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Urban Visions Carmen Diez Medina

Urban Visions By Carmen Diez Medina

Urban Visions by Carmen Diez Medina


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This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism. it rather highlights some outstanding episodes that help us understand why the planning culture has given way to other forms of urbanism, from urban design to strategic urbanism or landscape urbanism.

Urban Visions Summary

Urban Visions: From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism by Carmen Diez Medina

This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism. It explains how the contemporary city and landscape have been shaped by certain twentieth century visions that have carried over into the twenty-first century. Aimed at both students and professionals, this collection of essays on diverse subjects and cases does not attempt to establish universal interpretations; it rather highlights some outstanding episodes that help us understand why the planning culture has given way to other forms of urbanism, from urban design to strategic urbanism or landscape urbanism. Compared with global interpretations of urbanism based on socioeconomic history or architectural historiography, Urban Visions. From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism, aims to present the discipline couched in international contemporary debate and adopt a historic and comparative perspective. The book's contents pertain equally to other related disciplines, such as architecture, urban history, urban design,

landscape architecture and geography.

Foreword by Rafael Moneo.

About Carmen Diez Medina

Carmen Diez Medina, Degree in Architecture from the Madrid Polytechnic University (ETSAM UPM), 1989. Ph.D. at the Technische Universitat Wien (1996). Associate Professor of Theory and Architectural History at the School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA), University of Zaragoza (Spain), where she is in charge of the architectural history and theory disciplines and coordinator of the Ph.D. Program New Territories in Architecture. Director of the Department of Theory and Architectural and Urban Projects at the Polytechnic School from the CEU-San Pablo University of Madrid (2007-09). Member of several Architectural Research Projects, among them Spaces for teaching, CEU (2012-14); Residential urban landscapes, EINA (2010-11); The construction of the liberal city, UPM (2008-09); Spain in the CIAM, CEU (2007-08).Collaborating architect at Rafael Moneo in Madrid (1996-2001) and previously at Nigst, Hubmann&Vass in Vienna (1990-1996).
Javier Monclus, Degree in Architecture and Ph.D. from the Catalonia Polytechnic University (ETSAB, UPC), 1977. Full Professor of Urbanism at the School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA), University of Zaragoza (Spain), where he has been Chair of the Department of Architecture (2009-2016) and is currently Director of the Master Degree in Architecture. He was Professor of Urbanism at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona (1980-2005). Director of the research group PUPC (Urban Landscapes and Contemporary Project:). He has published widely on Planning, Urban Design and Urban Planning History. He is member of the Editorial Board of Planning Perspectives and Director of Zarch, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism.He worked as a planner (2005-2009) and head of the Expo Accompanying Plan of the Zaragoza Expo 2008 and as a consultant in Barcelona and Zaragoza.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Urban cultures and traditions.- Chapter 1. City beautiful and 'Architectural Urbanism' (1893-1940) (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 2. Garden cities and garden suburbs (1898-1930) (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 3. Social democracy and housing policies (1919-1934) (Carmen Diez Medina).- Chapter 4. Modern urban planning and modernist urbanism (1930-1950) (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 5. Urban planning and ideology: Spain and Italy (1945-1960) (Carmen Diez Medina).- Chapter 6. Welfare planning and new towns (1945-1970s) (Alejandro Dean).- Chapter 7. Modernist mass housing in Europe. Comparative perspectives in western and eastern cities (1950s-1970s) (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 8. An experiment in freedom (1970-1975) (Raimundo Bambo).- Part 2: Other urbanisms and urban projects.- Chapter 9. Other urbanisms (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 10. Urban projects and megastructures: modernist campuses (Basilio Tobias).- Chapter 11. New Paradigms and Strategic Urban Projects (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 12. Urban renewal and urban regeneration (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 13. Waterfronts and riverfronts. Recovery of urban waterfronts (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 14. Housing experimental projects in the Netherlands (Sergio Garcia-Perez).- Chapter 15. New housing projects in Latin European cities (Sergio Garcia-Perez).- Chapter 16. Citizen participation. Urban development for and by the people (Pablo de la Cal).- Part 3: New strategies and urban planning.- Chapter 17. Urban planning models and model cities (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 18. Urban transport and technological urbanism (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 19. New productive uses areas. Central business districts (CBD), business parks, technology parks and corporate cities (Andres Fernandez-Ges).- Chapter 20. Innovative uses of ICT technologies in recent urban developments and urban planning (Andres Fernandez-Ges).- Chapter 21. The rise of mixed-use urban developments and digital districts (Andres Fernandez-Ges).- Chapter 22. Urban resilience. Towards a global sustainability (Pablo de la Cal).- Chapter 23. Mapping urbanism, urban mapping (Raimundo Bambo).- Chapter 24. Urban voids and 'in-between' landscapes (Raimundo Bambo).- Part 4: Landscape urbanism.- Chapter 25. From urban planning to landscape urbanism (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 26. From park systems and green belts to green infrastructures (Javier Monclus).- Chapter 27. Landscape projects: Scale and place (Carlos Avila).- Chapter 28. New urban landscapes (Carlos Avila).- Chapter 29. Greenfield/Brownfield: Two sides of the same coin (Pablo de la Cal).- Chapter 30. New landscapes perspectives for planning (Miriam Garcia).- Chapter 31. The intangible values of the landscape (Miriam Garcia).- Chapter 32. Urban agriculture. Towards a continuous productive spaces system in the city (Pablo de la Cal).

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NGR9783319590462
9783319590462
3319590464
Urban Visions: From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism by Carmen Diez Medina
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Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2018-07-12
354
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