Title & Author:

Urban transformation / edited by Ilka & Andreas Ruby.

Publication:

Berlin : Ruby Press ; Zürich : Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, [2008]
©2008

Description:

399 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
" ... evolved from a debate-platform, the Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction on Urban Transformation, which took place in 2007 at Tongji University in Shanghai, China ..."--Page 10
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Between ecology and economy: Introduction: Beyond Programmed Obsolescence / Fernando Diez -- A Green Masterplan Is Still a Masterplan / Mark Jarzombek -- Zone / Keller Easterling -- Aguada Flood-Park: Recovering a Post-Industrial Urban Stream in Santiago de Chile / Pablo Allard and José Rosas -- The Good, the Bad, and the Utilitarian: Singapore's Schizophrenic Urbanism / Ting-Ting Zhang and William Tan -- Running the Numbers / Chris Jordan -- Cityness / Saskia Sassen -- Between global and local: Introduction: The Global-Local Nexus and the New Urban Order / Amer Moustafa -- Re: Doing Dubai / Wes Jones -- Sustainable Difference / Simon Hubacher -- Caribbean Strips: Tourism in the Caribbean / Juan Alfonso Zapata and Supersudaca -- Permanent Visitors / Donald L. Bates -- Mallorca: Island in Progress / Marc Räder -- [Restricted Access] or The Open City? / Kees Christiaanse -- Between public and private: Introduction: Citizen or Shareholder? / Kaarin Taipale -- Two Houses in Seoul / Minsuk Cho -- Re-Searching (for the public) ... / Ines Weizman -- Empty Lots: Collective Action of Experimental Urban Occupation / Louise Marie Cardoso Ganz -- Ciclopaseo in Quito: Cycling Citizenship in the City / Ximena Ganchala -- The City of Production: A Fantastic Opportunity to Experiment with Positive Capitalism / Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix -- Going Public / Sarah Whiting -- A More Socially and Environmentally Sustainable City / Enrique Penalosa
Between sanctioned and shadow order: -- Introduction: Learning from the Kinetic City / Rahul Mehrotra -- In-Between Legal and Illegal / Philippe Cabane -- Evasion of Temporality / Srdjan Jovanović Weiss -- Don't Underestimate the Rice Fields / Juan Du -- Trans-Border Flows: An Urbanism Beyond the Property Line / Teddy Cruz -- Urban Flux / Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer -- Tabula Non Rasa. Toward a Performative Contextualism / Ilka & Andreas Ruby in Conversation with Jean-Philippe Vassal -- Between permanent and transitory: Introduction: The Endless Present / Eyal Weizman -- Leisure Nomads of the New Third Age: Nomadic Network Urbanism of the Senior RV Community in the US / Deane Simpson -- Refugee Camps or Ideal Cities in Dust and Dirt / Manuel Herz -- Model Houses and Show Flats or How to Buy an Apartment in Korea / Haewon Shin -- International Aid Cities: A By-Product of Reconstruction in Postwar Cities / Pushkaraj Karakat and Snehal Hannurkar -- Strategies for the Reuse of Temporary Housing / Cassidy Johnson -- Whatever Happened to Nomadism? / Florian Lippe / Indifferent Urbanism or Modernism Was Almost Alright / Robert Somol -- Between standard and appropriation: Introduction: Urban Ninjas and Pirate Planners / Mark Lee -- Subversive Standards or United Bottle: A Product Designed for Misuse / Dirk Hebel and Jörg Stollmann -- Elemental: Housing As an Investment not a Social Expense / Andrés Iacobelli and Alejandro Aravena -- Caracas MetroCable: Bridging the Formal/Informal City / Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, Urban-Think Tank -- Underneath the Highway / Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix

Summary:

"[This book] evolved from a debate-platform, the Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction on Urban Transformation, which took place in 2007 at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. For three days more 250 professionals from over 40 countries - architects, urban planners, engineers, scholars, representatives from business and governments - met in working groups and for panel sessions to discuss the challenges cities face today in respect to urban change."--Foreword (p. 10)

ISBN:

9783000248788 (pbk.)
3000248781 (pbk.)

Subject:

Urbanization Congresses.
Cities and towns Congresses.
Cities and towns Growth Economic aspects Congresses.
City planning Congresses.
Urban policy Congresses.
Urbanization.
Cities and towns.
Cities
Urbanisation.
Villes Congrès.
Villes Croissance Aspect économique Congrès.
Politique urbaine Congrès.
Urbanisation Congrès.
Villes.
urbanization.
cities.
Cities and towns Growth Economic aspects.
City planning.
Urban policy.
Globalisierung
Strukturwandel
Nachhaltigkeit
Verstädterung
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Stadtplanung
Urbanität
Schanghai <2007>

Form/genre:

Kongress Schanghai 2007.
Conference papers.
Conference papers and proceedings
Konferenzschrift 2007 Schanghai.
Kongress.

Added entries:

Ruby, Ilka, editor.
Ruby, Andreas, editor.
Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction (Zurich, Switzerland)
Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction (2007 : Tongji University, Shanghai),

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260188
Call No.: BIB 191077
Copy: 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 317108
Call No.: 317108
Copy: 2
Status: Available