Programa 9no. Semestre 2013-2

La transformación de la ciudad / Lectura recomendada

25 proyectos internacionales de arquitectura urbana principios del siglo XXI

Powell Kenneth

Editorial Leopoldo Blume

The Works - Anatomy of a city

Este es el libro que se mostró:
The Works - Anatomy of a city
Kate Asher
Aqui se puede descargar en PDF
http://urban.free-books.biz/The-Works-Anatomy-of-a-City-PDF-6.html

También échenle un vistazo, lo interesante es la forma gráfica de explicar la ciudad.
Arq. Alan E.

49 Cities

Este es el libro que se menciono en revisión que muestra según el autor 49 diseños de ciudad que existen en el mundo. La ciudad de México y específicamente el Centro Historico es un diseño de ciudad Latinoamericana. En el libro se asientan las bases de su funcionamiento, sus pros y contras.

Espero le echen un ojo.

Arq. Alan E.

http://work.ac/49-cities/

Throughout history architects and planners have dreamed of ‘better’ and different cities – more controllable, more defensible, more efficient, more monumental, more organic, taller, denser, sparser or greener. With every plan, radical visions were proposed, ones that embodied not only the desires but also, and more often, the fears and anxieties of their time. Today, with the failure of the suburban experiment and the looming end-of-the world predictions – from global warming and waste to post-peak oil energy crises and uncontrolled world urbanization – architects and urbanists find themselves once more at a cross-road, fertile for visionary thinking. Today’s meeting of intensified environmental fears with the global break down of laissez-faire capitalism has produced a new kind of audience, one that is ready to suspend disbelief and engage in flights of the imagination to radically rethink the way we live.

Recognizing the recurrent nature of our environmental preoccupations and their impact in shaping utopias of the past, 49 cities inscribes our time within a larger historical context, rereading seminal projects and visionary cities of the past through an ecological lens of the present that goes beyond their declared ideology to compare and contrast their hypothetical ecological footprint.

49 cities is a call to re-engage cities as the site of radical thinking and experimentation, moving beyond ‘green building’ towards an embrace of ideas, scale, vision and common sense combined with delirious imagination in the pursuit of empowering questioning and re-invention.

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Suburbanismo y el arte de la memoria

Land&ScapeSeries
Marot Sébastien
Gustavo Gili