Livres les plus populaires en France●Urbanisme

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can’t my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new fina...

Date de sortie: 2011-03-18 Genre:Arts et spectacles > Art et architecture 5,99 €

In 1955 Max Frisch, Lucius Burckhardt, and Markus Kutter published achtung: die Schweiz , a warning about the increasing level of sprawl throughout the Swiss landscape and a plea for a new and better controlled urbanity in the form of high-density settlements. Sixty years later, the level of alarm against the increasing levels of urban sprawl has not diminished and yet single-family houses and low-density settlements still unabatedly continue to threaten the Swiss landscape. Openly alluding to t...

Date de sortie: 2016-02-01 Genre:Arts et spectacles > Art et architecture 14,99 €

On prévoit un triplement des zones urbaines entre 2000 et 2030 dans les pays en voie de développement. Voici un panorama des questions que pose l'étalement des villes camerounaises et congolaises: la question foncière, la survie dans les mangroves, la crise de l'eau potable, les limites des villes nouvelles, la gestion des déchets….

Date de sortie: 2013-02-01 18,99 €

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities encompass myriad forms of local and indigenous intelligences and knowledge institutions, arguing...

Date de sortie: 2021-08-10 Genre:Arts et spectacles > Art et architecture 16,99 €

2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and the ...

Date de sortie: 2016-09-13 Genre:Arts et spectacles > Art et architecture 9,99 €

Cet ouvrage atteste l'évolution majeure des rapports entretenus entre Paris et le reste de l'agglomération, la ville de Marne-la-Vallée étant le terrain étudié. Les mobilités quotidiennes des habitants se recentrent sur Marne-la-Vallée et les mobilités résidentielles internes témoignent d'un processus d'ancrage. L'émergence de ce bassin de vie montre comment la mobilité produit de l'ancrage, et comment l'ancrage produit de la mobilité. De nouvelles questions en matière d'aménagem...

Date de sortie: 2011-09-01 24,99 €

In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today. We are living in the most dramatic period in architectural history in more than half a century: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are be...

Date de sortie: 2013-08-20 Genre:Arts et spectacles > Art et architecture 10,99 €

The cohousing "bible" by the US originators of the concept. A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes haveturned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of 21st century life? Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities is an in-depth exploration of a uniquely rewarding type of housing which is perfect for anyone who values their independen...

Date de sortie: 2011-02-01 Genre:Arts et spectacles > Art et architecture 33,99 €