"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 risks creating places that do not reflect authentic local context. Seeing the better city brings our attention back to the real world right in front of us, focusing it once more on the sights,...

Este libro explora a fondo la obra de Hume desde la reconstrucción de un diálogo con Husserl Así, la autora plantea que la 'verdadera filosofía' que planteó el pensador inglés es producto de un giro en sus tesis que le permitió concebir la práctica de su oficio desde tres metáforas: la conquista de la capital, explica el método, el anatomista y el pintor, su carácter comunicacional, y el viaje escéptico, su legitimidad como ciencia en...

Patrimoine et territoire sont intrinsèquement liés. Le premier cristallise des rapports particuliers tissés avec le temps, le second, avec l'espace ; tous deux portent des dimensions de mémoire et d'identité essentielles au développement des communautés. Cet ouvrage pose un regard sur le patrimoine comme agent de construction des territoires et comme levier de transformation socioterritoriale. La formulation récente d'approches critiques...

El libro analiza críticamente el modo de habitar occidental que supone al ser humano como especie superior, con derechos de posesión, control y explotación del mundo natural. Ese supuesto ha determinado un modo de habitar autónomo, individualista, sin ninguna consideración con el hábitat natural, construido colectivamente por todos los seres vivientes, a lo largo de millones de años. Las razones de ese modo de habitar, serán reveladas en sus...

In modern days it's a struggle to plan cities and states, particularly, the managers start to believe in the organization of cities as a means of good coexistence between those that occupy their spaces, visiting commerce or as the residential nucleus. According to Wikipedia, citing the researcher Monique Felix Borin and Journalist Valdir Sanches - Diary of Commerce in March of Two Thousand Fourteen (03-2014), we learn that the Municipal Code of Stances...

Chatham Village, located in the heart of Pittsburgh, is an urban oasis that combines Georgian colonial revival architecture with generous greenspaces, recreation facilities, surrounding woodlands, and many other elements that make living there a unique experience. Founded in 1932, it has gained international recognition as an outstanding example of the American Garden City planning movement and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2005. Chatham...

Given the rapid urbanization of the world's population, the converse phenomenon of shrinking cities is often overlooked and little understood. Yet with almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, efforts by government and anchor institutions to regenerate these cities is gaining policy urgency, with the availability and siting of affordable housing being a key concern. This is the first book to look at the reasons for the...

La réinvention de l'habitat familial par le développement de la ville satellite, de la cité jardin et plus largement de la banlieue a suscité (et suscite encore) beaucoup d’enthousiasme; or, les effets pervers de la prolifération de ces formes urbaines, notamment par la disqualification des quartiers anciens et des espaces publics, puis par la dépendance à l'automobile, sont de plus en plus évidents. Aujourd'hui, le défi de mieux arrimer...

We are living in a critical moment, a reality marked by environmental and socio-economic limits that requires innovative and realistic forms of action and planning. This is what regenerative urbanism proposes, a new approach based on utopian pragmatism that seeks to restore balance to the urban territory by designing systems that allow it to adapt and transform. It is a methodology that defines models that do not consume available resources, but rather...

Vancouver, located at the edge of a continent and the edge of national consciousness, has become the model for post-industrial urbanism. Does it deserve the attention? This provocative new book explores the links between the city's seductive natural setting, turbulent political history, planning and design culture, and the local and global forces that are reshaping Vancouver's urban environment at a ferocious pace. Filled with historical and contemporary...