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El 1 de enero de 2002, Michael R. Bloomberg asumió el cargo de alcalde número 108 de la ciudad de Nueva York, mientras todavía salía humo del sitio del World Trade Center. Muchos se preguntaron si la ciudad podria recuperarse del peor ataque terrorista en la historia del pais. En cambio, Nueva York prospero: entro en un periodo de crecimiento sin precedentes, impulsado por nuevos vecindarios, parques, distritos de oficinas, instalaciones culturales y mas. En el centro de muchas de estas iniciativas estaba Daniel L. Doctoroff, quien se desempeño como teniente de alcalde de Desarrollo Economico y Reconstruccion de 2002 a 2007. Contada a traves de los ojos de las personas que trabajaron con Doctoroff para liderar estos proyectos y acompañada de mas de 450 fotografias, The Urbanist: Dan Doctoroff and the Rise of New York cuenta la asombrosa historia del papel que jugo un hombre en la creacion de una serie de proyectos iconicos, desde el reconstruido World Trade Center hasta el Brooklyn Bridge Park, el High Line y mas.

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never been translated into English-until now. This first English edition, deftly translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre's sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of ???.

Stephe Marshall, S. Marshall, Marshall StepheThis book sets out a series of concepts of street structure and offers a framework for design of street networks. It addresses issues of sustainable trans

These book aims to put the social agenda squarely back in the rapid development of the built environment in china. Beneath the veneer of a Very successful China, a qiuet revolution is taking place within the realms of architecture and the city

What do our cities say about us? What have we made them, and how ought they to be? How has our vision of the city evolved over time, and can we really influence change and effect improvements? In this vibrant cultural history of the city, Joseph Rykwert explores the great cities of the modern world, examining their fabric and assessing how successfully they have met the needs of their inhabitants. From the teeming city centres of the industrial revolution to the exclusive gated suburbs of the 21st century, from the Parisian boulevards of Haussmann to the 'green' architecture of Emilio Ambasz, Rykwert charts the complex story of the growth of the city, setting architectural development firmly within a political, economic, social, and cultural context. Drawing on examples from Brasilia to Islamabad, Shanghai to Houston, Rykwert presents a fascinating analysis of urban growth, arguing forcefully that as voters and consumers we need to consider the economic, social, and cultural implications of developments and demonstrate our resistance to them if necessary. The arguments over the future of the Ground Zero site in Manhattan encapsulate the conflicting demands of civic pride and public utility set against private gain that vie for dominance in the 21st century, and exemplify the choices that, as citizens, we must all eventually make.

A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging the networked polycentric mega city region Developed around one or more cities of global status it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labour This book describes and analyses eight such regions in North West Europe For the first time this work shows how businesses interrelate and communicate in geographical space within each region between them and with the wider world It goes on to demonstrate the profound consequences for spatial planning and regional development in Europe and by implication other similar urban regions of the world The Polycentric Metropolis introduces the concept of a mega city region analyses its characteristics examines the issues surrounding regional identities and discusses policy ramifications and outcomes for infrastructure transport systems and regulation Packed with high quality maps case study data and written in a clear style by highly experienced authors this will be an insightful and significant analysis suitable for professionals in urban planning and policy environmental consultancies business and investment communities technical libraries and students in urban studies

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of public, private and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovation.This new locus of powerthis new localismis emerging by necessity to solve the grand challenges characteristic of modern societies: economic competitiveness, social inclusion and opportunity; a renewed public life; the challenge of diversity; and the imperative of environmental sustainability. Where rising populism on the right and the left exploits the grievances of those left behind in the global economy, new localism has developed as a mechanism to address them head on.New localism is not a replacement for the vital roles federal governments play; it is the ideal complement to an effective federal government, and, currently, an urgently needed remedy for national dysfunction.In The New Localism, Katz and Nowak tell the stories of the cities that are on the vanguard of problem solving. Pittsburgh is catalyzing inclusive growth by inventing and deploying new industries and technologies. Indianapolis is governing its city and metropolis through a network of public, private and civic leaders. Copenhagen is using publicly owned assets like their waterfront to spur large scale redevelopment and finance infrastructure from land sales.Out of these stories emerge new norms of growth, governance, and finance and a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive society. Katz and Nowak imagine a world in which urban institutions finance the future through smart investments in innovation, infrastructure and children and urban intermediaries take solutions created in one city and adapt and tailor them to other cities with speed and precision.

In 1968 Palle Nielsen approached the Modern Museet in Stockolm with a proposal for turnig the museum into an adventure playground. From 30 September to 20 October 1968 Modellen. En Modell for ett kvalitativt samhalle (The Model-A model for a Qualitative Society) was installed and children under eighteen were offered free access. The event attracted more than 35,000 visitors. Nielsens insistence on using the gallery space for his mass utopian model was precocious, prefiguring institutional critique and activist uses of the white cube. This book presents a selection of the material donated to the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) by Palle Nielsen in 2009.

The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. From Italy and Spain in the south, to the Low Countries and England in the north, men of business and trade came to play an increasingly pivotal role in the culture, politics and economies of western Europe. This book takes a comparative approach to the effect such merchants and traders had on the urban history of market places - streets, squares and civic buildings - in some of the great commercial European cities between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It looks at how this in period, the transformations of designated commercial areas were important enough to modify relationships throughout the entire urban context.Market places tend to be very ancient, continuing to function for centuries on the same location; but between the middle of the fourteenth and the first decades of the seventeenth, their structures began to change as new regulations and patterns of manufacture, distribution and consumption began to install a new uniformity and geometry on the market place. During the period covered by this study, most major European cities undertook the rebuilding of entire zones, constructing new buildings, demolishing existing structures and embellishing others.This book analyses the intentions of innovation, in parallel with sanitary and hygienic reasons, the juridical regulations of the architecture of certain building types and the urban strategies as efficient tools to better control the economic activities within the city

The Marine Etablissement: New Terrain for Central Amsterdam presents the studio of the ninth Yale Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship taught by Isaäc Kalisvaart, CEO of MAB Development, with Alexander Garvin, Kevin D. Gray, and Andrei Harwell of the Yale faculty. The studio proposed designs for the Marine Etablissement, Amsterdam's historic closed military installation for over 350 years, which is currently undergoing a plan to open for varied and public uses. The projects show numerous approaches with housing, schools, universities, tech centers, and infrastructural links to the city's core. The book includes an interview with Isaäc Kalisvaart and an introduction by Alexander Garvin, an essay on broad economic environment and financial feasibility of the design proposals by Kevin D. Gray; Erik Go, head of Studio MAB, and Hans-Hugo Smit, Senior Market Analyst at MAB on the nature of collaboration between designers and developers; and Liesbeth Jansen, project director of Marineterrein Amsterdam and Maarten Pedroli of Linkeroeve on the latest developments now occurring there. Edited by Owen Howlett and Nina Rappaport the book is designed by MGMT.design and is distributed by Actar D.

The Legacy Sites es un libro visualmente rico que explora la labor pionera de la Equal Justice Initiative a través de sus espacios públicos transformadores: Legacy Museum, el National Memorial for Peace and Justice, y el Freedom Monument Sculpture Park,, reunidos aqui por primera vez. A traves de impactantes fotografias y una narrativa contundente, este volumen invita a los lectores a profundizar en la larga y continua lucha de Estados Unidos por la justicia racial. Fundada por el aclamado abogado de interes publico y autor superventas del New York Times, Bryan Stevenson, la Iqual Justice Inititative ha redefinido la forma en que una nacion puede afrontar su pasado. Este libro no solo sirve como guia para los tres Sitios Legados en Montgomery, Alabama, sino como una reflexion sobre el poder de la memoria, la importancia de decir la verdad y la esperanza que se encuentra en la accion orientada a la justicia. El libro esta organizado en tres capitulos inmersivos, cada uno dedicado a uno de los Sitios Legados, y diseñado para reflejar las misiones distintas pero interconectadas de cada lugar. Inaugurado en 2018, junto con el Monumento Nacional por la Paz y la Justicia y el Museo del Legado original, los tres sitios reciben a cientos de miles de visitantes cada año. El Legacy M