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Le transport collectif à l'épreuve de la banlieue du Grand Montréal

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Territoire de prédilection de développement axé sur le transport en commun (Transit-oriented development), la banlieue est toutefois moins formellement remise en question que revisitée. Le défi n’est pas pour autant facile à relever. C’est à l’examen de cet enjeu qu’est consacré le présent ouvrage.

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Pastoral capitalism: A history of suburban corporate landscapes

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By the end of the twentieth century, America’s suburbs contained more office space than its central cities. Many of these corporate workplaces were surrounded, somewhat incongruously, by verdant vistas of broad lawns and leafy trees. In Pastoral Capitalism, Louise Mozingo describes the evolution of these central (but often ignored) features of postwar urbanism in the context of the modern capitalist enterprise. This book offers an indispensible chapter in urban history, examining not only the design of corporate landscapes but also the economic, social, and cultural models that determined their form.

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Suburbia: une utopie libérale

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Suburbia est un terme que les Anglo-Saxons utilisent depuis longtemps pour désigner l'urbanisation périphérique des grandes villes. A l'opposé des agglomérations séculaires, la suburbia recouvre une tout autre forme de ville, faite de contraires, qui unifie campagne et centres denses, dispersion et congestion et où, pendant le siècle et demi passé, ont été inventées les nouvelles formes urbaines. Mégastructure, zone piétonne, impasse résidentielle, enclave, dalle urbaine, superblock, centre multifonctionnel, village urbain y sont nés.

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Social structure and vulnerability in the suburbs

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The volume examines access to social services by vulnerable groups who are not usually associated with the suburbs: recent immigrants, seniors, and low-income families. Investigating their access to four types of social infrastructure – education, employment, housing, and settlement services – this book presents a range of policy recommendations for how to address the social inequalities that characterize contemporary outer suburbs.

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Making suburbia: new histories of everyday America

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What are the suburbs? The popular vision of monotonous streets curving into culs-de-sac and emerald lawns unfurling from nearly identical houses would have us believe that suburbia is a boring, homogeneous, and alienating place. But this stereotypical portrayal of the suburbs tells us very little about the lives of the people who actually live there. Making Suburbia offers a diverse collection of essays that examine how the history and landscape of the American suburb is constructed through the everyday actions and experiences of its inhabitants.

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Urbanizing suburbia: Hyper-gentrification, the financialization of housing and the city

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''Urbanizing suburbia'' considers the relationship between three current processes underway in global cities: the hyper-gentrification of inner cities, the financialization of housing, and the structural changes occurring in the suburbs. The rocketing price of housing in cities around the world has led to a sizable exodus of residents from the inner cities, with many of those displaced settling in the suburban belts. This change in demographics, coupled with specific regeneration strategies implemented by municipalities, is leading to a remaking of suburbia. The book examines these changes using the examples of four key global European cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and Stockholm. It is a first attempt at understanding the three processes discussed here within one comprehensive explanatory framework.

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Suburban Transformations

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Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their solutions are often criticized for being overly prescriptive, opposed to growth, or nostalgic, respectively. Suburban Transformations offers an alternative to these practices while synthesizing many of the ideas and proposals that they put forth. Five case studies provide fully expressed examples of the process, beginning with a sophisticated system of mapping and culminating in computer projections of likely future outcomes, giving the designer the ability to project changes in the community fabric and adding that knowledge to the designers kit of place-making tools.

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The challenge of suburbia

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For an increasing number of people living in Western societies, suburbia is the primary living environment. For example, in the United States more people live in the suburbs than in cities. As a result, 75% of all new construction in the United States is in suburbia when only 5% of this is architect-designed. This new book from Architectural Design presents an opportunity for architects to rake back a large sector of the housing and construction industry. It argues that suburbia offers a far greater potential for innovation than more conventional urban milieus.

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Pavillons de banlieue

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Ce travail monographique analyse, grâce aux exemples récents réalisés par des architectes de renom international, la difficulté d'intégrer dans les vides du puzzle suburbain de nouveaux volumes d'habitation qui abordent les contraintes avec des solutions techniques et formelles exemplaires. Magnifiquement illustré, ce volume analyse 22 projets de Pavillons de Banlieue soigneusement sélectionné pour leur créativité et leur génie dans le rapport qu'ils entretiennent avec la rue, le jardin et l'espace intime de l'intérieur. En prenant en compte la nécessité de décrire rigoureusement les projets par le biais de superbes photographies, de plans et de coupes, et de détails sur les matériaux, ce livre offre l'information indispensable sur toutes les étapes du processus de la création architecturale.

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Atlas of another America: an architectural fiction

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Owning a home is the pinnacle of the American Dream, the ultimate status symbol of the middle class. But is the dream in crisis? As the suburban single-family home has been endlessly multiplied and mass-marketed, it has become entwined with environmental catastrophe and economic crisis. Never before have we been so badly in need of a reconsideration of our cultural values and consumption from an architectural perspective. With "An atlas of another America!, Keith Krumwiede has written a bold and highly original work of speculative architectural fiction that calls on Americans—and, increasingly, the rest of the world—to seriously reconsider the concept of the single-family home. Krumwiede’s “Freedomland” is a fictional utopia of communal superhomes constructed from the remains of the suburban metropolis. Eschewing formal innovation for its own sake, Freedomland’s radical architects rely on artful appropriation and the reorganization of found forms. Krumwiede produces the complete plans for Freedomland in the style of a historical architectural treatise, supplemented with more than two hundred plans and drawings and five essays that draw on a long lineage of architectural thought—from Piranesi to Ledoux, Branzi, and Koolhaas. Among the essays, “Atypical Plans” is a redaction of Koolhaas’s landmark text “Typical Plan,” “Supermodel Homes” looks at the mad genius of developer David Weekley,” and “New Homes for America” is a short story in which a young architect produces new forms of communal living.