Listlab dez 2024 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rewriting Exurbia: New People in Aging Sprawl explores the potential of new immigrant cultures in aging postwar suburbs to reimagine the future direction of these iconic built environments in today's exurban cities. Recent demographic and spatial change in suburban Asian and Latin American enclaves in the western US illustrate the opportunity to transform this low-density urban texture in ways that are socially equitable and engaging for all its future residents. New family structures and cultural aspirations combined with more complex functional and social needs increasingly inform new spatial practices and have been recently codifed in revised zoning regulations. Comparing these changes to those of a set of well-known cities through history reassures us that such physical transformation in the shared built environment, while often challenging and even painful, is natural and eventually beneficial. Connecting this projected change to a set of recent urban theories and design experiments offers examples of a new exurbia that can be a socially inclusive world when compared to the archetypal postwar suburb that is becoming culturally stagnant, and often socially and economically exclusive. Recent changes in ethnic suburbs call for a broader definition of urbanity itself. The term 'urban' can no longer be limited to environments characterized by physical compactness in center cities but is now a term that is better defined by an increased density of functional complexity and social interaction.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book shares stories of response to fundamental questions concerning nature and culture, contributing to the contemporary discourse regarding climate emergencies. Written by artists, architects, scientists, anthropologists, and environmentalists, each chapter is delicately integrated and shaped as a proactive polyphony, building hope against the current ecological crisis. Along a transect of elements from nature we take a broader view of the global situation while spending time noticing details of the local context. Creative and scholarly actions engage with the world by shining a light on single moments, objects, or thoughts, while thinking laterally about the relations between nature and culture, urban and rural, and connecting the local with the global. This book has evolved in response to the concepts and methods that have characterized the essence and logic of a residency that is an eco-laboratory of multidisciplinary practice. The Nature, Art, and Habitat Residency (NAHR) dedicates space and time to support scholars and creatives to inquire and reflect on a specific element of nature in the Taleggio Valley, part of the Orobie Prealps in Italy, every year.…