Stadsplanering - arkitektoniska aspekter

De flesta och kanske också de förnämsta svenska exemplen på helgjutna, konstnärligt högtstående stadsplaner från tidigt 1900-tal skapades i Göteborg då Albert Lilienberg var stadens förste stadsingenjör. Några exempel på platser och stadsmiljöer g...

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Johan Rådberg är en av det sena 1900-talets och gryende 2000-talets mer intressanta forskare och debattörer inom stadsbyggnad. Till skillnad från kollegerna inom arkitektkåren som varit och är upptagna med att skapa framtidens arkitektoniska uttry...

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Hur ser ett vanligt svenskt hushåll ut? En barnfamilj, säger ni kanske. Då har ni fel. Det normala svenska hushållet består av högst två personer. Oavsett om vi pratar villor eller lägenheter, äganderätt eller hyresrätt så bebos en majoritet av al...

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Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory. Represe...

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Staden har blivit het. Vi lever nu i en stadsrenässansens era. Därmed inte sagt att de urbana kvaliteterna blivit fler i våra städer, utan s narare att sensibiliteten för staden och dess möjligheter går att finn a hos allt fler. Jane Jacobs klassi...

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"Here is one of the great stories in American urban history told by a great historian. In 1949, Boston was 'a hopeless backwater,' its skyline stunted, and its municipal government a national disgrace; by 1970 a 'New Boston' had been created,...

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After decades "in the shadows", urban lighting is re-emerging as a matter of public debate. Long-standing truths are increasingly questioned as a confluence of developments affects lighting itself and the way it is viewed. Light has beco...

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The first Danish language version of this book, published in 1971, was very much a protest against the functionalistic principles for planning cities and residential areas that prevailed during that period. The book carried an appeal to show conce...

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Boken är den första på svenska som utförligt behandlar Roms byggnadskonst i vår tid i sammanhang med antikens stad. Här finns en sammanflätad arkitektur- och stadsbyggnadshistoria från antiken till vår tid. Författarna som båda är arkitekter med l...

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SVENSK STADSPLANERING under den svenska stormaktstiden hade en omfattning som saknar motstycke i dåtidens Europa. Det var en tid av storslagna visioner. Än idag präglar den de flesta av våra äldre städer och den har varit grunden för den fortsatta...

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An industrial city on the outskirts of Stockholm, S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje is the global capital of the Syriac Orthodox Christian diaspora, an ethnic and religious minority group fleeing persecution and discrimination in the Middle East. Since the 196...

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In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.

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Since the first edition was published in 1992, Nick Robinson's The Planting Design Handbook has been widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world. It examines the horticultural, ecological and aesthetic c...

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Hur kan vi skapa attraktiva, gröna, levande och hälsosamma städer som främjar ett rikt socialt liv är frågor som blivit allt viktigare. Dagens samhälle är starkt påverkad av 1900-talets omvälvande stadsplaner. Denna bok skildrar hur det gick till ...

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Lekplatsens utveckling är åter aktuell, genom kampen om ytan liksom nya krav och ideal. Dagens svenska lekplatser är ofta både färre och mer begränsade än de var tidigare. Det finns därför mycket att lära och inspireras av genom historiska och geo...

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Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the influence of time in planni...

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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, M...

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Introduced by charts and statistics on global urbanization and a series of essays describing the nature of the changes operating in our cities and in our economies, this volume is organized as a highly illustrated atlas/survey of contemporary urba...

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How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global c...

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Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivit...

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Following the Second World War, modern systems of urban and regional planning were established in Britain and most other developed countries. In this book, Nigel Taylor describes the changes in planning thought which have taken place since then. H...

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In many cities, urban wastelands and vacant structures suddenly metamorphose in exuberant places. After city planners and the real estate market have failed in their initial attempts to develop them, these sites become the setting for clubs and ba...

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Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory.

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Conflicts around urban development and planning issues represent an important dimension of urban politics. Issues of social cohesion and democratic representation are all the more relevant in times when cities are undergoing a severe economic cris...

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What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green roofs are increasingly appreciated for their technical services like storm water reduction, from a bi...

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For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, p...

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A standard work which is still as up-to-date as the first edition five years ago. While climate change and sustainable architecture have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. The bo...

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As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Bapti...

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**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 1991. The paperback released in 2011 is a reprint of the original** Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. E...

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Europe's current crisis is also a crisis of the European city. The economic, social, and political insecurity has changed our perception of territories, institutions, and forms of living and has weakened the complex interactions within Europe dram...

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