Research Tracks in Urbanism Dynamics Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories

Research Tracks in Urbanism  Dynamics  Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories
Author: Alessia Allegri,Angélica Benatti Alvim,Eunice Helena Abascal,Joaquin Sabaté,João Pedro Costa,Maria Cristina Schicchi
Publsiher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-09-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781000464139

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Maybe the Global Village metaphor has never been more accurate than it is today, where societies join forces in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic, in a global coordinated effort, possibly never tested before in the known history of Humankind. Although we are sure that in the past some other shared demands have united the different peoples of the world, this has never been so strongly necessary, mainly in what the global scientific community is concerned. This is a fight for the survival of a society. However, we should not lose sight of what we are fighting for. We fight together for people. Not just for the abstract value of Human life, but for life in society as a whole, including its moral and ethical aspects. The topics of this book are based on this claim, on what makes it possible. We do not build our lives in a vacuum, or in distant Invisible Cities, but through a higher value, which represents physical life in society: the City, built by the discipline of Urbanism. This book is a spin-off of the International Research Seminar on Urbanism_SIIU2020. Inspired by the contents of twelve research seminars, a group of researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Lisbon and São Paulo discuss the contemporary agenda of research in Urbanism. Following the conference, a selection of 35 original double-blind peer-reviewed research papers were brought together with different perspectives about such an agenda.

Human Factors in Architecture Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure

Human Factors in Architecture  Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure
Author: Alicja Maciejko
Publsiher: AHFE International
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2022-07-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781958651346

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Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022), July 24–28, 2022, New York, USA

Urbanism on Track

Urbanism on Track
Author: J. van Schaick,S.C. van der Spek
Publsiher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2008-10-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781607502951

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Tracking technologies such as GPS, mobile phone tracing, video and RFID monitoring are rapidly becoming part of daily life. Technological progress offers huge possibilities for studying human activity patterns in time and space in new ways. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) held an international expert meeting in early 2007 to investigate the current and future possibilities and limitations of the application of tracking technologies in urban design and spatial planning. This book is the result of that expert meeting. Urbanism on Track introduces the reader to the basics of tracking research and provides insight into its advantages above other research techniques. But it also shows the bottlenecks in gathering and processing data and applying research results to real-life problems. Urbanism on Track showcases tracking experiments in urban studies, planning and design – from pedestrian navigation in Austria to Danish field tests, from TU Delft's Spatial Metro project to MIT's Real Time Rome and last but not least the Sense of the City project realised in Eindhoven. Urbanism on Track discusses the relevance of tracking for policy making, the possibilities of a new cartography and the implementation of tracking technologies in urban design and planning. This makes Urbanism on Track a unique book, setting the agenda for the structural embedment of research using tracking technologies in urbanism.

Place making and Urban Development

Place making and Urban Development
Author: Pier Carlo Palermo,Davide Ponzini
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781134632619

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The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles. Recently, new expertise maintains that place-making could be an innovative and potentially autonomous field, competing with more traditional disciplines like urban planning, urban design, architecture and others. This book affirms that the question of 'making better places for people' should be understood in a broader sense, as a symptom of the non-contingent limitations of the urban and spatial disciplines. It maintains that research should not be oriented only towards new technical or merely formal solutions but rather towards the profound rethinking of disciplinary paradigms. In the fields of urban planning, urban design and policy-making, the challenge of place-making provides scholars and practitioners a great opportunity for a much-needed critical review. Only the substantial reappraisal of long-standing (technical, cultural, institutional and social) premises and perspectives can truly improve place-making practices. The pressing need for place-making implies trespassing undue disciplinary boundaries and experimenting a place-based approach that can innovate and integrate planning regulations, strategic spatial visioning and urban development projects. Moreover, the place-making challenge compels urban experts and policy-makers to critically reflect upon the physical and social contexts of their interventions. In this sense, facing place-making today is a way to renew the civic and social role of urban planning and urban design.

The Architecture Annual 2006 2007 Delft University of Technology

The Architecture Annual 2006 2007  Delft University of Technology
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: 010 Publishers
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9789064506536

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The themes of this "Arcjitecture Annual" focuses on how the materials, design, construction and running of a building can affect the environment.

Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions

Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions
Author: Undine Giseke,Maria Gerster-Bentaya,Frank Helten,Matthias Kraume,Dieter Scherer,Guido Spars,Fouad Amraoui,Abdelaziz Adidi,Said Berdouz,Mohemed Chlaida,Majid Mansour,Mohamed Mdafai
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2015-09-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781317910138

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This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban growth centres today is more than an economic or social left-over or a niche practice. It is instead a complex system that offers multiple potentials for interaction with the urban system. Urban open space and agriculture can be linked to a productive green infrastructure – this forms new urban-rural linkages in the urbanizing region and helps shape the city. But in order to do this, agriculture has to be seen as an integral part of the urban fabric and it has to be put on the local agenda. Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions takes the example of Casablanca, one of the fastest growing cities in North Africa, to investigate this approach. The creation of synergies between the urban and rural in an emerging megacity is demonstrated through pilot projects, design solutions, and multifunctional modules. These synergies assure greater resource efficiency; particularly regarding the use and reuse of water, and they strengthen regional food security and the social integration of multiple spheres. A transdisciplinary research approach brings together different scientific disciplines and local actors into a process of integrated knowledge production. The book will have a long lasting legacy and is essential reading for researchers, planners, practitioners and policy makers who are working on urban development and urban agricultural strategies.

Exploring the Visual Landscape

Exploring the Visual Landscape
Author: Steffen Nijhuis,Ron Van Lammeren,Frank van der Hoeven
Publsiher: TU Delft
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781607508328

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It offers clues for visual landscape assessment of spaces in cities, parks and rural areas.

Spatial Tensions in Urban Design

Spatial Tensions in Urban Design
Author: Ianira Vassallo,Michele Cerruti But,Giulia Setti,Agim Kercuku
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783030840839

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This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possible to identify the phenomenon of “Tensions” as a specific contemporary both social and spatial urban changes catalyst. Through a collection of essays from various disciplines focusing on international case studies—from India to Europe to Latin America— the publication explores the multifaceted concept of “spatial tensions” as a lens for better understanding contemporary urban transformations. While tensions often depend on spatial dispositives and superstructures, they also offer a powerful key for design practices and strategies.