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Floodplain ManagementA New Approach for a New Era
Floodplain Management presents a compelling case for rethinking how we live with rivers in an era of rising flood risk. With flood damage in the U.S. now exceeding six billion dollars annually—and climate change expected to worsen the threat—this book offers practical, science-based strategies to reduce risk while working with, rather than against, natural river systems. The authors argue …
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- 9781610911320
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CONOCIMIENTO DEL TERRITORIO Y CARTOGRAFIA URBANAReflexiones sobre el mapa com…
Los trabajos aquí compilados toman como eje de reflexión la pieza de diseño en su dimensión pragmática. ¿Con qué se diseña, utilizando qué códigos? ¿Cómo se construye el sentido, mediante qué diálogos? ¿Quién habla en la pieza de diseño? ¿Quiénes intervienen en la enunciación? ¿Cómo lograr adhesión? ¿Cómo se muestra una institución? Estas preguntas fundamentales son el…
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Urban Ecological DesignA Process for Regenerative Places
This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban Ecological Design illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theorie…
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Sociedad en vilo.Participación y desarrollo en el ordenamiento territorial d…
¿Por qué, para qué y cómo la participación de la sociedad en el ordenamiento territorial, que impulsa la administración distrital en Bogotá, desde 1991, es un proceso urbano-rural orientado a construir ideas sobre el desarrollo moderno? En este libro, la participación de la sociedad en el ordenamiento territorial de la ciudad es puesta en perspectiva con respecto al desarrollo moderno. …
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Seeing the Better CityHow to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space
Finalist for a 2018 United Kingdom National Urban Design Award • A 2017 KUOW Public Radio 2017 End-of-Year Book Choice In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data, digital mapping, and simulated cityscapes are valuable tools for understanding urban space, using them without on-the-ground, human impressions risk…
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- 9781610917766
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L’architettura di MilanoLa città scritta dagli architetti dal dopoguerra a…
Milano, nel corso degli ultimi settant'anni, è stata capace di costruirsi una propria identità: identità moderna, ma anche identità di città storicamente (oltreché geograficamente) italiana. Ed è proprio in quanto esemplare pressoché unico di una compiuta "modernità italiana" che Milano è riuscita a rimanere al passo e a istituire un proficuo dialogo con molte altre realtà europee e …
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Global City Blues
"This is a book about the making of cities and the buildings that compose them. It is about the conditions under which an architect engaged in those activities now works, how those conditions evolved and why they are changing. It is about the qualities of life that are threatened by the ways cities are built at the beginning of the 21st century and intelligent response to those threats. It is a…
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StufishEntertainment Architecture
This issue of AD looks at the work of STUFISH Entertainment Architects. Founded by the late Mark Fisher, the legendary British architect known for his rock music stage sets for bands including the Rolling Stones, U2 and Pink Floyd, the studio is a recognised leader in entertainment architecture. The STUFISH team of architects, designers, visualisers, production managers, technical specialists…
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Designing the MegaregionMeeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale
The US population is estimated to grow by more than 110 million people by 2050, and much of this growth will take place where cities and their suburbs are expanding to meet the suburbs of neighboring cities, creating continuous urban megaregions. There are now at least a dozen megaregions in the US. If current trends continue unchanged, new construction in these megaregions will put more and mo…
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IL PIANO APERTO
Ma che razza di società vogliamo? Da una parte c'è il piano rigido proprio di una società preordinata secondo schemi astratti che dalle rilevazioni sul campo esigono solo una conferma. Dall'altra c'è il piano aperto, flessibile, sottoposto alla verifica della realtà e ricreato costantemente dall'azione reciproca fra gli esseri umani e l'ambiente. A partire da questa visione, Doglio elabora…
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