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Producing and living the high-rise: New contexts, old questions?
The purpose of the book is to assess the process of urban verticalization in different contexts through time, to provide insight into the relationships between highrise design and the way inhabitants negotiate them in their everyday lives, to assess how planners, politicians, and designers negotiate residential highrises in the strategies they develop for building the city and to introduce urban narratives and cartographies. Verticalization, although not new, currently takes place in a very different context than post-1945. Today, highrise residential buildings are more than architectural solutions: they are commodities in a global market where capital flows are fixed by developers and munic...
Competing for Excellence in Architecture
A travel guide for those in search of architectural quality, this book can be browsed in many ways. Written in a clear and concise manner by about thirty authors, it features a collection of editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC), a large online digital archive open to the public since 2006. The editorials explore more than sixty Canadian architecture competitions held in the last seventy years. Especially in recent years, both public and private institutions have organized competitions across Canada, producing hundreds of architectural, urban planning, and landscape design projects. Together these proposals, most of which remain unbuilt, constitute a fantastic treasure in our tangible and intangible common heritage. Given that competition organizers, designers, juries, and critics never operate alone, there is no doubt whatsoever that this book results from the collaboration of a myriad of people, contributing to and competing for excellence in architecture. Includes 497 illustrations and analytical tables.
Financeirização e metropolização do espaço
Os textos aqui reunidos são produto do Projeto de Pesquisa "Imobiliário e infraestruturas sob domínio de Grandes Grupos Econômicos: financeirização e metropolização do espaço na São Paulo do século XXI" desenvolvido entre 2020 e 2022, com financiamento da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Auxílio Regular – Processo no 2019/18881-0. A profunda reorganização dos setores empresariais com atuação na produção do espaço evidenciada ao longo do século XXI deu relevo ao crescente papel dos Grandes Grupos Econômicos. Protagonistas em grandes incorporações imobiliárias, em processos de privatização de infraestruturas e no desenho de grandes ...
Transferência do direito de construir e patrimônio cultural edificado carioca:
Esta obra investiga os limites e as possibilidades do instrumento urbanístico denominado Transferência do Direito de Construir (TDC) para atuar na conservação do patrimônio cultural edificado. O aporte à teoria da renda do solo urbano revela a fonte de recursos urbanísticos coletivos contidos no preço do solo: as chamadas mais-valias fundiárias que são geradas pelas alterações da normativa urbanística. Ao serem recuperadas pelo poder municipal, essas mais-valias convertem-se em recursos urbanísticos que podem ser disponibilizados, através da TDC, para restaurar e conservar uma parte elegível do patrimônio cultural. O enfoque territorial sobre o estoque do patrimônio cultural edificado do centro da cidade do Rio de Janeiro visa a categorizar a elegibilidade de imóveis, revelando o alcance efetivo do instrumento com a finalidade de preservação patrimonial.
NATUREZA E METABOLISMO URBANO: reestruturação do espaço no Brasil e no Chile / NATURALEZA Y METABOLISMO URBANO: reestructuración del espacio en Brasil y Chile
Produto de pesquisa desenvolvida entre os anos de 2020 e 2023, a obra discute transformações observadas na realidade urbana sul-americana a partir dos aportes teóricos da economia política e da ecologia política urbana. A profunda reestruturação do espaço urbano que tem transcorrido nas primeiras décadas do século XXI aponta para a transição de um metabolismo urbano industrial para um metabolismo imobiliário financeiro. Isso implica que as antigas lógicas de produção e apropriação do espaço e da natureza, determinadas pelos lucros industriais e pela produção de mercadorias, encontram-se crescentemente superadas pela dominância de processos de valorização que encontram...
Concourir à l'excellence
Fruit d’efforts collectifs, ce livre se parcourt de multiples façons, tel un guide de voyage dans la recherche de la qualité architecturale. Les textes, rédigés par une trentaine d’auteurs, renvoient aux ressources du Catalogue des Concours Canadiens (CCC), grande archive numérique ouverte en ligne au public depuis 2006. Ces éditoriaux proposent une sélection d’une soixantaine de concours couvrant les 70 dernières années de l’histoire canadienne avec un accent particulier sur la période contemporaine. L’œuvre est collective puisque ces concours, organisés par de nombreuses institutions publiques et privées, ont donné lieu à la conception de plusieurs centaines de pro...
Power, State and Space
This book explains on what basis a nation can claim the status of space power, what are the criteria differentiating a space power from “lesser” space actors, and how their spacepower can be empirically measured and assessed. To this end, it sets forth a comprehensive multidisciplinary framework to enable a dynamic comparison of space actors and of the pathways that lead them in and out of the space powers’ club. Drawing upon a critical review of the existing literature, it conceptualises spacepower as a form of state power based on the complex interplay between the two defining dimensions of stateness, namely the well-studied dimension of capacity and the often neglected yet exceeding...
Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan
The study moves from tradition to modernity, explores a range of topics such as: song life in the traditional village; rural–urban tensions; local min’yo ‘preservation societies’; the effects of national and local min’yo contests; the ‘new folk song’ phenomenon; min’yo and tourism; folk song bars; recruitment of professionals; min’yo’s interaction with enka popular songs and with Western-derived foku songu; the impact of mass mediation; and min’yo’s role in maintaining or creating local identity. The book contains a plate section, musical examples, and a compact disc.
Latinos Facing Racism
First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Greenspace-Oriented Development
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) planning principles have informed Australian city planning for over two decades. As such, policy makers and planners often unquestioningly apply its principles. In contrast, this book critiques TOD and argues that while orientating development towards public transport hubs makes some sense, the application of TOD principles in Australia has proven a significant challenge. As a complementary strategy, the book stakes out the potential of Greenspace-Oriented Development (GOD) in which urban density is correlated with upgraded green spaces with reasonable access to public transport. Concentrating urban densification around green spaces offers many advantages to residents including ecosystem services such as physical and mental health benefits, the mitigation of extreme heat events, biodiversity and clean air and water. Moreover, the open space and leafy green qualities of GOD will ensure it resonates with the lifestyle aspirations of suburban residents who may otherwise resist urban densification. We believe in this way, that GOD could be an urban dream that befits the challenges of this 21st century.
