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En ce début de millénaire, quel regard porter sur la production récente de l'espace public ? Loin des grands aménagements urbains, ce livre explore la question de l'invention du paysage urbain dans des petites ou moyennes communes et au travers d'opérations modestes, situées dans de grandes villes ou non. Le "paysage intime" résulte du fragile équilibre obtenu par une(...)
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En ce début de millénaire, quel regard porter sur la production récente de l'espace public ? Loin des grands aménagements urbains, ce livre explore la question de l'invention du paysage urbain dans des petites ou moyennes communes et au travers d'opérations modestes, situées dans de grandes villes ou non. Le "paysage intime" résulte du fragile équilibre obtenu par une(...)
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Paysages urbains, une France intime
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En ce début de millénaire, quel regard porter sur la production récente de l'espace public ? Loin des grands aménagements urbains, ce livre explore la question de l'invention du paysage urbain dans des petites ou moyennes communes et au travers d'opérations modestes, situées dans de grandes villes ou non. Le "paysage intime" résulte du fragile équilibre obtenu par une évolution lente de la matière bâtie et non bâtie, en fonction des techniques, des particularités culturelles, des usages et du climat de chaque région. Or, force est de constater que, souvent, la production courante de l'aménagement urbain et le traitement infligé aux espaces publics manquent d'attention et de pertinence. L'objet de cet ouvrage est de montrer qu'il est pourtant possible de faire évoluer le cadre urbain avec intelligence et sensibilité tout en évitant les pièges d'un conservatisme frileux ou d'un "modernisme" tapageur. Vingt opérations ont été choisies pour leur qualité de conception et de réalisation, leur caractère innovant ou simplement pour la justesse de leur réponse. Elles prennent en compte les particularités des sites dans lesquels elles s'inscrivent ainsi que les demandes en termes d'usage et de fonctionnalité, pour créer des paysages "à valeur ajoutée", loin des solutions toutes faites qui banalisent et dénaturent généralement les paysages urbains. Ce recueil de projets remarquables par leur qualité devrait contribuer à relever le niveau d'exigence dans la réalisation des espaces publics et à encourager les initiatives ambitieuses.
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En ce début de millénaire, quel regard porter sur la production récente de l'espace public ? Loin des grands aménagements urbains, ce livre explore la question de l'invention du paysage urbain dans des petites ou moyennes communes et au travers d'opérations modestes, situées dans de grandes villes ou non. Le "paysage intime" résulte du fragile équilibre obtenu par une évolution lente de la matière bâtie et non bâtie, en fonction des techniques, des particularités culturelles, des usages et du climat de chaque région. Or, force est de constater que, souvent, la production courante de l'aménagement urbain et le traitement infligé aux espaces publics manquent d'attention et de pertinence. L'objet de cet ouvrage est de montrer qu'il est pourtant possible de faire évoluer le cadre urbain avec intelligence et sensibilité tout en évitant les pièges d'un conservatisme frileux ou d'un "modernisme" tapageur. Vingt opérations ont été choisies pour leur qualité de conception et de réalisation, leur caractère innovant ou simplement pour la justesse de leur réponse. Elles prennent en compte les particularités des sites dans lesquels elles s'inscrivent ainsi que les demandes en termes d'usage et de fonctionnalité, pour créer des paysages "à valeur ajoutée", loin des solutions toutes faites qui banalisent et dénaturent généralement les paysages urbains. Ce recueil de projets remarquables par leur qualité devrait contribuer à relever le niveau d'exigence dans la réalisation des espaces publics et à encourager les initiatives ambitieuses.
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February 2007, Paris
February 2007, Paris
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Socrates sculpture park
Socrates sculpture park
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Socrates Sculpture Park is a public art spaces. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park attracting a diverse audience to Long Island City’s East River waterfront. This book is published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Socrates Sculpture Park, and(...)
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Socrates Sculpture Park is a public art spaces. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park attracting a diverse audience to Long Island City’s East River waterfront. This book is published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Socrates Sculpture Park, and(...)
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Urban Landscapes
Urban Landscapes
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October 2006, New Haven, London
October 2006, New Haven, London
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Socrates sculpture park
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Socrates Sculpture Park is a public art spaces. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park attracting a diverse audience to Long Island City’s East River waterfront. This book is published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Socrates Sculpture Park, and it is the first major publication on this unique outdoor museum. Sculptor Mark di Suvero founded the Park with the assistance of fellow artists, community members, and city officials who transformed an abandoned lot into an award-winning urban renewal project. The history, spirit, and nature of this collaborative enterprise is presented through photographs and essays that reveal the beauty, energy, and import of this successful public art space.
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Socrates Sculpture Park is a public art spaces. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park attracting a diverse audience to Long Island City’s East River waterfront. This book is published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Socrates Sculpture Park, and it is the first major publication on this unique outdoor museum. Sculptor Mark di Suvero founded the Park with the assistance of fellow artists, community members, and city officials who transformed an abandoned lot into an award-winning urban renewal project. The history, spirit, and nature of this collaborative enterprise is presented through photographs and essays that reveal the beauty, energy, and import of this successful public art space.
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October 2006, New Haven, London
October 2006, New Haven, London
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Urban Landscapes
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Hester argues that it is only by combining the powerful forces of ecology and democracy that the needed revolution in design will take place. Democracy bestows freedom; ecology creates responsible freedom by explaining our interconnectedness with all creatures. Hester's new design principles are founded on three fundamental issues that integrate democracy and ecology:(...)
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Hester argues that it is only by combining the powerful forces of ecology and democracy that the needed revolution in design will take place. Democracy bestows freedom; ecology creates responsible freedom by explaining our interconnectedness with all creatures. Hester's new design principles are founded on three fundamental issues that integrate democracy and ecology:(...)
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Design for ecological democracy
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Hester argues that it is only by combining the powerful forces of ecology and democracy that the needed revolution in design will take place. Democracy bestows freedom; ecology creates responsible freedom by explaining our interconnectedness with all creatures. Hester's new design principles are founded on three fundamental issues that integrate democracy and ecology: enabling form, resilient form, and impelling form. Urban design must enable us to be communities rather than zoning-segregated enclaves and to function as informed democracies. A simple bench at a centrally located post office, for example, provides an opportunity for connection and shared experience. Cities must be ecologically resilient rather than ecologically imperiled, adaptable to the surrounding ecology rather than dependent on technological fixes. Resilient form turns increased urban density, for example, into an advantage. And cities should impel us by joy rather than compel us by fear; good cities enrich us rather than limit us. Design for Ecological Democracy is essential reading for designers, planners, environmentalists, community activists, and anyone else who wants to improve a local community.
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Hester argues that it is only by combining the powerful forces of ecology and democracy that the needed revolution in design will take place. Democracy bestows freedom; ecology creates responsible freedom by explaining our interconnectedness with all creatures. Hester's new design principles are founded on three fundamental issues that integrate democracy and ecology: enabling form, resilient form, and impelling form. Urban design must enable us to be communities rather than zoning-segregated enclaves and to function as informed democracies. A simple bench at a centrally located post office, for example, provides an opportunity for connection and shared experience. Cities must be ecologically resilient rather than ecologically imperiled, adaptable to the surrounding ecology rather than dependent on technological fixes. Resilient form turns increased urban density, for example, into an advantage. And cities should impel us by joy rather than compel us by fear; good cities enrich us rather than limit us. Design for Ecological Democracy is essential reading for designers, planners, environmentalists, community activists, and anyone else who wants to improve a local community.
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September 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
September 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often,(...)
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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often,(...)
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Green city : people, nature and urban places
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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often, a warning. Featuring chapters on Babylon, Provins (France), London and Bloomsbury, Hamilton, Chicago, Irvine, Singapore, Tanga (Tanzania), Kochi (India), Shanghai, and São Paulo, as well as recommendations on what must be done so that everyone has a bit of green to call their own. Also includes photographs and extensive notes.
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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often, a warning. Featuring chapters on Babylon, Provins (France), London and Bloomsbury, Hamilton, Chicago, Irvine, Singapore, Tanga (Tanzania), Kochi (India), Shanghai, and São Paulo, as well as recommendations on what must be done so that everyone has a bit of green to call their own. Also includes photographs and extensive notes.
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August 2006, Montréal
August 2006, Montréal
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Urban Landscapes
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''The Right to Nature'' is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and(...)
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''The Right to Nature'' is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and(...)
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May 2025
May 2025
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The right to nature: For a new urban landscape
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''The Right to Nature'' is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and activator of a new urban sociality. The relationship between man and nature today is an urgent issue in the debate on the contemporary city, but it still has to be truly explored, defined, and built. Throughout seven main topics – Green and blue infrastructures, Regeneration, Public space, Dwelling, Green welfare, Heritage, and Care –, the book explores contemporary urban landscape issues at the different scales of the project, in the light of the relationship between human beings and nature.
The right to nature: For a new urban landscape
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''The Right to Nature'' is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and activator of a new urban sociality. The relationship between man and nature today is an urgent issue in the debate on the contemporary city, but it still has to be truly explored, defined, and built. Throughout seven main topics – Green and blue infrastructures, Regeneration, Public space, Dwelling, Green welfare, Heritage, and Care –, the book explores contemporary urban landscape issues at the different scales of the project, in the light of the relationship between human beings and nature.
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May 2025
May 2025
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Ten years after its initial publication, "Weather in the city" is more relevant than ever. Prolonged heat waves are a source of many stress-related problems, especially in densely populated areas. Certain wind phenomena in cities have also caused issues in the atmosphere. Based on these factors, Sanda Lenzholzer shows how basic climatic processes work in an urban(...)
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Ten years after its initial publication, "Weather in the city" is more relevant than ever. Prolonged heat waves are a source of many stress-related problems, especially in densely populated areas. Certain wind phenomena in cities have also caused issues in the atmosphere. Based on these factors, Sanda Lenzholzer shows how basic climatic processes work in an urban(...)
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Weather in the city: How design shapes the urban climate. revised edition
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Ten years after its initial publication, "Weather in the city" is more relevant than ever. Prolonged heat waves are a source of many stress-related problems, especially in densely populated areas. Certain wind phenomena in cities have also caused issues in the atmosphere. Based on these factors, Sanda Lenzholzer shows how basic climatic processes work in an urban environment, and how they can be influenced by spatial planning and urban design. This revised edition draws on current examples in demonstrating how the comfort of the urban environment can be enhanced using modern techniques and new methods. The book is both a reference work and a source of inspiration for all those engaged in creating a liveable city: be they clients, policymakers, professionals or students involved in urban design, landscape architecture and planning.
Weather in the city: How design shapes the urban climate. revised edition
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Ten years after its initial publication, "Weather in the city" is more relevant than ever. Prolonged heat waves are a source of many stress-related problems, especially in densely populated areas. Certain wind phenomena in cities have also caused issues in the atmosphere. Based on these factors, Sanda Lenzholzer shows how basic climatic processes work in an urban environment, and how they can be influenced by spatial planning and urban design. This revised edition draws on current examples in demonstrating how the comfort of the urban environment can be enhanced using modern techniques and new methods. The book is both a reference work and a source of inspiration for all those engaged in creating a liveable city: be they clients, policymakers, professionals or students involved in urban design, landscape architecture and planning.
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September 2025
September 2025
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Let's talk wild!
Let's talk wild!
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Urban design and wildness may seem at odds, yet as cities evolve, wildness is increasingly seen as a resource - shaping how we think about and create our living environments. From urban gardening to rewilding projects, wild practices are gaining ground. Are these trends signs of genuine transformation or just the commercialization of sustainability? How are other(...)
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Urban design and wildness may seem at odds, yet as cities evolve, wildness is increasingly seen as a resource - shaping how we think about and create our living environments. From urban gardening to rewilding projects, wild practices are gaining ground. Are these trends signs of genuine transformation or just the commercialization of sustainability? How are other(...)
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Let's talk wild!
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Urban design and wildness may seem at odds, yet as cities evolve, wildness is increasingly seen as a resource - shaping how we think about and create our living environments. From urban gardening to rewilding projects, wild practices are gaining ground. Are these trends signs of genuine transformation or just the commercialization of sustainability? How are other disciplines rethinking wildness? And how can architects and planners engage critically with these ideas? "Let’s Talk Wild!" brings together 12 interdisciplinary voices in a multi-layered dialogue on chaos, creativity, and the complex meanings of wildness.
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Urban design and wildness may seem at odds, yet as cities evolve, wildness is increasingly seen as a resource - shaping how we think about and create our living environments. From urban gardening to rewilding projects, wild practices are gaining ground. Are these trends signs of genuine transformation or just the commercialization of sustainability? How are other disciplines rethinking wildness? And how can architects and planners engage critically with these ideas? "Let’s Talk Wild!" brings together 12 interdisciplinary voices in a multi-layered dialogue on chaos, creativity, and the complex meanings of wildness.
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September 2025
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"Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape" presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and(...)
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"Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape" presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and(...)
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Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape
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"Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape" presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and abandonment. The projects, found throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, were selected for their design, and for their variety of contexts, materials, scale, and types of spaces. This fully illustrated volume includes an essay by Peter Reed, Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, that demonstrates how these innovative projects expand the definition of the modernist landscape while responding to a variety of conditions such as program, social function, and the transformation and reclamation previously industrial areas. The essay is followed by a full-color plate section featuring the selected projects. Catalogue entries for each project provide a succinct description of the site, its transformation, and design concepts illustrated by photographs, drawings, and models.
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"Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape" presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and abandonment. The projects, found throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, were selected for their design, and for their variety of contexts, materials, scale, and types of spaces. This fully illustrated volume includes an essay by Peter Reed, Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, that demonstrates how these innovative projects expand the definition of the modernist landscape while responding to a variety of conditions such as program, social function, and the transformation and reclamation previously industrial areas. The essay is followed by a full-color plate section featuring the selected projects. Catalogue entries for each project provide a succinct description of the site, its transformation, and design concepts illustrated by photographs, drawings, and models.
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February 2005, New York
February 2005, New York
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Urban Landscapes
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L'appel à projets Parckdesign est né en 2006 d'une rencontre entre les promoteurs de l'asbl "Designed in Brussels". A titre d d'essai et de projet pilote, un appel était lancé aux architectes et designers pour concevoir des pièces de mobilier urbain à installer dans des espaces verts. Ce mobilier prototype devait pouvoir être réalisé grandeur nature et être utilisé par(...)
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L'appel à projets Parckdesign est né en 2006 d'une rencontre entre les promoteurs de l'asbl "Designed in Brussels". A titre d d'essai et de projet pilote, un appel était lancé aux architectes et designers pour concevoir des pièces de mobilier urbain à installer dans des espaces verts. Ce mobilier prototype devait pouvoir être réalisé grandeur nature et être utilisé par(...)
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Parckdesign: let's hug trees, embrassons les arbres
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L'appel à projets Parckdesign est né en 2006 d'une rencontre entre les promoteurs de l'asbl "Designed in Brussels". A titre d d'essai et de projet pilote, un appel était lancé aux architectes et designers pour concevoir des pièces de mobilier urbain à installer dans des espaces verts. Ce mobilier prototype devait pouvoir être réalisé grandeur nature et être utilisé par les visiteurs du parc. Chaque des 52 projets qui ont participé est documenté en texte et image sur une page du livre, les cinq lauréats sur au moins une double-page.
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L'appel à projets Parckdesign est né en 2006 d'une rencontre entre les promoteurs de l'asbl "Designed in Brussels". A titre d d'essai et de projet pilote, un appel était lancé aux architectes et designers pour concevoir des pièces de mobilier urbain à installer dans des espaces verts. Ce mobilier prototype devait pouvoir être réalisé grandeur nature et être utilisé par les visiteurs du parc. Chaque des 52 projets qui ont participé est documenté en texte et image sur une page du livre, les cinq lauréats sur au moins une double-page.
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March 2008, Bruxelles
March 2008, Bruxelles
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Urban Landscapes
Urban Landscapes
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BosBus mobile nature reserve
BosBus mobile nature reserve
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The last place anyone would look for Nature would probably be inside a bus. Yet, as this charming book proves, that’s where you could find it - at least during the International Architecture Biennale 2003. The BosBus, an ordinary city bus with a growing forest inside it, traveled the streets of Rotterdam, hosting debates and dialogues en route, as architects, city(...)
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The last place anyone would look for Nature would probably be inside a bus. Yet, as this charming book proves, that’s where you could find it - at least during the International Architecture Biennale 2003. The BosBus, an ordinary city bus with a growing forest inside it, traveled the streets of Rotterdam, hosting debates and dialogues en route, as architects, city(...)
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November 2004, Rotterdam
November 2004, Rotterdam
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BosBus mobile nature reserve
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The last place anyone would look for Nature would probably be inside a bus. Yet, as this charming book proves, that’s where you could find it - at least during the International Architecture Biennale 2003. The BosBus, an ordinary city bus with a growing forest inside it, traveled the streets of Rotterdam, hosting debates and dialogues en route, as architects, city planners, ecologists and biologists hammered out the relationship between culture and nature in and around the city.
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The last place anyone would look for Nature would probably be inside a bus. Yet, as this charming book proves, that’s where you could find it - at least during the International Architecture Biennale 2003. The BosBus, an ordinary city bus with a growing forest inside it, traveled the streets of Rotterdam, hosting debates and dialogues en route, as architects, city planners, ecologists and biologists hammered out the relationship between culture and nature in and around the city.
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November 2004, Rotterdam
November 2004, Rotterdam
