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Planetizen contemporary debates in urban planning is a fascinating rewiew of the major issues discussed in the field of urban planning, assembled by editors at Planetizen, the web's leading source of news and information for the planning and development community.
Planetizen : Contemporary debates in urban planning
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Planetizen contemporary debates in urban planning is a fascinating rewiew of the major issues discussed in the field of urban planning, assembled by editors at Planetizen, the web's leading source of news and information for the planning and development community.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Frantisek Drtikol
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Il incarne à lui seul l'esprit tchèque de l'entre-deux-guerres et la vitalité de la scène praguoise dont l'apport à la culture européenne reste essentiel. Née du pictorialisme, l'œuvre de Drtikol est profondément marquée, dans une première phase, par le courant symboliste. Au tournant des années 1920, fonctionnalisme, cubisme, abstraction et art déco imprègnent ses(...)
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Il incarne à lui seul l'esprit tchèque de l'entre-deux-guerres et la vitalité de la scène praguoise dont l'apport à la culture européenne reste essentiel. Née du pictorialisme, l'œuvre de Drtikol est profondément marquée, dans une première phase, par le courant symboliste. Au tournant des années 1920, fonctionnalisme, cubisme, abstraction et art déco imprègnent ses recherches : la composition fait place à une géométrie nouvelle, l'éclairage se contraste, le nu se fragmente. De Prague, où il fut le fameux portraitiste des élites en vogue, à Paris, où la publication de ses nus consacra sa renommée internationale, Frantisek Drtikol a imposé par sa technique magistrale, son originalité et sa profondeur conceptuelle une photographie résolument novatrice.
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Log 10 : summer / fall 2007
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Observations on architecture and the contemporary city.
Log 10 : summer / fall 2007
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Open 12 : Freedom of culture
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The contemporary public domain, the "free" space where culture is produced and exchanged, is under pressure. The exchange and distribution of cultural products ("content" in the form of music, image or text) is easier in digital society, but increasingly hemmed in by corresponding moves towards greater regulation and control, new copyright laws and intellectual property(...)
Open 12 : Freedom of culture
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The contemporary public domain, the "free" space where culture is produced and exchanged, is under pressure. The exchange and distribution of cultural products ("content" in the form of music, image or text) is easier in digital society, but increasingly hemmed in by corresponding moves towards greater regulation and control, new copyright laws and intellectual property policy. Instead of enjoying a "free culture," we are watching the emergence of what Lawrence Lessig calls "a permission culture." Simultaneously, as an aspect of broader privatization and regulation processes, private entities are appropriating more and more of public culture, and deciding what is made available or publicly accessible. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal, Open, investigates the root causes of these developments, how they interrelate and what the implications are for the "free" production and practice of culture, as well as for the internal dynamics and balance of power in the public domain.
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Known as the “King of the Air,” the Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini (1852–1931) enchanted the imaginations of European royalty, military generals, wealthy patrons, and the public alike with his mastery of the most whimsical mode of travel ever invented—the gas balloon. During the course of his storied aviation career, Spelterini flew his balloons over the Swiss Alps,(...)
Spelterini photographs of a pioneer balloonist/Fotografien des ballonpioniers
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Known as the “King of the Air,” the Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini (1852–1931) enchanted the imaginations of European royalty, military generals, wealthy patrons, and the public alike with his mastery of the most whimsical mode of travel ever invented—the gas balloon. During the course of his storied aviation career, Spelterini flew his balloons over the Swiss Alps, across the Egyptian pyramids, and past the ziggurats of the Middle East, taking breathtaking photographs of landscapes and cities from the sky. On Spelterini’s first ballooning ventures, he ferried aristocrats between Vienna, Bucharest, Athens, and other European capitals, on flights that became so famous that they were soon jam-packed with an international press corps looking for the next sensational story. Later in his life, Spelterini was the first aeronaut to succeed in the hazardous passage over the Swiss Alps, a trip then thought impossible. Eventually, he decided to bring his camera on every voyage in order to document the full panorama of international vistas he encountered. Eduard Spelterini—Photographs of A Pioneer Balloonist is the first book after 80 years to present these images of his journeys, reproduced directly from the artist’s original glass negatives. Contextualized by essays that explore both Spelterini’s life and his photographic work, the photographs featured in this volume capture the heady mix of danger and discovery that defined the early years of international air travel when balloons ruled the skies.
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The book includes a selection of the sketches that Lanfranco Bombelli drafted, first in Paris and later in Barcelona, for the graphics of the exhibitions in the American Trade Centers in Milan, Stockholm, Paris and Frankfurt, from 1963 to 1978, until they were closed, as a continuation of what the Marshall Plan had been. His artistry in geometrical compositions is based(...)
Lanfranco Bombelli : US trade center graphics in Europe, 1963-1977
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The book includes a selection of the sketches that Lanfranco Bombelli drafted, first in Paris and later in Barcelona, for the graphics of the exhibitions in the American Trade Centers in Milan, Stockholm, Paris and Frankfurt, from 1963 to 1978, until they were closed, as a continuation of what the Marshall Plan had been. His artistry in geometrical compositions is based on a minimum of plastic means and inspired by mathematical principles. He depicts in this way new products of technological innovation in the fields of pharmaceutics, design industry or printing among others.
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Reasoned catalogue edited by MUSAC. It deals with the presentation of the first volume of the MUSAC Collection, composed of more than 900 works. The 700 page edition is bilingual. Editorial Coordination was under Isabel Yáñez and Carlos Ordás and design by Ipsum Planet. The catalogue is structured around six critical texts, written by Estrella de Diego, Octavio Zaya,(...)
mars 2006, Barcelona
MUSAC : Museo de arte comtemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, coleccion Vol. I
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Reasoned catalogue edited by MUSAC. It deals with the presentation of the first volume of the MUSAC Collection, composed of more than 900 works. The 700 page edition is bilingual. Editorial Coordination was under Isabel Yáñez and Carlos Ordás and design by Ipsum Planet. The catalogue is structured around six critical texts, written by Estrella de Diego, Octavio Zaya, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Carlos Ordás, Tania Pardo y Javier Hernando. The section of reasoned works presents in alphabetical order the 153 artists of this first volume. Together with a short biography of each one of the artists, images accompanied by technical data are shown. These data have been elaborated by Carlos Ordás, Tania Pardo, Belén Sola, Kristine Guzmán e Isabel Yáñez.
Urban pioneers
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Skate-parks in abandoned industrial estates, ponies grazing alongside the former Berlin Wall, flea markets in disused warehouses, music and fashion in hard-to-let stores and climbing walls in development niches – scarcely a city in Europe has been so radically characterized by temporary use projects as has Berlin. Temporary use projects are increasingly of strategic(...)
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Urban pioneers
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Skate-parks in abandoned industrial estates, ponies grazing alongside the former Berlin Wall, flea markets in disused warehouses, music and fashion in hard-to-let stores and climbing walls in development niches – scarcely a city in Europe has been so radically characterized by temporary use projects as has Berlin. Temporary use projects are increasingly of strategic importance for urban development, for space pioneers open up new development prospects at disused sites that defy the traditional urban planning. Combining a documentation of over 40 temporary use projects in Berlin with a series of essays and interviews, this book offers comprehensive insight into current discourse and proposes new guidelines for how temporary use projects might shape urban development.
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This edition of Perspecta, the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America, investigates the transformation of capital cities in the era of globalization. This redevelopment, renewal, and recycling of the urban landscape--termed by the editors as "Re_Urbanism"--takes place as capital cities try both to cater to an influx of global capital(...)
Perspecta 39 Re_urbanism : Transforming capitals
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This edition of Perspecta, the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America, investigates the transformation of capital cities in the era of globalization. This redevelopment, renewal, and recycling of the urban landscape--termed by the editors as "Re_Urbanism"--takes place as capital cities try both to cater to an influx of global capital and to reassert their roles as symbols of national sovereignty. Re_Urbanism investigates this process from an architectural perspective. The contributors explore the various ways capital cities struggle to assert their vitality and continuing relevance, examining capitals that compete internally with their own global counterparts (Abu Dhabi vs. Dubai), capitals that must be rebuilt after periods of destruction (Belgrade and Baghdad), and capital cities that are responding to hyperbolic development (Beijing, New Delhi, Kuwait City). Some cities are examined for their impact on border politics (Washington D.C.) while others reveal mythologies parallel to their modernist origins (Brasilia).
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Il ne fait plus de doute que le changement climatique est très largement dû aux activités des pays industrialisés. Si les émissions de gaz carbonique et d'autres gaz à effet de serre ne sont pas fortement réduites dans les décennies à venir, il en résultera des dégâts immenses et irréversibles. Ce livre pluridisciplinaire rassemble des points de vue scientifiques et(...)
février 2007, Paris
Le changement climatique : aubaine ou désastre ?
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Il ne fait plus de doute que le changement climatique est très largement dû aux activités des pays industrialisés. Si les émissions de gaz carbonique et d'autres gaz à effet de serre ne sont pas fortement réduites dans les décennies à venir, il en résultera des dégâts immenses et irréversibles. Ce livre pluridisciplinaire rassemble des points de vue scientifiques et politiques de sensibilités diverses, tous convaincus que la lutte contre le réchauffement de la planète est l'urgence de l'urgence et peut offrir l'occasion d'une conversion salutaire de notre système économique. Dans la situation historique, à nulle autre pareille, que nous vivons, c'est l'avenir de l'humanité en tant que telle qui se joue. Il est indispensable d'ouvrir les yeux sur le désastre et de saisir l'aubaine qui se présente à nous.
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février 2007, Paris