L'abusivismo edilizio ha assunto nel secondo Novecento i lineamenti di un fenomeno di urbanizzazione dotato di elevata aggressività territoriale, determinando situazioni di particolare urgenza in termini ambientali, di rischio e di crisi dei modelli di welfare. Nel Mezzogiorno – dove la frattura tra pianificazione e deregolamentazione si fa territorio –, l'abusivismo rivela l'urgenza di un…
While advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and data infrastructures offer solutions for improving urban management and quality of life a priori, they also raise major challenges and risks. This book explores the constituent dimensions of the so-called smart city from two singular angles: the new uses stimulated by innovations and the needs th…
How building codes shaped material, social, and environmental landscapes in American cities. Almost every American city contains neighborhoods dominated by wood frame construction—light, cheap, combustible, and requiring the lowest upfront investment of labor and material in the building industry. Known as a Type V (five) construction in the terminology of building codes, these buildings bec…
Los centros sociales autogestionados representan formas singulares y anómalas de producir la ciudad. Su ya prolongada historia ha recibido una atención académica en aumento durante los últimos años, de la cual han participado ampliamente los autores de este libro. Sin embargo, no ha sido tan habitual su análisis e interpretación teórica de acuerdo con paradigmas como el del «derecho a …
This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia's spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional "common divisor" are integrated with readings of this Asian imagery. Such a common divisor is conditioned to Asia's phenomenal postcolonial subjectivation and …