Architecture : Urban & Land Use Planning

Sprawl and Suburbia brings together some of the foremost thinkers in the field and calls for architects, urban planners, and landscape designers to work at mitigating the impact of sprawl and improving the built environment as a whole. more...

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Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political, social and cultural upheaval, Berlin has continued, since the fall of the Wall in 1989, to be a city in transition. As the new capital of a reunified Germany it has embarked on a journey of rapid reconfiguration, involving issues of memory, nationhood and ownership. Bertolt Brecht, meanwhile, stands as one of the principal thinkers about art and politics in the 20th century. The 'Street Scene' model, which was the foundation for his theory of an epic theatre, relied precisely on establishing a connection between art's functioning and everyday life. His preoccupation with the ceaselessness of change, an impulse implying rupture and movement as the key characteristics informing the development of a democratic cultural identity, correlates resonantly with the notion of an ever-evolving city. Premised on an understanding of performance as the articulation of movement in space, Street Scenes interrogates what kind of 'life' is permitted to 'flow' in the 'new Berlin'. Central to this method is the flaneur figure, a walker of streets who provides detached observations on the revealing 'detritus of modern urban existence'. Walter Benjamin, himself a native of Berlin as well as friend and seminal critic of Brecht, exercised the practice in exemplary form in his portrait of the city One-Way Street. more...

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Taking sustainability in its triple economic, environmental and social dimensions, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, more...

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The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities.:.; Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict.; Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy.; Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example.; Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge.; Complements Designing Cities by the same author (Blackwell, 2003). more...

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This text stimulates debate about our urban environment and identifies ways of creating urban areas in direct response to people's needs and aspirations. more...

Price: $66.10