progetti di territorio&lt;/em&gt;, with G. Maciocco (eds. FrancoAngeli, 2010).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SERIES &quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;METODI DEL TERRITORIO&quot;: AIMS AND SCOPE&lt;br /&gt;Series founded by Fernando Clemente&lt;br /&gt;Directed by Giovanni Maciocco&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Methods for the Territory is an expression that indicates almost the belonging of methods to the territory, methods for the city project, that take the territory on as a centre of reasoning, methods that explore the territory as a field of potentialities for the renewal of urban life. It is not a matter of creating separation between urban morphologies, but of trying to see the city in all the different spatial forms in which the contemporary urban condition is expressed, exploring the conditions of territoriality that will necessarily be incorporated in the city. All the text published in the series have been subjected to blind peer review.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:10:24 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/the-urban-potential-of-external-territories</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/the-urban-potential-of-external-territories</guid></item><item><title>The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructures</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;normaal&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Around the globe the importance of infrastructure as the motor of economic development is rising owing to increasing mobility and the need to make urban territories accessible. As a result, infrastructure networks are among the most complex and significant design tasks today.&amp;nbsp;This book investigates how the design of infrastructure actively influences the organization of the inhabited landscape. Works of infrastructure are analyzed as footprints of civilization, as physical presence, as transformers of perception, and as new vessels of collective life. The authors identify these characteristics, together with the conditions that influence them, and suggest a typology of design attitudes as revealed in recent practice around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each chapter is illustrated with key works by some of the world&amp;rsquo;s most inspiring designers, including &lt;em&gt;Vito Acconci, Paul Andreu, Benthem Crouwel, Dietmar Feichtinger, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Terry Farrell, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Antoine Grumbach, Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki, Bruno Mader, Maxwan, Montgomery Sisam, OMA, Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, UN Studio, and Zwarts &amp;amp; Jansma&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The authors demonstrate how the combined creative potential of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design is essential to putting into place an efficient, modern infrastructure. The result is an indispensable instrument for everyone involved in the design of infrastructure, and for all observers of the contemporary city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTENTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Purpose and Conception &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I. IMPRINTS OF MOBILITY ON THE LANDSCAPE &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Introduction: Shaping MobiliTy Through Infrastructure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Standard Pro files as a Means of Identification&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;emsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;normaal&quot;&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Lechwiesen Service Station, Munich-Lindau Highway, Germany &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Bilbao Metro, Bilbao, Spain &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Houston MetroRail, Houston, Texas, USA &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Curitiba Bus System, Curitiba, Brazil &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Leidsche Rijn Bridges, Utrecht, The Netherlands&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Network as a Gateway to Regional Character&amp;emsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado, USA &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;TGV M&amp;eacute;diterran&amp;eacute;e, Aix-en-Provence, Avignon and Valence, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;A16 Service Station, Bay of Somme, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;IJburg Bridges, Amsterdam, The Netherlands &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Humber River Bridge, Toronto, Canada&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;II. PHYSICAL PRESENCE IN THE LANDSCAPE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Introduction : From Urbanism to Engineering and Back&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Artifice of Hiding&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;emsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Jardins Wilson, Plaine Saint-Denis, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Place des C&amp;eacute;lestins, Lyon, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;T&amp;aring;rnby Station, T&amp;aring;rnby, Denmark &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Silicon Graphics North Charleston Campus, Mountain View, California, USA&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Assimilation Through Camouflage&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, Norway &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Parc de la Gare d&amp;rsquo;Issy-Val de Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Plateau de Kirchberg, Luxembourg &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Ballet Valet Parking Garage, Miami Beach, Florida, USA &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Fusion into a New Composite &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Louisville Waterfront Park, Louisville, Kentucky, USA &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Faliron Coast, Athens, Greece &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Hoenheim-Nord Terminus, Strasbourg, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Verneda Parking Lot, Barcelona, Spain &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Toledo Escalators and Car Park, Toledo, Spain &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Incorporation into a Piece of Megastructure &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Chass&amp;eacute; Site, Breda, the Netherlands &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Barcelona, Spain &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Porta Susa TGV Station, Turin, Italy &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Baveno Bridge, Baveno, Italy &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Detachment Throug h Self-Reliance &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Millau Viaduct, Millau, France&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Oriente Station, Lisbon, Portugal &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Casar de C&amp;aacute;ceres Bus Station, Casar de C&amp;aacute;ceres, Spain &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;North Terminal, Washington National Airport,Washington, DC, USA &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Fietsappel Bike Storage, Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;III. THE PERCEPTION OF LANDSCAPER THROUGH MOVEMENT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Introduction: Changing Modes of Perception&amp;emsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Staging the Scenery &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;National Routes Project, Norway &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Garabit Highway Rest Area, Garabit, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Mont Saint-Michel Jetty, Mont Saint-Michel, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;High Line Park, New York City, New York, USA &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Biblioth&amp;egrave;que Fran&amp;ccedil;ois Mitterrand Station, Paris, France &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marking Transitions by a Threshold&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;emsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Rijeka Memorial Bridge, Rijeka, Croatia &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;A16 Highway, Bienne (Switzerland) to Belfort (France) &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Craigieburn Bypass, Melbourne, Australia &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Portland Aerial Tram, Portland, Oregon, USA &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Robben Island Ferry Terminal, Cape Town, South Africa &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Enkhuizen Naviduct and Dike, Enkhuizen, the Netherlands &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Montage of Distinctive Sequences&amp;emsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Strasbourg Tram (Line A), Strasbourg, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Douro Promenade, Porto to Matosinhos, Portugal &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&amp;Oslash;resund Bridge and Tunnel, Copenhagen (Denmark) toMalm&amp;ouml; (Sweden) &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Hangzhou Bay Bridge, Hangzhou, China &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Constructing a Cinematogr aphic Itinerary &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Mur Island, Graz, Austria &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Simone de Beauvoir Footbridge, Paris, France &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Salerno Maritime Terminal, Salerno, Italy &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Arnhem Central Station, Arnhem, the Netherlands &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Incheon International Airport, Seoul, South Korea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kelly Shannon&lt;/strong&gt; is Professor of Landscape Urbanism at the &lt;a title=&quot;University of Leuven&quot; href=&quot;http://www.kuleuven.be/english/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;University of Leuven&lt;/a&gt;. She has been a visitig professor at the University of Colorado in Denver, the University of Catalonia in Barcelona, and the AHO School of Architecture in Oslo. She contributes to a number of European periodicals and regularly participates in international design competition. She is co-editor (with Bruno De Meulder) of &lt;em&gt;Eplorations of/in Urbanism&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Urban Fascicles OSA&lt;/em&gt;, two book series from &lt;a title=&quot;SUN Publisher&quot; href=&quot;http://www.sunarchitecture.nl/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;SUN Publisher&lt;/a&gt; in Amsterdam. Her research is at the intersection of urban analysis, mapping and new cartographies, design and landscape urbanism. More specifically, her work focuses on the development of landscape urbanism strategies that work with water and topography.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marcel Smets, &lt;/strong&gt;Professor of&amp;nbsp;Urbanism at the &lt;a title=&quot;Univeristy of Leuven&quot; href=&quot;http://www.kuleuven.be/english/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;University of Leuven&lt;/a&gt; and Flemish State Architect (2005-2010). He was founding member of ILAUD (1976) and a visiting faculty member at University of Thessaloniki (1985) and at &lt;a title=&quot;Harward Graduate School of Design&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/news/all-news/feed.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Harvard Graduate School of Design&lt;/a&gt; (2002-2004). He served as critic for &lt;em&gt;Archis&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Topos&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Lotus&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Casabella&lt;/em&gt; and has been juror for many competitions. He was chief urban designer of projects in Leuven, Antwerp, Hoeilaart, Rouen, genoa and Conegliano. Through numerous research projects, published articles, and his own urban design practice, Smets has explored both the theoretical and practical relations between urbanism, mobility and landscape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:27:50 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/the-landscape-of-contemporary-infrastructures</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/the-landscape-of-contemporary-infrastructures</guid></item><item><title>Il Novecento è davvero finito</title><description>Considerazioni sull&#039;urbanistica &lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un profondo cambiamento segna l&amp;rsquo;urbanistica e l&amp;rsquo;architettura di questi ultimi due decenni e si esprime come lontananza dal progetto moderno, apertura di nuovi problemi, modifiche di linguaggi e tecniche. Al cambiare di tutto o quasi si sovrappone un discorso critico che non &amp;egrave; mai sembrato cos&amp;igrave; disarmato, poco attento a osservare ci&amp;ograve; che l&amp;rsquo;urbanistica fa, il modo in cui argomenta ci&amp;ograve; che fa, in cui interpreta problemi, chiarisce intenzioni, produce giustificazioni, cambia linguaggi. Manca una migliore descrizione dell&amp;rsquo;urbanistica e del suo progetto che sia anche un tornare a descrivere, osservare, interpretare i temi del discorso urbanistico; chiarire ed esplicitare i modi messi in atto per ordinare il mondo sensibile esercitando un&amp;rsquo;azione politica al di l&amp;agrave; degli aspetti normativi e della ricostruzione del negoziato. In mancanza di un tale atteggiamento &amp;egrave; fin troppo facile parlare di difficolt&amp;agrave;, sconfitta, impoverimento. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scopo di questo libro &amp;egrave; provare a descrivere alcuni aspetti dell&amp;rsquo;urbanistica italiana di questi ultimi vent&amp;rsquo;anni. Al di fuori di un atteggiamento nostalgico, di perdita e al di fuori di una entusiastica accettazione delle condizioni contemporanee. Un tale compito si giustifica con la convinzione che entro una situazione difficile permangano importanti spiragli di conoscenza e azione, che lo sfondo disegnato da coloro che pensano a un impoverimento sia realistico, ma non racconti tutto. Che in esso si possa riallacciare un&amp;rsquo;azione affermativa: una certa libert&amp;agrave; di movimento e di pensiero.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Source: C. Bianchetti,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Il Novecento &amp;egrave; davvero finito&lt;/em&gt;, Donzelli Editore )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Introduzione. Spazi praticabili&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1. Riformismi&lt;br /&gt;2. Il discorso sulla citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;3. Osservare il mutamento&lt;br /&gt;4. Quattro temi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I. Inerzie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1. Forme della descrizione&lt;br /&gt;2. Lo sperimentalismo degli anni novanta&lt;br /&gt;3. La dispersione &amp;egrave; finita, le sue storie no&lt;br /&gt;4. Critica della ragione morfologica&lt;br /&gt;5. La decrescita: un salto all&amp;rsquo;indietro&lt;br /&gt;6. Conclusioni&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;II. Nuove virt&amp;ugrave;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1. Abitare&lt;br /&gt;2. La casa isolata &amp;egrave; un sogno senza avvenire&lt;br /&gt;3. Riscritture del lusso&lt;br /&gt;4. Vecchi e nuovi funzionalismi&lt;br /&gt;5. Vivre ensemble&lt;br /&gt;6. Mistica del buon abitare ed etnografie urbanistiche&lt;br /&gt;7. Conclusioni&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. Teatralit&amp;agrave; minori&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1. Riscritture&lt;br /&gt;2. La sfera pubblica non &amp;egrave; pi&amp;ugrave; duratura&lt;br /&gt;3. Th&amp;eacute;&amp;acirc;tres en plein air&lt;br /&gt;4. Ceti medi&lt;br /&gt;5. Chi norma lo spazio pubblico?&lt;br /&gt;6. Prossimit&amp;agrave; e condivisione&lt;br /&gt;7. Il controllo estetico dello spazio&lt;br /&gt;8. Conclusioni&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV. Disancoraggi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1. Tre posizioni riformiste&lt;br /&gt;2. Una nuova forma di piano&lt;br /&gt;3. Ancora uno scarto&lt;br /&gt;4. Principi di giustificazione&lt;br /&gt;5. Congruenze con le forme dell&amp;rsquo;azione politica&lt;br /&gt;6. Conclusioni&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusione. Quiete, convergenze, disaccordi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indice dei nomi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHOR:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cristina  Bianchetti&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;egrave; professore di Urbanistica e preside vicario della I Facolt&amp;agrave; di Architettura del &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.polito.it/&quot;&gt;Politecnico di Torino&lt;/a&gt;. Ha insegnato nelle scuole di Pescara, Venezia, Milano. &amp;Egrave; nel comitato di redazione della rivista &amp;laquo;L&amp;rsquo;Indice dei libri del mese&amp;raquo;. Tra i suoi scritti &lt;em&gt;Pescara &lt;/em&gt;(Laterza, 1997),&lt;em&gt;Abitare la citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea &lt;/em&gt;(Skira, 2003),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.planum.net/journals-books/urbanistica-e-sfera-pubblica-1&quot;&gt;Urbanistica e sfera pubblica&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;(Donzelli, 2008).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:52:43 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/il-novecento-e-davvero-finito</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/il-novecento-e-davvero-finito</guid></item><item><title>Drawing The Ground &lt;br/&gt; Landscape Urbanism Today</title><description>The Work of Palmbout Urban Landscapes&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palmbout Urban Landscapes&lt;/em&gt;, founded in 1990, is now one of the leading urban design and planning offices in the Netherlands. It exemplifies current practices of urban planning, with an approach characterized by a constant search for a new relationship between urbanism, architecture, and landscape architecture. In this process of experimentation, Palmbout Urban Landscapes has established a profile not only in the field of the relationship between urban planning and architecture but above all in terms of mutual interactions between urban planning, analysis and design of landscape, and infrastructure.&lt;br /&gt;The book documents some fifteen projects organised into six thematic blocks, including such extensive projects as Amsterdam IJburg - a design for an urban extension to Amsterdam with a total area of 450 hectares, 18,000 residences, 100,000 square meters of office space, 30,000 square metres of stores and other facilities - and Maastricht Belvedere - a restructuring of 280 hectares of a former industrial site with 4,000 residences, 100,000 square meters of office space, parking lots and a vehicle bridge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New Land&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The work of Palmbout Urban Landscapes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Aaron Betsky&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drawing the Ground, Layering Time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Frits Palmboom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Preparing the Landscape&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Regional scale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Zuidplaspolder&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Wieringerrandmeer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frameworks for urban growth &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Urban expansions &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; IJburg, Amsterdam&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Ypenburg, The Hague&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conditioning the everyday &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;New residential areas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Paekwijk Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Saksen Weimar, Arnhem&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Zevenaar East &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Digging the Future &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interventions in the existing city&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Buizengat, Vlaardingen&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Belvedere, Maastrcht&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Parkstad, Rotterdam South&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Nieuw-Zurenborg, Anwerp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Redrawing Utopia&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Postwar areas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Lijnbaan Quarter and Courts, Rotterdam&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Staalmanpleinbuurt, Amsterdam 1. Uno stallo istituzionale&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Embedding mobility La ricostruzione delle citt&amp;agrave; italiane&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Infrastructures and public space&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Railway Zone, Ede East&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Station District, Middelburg&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Beach Boulevard, Zandvoort&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appendix&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;List of project&lt;br /&gt;Bibliography and Exhibitions&lt;br /&gt;About the Authors&lt;br /&gt;List of Staff&lt;br /&gt;Illustration Credits&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Frits Palmboom &lt;/strong&gt;(1951) trained in urban planning at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.tudelft.nl/en/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Technical University, Delft&lt;/a&gt;. From 1981 to 1990 he worked for the Urban Development Department, Rotterdam, where he was involved with the Prinsenland and Noordrand projects. ln 1990 he established his own urban design practice and in 1994 entered a partnership with Jaap van denBout. Palmboom is active in education at various universities and academies. In 2001 he was a visiting professor at the University of Louvain. His publications include &lt;em&gt;Doel en Vermaak in het Konstructivisme&lt;/em&gt; (1979), &lt;em&gt;Rotterdam, verstedelijkt landschap&lt;/em&gt; (1987), &lt;em&gt;Kanjers en Knoerten in de binnenstad van Amsterdam&lt;/em&gt; (1995) and &lt;em&gt;Buitenplaats Ypenburg, de conditionering van het verschil &lt;/em&gt;(2000).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Jaap van den Bout &lt;/strong&gt;(1953) trained in architecture at the Technical University, Delft. From 1981 to 1994 he worked with the Urban Development Department, Rotterdam, on projects including the D.W.L. site and the Kop van Zuid. ln 1994, together with Frits Palrnboom, he established Palmboorn &amp;amp; \/an den Bout Urban Designers. He is active in education at various universities and academies. Since 2000 he has been a visiting professor in urban design at the Technical University, Delft. Among his publications are &lt;em&gt;Engeland in de 18&amp;deg; en 19&amp;deg; eeuw&lt;/em&gt; (1975), &lt;em&gt;Hoogbouw en Verstedelijking &lt;/em&gt;(1991) and &lt;em&gt;De Kop van Zuid&lt;/em&gt; (1994).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Jeroen Ruitenbeek&lt;/strong&gt; (1968) trained as an architect at the Technical University, Deltt. In 1991 he studied atthe Universitat Polit&amp;egrave;cnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. From 1994 to 1997 he vvorked for the Urban Development Department, Rotterdam. Since 1997 he has vvorked at Palmboom and Van den Bout Urban Designers. In 2008 he became a partner of Palmbout Urban Landscapes. Ruitenbeek has done spatial-historical research into the postwar neighbourhoods of The Hague and Rotterdam and published in &lt;em&gt;De Wederopbouvv&lt;/em&gt; (The Hague, 2002) and in&lt;em&gt; Van Pedrecht tot Ommoord&lt;/em&gt; (Rotterdam, 2005).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:28:41 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/book-0</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/book-0</guid></item><item><title>Il progetto territorialista. &lt;br/&gt; Città, territori, progetti</title><description>Contesti 2/2010&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questo numero della rivista &lt;em&gt;Contesti&lt;/em&gt; non tratta, come di consueto, un tema monografico, ma ha scelto di dedicare le sue pagine a illustrare la produzione scientifica di un gruppo di studiosi che si autoriconosce nella scuola territorialista italiana.&amp;nbsp;Nel corso di pi&amp;ugrave; di un ventennio si &amp;egrave; definito in Italia un approccio alla ricerca-azione delle discipline territoriali che - partendo dalla rivisitazione identitaria del territorio - ha sviluppato teorie, metodologie ed esperienze sui temi dello sviluppo locale autosostenibile, allargando i confini disciplinari a settori anche all&amp;rsquo;apparenza lontani.&amp;nbsp;Questa storia &amp;egrave; stata restituita con saggi e ricerche che hanno ordito un articolato fluire di narrazioni in cui sguardi interni ed esterni si sono incontrati. I documenti che si susseguono nel numero descrivono approcci, punti di vista, esperienze, azioni, riflessioni che configurano un racconto collettivo, come collettiva &amp;egrave; stata l&amp;rsquo;esperienza del gruppo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Entrare e uscire dalla scena &amp;egrave; stato il primo obiettivo della struttura del racconto, articolato fra saggi, scritti da studiosi di diverse discipline che portano uno sguardo esterno all&amp;rsquo;esperienza del gruppo, e ricerche, osservatorio regionale e glossario, scritti dall&amp;rsquo;interno, da quell&amp;rsquo;interiorit&amp;agrave; che proviene dalla pratica costante della ricerca/azione a vario titolo perseguita dai componenti della scuola.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INDICE&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il progetto territorialista&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;a cura di Daniela Poli&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editoriale &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daniela Poli&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Militant University: tradizioni e intersezioni nella scuola territorialista&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Giancarlo Paba&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un approccio che viene da lontano: teorie e azioni della scuolaterritorialista italiana fra XX e XXI secolo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daniela Poli&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saggi&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;La lunga marcia degli studi economici verso il territorio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Giacomo Becattini&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un dialogo fra scuole: SLoT e autosostenibilit&amp;agrave; culturale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Giuseppe Dematteis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Utopia e patrimonio nel progetto di territorio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fran&amp;ccedil;oise Choay&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il progetto di paesaggio nell&amp;rsquo;approccio territorialista&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luisa Bonesio&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fra territorio e paesaggio una terra di mezzo ancora da esplorare?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Massimo Quaini&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interpretazione strutturale e progetto di territorio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Roberto Gambino&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Design per un&amp;rsquo;ecologia territoriale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ezio Manzini&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ricerche&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Atlanti, figure territoriali e regole statutarie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Massimo Carta, Fabio Lucchesi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dagli scenari strategici al progetto di territorio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;David Fanfani&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La rinascita dei fiumi: dai piani ai contratti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sara Giacomozzi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Esperienze di partecipazione&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anna Lisa Pecoriello, Adalgisa Rubino&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Multiculturalit&amp;agrave;: esperienze urbane&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sergio De La Pierre&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Osservatorio regionale&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Lo statuto del territorio, carta costituzionale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Paolo Baldeschi&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Glossario&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Autosostenibilit&amp;agrave;, &lt;em&gt;Alberto Tarozzi&lt;/em&gt;; Cooperazione, &lt;em&gt;Raffaele Paloscia&lt;/em&gt;; Diversit&amp;agrave;,&lt;em&gt; Camilla Perrone&lt;/em&gt;; Ecosistema territoriale e bioregione urbana,&lt;em&gt;Claudio Saragosa&lt;/em&gt;; Identit&amp;agrave;/territorio, &lt;em&gt;Lucia Carle&lt;/em&gt;; Luogo, &lt;em&gt;Anna Marson&lt;/em&gt;; Neoruralit&amp;agrave;, &lt;em&gt;Francesco Coviello, Giorgio Ferraresi&lt;/em&gt;; Progetto di territorio, &lt;em&gt;Daniele Vannetiello&lt;/em&gt;; Valutazione strategica del progetto di territorio, &lt;em&gt;Alberto Ziparo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note conclusive&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Verso la societ&amp;agrave; dei territorialisti e delle territorialiste&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alberto Magnaghi&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:52:50 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/contesti</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/contesti</guid></item><item><title>Figures, Infrastructures &lt;br/&gt; An Atlas of roads and railways</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Figures Infrastructures&lt;/em&gt; is a unique exploration into the language of cartography. The book demonstrates the capacity of maps to constructively re-imagine the everyday urbanised territory. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Case Study&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The case study of &lt;em&gt;Figures infrastructure&lt;/em&gt;s is the landscape of infrastructures portrayed in section E-18 to H-16 of the Michelin roadmap n.533 &quot;regional Benelux&quot;. Crammed with lines of all sorts, this section of the Michelin roadmap points the way in the Leie-Schelde interfluvium. The cut-out roughly follows the contour of a square stretched around the cities of Ghent, Kortrijk (Courtrai) and Doornik (Tournai). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Method &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The content of a single map is recomposed into the format of a book and becomes an atlas. The lines on the map are a given. As they are more or less straightforward representations of the existing transport infrastructures, they remain unaltered. They are however subject to a rearrangement: the given lines are forced into a new medium. By transferring the lines into the format of the atlas, the reconception of the infrastructural networks takes on a renewade shape. The aura of precision and comprehensiveness emanating from the familiar Michelin roadmap, which gives confidence to the traveler, is abandoned. In the space of the book, stories are densely stacked, Cartesian projection moves over for multiple composition. Vice versa, the format of the atlas is expanded to assimilate and amplify the reconception of the infrastructural networks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Table of contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The structure of the atlas is topological, unraveling the spatial dynamics between the infrastructural networks - roads and railroads - as they develop historically over time into complex interrelated systems. &lt;br /&gt;An often cited example of a topological map is Beck&amp;rsquo;s design of the London Underground Map. Shifting the map&amp;rsquo;s emphasis from topographical correctness to structural (relational) clarity, Beck&amp;rsquo;s redesign conveys an almost diagrarnmatical understanding of the subway as a system of interrelated lines and stops. &lt;em&gt;Figures Infrastructures&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;uses topology not in the design of its single maps, but in the way the infrastructural lines are arranged across its pages or it&amp;rsquo;s page-cutting.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Within this topological structure, three cartographic &quot;figures&quot; operate between the infrastructures and the maps, each constructing a distinct narrative. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The atlas is setup in three parts, three SITES I, SITE II and SITE III. These three SITES interact with each other, in a way that mirrors the perceived interactions between the infrastructural lines.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;SITE I &lt;/strong&gt;maps the direct connections between Ghent and Kortrijk: heerweg (military country road), national road, railway and motorway. These four parallel lines are juxtaposed in the four chapters of SITE I. Compiled in a SITE, they picture the bundle of parallel infrastructures that operate between the two cities. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;SITE III&lt;/strong&gt; deals with a second configuration of parallel infrastructures, at right angles to this bundle. They are the paved roads that distribute the traffic to and from the Ghent-Kortrijk axes across the territory. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;SITE II&lt;/strong&gt;, positioned in between SITE I and SITE III, where the parallel bundle and the transversals meet, displays the smaller infrastructural patterns that linlk both.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SITE I Intersections&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bundle of parallel infrastructures Ghent - Kortrijk (... - Lille) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;GROTE HEERWEG Country lane dissolve &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;N43 National road breaks into segments of a line&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;LINE 75 tinkering with the intersections&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;E17 grid erosion &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SITE II Routes &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sideways movements in the bundle:&amp;nbsp;lines, circles and mixed figures&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;DESSELGEM TRANSVERSE ROAD moving through time&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;RINGS AROUND KORTRIJK enlarging the perimeter&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;DEERLIJK mixed figures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SITE III&amp;nbsp;Profiles &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Transversals across the Leie-Schelde interfluvium&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;N50 from archetype to total degradation&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;N8 from easy path to complex roadscape&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;N26 unity in segments, diversity in the road &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;N382 focal shifts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Epilogue&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bibliography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colophon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Bieke Cattoor&lt;/strong&gt; is an urbanist and researcher at the &lt;a title=&quot;Cathollic University of Leuven&quot; href=&quot;http://www.kuleuven.be/english/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Catholic University of Leuven&lt;/a&gt;, Belgium. She is preparing a dissertation on the potential of cartography to inform and to shape territorial urbanisms.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruno De Meulder&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;is Professor of Urbanism at the &lt;a title=&quot;Eindhoven University of Technology&quot; href=&quot;http://www.tue.nl/en/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;University of Technology Eindhoven&lt;/a&gt;, the Netherlands, and the &lt;a title=&quot;Catholic University of Leuven&quot; href=&quot;http://www.kuleuven.be/english/&quot;&gt;Catholic University of Leuven&lt;/a&gt;, Belgium.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:01:37 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/figures-infrastructures-br-an-atlas-of-roads-and-railways</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/figures-infrastructures-br-an-atlas-of-roads-and-railways</guid></item><item><title>Nord Ovest Milano</title><description>Uno studio geografico operativo&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo volume presenta un&#039; indagine territoriale condotta su un contesto insolito, qui denominato &quot;Nord Ovest Milano&quot;, rappresentato da quella densa realt&amp;agrave; urbana compresa tra le citta di Milano, Varese e Novara. E&#039; un campo geografico caratterizzato da un mutamento profondo della sua base materiale, sociale ed economica, oltre che insediativa, e che appare significativo dei processi generali che investono i rapporti tra citt&amp;agrave; e territori nell&amp;rsquo;attuale fase di mondializzazione, segnata da una crisi globale che ha riflessi importanti sulle societ&amp;agrave; e sulle economie locali. Sviluppo economico, coesione sociale e territoriale, qualit&amp;agrave; democratica delle decisioni e delle forme di rappresentanza sono questioni fondamentali che descrivono lo sfondo attivo nel quale collocare i temi e i fenomeni indagati, nella consapevolezza che tanto la &amp;ldquo;quadratura del cerchio&amp;rdquo; - per dirla come Dahrendorf - appare ardua, quanto essa sembra indispensabile per migliorare il profilo civile delle nostre societ&amp;agrave;. Il lavoro di restituzione dell&#039;immagine, pur assumendo la parzialit&amp;agrave; del punto di osservazione geografico-territoriale, prova a misurarsi con i temi posti a crocevia delle molteplici relazioni tra spazio e societ&amp;agrave;. Lo studio si propone dunque di contribuire a un processo incrementale (e quindi aggiornabile) di produzione di informazioni finalizzate e di conoscenze operative delle relazioni sociali e decisionali in campo, con l&amp;rsquo;intenzione di far crescere quel capitale sociale necessario a qualificare la progettualit&amp;agrave; pubblica. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ciascuno dei temi propone una chiave di lettura complessa e multidimensionale del territorio del Nord Ovest Milano,&amp;nbsp;interrogandone la costruzione storica dei confini e dei rapporti territoriali (&lt;em&gt;Campo&lt;/em&gt;); i mutamenti economici e sociali (&lt;em&gt;Metamorfosi&lt;/em&gt;); le forme di organizzazione e composizione territoriale in relazione ai processi sociali e insediativi (&lt;em&gt;Urbanit&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;); i principali progetti e investimenti territoriali in corso (&lt;em&gt;Trasformazioni&lt;/em&gt;); il nesso tra geografie politiche e reticoli decisionali (&lt;em&gt;Poteri&lt;/em&gt;). Ogni sezione puo essere letta autonomamente, ma ciascuna dialoga con le altre disegnando possibili percorsi di lettura trasversale. &lt;strong&gt;Ogni sezione propone inoltre specifici strumenti di indagine e di rappresentazione in relazione all&amp;rsquo;oggetto studiato, al punto di osservazione scelto e allo sguardo impiegato. Questo studio operativo rappresenta insieme un tentativo di offrire materiali consolidati e sperimentare modi di indagine e forme di rappresentazione &amp;ldquo;dense&amp;rdquo; di un territorio. &lt;/strong&gt;Da questo punto di vista gli autori immaginano che la ricerca possa essere utilizzata in modi diversi e per differenti finalit&amp;agrave; da attori locali e sovralocali, da studiosi e studenti. Tanto pi&amp;ugrave;, e tanto diversamente, essa sar&amp;agrave; &amp;ldquo;usato&amp;rdquo;, quanto pi&amp;ugrave; sar&amp;agrave; corrisposta l&amp;rsquo;esigenza di costruire uno studio davvero &amp;ldquo;operativo&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Una geografia intenzionale, uno studio operativo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CAMPO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a cura di Matteo Bolocan Goldstein&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Nord Ovest Milano:&amp;nbsp;Una sezione territoriale della fasciape demontana da Torino a Trieste&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;La costruzione del territorio metropolitano tra autonomia e dipendenza&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Milano a Nord Ovest:&amp;nbsp;geografie volontarie&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Profili di citta in mutamento:&amp;nbsp;Varese, Novara e Milano&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Rapporti territoriali in evoluzione:&amp;nbsp;assetti e scenari infrastrutturali&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Rapporti territoriali in evoluzione.&amp;nbsp;Verso una mega-city region&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;METAMORFOSI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a cura di Gabriele Pasqui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Introduzione&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Un territorio delle variet&amp;agrave; locali in transizione&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Innovazione e imprenditorialit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Il lavoro che canibia&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Immagini della transizione sociale&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;La mobilita nel Nord Ovest Milano&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Il mercato immobiliare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;URBANITA&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a cura di Bertrando Bonfantinie Andrea Di Giovanni&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Introduzione&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Il Nord Ovest Milano come formazione territoriale&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Luoghi di urbanit&amp;agrave; densa&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Tracce di un progetto di ricomposizione&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TRASFORMAZIONI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a cura di Luca Gaeta e Paolo Riganti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Introduzione&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Progetti in corso o realizzati&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Attrattori e generatori di mobilit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;POTERI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a cura di Matteo Bolocan Goldstein,Gabriele Pasqui e Luca Gaeta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Introduzione&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Geografia politica e reticoli decisionali&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Imprese del Nord Ovest Milano. Condizioni localizzative e reti multiscalari&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Il profilo dei principali operatori&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bibliografia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matteo Bolocan Goldstein,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;egrave; docente di Urbanistica e Geografia economico-politica presso la Scuola di Architettura e Societ&amp;agrave; del&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title=&quot;PoliMi&quot; href=&quot;http://www.polimi.it/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Politecnico di Milano&lt;/a&gt;. Fra i suoi testi recenti:&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Trasformazioni a Milano. Pirelli Bicocca direttrice nord est&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(a cura di, Angeli 2003),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Milano incompiuta. Interpretazioni urbanistiche del mutamento&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(a cura di, con B. Bonfantini, FrancoAngeli 2007);&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Geografie milanesi&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Maggioli 2009).&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Silvia Botti,&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;architetto e giornalista, cura progetti editoriali ed &amp;egrave; consulente di comunicazione&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabriele Pasqui,&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;docente presso la Scuola di Architettura e Societ&amp;agrave; del &lt;a title=&quot;PoliMI&quot; href=&quot;http://www.polimi.it/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Politecnico di Milano&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;egrave; attualmente direttore del &lt;a title=&quot;DiAP Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione&quot; href=&quot;http://www.diap.polimi.it&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;DiAP Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione&lt;/a&gt;. Fra i suoi testi recenti:&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Citt&amp;agrave;, popolazioni, politiche&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Jaca Book, Milano 2008);&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;In movimento. Confini, politiche e popolazioni nel territorio milanese&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(FrancoAngeli, Milano 2008, a cura di, con A. Balducci e V. Fedeli),&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;L&#039;Italia al futuro. Citt&amp;agrave; e paesaggi, economie e societ&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2011, con A. Lanzani).&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:48:39 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/nord-ovest-milano</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/nord-ovest-milano</guid></item><item><title>Strategy Planning &lt;br/&gt; for Contemporary Urban Region</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This book is an account of how the Milan Provincial Administration and a team of&amp;nbsp;researchers from Milan Polytechnic worked together to develop a new Strategic Plan for Milan&amp;rsquo;s urban region. Informed by innovative conceptions of both how to understand cities in the contemporary world, and engage in strategic planning work, this experience has already attracted considerable international attention. The authors now consolidate their contribution into a comprehensive account which continually relates theory and practice. Examining the Milan Plan in detail, the book explains the profound transformations which put great pressure on the traditional descriptive tools so planners must engage in the production of new ones. It also proposes that these transformations affect the way in which urban policies and planning processes are designed. The project offers insights into - and new directions for - planning theory more generally while at the same time testing this powerful and innovative research hypothesis in an important European city empirical study. In detailing the results of this project, this book proposes useful ground-breaking approaches to planning for similar urban regions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;An innovative attempt to deal with real-world uncertainties, this book reframes the discourseof strategic spatial planning. The authors create a new space for sensitive exploration of possibleurhan futures in an excellent case example to inspire academics and practitioners with whatcan he achieved if one dares to break the mould.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Jean Hillier, Newcastle University UK&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;This book does much more than telling the story of a project for Milan. The authors skillfullyreflect on strategic planning by means of practice. The critical interplay of theory and practicemakes the book very useful for students, practitioners and non&amp;mdash;conventional actors in strategicplanning processes.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Louis Albrechts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull; List of Chart and Graphs&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;List of Figures&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; List of Tables&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; List of Contributors&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;0.0 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;The Context and the Demand for Strategic Planning&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Alessandro Balducci, Valeria F edeli, Gabriele Pasqui&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.0 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;The process of planning: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; the City of Cities Strategic Project&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Ida Castelnaovo, Marianna Giraudi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.1&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Planning the Changing City&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Alessandro Balducci&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.2&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Data and images&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Paolo Bozzuto, Fabio Manfredini&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.1 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;The Changing Urban Agenda&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Gabriele Pasqui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.2&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Keywords: Habitability&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Gabriele Pasqui, Paolo Bozzuto&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.1&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;About &quot;Governance&quot; in Urban Regions: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;When Territory, Sovereignty and Citizenship do not match&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Valeria Fedeli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.2&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Keywords: City of Cities / [City of] Populations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Gabriele Pasqui, Paolo Bozzato&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.1&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;New Planning Approaches / Challenges for Urban and Territorial &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Planning in Contemporary Cities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Alessandro Baldacci, Valeria Fedeli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.2&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The City of Cities Competitions and the Strategic Project&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Carolina Pacchi, Claudio Calvaresi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.3&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Drawing and Dialogue: Meaning and Form of the Instruments Used to &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Communicate the City of Cities Strategic Project&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Antonio Longo, Arma Moro&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.1&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Planning, Institutions, Knowledge: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Lessons from an Experimental Practice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Alessandro Balducci, Valeria Fedeli, Gabriele Pasqui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Bibliography&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Index&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;List of Charts and Graphs&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Charts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Employees and local units in the industrial sector&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Employees and local units in the tertiary sector&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Dimension and number of employees in local units in 1991&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Dimension and number of employees in local units in the period 2001&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Immigrants ratio for age groups in the province&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Frequency distribution of population in relation to income groups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Graphs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Participating actors&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Percentage of &amp;lsquo;Design ideas&amp;rsquo; and &amp;lsquo;Best practices&amp;rsquo;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Mapping proposals in the urban region: a geography of actors andideas (percentages on the total)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTORS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alessandro Balducci&lt;/strong&gt;, PhD, is Full Professor of Planning and Urban Policies at &lt;a title=&quot;Politecnico di Milano&quot; href=&quot;http://www.polimi.it&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Politecnico di Milano&lt;/a&gt;. He was the scientific director of the Strategic Project &lt;em&gt;Citt&amp;agrave; di Citt&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;. His main research fields are urban policies, participation, and strategic planning for great urban regions. He is director of the PhD program in Spatial Planning and Urban Development at the Politecnico di Milano. He has been President of the &lt;a title=&quot;Association of the European Schools of Planning&quot; href=&quot;http://www.aesop-planning.eu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP&lt;/a&gt;) and is currently National Secretary of the &lt;a title=&quot;SIU Societ&amp;agrave; Italiana degli Urbanisti&quot; href=&quot;http://www.societaurbanisti.it/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Italian Society of Urbanists (SIU)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Valeria Fedeli&lt;/strong&gt;, PhD in Territorial Planning and Public Policies (lUAV, Venezia), is Researcher and Assistant Professor in Urban and Territorial Analysis at Politecnico di Milano. She has coordinated (together with Gabriele Pasqui) the activities of the Strategic Project &lt;em&gt;Citt&amp;agrave; di Citt&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;. Her main research field is urban policies, governance and strategic planning in urban regions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gabriele Pasqui&lt;/strong&gt;, PhD in Territorial Planning and Public Policies (IUAV, Venezia), is Full Professor in Urban Policies at &lt;a title=&quot;Politecnico di Milano&quot; href=&quot;http://www.polimi.it&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Politecnico di Milano&lt;/a&gt;. He has coordinated (together with Valeria Fedeli) the activities of the Strategic Project &lt;em&gt;Citt&amp;agrave; di Citt&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;. His main research field are development policies and strategic planning in urban regions. He is head of the&lt;a title=&quot;Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione&quot; href=&quot;http://www.diap.polimi.it/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; DiAP Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a title=&quot;Politecnico di Milano&quot; href=&quot;http://www.polimi.it&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Politecnico di Milano&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:37:24 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/strategy-planning-for-br-contemporary-urban-region</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/strategy-planning-for-br-contemporary-urban-region</guid></item><item><title>Il progetto urbano &lt;br/&gt; nella città contemporanea</title><description>L&#039;esperienza di Salerno nel panorama europeo&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il gioco di parole nella lingua francese del termine &amp;ldquo;disegno&amp;rdquo; tra &amp;ldquo;dessin&amp;rdquo; e &amp;ldquo;dessein&amp;rdquo; - il primo inteso nel senso di &amp;ldquo;rappresentazione&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;figurazione&amp;rdquo;, il secondo in quello di &amp;ldquo;proposito&amp;rdquo; o &amp;ldquo;programma&amp;rdquo; - consente di comprendere il doppio significato dell&amp;rsquo;espressione &amp;ldquo;progetto urbano&amp;rdquo;. Esso pu&amp;ograve; infatti designare una visione strategica della citt&amp;agrave; nel suo complesso e, nello stesso tempo, l&amp;rsquo;azione concreta di trasformazione di parti urbane delimitate. La continua oscillazione del &amp;ldquo;projet urbain&amp;rdquo; da un significato all&amp;rsquo;altro sottolinea la relazione indissolubile tra questi due aspetti del discorso urbanistico. Lo studio comparato di numerose esperienze urbane, in particolare quelle di Helsinki, Zurigo, Bilbao, Sesto San Giovanni e Reggio Emilia, dimostra che il &amp;ldquo;progetto urbano&amp;rdquo; nel suo doppio significato non &amp;egrave; solo un&amp;rsquo;utilissima chiave di lettura ma si profila come modello generale di rappresentazione e costruzione della citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea. &lt;br /&gt;In quest&amp;rsquo;ottica &amp;egrave; analizzato il processo di trasformazione della citt&amp;agrave; di Salerno, avviato oltre 15 anni fa dal sindaco Vincenzo De Luca e dall&amp;rsquo;urbanista catalano Oriol Bohigas sulla base di un programma politico strategico (dessein) attuato attraverso progetti urbani (dessins) precisamente delimitati, e subito avviati a realizzazione. Questa concezione del progetto urbano tra visione globale e trasformazione locale &amp;egrave; tradotta nei termini giuridici appropriati di un nuovo &amp;ldquo;piano urbanistico generale&amp;rdquo;, in stretto rapporto con le proposte attuali di riforma della disciplina in Italia. Il volume si chiude con l&amp;rsquo;indicazione di alcuni &amp;ldquo;doveri&amp;rdquo;, o buoni principi urbanistici, desunti dall&amp;rsquo;intero percorso di ricerca, che sembrano i pi&amp;ugrave; adatti e condivisi per il governo delle citt&amp;agrave; attuali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PREFAZIONE&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Teoria e pratica del progetto urbano&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oriol Bohigas&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INTRODUZIONE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I. IL PROGETTO DELLA CITT&amp;Agrave; CONTEMPORANEA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il progetto della citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La misura della qualit&amp;agrave; urbana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Gli indicatori della qualit&amp;agrave; urbana&lt;br /&gt;Gli studi comparativi della DATAR&lt;br /&gt;I sondaggi d&amp;rsquo;opinione della qualit&amp;agrave; urbana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un caso-studio: la citt&amp;agrave; di Helsinki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Helsinki: qualit&amp;agrave; della vita e competitivit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;Il bando di concorso &amp;ldquo;Greater Helsinki Vision 2050&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;I risultati del concorso &amp;ldquo;Greater Helsinki Vision 2050&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Locale e globale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;La &amp;ldquo;strategia di Lisbona&amp;rdquo; e le citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;Aspetti relazionali della competitivit&amp;agrave; urbana&lt;br /&gt;Le forme della citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Governo e &lt;em&gt;governance&lt;/em&gt; della citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Comunicare e condividere le scelte&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Strategien Z&amp;uuml;rich 2025&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;Che cos&amp;rsquo;&amp;egrave; un piano strategico?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La strategia di Salerno&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Salerno: il sindaco e l&amp;rsquo;urbanista&lt;br /&gt;Le scelte del piano di Salerno&lt;br /&gt;Il &amp;ldquo;piano strategico&amp;rdquo; e il Piano Territoriale di Coordinamento Provinciale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appendice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Competitivit&amp;agrave; e qualit&amp;agrave; urbana a Salerno: uno studio comparativo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;II. I &lt;em&gt;PROGETTI&lt;/em&gt; DELLA CITT&amp;Agrave; CONTEMPORANEA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;I progetti della citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L&amp;rsquo; arte dei giardini e delle citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;L&amp;rsquo;arte dei giardini e delle citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;Il paesaggio della citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea&lt;br /&gt;Progetto urbano e sostenibilit&amp;agrave;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La scala umana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Dalla &amp;ldquo;Carta d&amp;rsquo;Atene&amp;rdquo; alla citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea&lt;br /&gt;Invecchiamento della popolazione e urbanistica&lt;br /&gt;La misura umana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un caso studio: la citt&amp;agrave; di Bilbao&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Effetto Guggenheim&lt;br /&gt;Progetti urbani a Bilbao&lt;br /&gt;Gli insegnamenti di Bilbao&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Progetto urbano e piano urbanistico generale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Che cos&amp;rsquo;&amp;egrave; un progetto urbano?&lt;br /&gt;Piano o progetti?&lt;br /&gt;Il &amp;ldquo;nuovo piano&amp;rdquo; in Italia: il Piano Strutturale di Reggio Emilia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I &amp;laquo;progetti urbani&amp;raquo; a Salerno&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Il &amp;ldquo;modello Barcellona&amp;rdquo; e il piano urbanistico generale&lt;br /&gt;I &amp;ldquo;progetti urbani&amp;rdquo; a Salerno&lt;br /&gt;Le nuove sfide del PUC 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONCLUSIONI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I doveri degli urbanisti nella citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;APPARATI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Bibliografia&lt;br /&gt;Referenze fotografiche&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHOR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maurizio Russo&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;egrave; Dottore di ricerca in Architettura all&amp;rsquo;Universit&amp;agrave; di Ginevra (Unige) e dottore in Sociologia all&amp;rsquo;Universit&amp;agrave; degli Studi di Napoli &amp;ldquo;Federico II&amp;rdquo;. Tra le pubblicazioni: &lt;em&gt;Wim Wenders, percezione visiva e conoscenza&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a title=&quot;Le Mani Edizioni&quot; href=&quot;http://www.lemanieditore.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Le Mani Edizioni&lt;/a&gt;, Recco, 1997),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;I piani regolatori di Napoli. Verso uno sviluppo urbano sostenibile&lt;/em&gt; (Tullio Pironti Editore, Napoli, 2001),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;I nuovi principi dell&amp;rsquo;urbanistica&lt;/em&gt; (Tullio Pironti Editore, Napoli, 2007).&amp;nbsp;Ha curato traduzione e presentazione del volume di Fran&amp;ccedil;ois Ascher (&lt;a title=&quot;Francois Ascher Grand Prix de l&#039;Urbanisme&quot; href=&quot;http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Grand-Prix-de-l-urbanisme-2009,13674.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Grand Prix de l&amp;rsquo;Urbanisme 2009&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:36:08 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/il-progetto-urbano-br-nella-citta-contemporanea</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/il-progetto-urbano-br-nella-citta-contemporanea</guid></item><item><title>Crios &lt;br/&gt; Critica degli ordinamenti spaziali - n.1 e n.2</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La rivista semestrale &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crios. Critica degli ordinamenti spaziali&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;si propone di riorientare l&#039;attivit&amp;agrave; condotta negli anni 1994-2008 da un gruppo di studiosi con la rivista &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cru. Critica della razionalit&amp;agrave; urbanistica&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, nel tentativo di misurarsi con le sfide che gli insediamenti umani sul territorio devono affrontare, in un colloquio pi&amp;ugrave; diretto con la ricerca internazionale. Il contributo di &lt;em&gt;Crios&lt;/em&gt;, come la sua titolazione suggerisce, vuole assumere gli ordinamenti spaziali come campo complesso su cui politiche e culture insediative si misurano con le energie dissipative della citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea, secondo un&#039;idea articolata, programmaticamente, attraverso tre &quot;sfide&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Queste possono essere riassunte in tre oltrepassamenti, in &quot;oltre&quot;, che sorreggeranno le rubriche della rivista:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;oltre la deliberazione democratica &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;e la semplice decisione partecipata, con l&#039;assunzione della logica emozionale e con l&#039;approfondimento del rapporto tra potere&amp;nbsp;e nuove forme di comunicazione;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;oltre la tolleranza&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, oltre la stessa ospitalit&amp;ugrave; incondizionata, verso il pieno riconoscimento delle diversit&amp;agrave;;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;oltre la sostenibilit&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, con l&#039;apertura a una nuova concezione dell&#039;abitabilit&amp;agrave; e con la capacit&amp;agrave; di affrontare gli sconvolgimenti climatici&amp;nbsp;anche attraverso una diversa costruzione della citt&amp;agrave;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SOMMARIO, n.1/2011&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; Tre sfide&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Attilio Belli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cross-critics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Verso ordinamenti spaziali virtuali&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Carlo Donolo &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oltre la deliberazione democratica&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Strategic Planning as Strategic Navigation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jean Hillier &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Un pubblico minore&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cristina Bianchetti &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oltre la tolleranza&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Dimensioni spaziali della convivenza plurale: una ridiscussione critica dell&amp;rsquo;idea di tolleranza&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stefano Moroni, Francesco Chiodelli &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Le cose (che) contano: nuovi orizzonti di agency nella pianificazione del territorio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Giancarlo Paba &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oltre la sostenibilit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;La nuova questione urbana: ambiente, mobilit&amp;agrave; e disuguaglianze sociali&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bernardo Secchi &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recensioni&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Angelo Sampieri legge S.A.Moore, &lt;em&gt;Pragmatic Sustainability: Theoretical and Pratical Tools&lt;/em&gt;, Routledge, 2010&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOMMARIO, n.2/2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Editoriale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Attilio Belli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cross-critics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Il planning dell&amp;rsquo;improbabile&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Carlo Donolo &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The specific and the general: the designation of planning problems&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Margo Huxley &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oltre la deliberazione democratica&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Spatial Planning: for Whom?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Klaus R. Kunzmann &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Anything goes? Pianificazione, postmodernismo, e oltre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marco Cremaschi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oltre la tolleranza&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Ospitalit&amp;agrave;, citt&amp;agrave; e moschee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Attilio Belli, Daniela De Leo &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oltre la sostenibilit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold+T42+ECIXNF; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Spazi e politiche di approssimazione&lt;em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maria Valeria Mininni&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La rivista &amp;egrave; sostenuta da una struttura redazionale cos&amp;igrave; organizzata:&lt;br /&gt;Direttore responsabile:&lt;/strong&gt; Attilio Belli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor:&lt;/strong&gt; Laura Lieto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comitato scientifico:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Alessandro Balducci, Cristina Bianchetti, Alberto Clementi, Carlo Donolo, Antonio Font, John Forester, Klaus Kunzmann, Jean Hillier, Margo Huxley, Patrick Le Gal&amp;eacute;s, Alberto Magnaghi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La rivista &amp;egrave; dotata di &lt;em&gt;blind referee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, italiani e internazionali, per la valutazione delle proposte di pubblicazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:47:14 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/crios-critica-degli-ordinamenti-spaziali</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/crios-critica-degli-ordinamenti-spaziali</guid></item><item><title>Monograph.it  - n.2</title><description>Architecture, City and Urban Cultures Monomagazine &lt;br/&gt; (Landscape Sensitive Design, New York High Line, Photogallery)&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Monograph.it has innovative characteristics which make it different among the traditional magazines.&lt;strong&gt; It is at the same time &lt;em&gt;Monography&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Review&lt;/em&gt; and it follows an original criterium of pictures&#039; itinerary.&lt;/strong&gt; In fact &lt;em&gt;Monograph.it&lt;/em&gt; devotes to architecture&#039;s study several pages with complete contents. Moreover there will be a &lt;em&gt;Gallery&lt;/em&gt; of pictures of places, bulidings, landscape together with a &lt;em&gt;Monographic Section&lt;/em&gt; for one or more cities in evolution therefore conceiving present urban places and landscapes as necessary and permanent elements of the project. The choice of such contents is aimed at surveying the different developments of the project production in the range of the different scales. This will be completed with the further section &lt;em&gt;Researches&lt;/em&gt; (puublished in the next issues) which will stress innovation in projects with regard to contemporary cities and schools of architecture. Finally it supports the theoretical debate with a section devoted to some points of view through interviews and essays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Monograph.it rispetto alle riviste tradizionali si distingue per alcune caratteristiche innovative. &lt;strong&gt;Al contempo &lt;em&gt;Monografia &lt;/em&gt;e &lt;em&gt;Rivista&lt;/em&gt;, adotta un criterio originale di comunicazione del materiale iconografico&lt;/strong&gt;, dedicando ad uno studio di architettura una parte consistente di pagine e contenuti in forma esaustiva, oltre ad una &lt;em&gt;Galleria&lt;/em&gt; di immagini fotografiche di luoghi, edifici, contesti, paesaggi, e una seconda &lt;em&gt;Sezione Monografica &lt;/em&gt;ad una o pi&amp;ugrave; citt&amp;agrave; in trasformazione, considerando i luoghi urbani contemporanei ed il paesaggio come elementi permanenti e necessari del progetto. La scelta di questi contenuti &amp;egrave; rivolta a documentare i diversi avanzamenti della produzione progettuale alle diverse scale e si completa con la sezione &lt;em&gt;Ricerche&lt;/em&gt; (che sar&amp;agrave; presente dai prossimi numeri) rivolgendo la ricognizione alle innovazioni del progetto e della citt&amp;agrave; contemporanei, nelle sue diverse angolazioni, nelle scuole di architettura. Infine apre alla discussione teorica con una parte dedicata ad alcune posizioni del dibattito, attraverso interviste e saggi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EDITORIALS&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Pino Scaglione &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Douglas Spencer &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Alberto Clementi &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Massimo Angrilli&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Emmanuele Johnatan Pilia &lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Silvio Carta &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARCHITECTURE and LANSCAPE SENSITIVE DESIGN &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;bull; Prop Studio&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Constructing Landscapes / Costruire Paesaggi&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;bull; Plasma Studio&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; New skin of the Landscape&amp;nbsp;/ Nuove superfici del paesaggio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;bull; Studio Cecchetto&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;Architecture in the Landscape / Architetture nel paesaggio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;bull; Studio Gasparrini&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; The interscalar design / Il progetto interscalare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;bull; RicciSpaini&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In the sensitive context / Nei contesti sensibili &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CITY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;edited by Carlo Gasparrini and Valeria Sassanellli &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; New York Manhattan, the High Line Linear Park&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Conversation with Robert Hammond&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;Project by James Corner Fields Operations with Diller&amp;amp;Scofidio + Renfro &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PHOTOGALLERY&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;bull; Up in the air of Manahattan / Volando sopra Manattan&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; by Alex MacLean&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monograph.it. Architecture, city and Urban Cultures Monomagazine &lt;/strong&gt;conceived and edited by&amp;nbsp;Pino Scaglione&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monograph.it. Monomagazine di Architettura, citt&amp;agrave; e culture Urbane, &lt;/strong&gt;ideata e diretta da Pino Scaglione&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editorial Staff &lt;em&gt;(in progress)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maria Vittoria Capitanucci, Thomas Demetz, Massimo Faiferri, Bebo Ferlito, Alessandro Franceschini, Sabrina Leone, Nicola Canessa, Arianna Scaglione (Photo Editor)&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published by / Pubblicato da&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listlab.eu&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;LISt Lab, Laboratorio Internazionale Editoriale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LISt Lab is an editorial workshop&lt;/strong&gt;, set in Barcelona, that works on contemporary issues. List not only publishes, but also researches, proposes, endeawour, promotes, produces, creates networks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List Lab &amp;egrave; un Laboratorio editoriale&lt;/strong&gt;, con sede a Barcellona, che lavora intorno ai temi della contemporaneit&amp;agrave;. List ricerca, propone, elabora, promuove, produce, mette in rete e non solo pubblica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monograph.it n.2 is dedicated to:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Landscape Sensitive Design&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Section &#039;New York Manhattan. The High Line Linear Park&#039;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;is edited by Carlo Gasparrini and Valeria Sassanelli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:32:28 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/monograph-it</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/monograph-it</guid></item><item><title>Economie in cerca di città</title><description>La questione urbana in Italia&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Italia esiste una &lt;em&gt;questione urbana &lt;/em&gt;che si dovrebbe affrontare con urgenza, in quanto &amp;egrave; una delle principali ragioni del declino economico del paese. Negli anni cinquanta &amp;egrave; iniziato un profondo cambiamento - una rivoluzione&amp;nbsp;- dell&amp;rsquo;organizzazione territoriale della societ&amp;agrave; italiana. Lo straordinario processo di concentrazione delle attivit&amp;agrave; antropiche che lo ha accompagnato ha condotto alla formazione di sistemi urbani nei quali le citt&amp;agrave; storiche si sono dissolte. &lt;br /&gt;Si tratta di nuove forme territoriali&amp;nbsp;- intercomunali e disperse&amp;nbsp;- che della citt&amp;agrave; hanno sia la dimensione spaziale sia quella relazionale ma non il carattere costitutivo, ovvero &lt;em&gt;l&amp;rsquo;identit&amp;agrave; politica&lt;/em&gt;. Il libro discute questa tesi, sottolineando l&amp;rsquo;attuale incompletezza dei nuovi sistemi urbani (&lt;em&gt;citt&amp;agrave; in nuce&lt;/em&gt;), la direzione della loro transizione strutturale e il fatto che abbiamo ancora il tempo, le risorse, la possibilit&amp;agrave; e il desiderio sociale di un &lt;em&gt;progetto per la citt&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;. Da molti anni si sarebbe dovuto adeguare il processo politico alla nuova organizzazione spaziale e relazionale emersa con la &lt;em&gt;rivoluzione territoriale&lt;/em&gt;; si sarebbe dovuta favorire la trasformazione dei nuovi sistemi urbani formatisi per coalescenza territoriale in &lt;em&gt;unit&amp;agrave; di auto-regolazione&lt;/em&gt;; si sarebbe dovuta istituzionalizzare la nuova organizzazione spaziale e relazionale. Ora, l&amp;rsquo;internazionalizzazione dell&amp;rsquo;economia europea, con i suoi cambiamenti tecnologici e culturali, fa della &lt;em&gt;questione urbana &lt;/em&gt;un tema decisivo per lo sviluppo economico del paese. Rendendo mobile la produzione, l&amp;rsquo;internazionalizzazione ha reso instabile l&amp;rsquo;economia di ogni citt&amp;agrave;: e le citt&amp;agrave; sono oggi in cerca di economie, cos&amp;igrave; come le economie sono in cerca di citt&amp;agrave;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prefazione&lt;br /&gt;Introduzione &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I. Internazionalizzazione e lealt&amp;agrave; territoriale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. L&#039;internazionalizzazione dell&#039;economia europea&lt;br /&gt;2. Le citt&amp;agrave; e le loro economie&lt;br /&gt;3. Dis-integrazione verticale e strategie di localizzazione&lt;br /&gt;4. Identit&amp;agrave; urbana e lealt&amp;agrave; territorialie&lt;br /&gt;5. Lealt&amp;agrave; territoriale e sviluppo urbano&lt;br /&gt;6. Le citt&amp;agrave; e la loro struttura&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;II. Citt&amp;agrave; strategiche&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Dinamiche istituzionali &lt;br /&gt;2. L&#039;autonomia politica delle citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;3. Globalizzazione e crisi urbane&lt;br /&gt;4. Citt&amp;agrave; strategiche&lt;br /&gt;5. In cerca di nuove economie&lt;br /&gt;6. Sviluppo urbano, sviluppo regionale, sviluppo nazionale &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;III. Una &amp;laquo;rivoluzione territoriale&amp;raquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Decollo industriale e polarizzazione territoriale&lt;br /&gt;2. Comuni e sistemi intercomunali&lt;br /&gt;3. Motorizzazione ed espansione dei cicli circadiani&lt;br /&gt;4. Coalescenza territoriale e sistemi locali&lt;br /&gt;5. La dispersione urbana&lt;br /&gt;6. La &amp;laquo;rivoluzione territoriale&amp;raquo;: un capitolo ancora aperto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IV. Citt&amp;agrave; &lt;em&gt;in nuce&lt;/em&gt; in Italia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. L&#039;identificazione delle citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;2. In cerca di citt&amp;agrave; in Italia&lt;br /&gt;3. Tentativi di interpretazione &lt;br /&gt;4. Dal territorio ai sistemi locali alle citt&amp;agrave; &lt;br /&gt;5. Le nuove citt&amp;agrave; italiane&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;V. Oltre il paradigma territoriale &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1. Uno stallo istituzionale &lt;br /&gt;2. Un fallimento politico? &lt;br /&gt;3. Un fallimento culturale? &lt;br /&gt;4. Il paradigma territoriale&lt;br /&gt;5. Coalizioni e negoziazioni &lt;br /&gt;6. Un blocco evolutivo&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VI. La ricostruzione delle citt&amp;agrave; italiane &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1. Citt&amp;agrave; che pensano &lt;br /&gt;2. Il capitale urbano nello sviluppo delle citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;3. Le cause della sotto-capitalizzazione delle citt&amp;agrave; italiane &lt;br /&gt;4. Il progetto della citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;5. Allocazione del sovrapi&amp;ugrave; e sviluppo urbano&lt;br /&gt;6. Istituzioni e distribuzione del sovrappi&amp;ugrave;&lt;br /&gt;7. Citt&amp;agrave; contro il declino?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHOR:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Antonio G. Calafati &amp;egrave; professore di &lt;em&gt;Economia Applicata &lt;/em&gt;e&amp;nbsp;insegna &lt;em&gt;Economia urbana e Analisi delle politiche pubbliche &lt;/em&gt;presso la Facolt&amp;agrave; di Economia &quot;Giorgio Fu&amp;agrave;&quot; dell&amp;rsquo;Universit&amp;agrave; Politecnica delle Marche. Ha svolto attivit&amp;agrave; di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Economia dell&#039;Universit&amp;agrave; Politecnica delle Marche, nel Regno Unito (St. Antony&#039;s College, Oxford) e in Germania (Universit&amp;agrave; di Freiburg, Max-Planck Institut di Economia di Jena). Tra le sue principali pubblicazioni &lt;em&gt;Le citt&amp;agrave; nello sviluppo economico della Terza Italia&lt;/em&gt; (a cura di A.G. Calafati, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2011, &lt;em&gt;prossima pubblicazione&lt;/em&gt;),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Citt&amp;agrave; in nuce nelle Marche. Coalescenza territoriale e sviluppo economico &lt;/em&gt;(con F. Mazzoni, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2008), &lt;em&gt;Internazionalizzazione e sviluppo regionale &lt;/em&gt;(a cura di N. Bellini e A.G. Calafati, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2008), oltre a numerosi articoli su riviste&amp;nbsp;e articoli su volumi collettanei.&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Garamond; color: #6e6e6e; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Il suo sito web &amp;egrave;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.antoniocalafati.it&quot;&gt;www.antoniocalafati.it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:23:54 +0200</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/economie-in-cerca-di-citta</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/economie-in-cerca-di-citta</guid></item><item><title>Città pubbliche</title><description>Linee guida per la riqualificazione urbana&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tornare a osservare i quartieri di edilizia sociale per esplorare nuove frontiere del progetto sulla citta esistente. E&#039; questa la sfida che il libro lancia a studiosi, amministratori, progettisti, abitanti delle citt&amp;agrave; pubbliche che, con le loro case, servizi, spazi aperti, oggi si pongono come &quot;figure emergenti&quot; al centro delle configurazioni urbane.&lt;br /&gt;Una sfida ad accantonare facili pregiudizi e luoghi comuni, per cogliere le rinnovate condizioni e potenzialit&amp;agrave; che questo rilevante patrimonio offre al disegno di futuri progetti e politiche di riqualificazione spaziale e sociale estesi a pi&amp;ugrave; ampi settori delle nostre citta.&lt;br /&gt;90 studiosi, 63 enti, soggetti e progetti locali, pi&amp;ugrave; di 1.400 studenti sono stati coinvolti nello studio e nell&#039;indagine progettuale di 82 quartieri di edilizia pubblica nelle citt&amp;agrave; di Bari, Gorizia, Milano, Monfalcone, Napoli, Palermo, Roma e Trieste. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indirizzi per orientare lo sguardo&lt;/em&gt; e &lt;em&gt;Strategie per orientare il progetto sui quartieri&lt;/em&gt;, un &lt;em&gt;Atlante&lt;/em&gt; delle citt&amp;agrave; pubbliche indagate nel contesto nazionale e un &lt;em&gt;Lessico&lt;/em&gt; per la loro rigenerazione articolano il volume, invitando il lettore a cogliere suggerimenti ed esempi utili alla costruzione di nuovi percorsi di ricerca e azione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile6&quot;&gt;From book&#039;s presentation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Il volume restituisce gli esiti del programma dl ricerca nazionale &lt;em&gt;La &quot;citt&amp;agrave; pubblica&quot; come laboratorio di progettualit&amp;agrave;. La produzione di linee guida per la riqualificazione sostenibile delle periferie urbane&lt;/em&gt;, finanziato nel 2005 dal Ministero dell&#039;Universita e della Ricerca. Lo studio &amp;egrave; stato sviluppato da sei unit&amp;agrave; di ricerca, coordinate da docenti e ricercatori afferenti a diverse strutture universitarie: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dipartimento di progettazione architettonica e urbana dell&#039;Universita di Trieste &lt;/strong&gt;(Paola Di Biagi, coordinatore nazionale; Sara Basso, Monfalcone; Elena Marchigiani, Trieste; Alessandra Marin, Gorizia), &lt;strong&gt;Dipartimento di scienza dell&amp;rsquo;ingegneria civile e dell&amp;rsquo;architettura del Politecnico di Bari&lt;/strong&gt; (Nicola Martinelli, Mariavaleria Mininni),&lt;strong&gt; Dipartimento di architettura e pianificazione del Politecnico di Milano&lt;/strong&gt; (Francesco Infussi), &lt;strong&gt;Dipartimento di progettazione urbana e di urbanistica dell&#039;Universit&amp;agrave; di Napoli &quot;Federico II&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (Carlo Gasparrini, Michelangelo Russo), &lt;strong&gt;Dipartimento citt&amp;agrave; e territorio dell&#039;Universit&amp;agrave; di Palermo&lt;/strong&gt; (Maurizio Carta), &lt;strong&gt;Dipartimento di architettura e urbanistica per l&#039;ingegneria della &quot;Sapienza&quot; Universit&amp;agrave; di Roma &lt;/strong&gt;(Claudia Mattogno).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRESENTAZIONE &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INTRODUZIONE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INDIRIZZI PER ORIENTARE LO SGUARDO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non solo periferia&lt;br /&gt;Non solo pubblica&lt;br /&gt;Non solo residenziale&lt;br /&gt;Plurale&lt;br /&gt;Patrimonio comune&lt;br /&gt;Oltre i confini&lt;br /&gt;Luogo di spazi e politiche integrati&lt;br /&gt;Strumento di rigenerazione&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ATLANTE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Città pubblica e città contemporanea&lt;br /&gt;Stagioni della città pubblica&lt;br /&gt;Protagonisti della città pubblica&lt;br /&gt;Città pubblica e infrastrutture&lt;br /&gt;Città pubblica e ambiente&lt;br /&gt;Città pubblica e progettualità&lt;br /&gt;Quantità della città pubblica&lt;br /&gt;Riferimenti bibliografici&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STRATEGIE PER ORIENTARE IL PROGETTO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Riportare i quartieri al centro&lt;br /&gt;Innestare il progetto nei caratteri del contesto&lt;br /&gt;Promuovere la creatività&lt;br /&gt;Costruire nuove forme di welfare&lt;br /&gt;Aprirsi a nuovi abitanti e popolazioni&lt;br /&gt;Disegnare sistemi di paesaggio&lt;br /&gt;Risparmiare risorse energetiche&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LESSICO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Abitanti, Accanimento terapeutico, Accessibilità, Acqua, Adeguamento, Alloggio, Approdi, Appropriazioni, Arte pubblica, Ascolto, Assegnazioni, Attacco a terra, Attori, Attraversamenti, Autogestione, Barriere, Campagne urbane, Campo del progetto, Centralità, Coagulazione, Comfort ambientale, Commercio, Comunicazione, Connessioni, Cura, Demolizione, Densificazione, Energia, Flessibilità, Gestione, Identità, Immaginario, Infrastrutture, Involucro, Isole, Laboratori di quartiere, Limiti, Materiali vegetali, Microstorie, Microtrasformazioni, Migrazioni, Mobilità e trasporto pubblico, Negoziazione, Occupazione, Parcheggi, Partecipazione, Partenariato locale, Percorsi pedonali e ciclabili, Pratiche, Problema, Progetto, Proprietà, Qualità, Recinti, Reti, Rilievo, Risorse, Riuso, Sacche, Scale del progetto, Scenari, Servizi di prossimità, Sicurezza, Soglie, Sopralluogo, Spazi comuni esterni, Spazi comuni interni, Spazi residuali, Stigma, Strade, Suolo, Tessuto, Topografia, Tutela, Usi, Visibilità, Zonizzazione&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;APPARATI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La ricerca: temi, soggetti, luoghi&lt;br /&gt;Autori dei testi&lt;br /&gt;Autori e fonti delle immagini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About the authors:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;LaboratorioCittaPubblica&lt;/em&gt; &amp;eacute; un gruppo articolato di ricercatori delle Universit&amp;agrave; di Napoli &quot;Federico II&quot;, Palermo, &quot;Sapienza&quot; Roma, Trieste e dei Politecnici di Bari e di Milano. Dal 2006, il comune interesse per il progetto di riqualificazione delle periferie contemporanee li ha visti impegnati nel programma di ricerca riazionale La &quot;citta pubblica&quot; come laboratorio di progettualit&amp;agrave;. La produzione di linee guida per la riqualificazione sostenibile delle periferie urbane.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:19:39 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/citta-pubbliche-linee-guida-per-la-riqualificazione-urbana</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/citta-pubbliche-linee-guida-per-la-riqualificazione-urbana</guid></item><item><title>Fare urbanistica</title><description>Esperienze, comunicazione, memoria&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fare urbanistica comporta esperienza e richiede memoria; oggi impone anche un progetto di comunicazione. La stagione della &quot;grande trasformazione&quot; lascia un territorio irrisolto ma anche carico di potenzialit&amp;agrave;, dove si delineano i profili di nuove formazioni urbane, dentro e tra le citt&amp;agrave; esistenti. La ricomposizione territoriale va immaginata, argomentata e resa comprensibile. Ne risulta un modo di intendere e di fare urbanistica che cerca di intercettare le possibilit&amp;agrave; di intervento presenti nei diversi contesti, utilizzando una gamma di dispositivi progettuali che si combinano ogni volta come risposta alle circostanze. Il libro si compone di tre parti e altrettanti percorsi tematici. La prima parte, &lt;em&gt;Esperienze&lt;/em&gt;, enucleando le questioni che dominano l&#039;agenda urbanistica nel mondo occidentale, ripensa i modi per costruire progetti e piani. La seconda parte, dedicata alla &lt;em&gt;Comunicazione visiva&lt;/em&gt;, avanza un&#039;ipotesi di lavoro esemplificata attraverso una mirata collezione di testi visivi. La terza parte, dedicata alla &lt;em&gt;Memoria&lt;/em&gt;, approfondisce autori e questioni della storia dell&#039;urbanistica italiana. La concatenazione di sguardi diversi ha l&#039;intento di ristabilire un rapporto amichevole con un mestiere affascinante ma difficile, dalla storia particolarmente tormentata. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;From book&#039;s presentation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presentazione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Parte I. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Esperienze: la riflessione nella pratica&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Nuove citt&amp;agrave; in formazione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.2 Sprawl e diffusione&lt;br /&gt;1.3 Abitare paesaggi&lt;br /&gt;1.4 Paesaggi e ambienti&lt;br /&gt;1.5 Citt&amp;agrave; di citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Urbanistica oggi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.1 Ancora urbanistica, anzi &lt;em&gt;urbanism&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.2. Operazioni urbanistiche e tecniche nel contesto&lt;br /&gt;2.3 Dispositivi progettuali&lt;br /&gt;2.4 Ricomposizione e infrastrutture &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bibliografia&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Parte II. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comunicazione: la centralit&amp;agrave; dell&amp;rsquo;immagine &lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;3. Una comunicazione allargata&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.1 Comunicare l&amp;rsquo;urbanistica&lt;br /&gt;3.2 Comunicare, rappresentare, raffigurare&lt;br /&gt;3.3 Scenari, visioni, immagini&lt;br /&gt;3.4 Derive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Un progetto visivo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.1 Prodotti di design&lt;br /&gt;4.2 Mappe-carte, schemi, manifesti&lt;br /&gt;4.3 Immagini verosimili, immagini concettuali, discorsi visivi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bibliografia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Parte III. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Memoria: la lezione dei piani e degli autori&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Tre mosse di ricerca &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.1 Partire dai piani&lt;br /&gt;5.2 Individuare gli autori influenti&lt;br /&gt;5.3 Isolare questioni rilevanti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Profili di piani &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.1 Una periodizzazione integrata&lt;br /&gt;6.2 Otto stagioni&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. Profili di urbanisti &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.1 Un insieme significativo&lt;br /&gt;7.2 La fondazione dell&amp;rsquo;urbanistica contemporanea&lt;br /&gt;7.3 Un percorso parallelo&lt;br /&gt;7.4 Innesti nel solco dell&amp;rsquo;urbanistica moderna&lt;br /&gt;7.5 La ripresa di un percorso interrotto &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. Raccordi &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.1 Composizione urbanistica&lt;br /&gt;8.2 Comunicare l&amp;rsquo;idea&lt;br /&gt;8.3 Fluidit&amp;agrave; &lt;em&gt;vs &lt;/em&gt;rigidit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;8.4 Amministrare l&amp;rsquo;urbanistica&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bibliografia &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fonti e credits delle immagini&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About the author: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Patrizia Gabellini &lt;/strong&gt;&amp;egrave; professore di Urbanistica presso la Facolt&amp;agrave; di Architettura e societ&amp;agrave; del Politecnico di Milano e direttore del Dipertimento di Architettura e Pianificazione del Politecnico di Milano. Ha collaborato alla progettazione dei Prg di Jesi (1987), Siena (1990), Bergamo (1995) e Prato (1996). Responsabile del Disegno e della comunicazione del Prg di Roma (2000), ha progettato il nuovo piano regolatore di Jesi (2007), &amp;egrave; stata consulente scientifico del Comune di Bologna per la redazione di Piano strutturale, Piano operativo e Regolamento urbanistico edilizio e della Regione Emilia Romagna per la redazione del Piano territoriale.&lt;br /&gt;Direttore di Urbanistica dal 1994 al 1998, ha pubblicato, fra gli altri, &lt;em&gt;Bologna e Milano. Temi e attori dell&#039;urbanistica&lt;/em&gt; (Angeli 1988), &lt;em&gt;Urbanisti &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;italiani. Piccinato, Marconi, Samon&amp;agrave;, Quaroni, De Carlo, Astengo, Campos Venuti&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt; (a cura di, con P. Di Biagi, Laterza 1992); &lt;em&gt;Il disegno urbanistico&lt;/em&gt; (Nuova Italia Scientifica 1996), &lt;em&gt;Tecniche urbanistiche&lt;/em&gt; (Carocci 2001), &lt;em&gt;Piani urbanistici in Italia. Catalogo e documenti dell&amp;rsquo;Archivio RAPu&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt; (con B. Bonfantini e G. Paoluzzi, Maggioli 2008).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:19:11 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/fare-urbanistica-esperienze-comunicazione-memoria</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/fare-urbanistica-esperienze-comunicazione-memoria</guid></item><item><title>Giovanni Astengo. Urbanista militante</title><description>Book with Dvd&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Un film in DVD e un libro, per avere testimonianza visiva dell&#039;azione e della personalit&amp;agrave; di una delle figure pi&amp;ugrave; emblematiche della costruzione dell&#039;Italia contemporanea: Giovanni Astengo, architetto urbanista, che negli anni pi&amp;ugrave; intensi della ricostruzione del dopoguerra e dello sviluppo dell&#039;Italia industriale, ha dato pi&amp;ugrave; di altri il segno della necessit&amp;agrave; e dell&#039;azione della pianificazione urbana e territoriale. Maestro tra i pi&amp;ugrave; autorevoli, Astengo non ha tuttavia lasciato dietro di s&amp;eacute; un suo libro, un testo che nell&#039;universit&amp;agrave; e tra i nuovi studenti, ne tenesse viva la memoria. I giovani urbanisti spesso non sanno chi sia stato Astengo, n&amp;eacute; sanno valutare iI ruolo da lui avuto nel condizionare i loro studi. Quattordici interviste filmate originali rilasciate dal suoi pi&amp;ugrave; stretti collaboratori, dai colleghi di poco pi&amp;ugrave; giovani con cui Astengo ha condiviso battaglie professionali politiche e culturali e da alcuni dei suoi allievi, hanno fornito il materiale necessario al montaggio di questo film, a cui sono state unite sequenze di documenti televisivi originali che di Astengo conservano l&#039;immagine e la voce e ne restituiscono una figura sorprendente e diversa da quella sin qui nota. &lt;br /&gt;Ricomposte in un film di 80 minuti, le testimonianze che raccontano questo personaggio appaiono ora come un convincente strumento d&#039;interpretazione, capace di raccontare un&#039;avventura professionale e scientifica ricollocata nel clima culturale e politico del suo tempo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;From Book and Dvd&#039;s presentation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Appunti per una biografia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bruno Dolcetta&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;II. Giovanni Astengo urbanista militante&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Leonardo Ciacci&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;III. Giovanni Astengo tra documenti e testimonianze &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ri-costruire le fonti per una biografia &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alessandra Marin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Giovanni Astengo. Urbanista militante&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;un film di Leonardo Ciacci&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sceneggiatura &lt;br /&gt;Script&lt;br /&gt;I testimoni intervistati &lt;br /&gt;Fonti d&#039;archivio e materiali filmati utilizzati nel montaggio &lt;br /&gt;Abstract&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About the authors:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Leonardo Ciacci &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;insegna Urbanistica e Teorie dell&#039;Urbanistica alla Facolt&amp;agrave; di Architettura dell&#039;Universit&amp;agrave; Iuav di Venezia di cui dal 2001 &amp;egrave; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;IT&quot;&gt;Responsabile Scientifico della Videoteca. La sua attivit&amp;agrave; di ricerca &amp;egrave; rivolta in particolare alla elaborazione, rappresentazione e comunicazione filmata del progetto urbanistico.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span lang=&quot;IT&quot;&gt;Tra le sue pubblicazioni: &lt;em&gt;Progetti di citt&amp;agrave; sullo schermo. Il cinema degli Urbanisti&lt;/em&gt;, Marsilio, Venezia, 2001; con L. Tiberi, &lt;em&gt;Roma di Mussolini, DVD film&lt;/em&gt;, 87 min. Istituto Luce, Roma, 2003; (a cura di), &lt;em&gt;Venezia &amp;egrave; una citt&amp;agrave;. Un secolo di interpretazioni del cinema documentario&lt;/em&gt;, Marsilio, Venezia, 2004; &lt;em&gt;La &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;IT&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;campagna che si fa metropoli. La trasformazione del territorio veneto, Dvd + libro&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;IT&quot;&gt;, Iuav - Inu - Regione del Veneto, Venezia, 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruno Dolcetta&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;egrave; professore di Urbanistica presso l&amp;rsquo;Universit&amp;agrave; IUAV di Venezia, dove &amp;egrave; stato direttore del Dipartimento di Urbanistica dal 1994 al 2006. Si occupa di progettazione di sistemi paesaggistici e ambientali, riqualificazione di spazi pubblici, progettazione di grandi opere. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: &lt;span lang=&quot;IT&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PTRC del Veneto&lt;/em&gt;, ed. Canova, 1993; &lt;em&gt;P.A.L.A.V. Piano di area della laguna e dell&amp;rsquo;area veneziana&lt;/em&gt;, ed. Canova, 1999; &lt;em&gt;Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and its Lagoon: State of Knowledge&lt;/em&gt;, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2005; &lt;em&gt;Venezia architettura, citt&amp;agrave;, paesaggio&lt;/em&gt;, ed. Mancosu, 2005.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alessandra Marin&lt;/strong&gt;, Phd in Pianificazione Territoriale e Sviluppo Locale, &amp;egrave; ricercatore di Urbanistica alla Facolt&amp;agrave; di Architettura dell&#039;Universit&amp;agrave; di Trieste. Si occupa di aspetti storici, teorici e applicativi nella costruzione di strumenti e progetti per la crescita e la riqualificazione urbana, con particolare attenzione all&#039;approccio negoziale e partecipato. Tra le sue pubblicazioni:&lt;em&gt; Riqualificare la citt&amp;agrave; con gli abitanti&lt;/em&gt; (cura con A. de Eccher), EdicomEdizioni, 2005; &lt;em&gt;Gorizia, piani e progetti per una citt&amp;agrave; di confine, &lt;/em&gt;Casamassima Libri, 2007.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:18:46 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/giovanni-astengo-urbanista-militante</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/giovanni-astengo-urbanista-militante</guid></item><item><title>Urban transformation</title><description>Understanding City Design and Form&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do cities transform over time? And why do some cities change for the better while others deteriorate? In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and professionals engaged in urban design, planning, and architecture. By looking through Bosselmann&amp;rsquo;s eyes - aided by his analysis of numerous color photos and illustrations - readers will learn to &amp;ldquo;see&amp;rdquo; cities anew. &lt;br /&gt;Bosselmann organizes the book around seven &amp;ldquo;activities&amp;rdquo;: &lt;em&gt;comparing, observing, transforming, measuring, defining, modeling, &lt;/em&gt;and&lt;em&gt; interpreting&lt;/em&gt;. He introduces readers to his way of seeing by &lt;em&gt;comparing&lt;/em&gt; satellite-produced &amp;ldquo;maps&amp;rdquo; of the world&amp;rsquo;s twenty largest cities. With Bosselmann&amp;rsquo;s guidance, we begin to understand the key elements of urban design. Using Copenhagen, Denmark, as an example, he teaches us to &lt;em&gt;observe&lt;/em&gt; without prejudice or bias. He demonstrates how cities &lt;em&gt;transform&lt;/em&gt; by introducing the idea of &amp;ldquo;urban morphology&amp;rdquo; through an examination of more than a century of transformations in downtown Oakland, California. &lt;br /&gt;We learn how to &lt;em&gt;measure&lt;/em&gt; quality-of-life parameters that are often considered un-measurable, including &amp;ldquo;vitality,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;livability,&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;belonging&amp;rdquo;. Utilizing the street grids of San Francisco as examples, Bosselmann explains how to &lt;em&gt;define&lt;/em&gt; urban spaces. &lt;em&gt;Modeling&lt;/em&gt;, he reveals, is not so much about creating models as it is about bringing others into public, democratic discussions. Finally, we find out how to &lt;em&gt;interpret&lt;/em&gt; essential aspects of &amp;ldquo;life and place&amp;rdquo; by evaluating aerial images of the San Francisco Bay Area taken in 1962 and those taken forty-three years later.&lt;br /&gt;Bosselmann has a unique understanding of cities and how they &amp;ldquo;work.&amp;rdquo; His hope is that, with the fresh vision he offers, readers will be empowered to offer inventive new solutions to familiar urban problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;From book&#039;s presentation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;List of figures &lt;br /&gt;Acknowledgments &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chapter 1.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To compare: Cities, Size, Scale and Form&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chapter 2. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To observe: Some Observations of Copenhagen&#039;s City Form &lt;br /&gt;at the Time of Global Change&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 3.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To measure: Vitality, Livability and Sense of Place&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 4.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To transform: Rebuilding the Structure of the Inner City&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 5.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To define: Urban Design Principles for City Streets&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 6.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To model: Authenticity, Modeling, and Entitlement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 7.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To interpret: A Canvas for an Emerging Commons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion. Principles of Precedent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notes&lt;br /&gt;Bibliography&lt;br /&gt;Index&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About the author:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Peter Bosselmann is professor of urban design at the University of California, Berkeley. International teaching positions include universities in Europe, Australia, and Asia. He directed design workshops in China, Vietnam, Mexico, Italy, and France and was commissioned to work on urban design plans in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and Tokyo. In 2007 he established an urban research laboratory in Milan, the fourth such laboratory that he modeled after the well-known Berkeley Environmental Simulation Laboratory. His previous publications include the 1997 book &lt;em&gt;Representation of Places&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:20:47 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/urban-transformation-understanding-city-design-and-form</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/urban-transformation-understanding-city-design-and-form</guid></item><item><title>Paris, Visite Guidée. Architecture, Urbanisme, Histoires et Actualités</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Depuis Philippe Auguste, notre cit&amp;eacute; a fait l&#039;objet d&#039;innombrables transformations : protection, avec les enceintes successives, embellissement, avec les promenades, les parcs et les jardins, grandes transformations haussmanniennes, d&amp;eacute;veloppement des services urbains et d&#039;un vaste r&amp;eacute;seau de transports en commun, sans oublier les &amp;eacute;difices remarquables qui, &amp;agrave; chaque p&amp;eacute;riode, sont venus enrichir la capitale. &lt;br /&gt;Paris, visite guid&amp;eacute;e, histoires et actualit&amp;eacute;s propose, une promenade au coeur de cette histoire, nous conviant, au fil des rues et des b&amp;acirc;timents, &amp;agrave; d&amp;eacute;couvrir la trace des &amp;eacute;poques successives qui ont dessin&amp;eacute; le visage de notre ville. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;Agrave; l&#039;heure o&amp;ugrave; l&#039;avenir de Paris va se construire autour de Paris M&amp;eacute;tropole, quelles formes urbaines imaginer autour du boulevard p&amp;eacute;riph&amp;eacute;rique? Quelles perspectives pour la Couronne de Paris, quelles &amp;eacute;volutions pour une ville durable? &lt;br /&gt;Ce guide donne des clefs pour comprendre les futurs de Paris. Il rappelle que Paris est aussi le fruit de souhaits et d&#039;aspirations finalement constants au fil de l&#039;histoire. Cette approche vous permettra de mieux appr&amp;eacute;hender les changements d&#039;aujourd&#039;hui et d&#039;&amp;ecirc;tre acteur de ceux de demain&amp;hellip; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong class=&quot;Stile6&quot;&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;Stile6&quot;&gt;Preface&lt;em&gt; de Bertrand Delano&amp;euml;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avant propose &lt;em&gt;d&#039;Anne Hidalgo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avertissement et m&amp;eacute;thodologie, &lt;em&gt;par Philippe Simon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paris, histoires... &lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;/strong&gt;La ville close (1190: l&#039;enceinte de Philippe Auguste - 1365: l&#039;enceinte de Charles V) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. &lt;/strong&gt;La ville embellie (1605: la ville royale d&#039;Henry IV)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; La ville promenade (1670: les desseins de Louis XIV)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; Le reve d&#039;une ville globale (1784: l&#039;enceinte des fermiers generaux, Louis XVI)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; La ville equipee (1802: les projects de Napoleon I)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6.&lt;/strong&gt; La ville entre interieur et exterieur (1833: les predecesseurs d&#039;Haussmann - 1840: l&#039;enceinte de Thiers)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7.&lt;/strong&gt; La ville dirigee (1853: la ville Lumiere d&#039;Haussmann)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8.&lt;/strong&gt; Le comfort moderne (1889: habiter Paris)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9.&lt;/strong&gt; Un autre paysage (1902: quels reglements pour Paris?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10.&lt;/strong&gt; La ville ouverte (1919: un project social pour Paris)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11.&lt;/strong&gt; La ville en mouvement (1954: la metropole sans fin - 1967: le PUD)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12.&lt;/strong&gt; Le retour d&#039;une histoire (1977: la ville renouvelee, le POS)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13. &lt;/strong&gt;Paris Metropole (2000...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bibliographie&lt;br /&gt;Index&lt;br /&gt;Et la cartographie restitutive de datation des voiries parisiennes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:11:49 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/paris-visite-guidee-architecture-urbanisme-histoires-et-actualites</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/paris-visite-guidee-architecture-urbanisme-histoires-et-actualites</guid></item><item><title>Une petite synthèse du grand Pari(s) de l&#039;agglomération parisienne</title><description>Collection Paris Projet n°39 Mars 2009&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A partir des propositions &amp;eacute;labor&amp;eacute;es par les 10 &amp;eacute;quipes pluridisciplinaires dans le cadre de la consultation sur le &amp;laquo; grand pari de l&#039;agglom&amp;eacute;ration parisienne l&#039;Atelier parisien d&#039;urbanisme (APUR) livre au d&amp;eacute;bat une lecture synth&amp;eacute;tique des travaux issus de la consultation internationale sur le &amp;laquo; grand pari de l&#039;agglom&amp;eacute;ration parisienne &amp;raquo;.&lt;br /&gt;Les dix &amp;eacute;quipes pluridisciplinaires ont produit, pendant les neuf mois de la consultation, pr&amp;egrave;s de 6000 pages. Pr&amp;eacute;fac&amp;eacute;e par Bertrand Delano&amp;euml;, cette petite synth&amp;egrave;se met en avant cinq id&amp;eacute;es directrices permettant une lecture transversale des travaux des &amp;eacute;quipes et analyse quatorze propositions significatives au regard des enjeux actuels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt; Sommaire&lt;br /&gt;Pr&amp;eacute;face &lt;em&gt;de Bertrand Delano&amp;euml;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avant-propos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5 Th&amp;egrave;mes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faire m&amp;eacute;tropole&lt;br /&gt;M&amp;eacute;tropole douce&lt;br /&gt;Vers un urbanisme de mutation, d&amp;rsquo;adaptation et de recyclage&lt;br /&gt;Des lieux aux liens&lt;br /&gt;La nature, partenaire de la m&amp;eacute;tropole&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14 Propositions issues des travaux des 10 &amp;eacute;quipes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G&amp;eacute;ographie et paysage urbain&lt;br /&gt;Des cartes d&amp;rsquo;identit&amp;eacute;s pour la m&amp;eacute;tropole&lt;br /&gt;Seine Parc 2030 &amp;ndash; Wetlands&lt;br /&gt;L&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;chelle de la nature active&lt;br /&gt;D&amp;eacute;r&amp;eacute;glementer le pavillonnaire&lt;br /&gt;Les boulevards de la m&amp;eacute;tropole&lt;br /&gt;1/2 heure de trajet en moins&lt;br /&gt;Gares, lieux d&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;changes&lt;br /&gt;Une nouvelle gare pour l&amp;rsquo;Europe&lt;br /&gt;P&amp;eacute;age urbain&lt;br /&gt;Produire l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;nergie localement&lt;br /&gt;La m&amp;eacute;tropole des Lumi&amp;egrave;res&lt;br /&gt;Il n&amp;rsquo;y a pas de Grand Paris sans Paris et de Paris sans Grand Paris&lt;br /&gt;Avec les habitants&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pr&amp;eacute;sentation des &amp;eacute;quipes&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:08:03 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/une-petite-synthese-du-grand-pari-s-de-l-agglomeration-parisienne</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/une-petite-synthese-du-grand-pari-s-de-l-agglomeration-parisienne</guid></item><item><title>Reclaiming (the urbanism of) Mumbai</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The production and reproduction of Mumbai is emblematic of a magnificent and paradoxical post-colonial Asian megacity. The complex history has resulted in an urban landscape that is fascinating and frightening, rich and wretched, beautiful and revolting. The ordering logics of its seemingly chaotic urbanism are, at first sight, difficult to understand. However, reading the city and a larger context through both the literal and metaphorical notion of reclamation sheds light on its inherent structure, Within a compressed timeline of events, the processes of colonization, modernization and globalization have radically transformed Mumbai. In this book, reclamation - in the sense of land creation, recovery, repossession, renovation and recuperation - has been (and remains) the driver of states of change. It also give us an insight of possible developments, and show that any hope for the future of the megacity lies in the reclamation of both ecology and civility. In this respect Mumbay is an example we all should look at, and learn from. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;From book&#039;s presentation and &#039;Reclaiming Mumbai&#039; by K.Shannon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Mumbai is in the midst of dramatic transformations. The juxtaposition of the awe-inspiring and heartrending sensations and physical realities is incredibly powerful. The brutality of change in the city forces one to confront new modes of urbanism and urbanisation. The urbanists and planner has the job to re-think, re-visit and re-learn means for intervention. Social, economic and political forces are reflected in an evolving urban form and local architects and planners are struggling to qualitatively intervene. &lt;br /&gt;The first essays in this book are extremely pertinent in their questioning of the status quo and the current mode of city-building. The third part of the book is about hope: which is to be found in the margins. The impossibilities of Mumbai are obvious, the stimulating forms of urbanity are in the margins were they provide clues for possible future interventions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile8&quot;&gt;From book&#039;s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;presentation by SUN website&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reclaiming Mumbai &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;K. Shannon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Mapping Mumbai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Projective Mapping&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;K. Shannon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voices &amp;amp; Issues. Problematics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shifting Ecologies &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A. Beja Da Costa, S. Favaro, L. Campos&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Destruction of a Legacy. Mumbai&amp;rsquo;s Mill lands in a Globalizing Context &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;N. Adarkar, P. Achwal Desai&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Dharavi. An Uncertain Future &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;K. Sharma&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion. Evidence from Mumbai Slum Redevelopment Scheme&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;P. Achwal Desai&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;The (Im)Possibility of Planning the Mumbai Mega-region &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;V. K. Phatak &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voices &amp;amp; Issues. Resources&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banganga. Enduring tank, regenerative Tissue &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;M. Neville&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Mumbai&amp;rsquo;s Maidans. From Fields of Fire to Non-places&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;J. Gosseye&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Learning from Bombay &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;C. Correa&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voices &amp;amp; Issues. Metaphors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kinetic City. Issues for Urban Design in South Asia &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;R. Mehrotra&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Extraordinary Everyday. A Hunt for New Metaphors &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;R. Shivkumar&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voices &amp;amp; Issues. Design&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Potential in Mumbai&amp;rsquo;s Post-Industrial Waste Landscape &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;J. Tiranishti, E. Gjoklaj&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The urban Project&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Towards an Urban Debate. Questioning Mumbai&amp;rsquo;s Voices &amp;amp; Issues &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A. Loeckx&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Framing the urban Project in Mumbai &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;K. Shannon, A. Loeckx, B. De Meulder&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kelly Shannon&lt;/strong&gt; is Professor of Urbanism at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research is at the intersection of urban analysis, mapping and new cartographies, design and landscape urbanism. She is co-editor of two book series: &amp;ldquo;UFO&amp;rdquo; (Urbanism Fascicles OSA) and &amp;ldquo;Explorations in/of urbanism&amp;rdquo;, both published with SUN. She led the Mumbai Region Studio within the framework of the KU Leuven European Master of Urbanism programme in 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Janina Gosseye &lt;/strong&gt;is presently a PhD student at KU Leuven, researching public and collective spaces in post-war Flanders. She completed her first degree in architecture at Saint Lucas in Brussels and received a post-graduate Master of Human Settlements degree at KU Leuven. She participated in the 2007 Mumbai Studio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;This publication was realized by the Research Group Urbanism and Architecture (OSA) of the K.U. Leuven in collaboration with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.udri.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI&lt;/a&gt;) and various architects and urbanists from Mumbai. The interpretative mapping and design research proposal were completed by the 2007 Mumbai Landscape Urbanism Studio of K.U. Leuven&#039;s MaHS/MaUSP/EMU postgraduate pragrammes&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Series Explorations in/of Urbanism&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This book is part of the series E&lt;em&gt;xplorations in/of Urbanism&lt;/em&gt;, SUN ACADEMIA Publisher. The series aims to fill a gap in the contemporary debate concerning urbanism. Each contribution to the series is a case study and an exploration in urbanism (the science of the city) as well as an exploration of urbanism (the discipline that acts upon the city). As a series, &lt;em&gt;Explorations in/of Urbanism&lt;/em&gt; has the ambition to document and critically analyse a worldwide spectrum of changing urban conditions in interaction with the development of urbanism. Published Books: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sunarchitecture.nl/catalogue/categori/urbanism/framing_urban_renewal_in_flanders_9789085067511.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Framing Urban Renewal in Flanders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Issue 01, A.Loeckx, editor), &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sunarchitecture.nl/catalogue/categori/urbanism/antwerp__territory_of_a_new_modernity_9789085067788.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Antwerp, Territory of a New Modernity&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;(Issue 02, B. Secchi, P.Vigan&amp;ograve;). Forthcoming Books: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sunarchitecture.nl/catalogue/categori/urbanism/designing_for_a_region_9789085069447.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Designing for a Region. Echoes from the Netherlands and elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Issue 04, Nancy Meijsmans,&amp;nbsp;editor).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Preface&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Urban versus suburban form&lt;br /&gt;Why retrofits? Why now?&lt;br /&gt;Organization of the book&lt;br /&gt;Acknowledgements&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PART I. &lt;br /&gt;The Argument &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Instant Architecture, Istant Cities, and Incremental Metropolitanism&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Instant cities and suburban retrofits&lt;br /&gt;Instant architecture, instant public space&lt;br /&gt;Incremental metropolitanism&lt;br /&gt;How sustainable? How urban?&lt;br /&gt;Portfolio of Suburban Retrofits &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PART II. &lt;br /&gt;The Example&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Retrofitting Garden Apartments and Residential Subdivisions to address density and the new demographics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Never homogenous? The new suburban history&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Demographic changes&lt;br /&gt;Retrofitting Policy &lt;br /&gt;Retrofitting residential subdivisions&lt;em&gt; (+ examples) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reintegrating garden apartment buffer sites &lt;em&gt;(+ examples) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow&amp;rsquo;s suburbanites&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Residential Case Study: Changes to &#039;Levittown&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The earliest postwar suburbs are sixty years old&lt;br /&gt;Demographic Diversity in Levittown, Willingboro, and Park Forest &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Failure and Redevelopment of Retail Properties &lt;br /&gt;Resistance to Change in Residential Patterns&lt;br /&gt;Diversifying Housing Choices&lt;br /&gt;Paths Toward Further Change &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. From Commercial Strips to Social and Sustainable Infrastructure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Third places in suburbia?&lt;br /&gt;History of the strip and its building types &lt;em&gt;(+ examples) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adaptive re-use of big boxes and strip malls for community-serving activities &lt;em&gt;(+ examples) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Retrofitting shopping centers - the middle scale &lt;em&gt;(+ examples) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Retrofitting the corridors themselves: Designing for Mobility or Access or Both &lt;em&gt;(+ examples) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Retrofitting the urban structure of commercial strips &lt;em&gt;(+ examples) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Strips Case Study: Mashpee Commons, Cape Cod, Massachusetts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Attaching to a well-established fragment of urbanism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. From Regional Malls, to New Downtowns Through Mixed-Use and Public Space&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The significance of public space&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;A brief history of malls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Dead and dying malls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Changing uses to meet local needs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;From enclosed malls to new downtowns&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Infilling around a live mall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;The role and form of mixed-use and public space in retrofitted malls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. Mall Case Study: Cottonwood, Holladay, Utah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;From concept to press release&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. Mall Case Study: Belmar, Lakewood, Colorado&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&#039;Enrich your Life, Not your Lawn&#039; in Lakewood&amp;rsquo;s new downtown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. Edge City Infill: Improving Walkability and Interconnectivity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Redirecting Edge Cities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;The evolution of edge and edgeless cities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Infilling edge cities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Edge city retrofits across multiple parcels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;The future of edge cities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. Edge City Case Study: Downtown Kendall/Dadeland, Miami-Dade County, Florida&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Zoning the creation of new blocks and squares over multiple parcels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11. Office and Industrial Park Retrofits to Recruit the Creative Class&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Suburban industrial parks, office parks, and corporate campuses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Non-concentric patterns of commuting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Recruiting the creative class&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Retrofitting suburban workplaces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Retrofitting industrial parks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12. Office Park Case Study: University Town Center, Prince George&amp;rsquo;s County, Maryland&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;- -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Epilogue: The Landscape of Incremental Metropolitanism in 2050&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile11&quot;&gt;Endnotes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Index&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ellen Dunham-Jones&lt;/strong&gt; is associate professor and director of the architecture program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has published extensively on urban design and criticism. She has taught at University of Virginia, MIT, and Lund University in Sweden and has been honored by &lt;em&gt;DesignIntelligence,&lt;/em&gt; ACSA, and AIA for bridging theory and practice. She serves on several boards including the board of directors of the &lt;em&gt;Congress for the New Urbanism&lt;/em&gt; and the editorial board of the journal &lt;em&gt;Places&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June Williamson&lt;/strong&gt; is associate professor of architecture at The City College of New York /CUNY. An urban designer and registered architect, she has authored design guidelines and consulted on numerous urban planning projects throughout the United States. She has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Utah, and Boston Architectural College. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:25:51 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/retrofitting-suburbia</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/retrofitting-suburbia</guid></item><item><title>Britain&#039;s New Towns. Garden Cities to Sustainable Communities</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Between 1946 and 1976, beginning with Stevenage, Harlow and Basildon   and culminating in Milton Keynes, thirty New Towns were created across   the UK. &lt;em&gt;Today more than two million people live in the New Towns,   and as they undergo phases of regeneration and renewal, this book   revisits their story.&lt;/em&gt; How did these towns come to be built, how   have they aged, and what lessons do they provide for regeneration or the   creation of new urban developments today? The New Towns have been   described as a social experiment; so what has this experiment proved?&lt;br /&gt;As a national project, the New Towns sat alongside the creation of the National Health Service as an &lt;em&gt;ambitious programme of the post-war government, aimed at promoting social and economic progress &lt;/em&gt;in   the wake of the Great Depression and the Second World War. Both Labour   and Conservative governments created New Towns to meet housing demand   and encourage economic growth. Their origin in the campaigning vision  of  the Edwardian Garden Cities Movement meant pioneering new approaches   for the design and management of the towns. These new principles meant  a  &lt;em&gt;radical break with the traditional form of British towns&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;and cities&lt;/em&gt;,   which together with the rise in road transport came to epitomise   twentieth century urbanism. The evolution of Britain&#039;s New Towns, their   successes and failures, provides a vital lesson for the similarly   courageous goal of creating new urban developments today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Foreword &lt;br /&gt;Notes on writing style&lt;br /&gt;Acknowledgements &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Introduction&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; The New Towns in a New Light &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part I: Planning the New Towns&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; A Bit of a Bombshell &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; The Early New Towns &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; The Later New Towns &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; The Origin of the New Towns Concept&lt;strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part II: Building the New Towns&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. &lt;/strong&gt;The Formulation of the New Towns Programme &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. &lt;/strong&gt;Principles of New Town Design &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8.&lt;/strong&gt; A Leap into the Unknown: building the New Towns &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part III: Living in the New Towns &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9.&lt;/strong&gt; Criticisms of the New Towns &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10.&lt;/strong&gt; How the New Towns Grew Old &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11.&lt;/strong&gt; New Towns in the Age of Sustainable Communities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12. &lt;/strong&gt;Conclusion - the lessons of the New Towns&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bibliography&lt;br /&gt;Index &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anthony Alexander&lt;/strong&gt; is a writer   and consultant working in urbanism and sustainability. He has   contributed to masterplanning, sustainable transport strategies and   environmental policy at regional and national levels, including the UK   government&amp;rsquo;s Carbon Challenge programme and Eco-Towns Initiative. His   previously published work includes contributions to &lt;em&gt;Learning from Place&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Sustainable Urban Design,&lt;/em&gt; second edition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;﻿&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:38:21 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/britain-s-new-towns-garden-cities-to-sustainable-communities</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/britain-s-new-towns-garden-cities-to-sustainable-communities</guid></item><item><title>Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-first Century</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maintaining and enhancing living conditions in cities through a   combination physical planning and environmental management is a newly   emerging focus of governments around the world. For example, local   governments seek to insulate sensitive land uses such as residential   areas from environmentally intrusive activities such as major transport   facilities and manufacturing. Regional governments protect water  quality  and natural habitat by enforcing pollution controls and  regulating the  location of growth. Some national governments fund  acquisition of  strategically important sites, facilitate the renewal of  brown fields,  and even develop integrated environmental quality plans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities&lt;/em&gt; as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twentieth century.   As yet, no collection has gathered these experiences together to   consider their contribution to planning.&lt;br /&gt;Juxtaposing examples of   green belt implementation worldwide, this book adds to understanding of   how green belts can be effected in theory and how practitioners have   adapted them in practice. The book provides a typology of green belt   implementation and reform, enabling planners to grasp why these policies   are employed and whether they are relevant to twenty-first century   planning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;It is astonishing to realize that &lt;em&gt;no book has attempted to compare international efforts to construct green belts around cities&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;despite the fact that this idea has been a powerful element of urban planning for the past 100 years&lt;/em&gt;.   Marco Amati and his collaborators fill this gap with a wide ranging  and  important book that will be essential to students and to scholars,   planners, and designers working on the emerging megacities of the   world&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Michael B. Teitz, University of California, Berkeley, USA&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Figures &lt;br /&gt;Tables&lt;br /&gt;Notes on contributors&lt;br /&gt;Preface&lt;br /&gt;Acknowledgements&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; Green Belts: A Twentieth-century Planning Experiment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marco Amati&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part I: The Coalition of the Un-willing: Landowners and the Green Belt &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; The Abandonment of Tokyo&amp;rsquo;s Green Belt and the Search for a New Discourse of Preservation in Tokyo&amp;rsquo;s Suburbs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Takashi Watanabe, Marco Amati, Kenya Endo and Makoto Yokohari&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; Issues with Green Belt Reform in the Seoul Metropolitan Area &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jekook Kim and Tae-Kyung Kim&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part II: Falling Out of Favour: Deregulation and Green Belts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; Protecting Melbourne&amp;rsquo;s Green Wedges &amp;ndash; Fate of a Public Policy &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Michael Buxton and Robin Goodman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. &lt;/strong&gt;The Green Belt that Wasn&amp;rsquo;t: The Case of New Zealand from 1910 to the 1990s&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caroline Miller and Marco Amati&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part III: Re-forming Greenery: From Green Belts to Green Nets &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. &lt;/strong&gt;The Adelaide Parklands and the Endurance of the Green Belt Idea in South Australia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christine Garnaut&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. &lt;/strong&gt;Ottawa&amp;rsquo;s Greenbelt Evolves from Urban Separator to Key Ecological Planning Component&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;David Gordon and Richard Scott&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8.&lt;/strong&gt; Instruments to Preserve Open Space and Resource Lands in the Seattle,   Washington Metropolitan Region &amp;ndash; A US Alternative to Green Belts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alon Bassok&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part IV: Works in Progress: Patching Together a Flexible Green Belt&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9.&lt;/strong&gt; The Vienna Green Belt: From Localised Protection to a Regional Concept&lt;br /&gt;Meinhard Breiling and Gisa Ruland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10.&lt;/strong&gt; From Green Belts to Regional Parks: History and Challenges of Suburban Landscape Planning in Berlin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Manfred K&amp;uuml;hn &amp;amp; Ludger Gailing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11.&lt;/strong&gt; Controlling Urban Expansion in Italy with Green Belts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Giulio Senes, Alessandro Toccolini, Paolo Stefano Ferrario, Raffaele Lafortezza and Pasquale Dal Sasso&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12.&lt;/strong&gt; The Paris-Ile-de-France Ceinture Verte &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nicolas Laruelle and Corinne Legenne&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Index&lt;br /&gt;Foreword &lt;br /&gt;Notes on writing style&lt;br /&gt;Acknowledgements&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marco Amati&lt;/strong&gt; is Director of the   planning programme in the Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie   University, Sydney, Australia. His research interest are on green  belts,  urban growth and Japanese, Australian and UK planning system. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;﻿&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:40:45 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/urban-green-belts-in-the-twenty-first-century</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/urban-green-belts-in-the-twenty-first-century</guid></item><item><title>I Bilanci Partecipativi in Europa. Nuove esperienze democratiche nel vecchio continente</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Con la crisi finanziaria in atto, in Europa il tema delle risorse &amp;egrave;   sempre pi&amp;ugrave; al centro del dibattito pubblico: la percezione diffusa &amp;egrave;   che, da sola, la democrazia rappresentativa non sia capace di far fronte   alle nuove sfide. In questo panorama, l&amp;rsquo;espressione &amp;laquo;bilancio   partecipativo&amp;raquo; offre un ancoraggio alla speranza. Che cambiamenti   promette questa &#039;utopia concreta&#039;? Quali metodi suggerisce per   affrontare collettivamente alcuni mali del nostro tempo? Per rispondere,   il libro presenta una &lt;em&gt;sintesi della prima ricerca comparativa condotta in Europa sui bilanci partecipativi&lt;/em&gt;. Approfondisce una &lt;em&gt;cinquantina di esperienze e amplia l&amp;rsquo;orizzonte ad oltre 150 pratiche sviluppatesi dall&amp;rsquo;inizio del millennio&lt;/em&gt;.   Alla base della ricerca c&amp;rsquo;&amp;egrave; un&amp;rsquo;ipotesi forte: le esperienze analizzate   dimostrano che, affinch&amp;eacute; i servizi pubblici possano superare la   ristrettezza delle logiche di mercato, essi devono mettersi davvero al   servizio del pubblico. La sfida cruciale sta dunque nel capire come la   modernizzazione amministrativa e la partecipazione possano procedere   insieme. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&quot;Dopo le uscite in Francia e Germania &amp;egrave; in pubblicazione anche in Italia&amp;nbsp; la ricerca &lt;em&gt;&#039;I bilanci partecipativi in Europa. Nuove esperienze democratiche nel vecchio continente&#039;&lt;/em&gt; condotta da Yves Sintomer e Giovanni Allegretti per conto del Centro Studi Marc Bloch di&amp;nbsp; Berlino. Con questo testo arriva &lt;em&gt;un contributo importante alla &quot;sprovincializzazione&quot; del fenomeno dei Bilanci Partecipativi italiani&lt;/em&gt;, inquadrati qui nel pi&amp;ugrave; ampio contesto di una &lt;em&gt;crisi generalizzata degli istituti di democrazia rappresentativa&lt;/em&gt; e di una trasformazione continentale delle teorie e delle forme del   welfare state e del servizio pubblico. Oltre a specifici contributi   d&#039;interpretazione dello scenario italiano (...) nella ricerca sono   analizzati molti casi di Bilanci Partecipativi italiani come Pieve   Emanuele, Vimodrone, Locate, Cinisello Balsamo e molti altri&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yves Sintomer&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;egrave; professore di Sociologia Politica all&amp;rsquo;Universit&amp;agrave; di Parigi VIII e ricercatore presso l&amp;rsquo;&lt;em&gt;UMR Culture et Soci&amp;eacute;t&amp;eacute;s Urbaines&lt;/em&gt;. Dal settembre 2006 &amp;egrave; direttore vicario del Centro &lt;em&gt;Marc Bloch&lt;/em&gt; di Berlino. E&#039; membro dell&#039;editorial board di &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mouvements.info/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mouvements&lt;/a&gt;. E&#039; autore di &lt;em&gt;Porto Alegre, l&#039;espoir d&#039;une autre d&amp;eacute;mocratie &lt;/em&gt;(con M.&amp;nbsp;Gret), La D&amp;eacute;couverte, Paris, 2002; &lt;em&gt;The Porto Alegre Experiment: Learning Lessons for a Better Democracy, &lt;/em&gt;Zed Books, New York, 2004 (versione inglese)&lt;em&gt;, La d&amp;eacute;mocratie impossible? Politique et modernit&amp;eacute; chez Weber et Habermas&lt;/em&gt;, La D&amp;eacute;couverte, Paris 1999. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Giovanni Allegretti&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;egrave; urbanista, ricercatore presso il Centro di Studi Sociali   dell&amp;rsquo;Universit&amp;agrave; di Coimbra e consulente formativo di alcuni bilanci   partecipativi europei. Dirige il nuovo &lt;em&gt;Osservatorio delle Pratiche Partecipative&lt;/em&gt; (OPP) e coordina il Gruppo di lavoro &#039;L&amp;rsquo;uso degli strumenti audiovisivi   nei percorsi partecipativi&#039; all&amp;rsquo;interno dell&amp;rsquo;OIDP (Observatori   Internacional de la Democr&amp;agrave;cia Partecipativa - International Observatory   for Participatory Democracy) di Barcellona. E&#039; stato consulente e   formatore in numerose amministrazioni locali in Italia, Spagna,   Portogallo, Francia, Inghilterra, Brasile, Capo Verde, Senegal ed ha   svolto corsi di formazione sul Bilancio Partecipativo per la Regione   Toscana e la Regione Lazio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Carsten Herzberg&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;egrave; dottore in scienze politiche dell&#039;Universit&amp;agrave; di Potsdam e Parigi VIII.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anja R&amp;ouml;cke &lt;/strong&gt;&amp;egrave; dottoranda all&amp;rsquo;Istituto Universitario Europeo di Firenze.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This book is part of the&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nuovo Municipio&lt;/em&gt; Series: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;La   collana, diretta da Tarcisio Tarquini, intende raccontare le  esperienze  italiane e straniere di democrazia partecipativa, presentare  idee e  progetti per rinnovare le istituzioni locali, proporre letture  originali  dei cambiamenti delle comunit&amp;agrave; e dei territori. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;﻿&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:44:26 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/i-bilanci-partecipativi-in-europa-nuove-esperienze-democratiche-nel-vecchio-continente-1</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/i-bilanci-partecipativi-in-europa-nuove-esperienze-democratiche-nel-vecchio-continente-1</guid></item><item><title>Tirana, una città emergente. Politiche urbane, Piani e Progetti</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Albania il crollo improvviso del regime comunista nel 1990 ha portato in brevissimo tempo alla &lt;em&gt;completa destrutturazione del sistema collettivista costruito nell&amp;rsquo;arco di quarantacinque anni&lt;/em&gt;. I terreni agricoli vennero privatizzati concedendoli, frazionati in piccole propriet&amp;agrave;, alle famiglie che li avevano lavorati nelle aziende statali. Questa scelta ha portato ad un collasso dell&amp;rsquo;economia agricola con il conseguente abbandono delle campagne e la crescente concentrazione della popolazione nei pochi centri capaci di dare una speranza di occupazione, anche se precaria: T&amp;igrave;rana, Durazzo, Valona, Fieri, Coriza.&lt;br /&gt;Il collasso delle istituzioni statali ai diversi livelli e la scelta di un modello liberista indicato dai pi&amp;ugrave; importanti organismi internazionali ha determinato &lt;em&gt;un modello di uso del suolo quasi totalmente privo di regole&lt;/em&gt;. Divenne pratica generalizzata edificare ovunque, a prescindere dalle leggi vigenti e dai vecchi strumenti urbanistici che durante il regime di Enver Hoxha coprivano l&amp;rsquo;intero territorio nazionale.&lt;br /&gt;Questa forma di liberismo estremo ha prodotto, insieme a profondi e dolorosi squilibri, grandi trasformazioni e un forte sviluppo economico. La proiezione all&amp;rsquo;interno della societ&amp;agrave; e del territorio albanese di inedite dinamiche di mercato ha causato una &lt;em&gt;destrutturazione dei territori e delle citt&amp;agrave; di fronte a cui le teorizzazioni e gli strumenti tecnici dell&amp;rsquo;urbanistica tradizionale hanno trovato grande difficolt&amp;agrave; sia in termini di analisi che di proposta&lt;/em&gt;. In Albania stanno emergendo forme di organizzazione del territorio e delle citt&amp;agrave; atipiche ma molto vitali che evocano, per alcuni aspetti, anche parti e relazioni degli elementi delle aree metropolitane europee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prefazione&lt;br /&gt;Introduzione&lt;br /&gt;Vocaboli albanesi di interesse geografico, urbanistico ed architettonico, etnografico&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; La fondazione di Tirana e il suo sviluppo sino alla definizione di capitale dell&amp;rsquo;Albania&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. &lt;/strong&gt;Dall&amp;rsquo;indipendenza dell&amp;rsquo;Albania all&amp;rsquo;occupazione italiana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; L&amp;rsquo;occupazione italiana e la Seconda Guerra Mondiale&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; Il regime di Enver Hoxha e il suo crollo nel 1990&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; Il passaggio all&amp;rsquo;economia di mercato&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.&lt;/strong&gt; Previsioni per lo sviluppo urbano di Tirana al 2017&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.&lt;/strong&gt; I contenuti del Piano Strategico per l&amp;rsquo;area della Grande Tirana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Archivi e biblioteche consultate&lt;br /&gt;Bibliografia&lt;br /&gt;Elenco delle illustrazioni&lt;br /&gt;Indice dei luoghi e dei nomi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Giovanni Sergi, &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;architetto, &amp;egrave; ricercatore presso il Dipartimento di Architettura, Rilievo, Disegno, Urbanistica, Storia dell&#039;Universit&amp;agrave; Politecnica delle Marche e docente presso il Corso di Laurea Edile-Architettura nella Facolt&amp;agrave; di Ingegneria dell&#039;Universit&amp;agrave; Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona. Responsabile scientifico e docente a Tirana nel 2002, 2003 e 2004 di un corso per laureati cofinanziato dal Ministero degli Esteri. &lt;/span&gt;E&#039; autore di numerose pubblicazioni nel settore disciplinare dell&#039;Urbanistica e di G. Sergi, L. Lagomarsino (1996, a cura di), &lt;em&gt;Philadelphia, PA. I piani e i progetti: 1960-1990&lt;/em&gt;, G. Sergi (1996), &lt;em&gt;Albania, ex Jugoslavia. Crescita urbana, identit&amp;agrave; culturali, sviluppo sostenibile&lt;/em&gt;, F. Begliomini, G. Sergi (1989, a cura di), &lt;em&gt;Progettare Genova. Storia, architettura, piano e citt&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:49:11 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/tirana-una-citta-emergente-politiche-urbane-piani-e-progetti</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/tirana-una-citta-emergente-politiche-urbane-piani-e-progetti</guid></item><item><title>Actions: What You Can Do With the City</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;also available in French&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents &lt;em&gt;Actions: What You Can Do With the City&lt;/em&gt;, an exhibition of 99 actions that investigate &lt;em&gt;how the design and experience of contemporary cities can be described and informed by four key human actions: gardening&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;recycling&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;playing&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;walking&lt;/em&gt;. These seemingly common activities are pushed beyond their usual definition, featuring in the exibition international contemporary architectural projects, design concepts, and research conveyed through a range of materials including architectural drawings, photographs, videos, publications, artefacts, and websites. &lt;br /&gt;The 99 distinct actions presented include projects related to the &lt;em&gt;production of food&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;urban agriculture&lt;/em&gt;; the planning and creation of &lt;em&gt;public spaces &lt;/em&gt;to strengthen community interactions; the &lt;em&gt;recycling&lt;/em&gt; of abandoned buildings for new purposes; the &lt;em&gt;appropriation&lt;/em&gt; of urban sites into terrain for play, such as soccer, climbing, skateboarding, or parkour; the alternate use of roads for walking or rail lines as park space; the design of clothing to circumvent urban barriers against loitering or resting on benches; and many others. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Actions: What You Can Do With the City&lt;/em&gt; is accompanied by a book of the same title, which presents original research and writing that further examines the exhibition&amp;rsquo;s exploration. International in scope, the 30 essays are published for the first time and include personal observations by a range of activists alongside scholarly reflections on the positive impact these individual initiatives have on the city. The texts are interspersed with 34 specific actions drawn from the exhibition. Introductory essays by the editors Mirko Zardini and Giovanna Borasi provide historical perspective and establish the curatorial framework for the exhibition and publication.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;After the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cca.qc.ca/en&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA)&lt;/a&gt; in Montr&amp;eacute;al (Canada), from 26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009, the exhibition &lt;em&gt;Actions: What You Can Do With the City &lt;/em&gt;travels to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grahamfoundation.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Graham Foundation&lt;/a&gt; in Chicago (US) and is on show from 16 October&amp;nbsp;2009&amp;nbsp;to 13 March 2010. &lt;br /&gt;The exhibition is accompanied by the website &lt;a href=&quot;http://cca-actions.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.cca-actions.org&lt;/a&gt;, which presents a toolkit to inspire actions in the city. This databank of individual actions featured in the exhibition can be sorted and browsed in multiple ways (including by the type of tool employed in the action or the curatorial organisation of the exhibition). The website features photographs and video resources, and challenges users to respond by posting their own thoughts or initiatives on how to improve the city through individual action.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Acknowledgements &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thoughts &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;A new Urban Takeover &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;M. Zardini &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;City 2.0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;G. Borasi &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pedestrian as Urban Actor &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;S. Lavadinho &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Materiality of Parkour &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Z. Laughlin &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Belle Epoque: Love and YouTube in Parkour City &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;D. K. Thomson&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Public Nuisance to Instrument of Revitalization: Skateboarding in the Built Environment &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;O. Howell &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walking as Politics &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;T. Hatuka&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guerrilla Gardeners and Public Space Professionals: Between Conflict and Co-operation &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;R. Reynolds&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Architecture after the Front Lawn &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;F. Haeg &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Integrating Urban Agricolture with the Slum Upgrading Process &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;V. Bhatt&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A New Detroit on the Urban Prairie &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;B. M. Brogan and G. J. Grella&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thoughts Potential in Mumbai&amp;rsquo;s Post-Industrial Waste Landscape &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;J. Tiranishti, E. Gjoklaj&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A View from Tokyo: Recycling the Built Environment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijlma&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Habiter les Squelettes: Urban Pragmatism, Architectural Recycling, and New Collective Futures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coloco (Nicolas Bonnenfant, Miguel Georgieff and Pablo Georgieff)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A New Kind of Scavenging: The Nuevo Rumbo Co-operative in Buenos Aires&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jochen Becker and Alejandra L&amp;ograve;pez &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The South Bronx: A Neighbourhood Reclaimed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Omar Freilla&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Garbage Here, Recycling There: Used-up Materials across North American Borders&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sarah Hill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dumpster Diving: Foraging with Freegans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Emily Reuhala&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toronto&#039;s Foodscape: From Food Deserts to an Edible Landscape &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nina-Marie Lister&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roadkill Recipe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fergus the Forager&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Edible City: Urban Agriculture in Adolescence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Debra Solomon and Hans Ibelings&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;City Trees and Urban Health &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thomas Leo Ogren&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything is Continuous: The Continuous Productive Urban Landscape &lt;br /&gt;Loam for Civic Creativity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dan Hill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Works Cited&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Giovanna&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Borasi&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;is CCA Curator of Contemporary Architecture since 2005. She curated the exhibitions &lt;em&gt;Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa&lt;/em&gt; (2008); &lt;em&gt;1973: Sorry, Out of Gas&lt;/em&gt; (with Mirko Zardini, 2007); and &lt;em&gt;Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt; on the work of Gilles Cl&amp;eacute;ment and Philippe Rahm (2006). Before joining the CCA, she collaborated on several exhibitions with Mirko Zardini including &lt;em&gt;Asphalt, The Character of Cities&lt;/em&gt; at the Milan Triennale (2003). Borasi was an editor and writer for &lt;em&gt;Lotus International&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Navigator&lt;/em&gt;. She served as Assistant Editor for the book series &lt;em&gt;Quaderni di Lotus&lt;/em&gt;, and was a member of the editorial staff of &lt;em&gt;Lettera&lt;/em&gt;, the graphic design supplement to &lt;em&gt;Abitare&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mirko&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Zardini&lt;/strong&gt; is the Director and Chief Curator of the CCA since 2005. At the CCA, he curated the exhibitions &lt;em&gt;1973: Sorry, Out of Gas&lt;/em&gt; (with Giovanna Borasi, 2007), &lt;em&gt;Se&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;nse of the City&lt;/em&gt; (2005), &lt;em&gt;Out of the Box: Price, Rossi, Stirling + Matta-Clark&lt;/em&gt; (2004), and has initiated a series of exhibitions developed with universities including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Princeton University, and Columbia University. He has taught at prestigious architectural schools, including the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University in Zurich and Lausanne, Harvard University, and Princeton University, and is a former editor of &lt;em&gt;Casabella&lt;/em&gt; magazine and &lt;em&gt;Lotus International&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:54:15 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/actions-what-you-can-do-with-the-city</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/actions-what-you-can-do-with-the-city</guid></item><item><title>Multiple City</title><description>Urban Concepts 1908/2008
Stadkonzepte 1908/2008&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Multiple City&lt;/em&gt; reflects on current urban development against the background of urban concepts over the past 100 years. It is possible to trace the history of multiple manifestations, parallel strategies and diametrical developments. Urban concepts and urbanist discourse enjoy temporary booms, but leave behind enduring evidence. Today, a wide range of phenomena, interpretations and debates exist in conjunction. This publication documents 16 important topics of urban development on the basis of texts, up-to-date photographs and historical planning material. Well-known authors adopt standpoints on current urban developments in 32 essays. It becomes possible to experience urban development as an exciting discourse that involves us all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The exhibition presents sixteen urbanistic terms, examining their transformation up to the present: From the &#039;garden city&#039; at the beginning of the 20th century via the city landscape concepts of the early post-war period to today&amp;rsquo;s &#039;urban landscapes&#039; and from the &#039;new towns&#039; of the 1960s to the current establishments of cities in China and the United Arab Emirates; from the leading ideas of a &#039;mobile city&#039; to the &#039;Telepolis&#039; of a digital era and from the &#039;pleasure city&#039; of a global consumer landscape to the strategy of branding, the city as a trademark.&amp;nbsp; New phenomena appear which, at the same time, can be a product of traditional strategies. These phenomena are heterogeneous, there is neither one manifestation nor one strategy in dealing with the city of today: &lt;em&gt;Multiple City&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The catalogue is published parallel to the exhibition &lt;em&gt;Multiple City. Urban Concepts 1908/2008&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pinakothek.de/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Pinakothek der Moderne Munchen&lt;/a&gt;, 4th December 2008 - 1 March 2009. &lt;br /&gt;Exhibition and publication are jointly produced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.architekturmuseum.de/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Architekturmuseum TU Munchen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stb.arch.tu-muenchen.de/index2_2.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lehrstuhl fur Stadtebau und Regionalplanung TU Munchen&lt;/a&gt;. The exhibition as well as its accompanying catalogue are to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Department for Urban and Regional Planning at the TU M&amp;uuml;nchen.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Garden City | Urban Landscape - Gartenstadt | Stadtlandschaft&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Landschaftsurbanismus&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;S&amp;ouml;ren Sch&amp;ouml;bel-Rutschmann&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Urban Growth to Mega-Urban Landscape&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Detlev Ipsen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Functional City | Patchwork City -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Funktionale Stadt | Patchwork City&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Dys)Functionalism in a Post(sub)urban Landscape&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Innovationsland: Tussenland&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rainer Johann&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Region as City | Network City -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Region als Stadt | Netzstadt&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Broadacre City and Sprawls&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Robert Bruegmann&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open System Network&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gunther Laux&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Tessuto Urbano | City as Collective Memory&lt;/strong&gt;- Tessuto Urbano | Stadt Als Kollektives Gedachtnis&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Stadt als gebautes und kottektives Ged&amp;auml;chtnis&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Winfried Nerdinger&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stadtquartiere vom Webstuhl&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sylvain Malfroy, Frank Zierau&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Urban regeneration | Urban Renewal -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Regeneration Der Stadt | Stadtumbau&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learning from London&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cordelia Polinna&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creative Leipzig. Stadt als Beziehungslandschaft&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iris Reuther, Andreas Paul&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Urban Design | Architecture of the city -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Stadtbaukunst | Architektur der Stadt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Architektonische Urbanistik&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sophie Wolfrum&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Wie kommt der Entwurf zur Stadt?&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Josef Rott&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Richly Designed Street&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coy Howard&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Genius Loci | Place and Atmosphere- G&lt;/strong&gt;enius Loci | Orti und Atmospharen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Landschaft als Geschehen der Natur und der Stadt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Martin Seel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lebendige Orte oder: die Spuren der Beruhrung&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ina-Maria Greverus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Situational Urbanism | Performative Urbanism&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Situativer Urbanismus | Performativer Urbanismus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Performance, Risk and the Public Realm&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iain Borden&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fubg&amp;aacute;nger in der nackten Stadt&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jorg D&amp;uuml;nne&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile4&quot;&gt;9. Mobile City | Telepolis - Mobile Stadt | Telepolis&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Multiple Mobilities. Mobilit&amp;auml;t in der modernisierten Moderne&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wolfgang Bonb&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What Happened to the Temporary Private Zones?&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doris Zoller&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. Healthy City | Sustainable City - Gesunde Stadt | Nachhaltige Stadt&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Urbane Nachhaltigkeit - eine Utopie?&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rolf Peter Sieferle&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sustaining = Synergizing? Cities in Anticipation&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cornelia Redeker&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11. Social Housing | Lifestyle Urbanism - Sozialer Wohnungsbau | Lifestyle Urbanismus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;A Toda Costa&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Markus Lanz, Sophie Wolfrum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zeeland Pr[i]vince&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marisol Rivas-Vel&amp;aacute;zquez, Chnstian Schmutz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile4&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12. Pleasure City | City of Perfection&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Cities of Perfection: Stadtfluchten oder Stadtversprechen&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Regina Bittner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Shopping Centre as an Urban Innovator?&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Alex Wall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13. City as Image | Urban Icon - Stadt als Bild | Urban Icon&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Raumdogma und Architekturbild&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gerd de Bruyn&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Im Bilde seim&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alban Janson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14. New Towns | New Capitalist City - New Towns | New Capitalist City&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Cities Without History&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neville Mars&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zweierlei St&amp;auml;dte&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christoph Luchsinger&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;15. Territory City | City as Prize - Territorium Stadt | Stadt als Beute&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;In Europa mehr Initiative und Kraft entwickeln&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stephen Lanz&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Re-codifying Territories of Exclusion&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marcos Leite Rosa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile4&quot;&gt;16. The Myth of Metropolis | The Myth of Megacity - Mythos Metropolis | Mythos Megacity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Capitalising Urban Myth&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ole Bouman&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Endless City&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ricky Burdett&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Biographies&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Image Credits&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;On loan from, Thanks&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHORS:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sophie Wotirum&lt;/strong&gt;, since 2003 Professor at the Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning at the Technische Universit&amp;auml;t Munich. Member of numerous juries and advisory boards, including iba see, Baukollegium Zurich, Ostfildern Scharnhauser Park, Berlin Tempeihof, Goethe Institute. Specialised publications include&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Urban Landscape: Authentizit&amp;auml;t und Performativit&amp;auml;t&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;(2005),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Kapazit&amp;atilde;t von Architektur&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(with A. Janson 2006),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Selbst&lt;/em&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Solidaritat und &amp;ouml;ffentlicher Raum&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(2008). Office projects received, among others, the German City Planning Award 1995 and 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Winfried Nerdinger&lt;/strong&gt;, since 1986 Professor of Architectural History and Director of the Architectural Museum of the Technische Universit&amp;auml;t Munich (since 2002 at the Pinakothek der Moderne). Since 1995 Director of the Architectural Museum Schwaben. Since 2004 Director of the Department of Fine Arts at the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts. Visiting professor at universities in Harvard, Helsinki, Canton; Cummings Lecturer at the McGill University, Montreal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:56:41 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/multiple-city</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/multiple-city</guid></item><item><title>The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by   infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in perpetual crisis. Infrastructure   has ceased to support its urban plans, subordinating architecture to its   own purposes. This out-of-control but networked world is increasingly   organized by flows of objects and information. Static structures avoid   being superfluous by joining this system as temporary containers for   people, objects, and capital. This provocative collection of   photography, essays, and maps looks at infrastructure as a way of   mapping our place in the city and affecting change through architecture.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;This book can only offer a partial insight into Los Angeles.   In this immensely complex landscape, we cannot hope for a total  approach  the way that Banham did. Insted we set out to paint a picture  of a  particularly crucial aspect of the city,&lt;em&gt; its dominance by an out-of-control infrastructure&lt;/em&gt;. To accomplish this, we can still turn to&lt;em&gt; Banham&#039;s idea of ecologies as well as to the method of geographer Anton Wagner &lt;/em&gt;in   his 1935 analysis of Los Angeles, a work profundly influential on   Banham. (...) If we begin with Wagner&#039;s idea of looking at the city as   landscape and Banham&#039;s notion of ecologies, we need to be more critical.   Ecologies were still innocent in the 1960s. By now, today they are  much  more complicated. (...) &lt;em&gt;We treat it in terms of networked ecologies&lt;/em&gt;, a series of codependent systems of environmental mitigation, land-use organization, communication and service delivery&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;From: &quot;Introduction. Networked ecologies&quot; by Kazys Varnelis &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A project by: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The   Network Architecture Lab Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and   Preservation, Columbia University and The Los Angeles Forum for   Architecture &amp;amp; Urban Design&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Networked ecologies &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kazys Varnelis &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Landscape&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Owens Lake. Reconstructing the Void&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Barry Lehrman &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile5&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Los Angeles River Watershed. Flood control Freakology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;David Fletcher &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oil. Crude City&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frank Ruchala &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gravel. Margins in our midst&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Matt Coolidge&lt;br /&gt;Center for Land Use Interpretation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Fabric&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Traffic. Blocking all lanes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sean Dockray, Fiona Whitton, Steve Rowell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telecommunications. Invisible city&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kazys Varnelis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Landscape. Tree Huggers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warren Techentin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Mobile phones. Cell structure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ted Kane &amp;amp; Rick Miller&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Objects&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Property. Counting (on) change&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Roger Sherman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Distribution. Consumers gone wild&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deborah Richmond&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Props Story of the eye&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Robert Sumrell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Picturing Los Angeles: the Linear City &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;The River. The Los Angeles River&lt;br /&gt;The Street. Wilshire Boulevard&lt;br /&gt;The Trench. The Alameda Corridor &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Author:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkarchitecturelab.org/front&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Network Architecture Lab (NETLAB)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;is   a research unit in Columbia University&amp;rsquo;s Graduate School of   Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. The Netlab investigates how   computation, communications, and changing social networks im,pact   architecture and the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.laforum.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting innovative art,   architecture, design, and urbanism. The Forum generates events,   initiates publications, and instigates discussion to engage both design   professionals and the broader community in Los Angeles and beyond.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kazys Varnelis&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://kazys.varnelis.net/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://kazys.varnelis.net&lt;/a&gt;) is the Director of the &lt;em&gt;Network Architecture Lab&lt;/em&gt; at the Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. &lt;br /&gt;Based   in New York, Varnelis has been a visiting lecturer at the University  of  Southern California, University of Pennsylvania, and the  Massachusetts  Institute of Technology. He has worked with the Center  for Land Use  Interpretation and is a co-founder of AUDC, which  published&lt;em&gt; Blue Monday: Absurd Realities and Natural Philosophies,&lt;/em&gt; 2007, and editor of &lt;em&gt;Networked Publics&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews by Robert A.M. Stern&lt;/em&gt;, 2008. He was president of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design in 2004 and 2005. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:58:58 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/the-infrastructural-city-networked-ecothe-infrastructural-city-networked-ecologies-in-los-angeleslogies-in-los-angeles</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/the-infrastructural-city-networked-ecothe-infrastructural-city-networked-ecologies-in-los-angeleslogies-in-los-angeles</guid></item><item><title>Urban Design</title><description>Un processo per la progettazione urbana&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also written in English&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;La progettazione urbana, nonostante le estese applicazioni e l&#039;interesse della letteratura, fatica a essere considerata un campo disciplinare a s&amp;eacute; stante. Pi&amp;ugrave; spesso &amp;egrave; vista come l&#039;interfaccia tra diverse discipline. &amp;Egrave; proprio questa sua imprecisa natura disciplinare che la caratterizza come il luogo dove, insieme alle collaborazioni tra discipline, se ne avvertono anche i conflitti in particolare quelli che sorgono tra gli esperti delle discipline pi&amp;ugrave; mature. Disciplina priva di uno statuto riconoscibile e difendibile da &quot;invasioni di campo&quot;, &amp;egrave; pacificamente colonizzata, invasa e occupata da urbanisti, architetti, ingegneri e architetti del paesaggio (oltre al ruolo che hanno nel processo di produzione dello spazio e degli obiettivi anche avvocati, banchieri e amministratori pubblici) ma &amp;egrave; anche una disciplina in rapido sviluppo e un potente alleato delle pratiche di pianificazione urbanistica. Negli ultimi anni si assiste a una domanda crescente di capacit&amp;agrave; di governo del progetto urbano proveniente sia dal settore pubblico che da quello privato. &lt;br /&gt;Per queste ragioni &lt;em&gt;Urban Design&lt;/em&gt; risponde al &lt;em&gt;bisogno di un supporto teorico e metodologico che consenta di inquadrare questa attivit&amp;agrave; fornendo la traccia di un metodo chiaro&lt;/em&gt;, utilizzabile da studenti, professionisti e funzionari pubblici, che proponga linee guida sperimentate e praticabili. Il libro - con testo in italiano e inglese - ha l&amp;rsquo;obiettivo di presentare l&amp;rsquo;attivit&amp;agrave; della progettazione urbana attraverso la definizione e la descrizione di un processo. &lt;em&gt;Quello che si propone &amp;egrave; un cosiddetto &quot;modello di processo&quot;&lt;/em&gt; adattato al progetto urbano, utilizzabile nei concorsi di progettazione, nello svolgimento di incarichi diretti, nei workshop. Il processo di progettazione proposto in &lt;em&gt;Urban Design&lt;/em&gt; &amp;egrave; articolato in nove fasi, o moduli, nelle quali si articolano anche i capitoli del libro. Per ciascuna fase il testo fornisce descrizioni, principi, esempi e riferimenti a casi nazionali e internazionali ed un&#039;ampia bibliografia di riferimento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prefazione/Foreword &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile1&quot;&gt;by Frederick Steiner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Introduzione/Introduction &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Il processo Noos/The Noos process &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;Istanze&lt;/strong&gt;/Istances &lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;Conoscenza&lt;/strong&gt;/ Knowledge &lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;Sintesi&lt;/strong&gt;/Summary &lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;strong&gt;Scelte&lt;/strong&gt;/Options &lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;strong&gt;Dialoghi&lt;/strong&gt;/Dialogues &lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;strong&gt;Masterplan&lt;/strong&gt; /Master Plan &lt;br /&gt;7. &lt;strong&gt;Comunicazione&lt;/strong&gt;/Communication &lt;br /&gt;8. &lt;strong&gt;Dettagli&lt;/strong&gt;/Details &lt;br /&gt;9. &lt;strong&gt;Attuazione&lt;/strong&gt;/Implementation&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusioni&lt;/strong&gt;/Conclusion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elenco casi studio/&lt;/strong&gt;List of case studies &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bibliografia/&lt;/strong&gt;Bibliography&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Danilo Palazzo&lt;/strong&gt;, architect (Milan), Ph.D in Regional Planning (1993, Venice) is professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria Edile-Architettura, Polo Regionale di Lecco. He teachs &lt;em&gt;Urban Design&lt;/em&gt; and in the &lt;em&gt;Design Studio Lab B&lt;/em&gt;, Master of Science in Architectural Engineering at the Facolt&amp;agrave; di Ingegneria Edile-Architettura. He is part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diap.polimi.it/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;DiAP, Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione of Politecnico di Milano&lt;/a&gt;. He is author of &lt;em&gt;Sulle Spalle di Giganti. Le matrici della pianificazione ambientale negli Stati Uniti&lt;/em&gt; (1997), &lt;em&gt;Paesaggio e Territorio &lt;/em&gt;(with A. Canevari, 2000), &lt;em&gt;Trasformare i luoghi della produzione. Transforming the Places of Production&lt;/em&gt; (with others, 2002). He edited, with M. C. Treu, &lt;em&gt;Margini. Descrizioni, strategie, progetti&lt;/em&gt; (2007) and the adaptation and translation of the two Italian editions of &lt;em&gt;The Living Landscape&lt;/em&gt; by Frederick Steiner (&lt;em&gt;Costruire il paesaggio. Un approccio ecologico alla pianificazione&lt;/em&gt;, 1994 and 2004).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The art of designing both unites and divides landscape architecture and architecture. Despite having a long tradition, landscape architecture has lacked a concise presentation of the fundamental principles underlying its design and planning concepts. This book has evolved out of more than twenty years of teaching experience. The authors distinguish between the variable factors such as climate, growth of vegetation etc., and the more abstract element of design. They describe the ideal design components and demonstrate the extent to which natural features such as surfaces, spaces, paths, borders, hard and soft materials shape the designs. The book reveals how concepts such as &#039;order&#039; and &#039;chaos&#039;, way and goal, intention and reaction form the basis for landscape design, just as they do in architecture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;What resources are available for designing open spaces? How is it possible to exchange descriptions and concepts dealing with this? How can social and perceptual aspects be included and how can they be taken into account by the design process? What part is played by conditions deriving from nature? And what is more: how are locations and spaces created in the open air, how are paths routed and boundaries set, how are hard and soft materials used? This book identifies and analyses the elements that come together to create landscape architecture. The authors draw on their practical and theoretical experience to reveal the central components of design and the intellectual paths followed in the design process.&lt;br /&gt;From: &lt;em&gt;Opening Spaces. Design as Landscape Architecture&lt;/em&gt;, book cover&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Form and forming&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Point - line - area - solid&lt;br /&gt;Order&lt;br /&gt;Shape and form&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coherence and prior experience&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Form&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Superization&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Form components&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Induction&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forming, design&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Connection and landscape architecture projects&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Designing an design&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Between head and hand&lt;br /&gt;Designing&lt;br /&gt;The design&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Intersubjectivity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intention&lt;br /&gt;Creativity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bifurcation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The usual design path&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Working model for the design process&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Means and end&lt;br /&gt;Prevailing conditions&lt;br /&gt;Sign and Content&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Space, place, path&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.1 Creating space: &#039;space&#039;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;Space&lt;br /&gt;Spaces in landscape architecture&lt;br /&gt;4 propositions for creating landscape architecture space&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Pure&amp;rdquo; space&lt;br /&gt;Breaking down &amp;ldquo;pure&amp;rdquo; space&lt;br /&gt;Suggesting space&lt;br /&gt;Spatial sequences - spatial gradations&lt;br /&gt;From closed to open spaces&lt;br /&gt;Spatial boundaries&lt;br /&gt;Uniformity of area&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spatial size dependent on human proximity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Space and the effect of space&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The human field of vision&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spatial effect and plants&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creating space with height differences&lt;br /&gt;Height differences and spatial effect&lt;br /&gt;Planting to achieve visual changes of relief&lt;br /&gt;The grove&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.2 Creating focal points: &#039;place&#039;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Focal point&lt;br /&gt;Special position&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The straight line and the right angle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emphasized (designed) focal points&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.3 Movement and access: &#039;path&#039;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Movement - motive and reaction&lt;br /&gt;Anticipatory orientation&lt;br /&gt;Proceeding &amp;ldquo;inattentively&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Beaten&amp;rdquo; track - the archetypal path&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Positive control&lt;br /&gt;External and internal access&lt;br /&gt;Problems/aims of internal access&lt;br /&gt;Path and goal&lt;br /&gt;Path routing and visual links&lt;br /&gt;Path signs and markers&lt;br /&gt;Trees as path markers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Colonnades and arcades&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Path joints&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The seat (or bench) - a (stopping) behaviour archetype&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Network of paths&lt;br /&gt;Path routing and use of the area&lt;br /&gt;Path routing and spatial shapes&lt;br /&gt;Paths and spatial sequences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Design qualities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.1 Fundamentals of good design&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Form and coherence&lt;br /&gt;Uniformity through common features&lt;br /&gt;Shared position&lt;br /&gt;Common features in terms of appearance&lt;br /&gt;Theoretical/thematic common features&lt;br /&gt;Diversity&lt;br /&gt;Satisfying variety - the disturbance of uniformity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.2 Characteristics of good design&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stimulation/uncertainty&lt;br /&gt;Tension&lt;br /&gt;Weight/balance&lt;br /&gt;Harmony&lt;br /&gt;Linking idea/theme/concept&lt;br /&gt;Clarity&lt;br /&gt;Simplicity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.3 Repetition as a tool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Repetition&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Structure&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patterns&lt;br /&gt;Grids&lt;br /&gt;Variation&lt;br /&gt;Transformation&lt;br /&gt;Rhythm&lt;br /&gt;Proportion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Symbols&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Literature&lt;br /&gt;Authors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hans Loidl&lt;/strong&gt; taught landscape architecture at the Hochschule f&amp;uuml;r Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, from 1976-1984. From 1982 he has been Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Technische Universit&amp;auml;t Berlin, specializing in project planning and design. From 1984 he has headed his own landscape architecture studio in Berlin with numerous realized projects, publication, expert reports, juries and lectures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stefan Bernard&lt;/strong&gt; works as a landscape architect and graphic designer. He is partner in the b+m+s Landschaftsarchitekten from 2001.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:54:37 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/opening-spaces-design-as-landscape-architecture</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/opening-spaces-design-as-landscape-architecture</guid></item><item><title>Esperienze di progettazione partecipata negli USA</title><description>appunti di un viaggio di studio in North Carolina e nella Bay Area&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Il quaderno, scritto a pi&amp;ugrave; mani, documenta il viaggio di studio organizzato dalla Commissione&lt;br /&gt;Urbanistica Partecipata dell&amp;rsquo;INU e dalla Fondazione Giovanni Astengo nel giugno del 2002.&lt;br /&gt;Gli interventi, tra il saggio ed il racconto, spaziano dalla descrizione di luoghi e persone alla&lt;br /&gt;loro  storia, dai progetti realizzati all&amp;rsquo;approfondimento di teorie e  pratiche professionali, avendo tutti come riferimento il coinvolgimento  degli abitanti nelle trasformazioni&lt;br /&gt;dell&amp;rsquo;ambiente urbano.&lt;br /&gt;Queste pagine raccontano un volto poco noto dell&#039;America, quello delle comunit&amp;agrave; e dei&lt;br /&gt;professionisti che si occupano di interventi di riqualificazione urbana attenta al sociale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sommario &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presentazione &lt;em&gt;(Gianluca Borghi)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Introduzione&lt;em&gt; (Donatella Venti)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;L&amp;rsquo;altra faccia dell&amp;rsquo;America: percorsi di lettura &lt;em&gt;(Valter Baruzzi)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Una premessa autobiografica &lt;em&gt;(Raymond Lorenzo)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cap. 1 Metodi e realizzazioni partecipate: Henry Sanoff e le esperienze dell&amp;rsquo;Adams Group Architects&lt;br /&gt;Cap. 1.1&amp;nbsp; Henry Sanoff: teoria e pratica del Community Design&lt;br /&gt;Cap 1.1.1 Il Community Design e le sue origini &lt;em&gt;(Donatella Venti)&lt;br /&gt;Cap 1.1.2 &lt;/em&gt;Gli strumenti del Community Design &lt;em&gt;(Giovanni Ginocchini)&lt;br /&gt;Cap. 1.1.3 &lt;/em&gt;Nuova vita alla downtown di Selma &lt;em&gt;(Manuela Capelli)&lt;br /&gt;Cap 1.2 &lt;/em&gt;Davidson Elementary School: una scuola che accoglie le diversit&amp;agrave; &lt;em&gt;(Manuela Capelli)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cap. 2 &lt;/em&gt;San Francisco e la Bay Area: innovazione e sperimentazione nelle esperienze basate sul coinvolgimento degli abitanti&lt;br /&gt;2.1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; San Francisco, una citt&amp;agrave; accessibile &lt;em&gt;(Giovanni Ginocchini)&lt;br /&gt;2.2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;Yerba Buena Gardens e l&amp;rsquo;attivit&amp;agrave; di TODCO nel quartiere South of Market di San Francisco &lt;em&gt;(Lorenzo Venturini)&lt;br /&gt;2.3&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;MIG: partecipazione e innovazione nelle pratiche professionali &lt;em&gt;(Giovanni Ginocchini)&lt;br /&gt;2.4&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;Michael Southworth: la scuola di Kevin Lynch &lt;em&gt;(Rita Micarelli)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cap. 3 &lt;/em&gt;Le politiche per la casa e lo sviluppo della partecipazione&lt;br /&gt;3.1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Le politiche per la casa e lo sviluppo del Community Planning &lt;em&gt;(Lorenzo Venturini)&lt;br /&gt;3.2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;L&amp;rsquo;attivit&amp;agrave; del Pyatok Architects, Inc. &lt;em&gt;(Lorenzo Venturini)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cap. 4 &lt;/em&gt;Sostenibilit&amp;agrave; e community design a Davis&lt;br /&gt;4.1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; La sfida dei proactive practitioners: Mark Francis, Universit&amp;agrave; di Davis, California &lt;em&gt;(Donatella Venti)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Mark Francis&lt;em&gt; (Ray Lorenzo)&lt;br /&gt;4.2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;Davis, una citt&amp;agrave; dedita all&amp;rsquo;ecologia &lt;em&gt;(Maria Rosa Morello)&lt;br /&gt;4.3&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;Village Homes, Davis &lt;em&gt;(Maria Rosa Morello)&lt;br /&gt;4.4&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;Community Design &amp;amp; Planning Service (CPDS), Universit&amp;agrave; di Davis, California &lt;em&gt;(Evimero Crisostomi)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Le suggestioni per un ritornello &lt;em&gt;(Sergio Salustri)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ripensando al viaggio &lt;em&gt;(Giorgio Pizziolo)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bibliografia Principali testi degli autori presentati nella pubblicazione&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Appendice&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Web sites, fonti dirette di approfondimento&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:27:17 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/esperienze-di-progettazione-partecipata-negli-usa</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/esperienze-di-progettazione-partecipata-negli-usa</guid></item><item><title>Il Quartiere nella Città Contemporanea</title><description>&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Periferie deprivate e senza risorse, in cui finiscono per trovarsi  confinati coloro che sono esclusi dalle opportunit&amp;agrave; di mobilit&amp;agrave; fisica e  sociale. Nuovi quartieri firmati da architetti di grido, simboli della  rinnovata importanza delle citt&amp;agrave; nell&amp;rsquo;economia globale. Ambiti locali  dove si sviluppano partecipazione e impegno civile, ma anche &#039;quartieri  fortezza&#039; in cui rinchiudersi alla ricerca di sicurezza e omogeneit&amp;agrave;  sociale. Pi&amp;ugrave; semplicemente, quartieri &#039;di tutti giorni&#039; in cui abitano  individui e famiglie che cercano di far fronte alla crescente  complessit&amp;agrave; di gestione spazio-temporale delle relazioni e delle  attivit&amp;agrave; a livello metropolitano.&lt;br /&gt;Ripercorrendo il dibattito  classico, ma anche ricorrendo ai pi&amp;ugrave; recenti contributi internazionali,  il libro offre a studenti di sociologia, delle discipline urbanistiche e  architettoniche e a chi opera in ambito politico e sociale, una  rigorosa ma agevole introduzione ai principali temi di teoria e ricerca  sul quartiere. Oggetto solo apparentemente intuitivo e scontato, il  quartiere si rivela nel corso dei capitoli un filone di analisi di  grande rilevanza e attualit&amp;agrave;, che chiama in causa questioni centrali per  comprendere le trasformazioni dell&amp;rsquo;esperienza urbana e  dell&amp;rsquo;organizzazione della citt&amp;agrave; contemporanea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Prefazione &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;di Francesca Zajczyk&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I. Le relazioni &amp;ldquo;pericolose&amp;rdquo; fra quartiere e comunit&amp;agrave;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;1. L&amp;rsquo;argomento della &amp;ldquo;perdita della comunit&amp;agrave;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Il quartiere nella scuola di Chicago&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. L&amp;rsquo;argomento della &amp;ldquo;persistenza della comunit&amp;agrave;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;3. La &amp;ldquo;comunit&amp;agrave; liberata&amp;rdquo;: la rivoluzione copernicana della &lt;em&gt;network analysis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;La ricerca di fischer e la teoria delle subculture&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Liberarsi della prossimit&amp;agrave;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Comunit&amp;agrave;, quartiere e nuove tecnologie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Il quartiere come oggetto autonomo di studio&lt;br /&gt;6. Tracce di comunit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Riferimenti bibliografici&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;II. Il quartiere come oggetto autonomo di studi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;1. Un&amp;rsquo;unit&amp;agrave; complessa di analisi&lt;br /&gt;2. Definire il quartiere&lt;br /&gt;3. Quartiere e vicinato&lt;br /&gt;4. Studiare il quartiere&lt;br /&gt;5. Addomesticare la complessit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;6. Il quartiere come societ&amp;agrave; locale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Riferimenti bibliografici&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;III. I confini del quartiere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;1. Le mappe mentali&lt;br /&gt;2. Processi percettivi, pratiche sociali e fruizione dei luoghi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;La micromobilit&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Gruppi sociali e rappresentazioni del quartiere&lt;br /&gt;4. Il quartiere nell&amp;rsquo;articolazione spaziale della citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;5. Le scale di quartiere nel sistema urbano contemporaneo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zona, quartiere, home area: i risultati di una ricerca&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Riferimenti bibliografici&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IV. La questione del cambiamento&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;1. Come e perch&amp;eacute; i quartieri cambiano&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;La segregazione urbana&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. La &lt;em&gt;gentrification&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Multidimensionalit&amp;agrave; del quartiere e analisi del cambiamento&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;La traiettoria del quartiere Comasina a Milano&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. La valutazione delle traiettorie di quartiere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Riferimenti bibliografici&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;V. Per chi conta il quartiere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;1. La tesi della &amp;ldquo;residualit&amp;agrave;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Il locale come &amp;ldquo;trappola&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Locale ed extralocale: due poli alternativi?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;La propinquit&amp;agrave; famigliare in Italia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Diversi stili di fruizione della citt&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;4. Oltre la &amp;ldquo;residualit&amp;agrave;&amp;rdquo;: interessi e integrazione sociale&lt;br /&gt;5. Il quartiere come scelta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quartiere e schooling nelle strategie di riproduzione sociale delle classi medie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Riferimenti bibliografici&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VI. I quartieri nella rete metropolitana: mobilit&amp;agrave;, accessibilit&amp;agrave; ed equit&amp;agrave; spaziale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Stile3&quot;&gt;1. Sviluppo metropolitano e crescita della mobilit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;2. Coordinamento spazio-temporale e vita quotidiana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vivere in &amp;ldquo;complexcity&amp;rdquo;: la giornata di una famiglia metropolitana&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. La questione dell&amp;rsquo;accessibilit&amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;4. Vivere in periferia: accessibilit&amp;agrave;, mobilit&amp;agrave; e qualit&amp;agrave; della vita&lt;br /&gt;5. Il quartiere tra de-contestualizzazione e ri-territorializzazione&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Riferimenti bibliografici&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Authors:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barbara Borlini&lt;/strong&gt; e &lt;strong&gt;Francesco Memo,&lt;/strong&gt; Dottori di ricerca in Studi Europei sul Territorio, sono assegnisti   presso il Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale dell&amp;rsquo;Universit&amp;agrave;   di Milano Bicocca. Sono parte del Laboratorio &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perimetrolab.it/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;PeriMetro&lt;/a&gt; (Laboratorio sulle Periferie Metropolitane) sui temi delle   trasformazioni della morfologia sociale e territoriale delle citt&amp;agrave;   europee. Sono autori di &lt;em&gt;Milano. Quartieri periferici tra incertezza e trasformazioni, &lt;/em&gt;(   insieme a F. Zajczyk e S. Mugnano, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2005),   &amp;ldquo;L&amp;rsquo;esperienza urbana dei giovani abitanti dei quartieri periferici&amp;rdquo;, in   F. Zucchetti, &lt;em&gt;Milano 2006. Rapporto sulla citt&amp;agrave;&lt;/em&gt; (Franco Angeli, 2006). Barbara Borlini &amp;egrave; autrice, insieme a Francesca Zajczyk di &lt;em&gt;La resistibile ascesa delle donne in Italia&lt;/em&gt; (Il Saggiatore, Milano 2007).&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:07:15 +0100</pubDate><link>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/il-quartiere-nella-citta-contemporanea</link><guid>http://www.planum.net/journals-books/il-quartiere-nella-citta-contemporanea</guid></item></channel></rss>
