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Urban Technologies

Ottone Federica, Cocci Grifoni Roberta

ISBN: PB: 9788899854140, Bookport, ListLab, June 2018
160 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

This manual nurtures initiative in public administrators, designers and citizens. Promoting social cooperation, it recommends projects that use systems, technologies, and innovative economies to achieve a greater urban quality of life. Featured chapt...

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Architecture

Augmented City A Paradigm Shift

Carta Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788899854201, Bookport, ListLab, November 2017
220 pp., 16.5x12.2 cm, colour illus.

The perfect city is a vibrant organism of data and information, sensors and actuators, actions and reactions, generated by users and environment both. Ten thousand years ago the city was invented as an aide for evolving communities. It bought togethe...

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Architecture

Not twins, but one tower split in two

Perrault Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9783954762095, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, November 2017
156 pp., 33x26.5 cm, 56 colour illus., language: English / German

Dominique Perrault (born 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand, lives and works in Paris) is one of France's star architects. He became internationally known through the construction of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, which was completed in 1995. I...

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Facies Urban Architectures

Gulinello Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9788899854287, Bookport, ListLab, November 2017
192 pp., 21x15 cm, colour illus.

"Facies" refers to the ability of architecture to enable, by means of its outward appearance, interaction between the space occupied by the building and the setting within which it is found. Architecture, Gio Ponti argues, is made to be looked at, b...

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Ecology

Camp and the City Territories of Extraction

Sordi Jeannette, Valenzuela Luis, Vera Felipe

ISBN: PB: 9788898774753, Bookport, ListLab, September 2017
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, colour illus.

Urbanization metabolizes territories surrounding cities as well as territories that are located far beyond the centers themselves and provide the needed resources and goods. Landscapes of extraction are probably one of the most evident examples of th...

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Re-Cyclical Urbanism Visions, Paradigms and Projects for the Circular Metamorphosis

Carta Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788899854188, Bookport, ListLab, September 2017
380 pp., 21.9x15.6 cm, colour illus.

Taken from a research project entitled Re-Loaded City: Strategies of ReCycle to Restart the City, based in the city of Palermo, this book tests means of reinvigorating abandoned and wasted urban space. Reclaiming polluted or destitute land is a diffi...

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Ephemeral Urbanism Does Permanence Matter?

Mehrotra Rahul, Vera Felipe

ISBN: PB: 9789569571213, Bookport, ListLab, September 2017
408 pp., 23.1x16.4 cm, colour illus.

Ephemeral Urbanism invites us to ponder material impermanence. Is a recognition of the transitory nature of physical substances integral to the city construction process? This book makes a convincing argument in the affirmative. A creation of the Eph...

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Land Stocks New Operational Landscapes of City and Territory

Ferretti Maddalena

ISBN: PB: 9788898774937, Bookport, ListLab, June 2017
208 pp., 20x14 cm, colour illus.

Land Stocks are landscapes whose potential is deemed lost or worthless. This book seeks to reclaim the latent usefulness of these areas. It envisions the residual spaces, wastelands, and destitute buildings that exist within the complex urban tapestr...

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Aesthetics of Sustainability Systemic Thinking and Self-organization in the Evolution of Cities

Di Carlo Ilaria

ISBN: PB: 9788898774975, Bookport, ListLab, October 2016
196 pp., 20x14 cm, colour illus.

Sustainability may well determine the future of the human race. However, despite its importance, it often lacks one essential quality for success: seduction. An anthropic place must, as the name suggests, appeal to people. Sustainability has to find...

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Made in Taiwan Architecture and Urbanism in the Innovation Economy

Zuddas Francesco, Sabrina Puddu

ISBN: PB: 9788895623658, Bookport, ListLab, August 2016
196 pp., 17.2x12.7 cm, colour illus.

"Made in Taiwan" oscillates between the description of a specific place and a broader critical reflection regarding the relationship between space and modes of production. Taiwan stands as an exceptional case of a newly developed country where the di...

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