Urbanism

The Death and Life of Great American Cities----The conditions for city diversity Jane Jacobs An illustrated report Background The death and life of great American cities was published in 1961. It was like an earthquake when it first appeared in the field of urban planning. At that time, the main stream of planning circle in America critiqued the book that it brought nothing but troubles to the field of urban planning. However, as time went by, the contents of the book have been increasingly accepted

master plan for a new mixed-used urban business district in Singapore was the first of a series of radical master plans that lead to the concept of parametric urbanism and then to the general concept of parametricism. Figure ‎3 3. 3.4.3 Parametricism as Style (Defining Heuristics and Pertinent Agendas) Contemporary architecture and urbanism is addressing the social demand via new principles of parametric design techniques. However, the research will be faced with a new style rather than just with

1. Within the last few centuries, cities as have evolved to take on the features that are used today to identify the makings of what is a great city. As cities shifted from the concept of the political city to the mercantile city and finally the industrial city, traditional political, economic and social patterns began to take on new forms and functions that transformed them to become the urbanized spaces they are now. Major early cites began in the form of the political city, a place that

CIAM and the foundations of modernist approaches to urbanism In 1928 the Congrès International d 'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) was formed in order to unify and define certain manifestos of how modernism would be translated to architecture, urbanism, and habitat. CIAM sought to organize the ideas of modern architecture and formalize these thoughts to shape political, economic, and ecological theories. A series of conferences was held with leading architects, theorists, and planners to create and define

Introduction Cities, being the nodes of opportunities and growth, are urbanizing the world at a faster pace than ever. The cities have to respond to this uneven change with immediate priority. The fundamental criteria that differentiates a city from a village is its population density. Urban density can play a key role in the improvement of socio-cultural as well as environmental aspects. The ‘compactness’ of an urban space is now considered to be a strategy for ‘smart’ urban growth by urbanists

settlements’ or informal settlements; where ordinary people rather than professionals are the key leading stakeholder, producing urban environments on an unprecedented scale (Hernández-García, 2013). The paper first discusses the concept of ‘informal urbanism’ through its history and evolution to more recent discourse. Then aims to situate the city of Rio de Janeiro within this context acting as a macro scale backdrop in which to further situate the case-study settlement of Santa Marta. To understand

science is now clear that each of us are daily contributing to our own demise. Beyond a transition to clean energy sources, I believe that urbanism—compact, diverse, and walkable communities—will play a central role in addressing these twin threats. In fact, responding to climate change and our coming energy challenge without a more resilient form of urbanism will be

society to urban society, the politics of resistance and freedom should no longer be placed in the industrial experience and it should be located within the urban experience. “The emergence of the global–urban makes possible, but does not guarantee, urbanism as a new kind of transformational politics.” By the account of Harvey, Mitchell and Purcell, Lefebvre’s view about the “right to the city” can also be interpreted as the “right to urban life” or the right to inhabit and can be talked over as

TOPIC: Sustainable Higher Education Development in Turkey through Participation-Empowerment of the Community and Green Campus Design Creating a Marketing Value for the Universities. Sub-topics: 1. Sustainable Architecture Definition 2. Sustainable Initiatives/Policies 3. Social Sustainability 4. Sustainable Architecture as Branding 6. Rethinking the Principles of Sustainable Higher Education 1. Sustainable Architecture Definition 1.1. Bruntland, Gro. "Our common future: The world commission on

Restoration The environmental planning and restoration section in the Wheeler and Beatley (2014) book incorporates elements of sustainable development, and includes readings on biophilic cities, environmental restoration, and landscape ecological urbanism. Sustainability is the equitable and appropriate use of present resources to ensure a resilient future of interconnected systems. This conception of sustainability will be connected to the dimension of environmental planning and restoration by