ICT-related Transformations in Latin American Metropolises deals with the recent sub-discipline of urban studies, 'urban ICT studies.' This book contributes to this field by exploring the ICT-related transformations in the Latin American urban scene. Recent urban transformations are analyzed on three levels: ICT infrastructure networks, the networks of production and consumption of ICTs in the local urban economy, and the diffusion of digital connectivity in everyday life. The results indicate the main trends regarding urban functioning and urban form.

ICT-related Transformations in Latin American Metropolises

Arts & Photography

Fernández-Maldonado, Ana María

Architecture

Techne Press

This book explains how cities actually work. It will serve as a guide and inspiration for planners to re-humanize our cities using the latest technologies and recent understanding from science and mathematics. The dogma of mainstream urbanism cannot cope with the changes in technology, culture and science of the last decades. The heritage we are left with is an overly asphalted and sterile concrete environment. Therefore this book addresses the needs of professional urbanists, sutdents and teachers, who wish to understand how and why cities are successful or not, depending on their form, components, and substructure. Most of the needs are related to the urgent search for new instruments of urban planning and design, to which this book contributes conceptually by showing how to connect the fractal city on multiple levels. There is an increasing awareness that a city needs to be understood as a complex interacting system. Different types of urban systems overlap to build up urban complexity in a living city. This raises the need for using concepts such as coherence, emergence, information, self-organization and adaptivity. This book relates these concepts to the city, shows how to operationalize them, and hopefully marks the beginnings of an urban science. What people are saying:"I would also like to draw your attention to a seminal book on urban design which could fundamentally alter our approach to urban design thinking -- and directly impact our cities: 'Principles of Urban Structure' written by Nikos A. Salingaros -- a close friend and associate of Christopher Alexander. This book, in my opinion sums up that 'body of knowledge' which has simply not been integrated into our planning and architectural curriculum across the world. Many of our urban development issues arise from this. Although this book was first published in 2005, by Techne Press, Amsterdam -- it is surprising that many in the urban design field have not heard of it. It is my sincere hope that 'Principles of Urban Structure' --which is a collection of important essays, written and published over the last fifteen years in various journals, becomes the foundational text upon which present and future generations of urban planners, designers and architects build their studies and practice. In my opinion the knowledge contained in this book is capable of reconnecting our fossilized humanity with the evolving science of urban design. The lost art of city design can only be found once again through such clear thinking." ~ Mahesh P. Butani, Raise the Hammer

Principles of Urban Structure

Salingaros, Nikos

Science & Math

Visualizing the Invisible explores a possible nature of the contemporary urban, drawing on structuralist, post-structuralist and ‘organic’ philosophy (Whitehead, Gregory Bateson, Lefebvre, Foucault, Bergson, Deleuze, Latour, and others). It also looks at the city itself – in its origins as polis, in its spatial evolution, and in the hybridizing properties of network. With contributions from: Patrick Healy, Gerhard Bruyns, Deborah Hauptmann, Stephen Read, and John Law.

Visualizing the Invisible: Towards an Urban Space

Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning provides a clear and integrated view of possible regional and urban futures set within the contesting contexts of globalization and an ever more intense search for local identity. Although the inherent contradiction of greater localism in a globalizing world may, at a superficial glance, appear to be symptomatic of a confused analysis, the reality is that place and places are constant elements that provide social cohesion and offer a basis for planned transition. In emphasising the importance of the spatial, and by setting this assessment within specific socio-economic contexts, the various chapters of Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning offer valuable insights into the challenges facing both academics and society as a whole.

Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning: Looking Back to the Future

Institution and Home explores the concepts of institutionality and home, and compares various institutional and home environments and identifies the attitudes and behaviors associated with diverse housing settings and the design elements that generate and express them. It explains the reasons why we fear living in institutional settings, for example showing how institutional environments can contribute to a loss of autonomy.

Institution and Home: Architecture as a Cultural Medium

Robinson, Julia W.

Introduction to Energy Analysis is a thorough introduction into the analysis of energy systems and energy technologies. This textbook helps students understand energy systems by giving a balanced treatment of both energy supply and energy demand systems. It provides a range of methodologies and tools for analyzing real world energy systems, including energy management, life-cycle energy analysis, energy efficiency indicators, energy technology analysis, energy scenario analysis, and energy policy analysis.

Introduction to Energy Analysis

Blok, Kornelis

Due to exhaustible resources, large urban developments, and the current attention given to climate issues, sustainable building is back on the agenda. This goes for governments in both well-developed countries like France, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingsdom, as well as in rapidly developing countries like China, the Eastern European countries, Middle-Eastern, Latin-American, and South-Asian countries.   Sustainable Housing Projects takes a wide, conceptual approach for sustainably-built projects, which allows an integrated approach to the various stakes and stakeholders. Such an approach is particularly suitable for a medium scale level, involving neighborhood development, and a number of examples on this scale level are included.   The compact, practical tone, the many color illustrations, tables, and boxes, make the book an accessible and practical read.

Sustainable Housing Projects: Implementing a Conceptual Approach

Rovers, Ronald

Transforming with Water provides a wide range of thoughts and experiences on a highly timely theme, designing with water. The book represents the Proceedings of the 45th International Federation of Landscape Architects, IFLA world Congress, June 2008 with contributions from all over the world. It provides a global impression of the issues that currently challenge the field and the solutions that are being sought.

Transforming with Water: Proceedings of the 45th World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects

History & Criticism

Re-creation of the European City investigates the position of regions and cities both within Europe, and in a global context. It addresses the challenges that cities and city regions currently encounter: reconciling economic growth, dynamism, and creativity while at the same time countering segregation and social and spatial exclusion. The volume reflects an emerging consensus that spatial and urban planning and development are increasingly interwoven. The effect of spatial and urban planning on economic development and its impact on territorial and social cohesion are current concerns.

The Re-creation of the European City: Governance, Territory, and Polycentricity

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Urban renewal plans need to respond to new conditions and requirements, caused by changes in the population and in social structure. Changing Contexts in Urban Regeneration presents a comprehensive overview of relevant theory, including the socio-spatial characteristics of neighbourhoods and cities; the place of individuals and households in the economic system; and the design form of the housing stock in relation to its usability, valuation, and adaptability. Next, it evaluates the urban renewal plans that the city of Rotterdam launched in the seventies, drawing international attention at the time, leading to changes in the structures of housing provision, as well as the economic and social context. This book connects academic debate with professional practice and makes its case by evaluating a major urban renewal plan that has been tested for more than thirty years. It shows that urban renewal should take an integrated approach to the physical, environmental, social and economic programmes, based on fundamental solutions that stand the test of time.

Changing Contexts in Urban Regeneration: 30 years of Modernisation in Rotterdam (Design/Science/planning)

Stouten, Paul

Social Sciences

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