Urbanism

High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century

by Matthew Lasner

Forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2012

Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family... more Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family dwelling. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by declining real estate prices and a renewed interest in city living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the 21st century. In this unprecedented study Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City's first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condo and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.

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by Hans-Dieter Evers

DisembeddedCapitals' in Western Asian Perspective." Comparative Studies in Societyand History 40/3:549-580 (1998)

by Alex Joffe

The future of UK housebuilding

by Chris Goodier

Demythologising Urban Landscapes in Andreas

by Michael Bintley

Leeds Studies in English, n.s., 40 (2009), 105-18

2 Exhibitions in Paris (Cité de l'Architecture Palais de Chaillot): Social Housing 2 and Urban Transport (in Italian)

by Denis Bocquet

Published in: Il Giornale dell'Architettura, n.105, May 2012, p.27

A critique of two exhibitions at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, Palais de Chaillot):
- Vers... more A critique of two exhibitions at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, Palais de Chaillot):
- Vers de nouveaux logements sociaux 2
- Circuler. Quand nos mouvements façonnent les villes (Jean-Marie Duthilleul

Key Words

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Las iniciativas de participación ciudadana en el urbanismo. El urbanismo participativo, una nueva forma de entender la ciudad y la ciudadanía en la configuración de espacios públicos

by Carlos Cámara

A pesar de que el urbanismo es algo que concierne a todo el mundo, tradicionalmente ha sido algo gestionado únicamente... more A pesar de que el urbanismo es algo que concierne a todo el mundo, tradicionalmente ha sido algo gestionado únicamente por técnicos y políticos y, por tanto, en la toma de decisiones relativas a la morfología y usos de las ciudades no han sido tenidos en cuenta los intereses y deseos de la ciudadanía. Sin embargo, esto puede estar a punto de cambiar debido al incremento de popularidad del llamado urbanismo participativo, que parece haber encontrado en esta segunda mitad del siglo XXI y en el contexto de la Sociedad Red, una oportunidad de desarrollo sin precedentes que, a pesar de encontrarse en un estado incipiente, plantea nuevas formas de entender la ciudad, el urbanismo, la política y la colaboración a la vez que supone un reto para administraciones públicas y promotores de las mismas.

City sizes and urbanization in the Roman Empire

by Andrew Wilson

A. I. Wilson (2011). "City sizes and urbanization in the Roman Empire", in A. K. Bowman and A. I. Wilson (eds), Settlement, Urbanization, and Population, Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy 2. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 161-195.

Urbanism and Identity at Classical Morgantina (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 56/57, 2011/2012)

by Justin St. P. Walsh

New state space formation in Morocco: the example of the Bouregreg Valley

by Koen Bogaert

published in Urban Studies (2012), vol.49 (2), pp.255-270.

Most scholars working on the Arab World typically view the state’s power as something congruent with its cartographic... more Most scholars working on the Arab World typically view the state’s power as something congruent with its cartographic boundaries. Power emerges from an institutional core—the regime—which exerts its hegemony over subordinated institutions, spaces and scales. Thus, the regime presents itself as the privileged site of political formation, intervention and inquiry. The result is a body of scholarship that has largely neglected the dynamics of ‘new state space’ formation at the urban scale. Drawing on the case of the Bouregreg project, a massive high-end urban development scheme positioned between the twin cities of Rabat and Salé, Morocco, this paper investigates the dynamics of agency formation implicated in the creation of a new state space and considers what it reveals about state respatialisation and the rise of new governmental arrangements that have been elided by mainstream accounts on the Middle East and North African region.

Participación Ciudadana y Espacio Popular Urbano en Medellín: entre ciudadanía insurgente y programas de planeación participativa y urbanismo social - Comuna 1 y Comuna 13. Una reflexión comparativa

by Omar Uran

Publicado en: e-Metropolis. Revista eletrônica de estudos urbanos e regionais.
http://www.emetropolis.net/download/edicoes/emetropolis_n08.pdf

English

Recent changes in public management and urban planning in Medellin (Colombia) are presented most of... more English

Recent changes in public management and urban planning in Medellin (Colombia) are presented most of the time as an undifferentiated whole, where the municipal government has taken the initiative and the local population goes behind him. The fact is that, despite the general dynamic of the city, each Comuna (political-administrative division of the city) has its own logic and way of engage the actions and municipal policies. This is the Comuna 1 case, where we can see, through municipal programs as the Participative Planning and Budgeting and Integrated Urban Projects (PUI), the expression of a kind of insurgent citizenship, who, by means of a dialectic of cooperation and conflict with the municipal government, has been able to build a Local Development Plan, which propose guidelines of urbanism and popular housing for the commune inhabitants. Slightly different is the Comuna 13 case, a complex scenario where despite of the social urbanism and having the biggest social investments in the municipality in the last 8 years, the levels of violence are been reluctant to fall, hiding in the background illegal and politicking practices fighting against the local state and grassroots organization for the territorial control. It shows how an urban project, social or participative, if does not politically recognize the local population, their differences and their spaces, will only be one more physical piece that does not develop the institutionality and democratic local culture.

Portugués:

Mudanças recentes na administração pública e planejamento urbano em Medellín (Colômbia) são frequentemente apresentadas como um todo indiferenciado, onde o governo municipal toma a iniciativa e a população local acompanha tudo passivamente. A questão fundamental é que, apesar da dinâmica geral da cidade de Medellín, cada comuna (divisão político-administrativa da cidade) tem sua própria lógica e seu modo de articular as ações e políticas municipais. Este é, por exemplo, o caso da Comuna 1, no qual podemos ver através dos espaços abertos por programas municipais, como o de Planejamento e Orçamento Participativo e o de Projetos Urbanos Integrais – PUI, a expressão de um tipo de cidadania insurgente que, a partir de uma dialética de cooperação e de conflito com o Governo Municipal, tem sido capaz de propor um Plano de Desenvolvimento Local que inclui linhas de desenvolvimento urbano e habitação para os moradores do município. Caso ligeiramente diferente é o da Comuna 13, onde apesar do urbanismo social e de registrar os maiores investimentos da Prefeitura de Medellín nos últimos oito anos, os níveis de violência parecem relutantes em baixar, escondendo no fundo práticas ilegais e vícios políticos que atuam contra as organizações comunitárias e o próprio Estado nas disputas pelo controle territorial. Assim, este artigo trata de destacar que um projeto urbano, mesmo que seja social e/ou participativo, precisa reconhecer politicamente a população local, suas diferenças e seus espaços, do contrário será apenas mais uma obra vazia que não chega a desenvolver a institucionalidade e menos, ainda, a cultura democrática local.

#3 -- LA CAMPAGNE DE RECHERCHE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DANS LA RÉGION DE TOMBOUCTOU ET LA RÉGION DES LACS: RAPPORT SUR LA TROISIÉME CAMPAGNE DE RESEARCH À TOMBOUCTOU PRÉHISTORIQUE

by Douglas Park 

Douglas P. Park (2010). Written with co-directers Peter Coutros (Yale) and Mohamed M. Abdallahi and Dr. Ali Ould Sidi (Timbuktu Cultural Mission)

Written in French.

Presented to the Malian Direction Nationale du Patrimone Culture (DNPC)
and
Institut des Sciences Humaines (ISH)

Quatre projets principaux ont été effectuées cette saison de recherche: 1) d'une fouille archéologique sur le site de... more Quatre projets principaux ont été effectuées cette saison de recherche: 1) d'une fouille archéologique sur le site de Tumbouze 2 (9 km au sud de Tombouctou), 2) études archéologiques de la région Tumbouze et la rive est du lac Fati, 3) le premier campagne du forage du lac au Mali qui a recueilli des informations sur le climat ancien, et 4) la construction d'un petit musée à la mission culturelle de Tombouctou. Les quatre projets sont un succès et nous tenons à remercier tous nos collaborateurs pour leur soutien dans nos efforts. Chaque projet est décrit ci-dessous. Les premiers archéologues qui ont travaillé à Tombouctou ont été les McIntoshs en 1985.

Nous devons attendre les résultats de nos analyses scientifiques avant de pouvoir être certain de notre interprétations. Aussi, la thèse doctorat de Douglas Post Park sera d'utiliser les données rassemblées cette saison. Peter R. Coutros utilisera les informations provenant de l'enquête du lac Fati pour son mémoire de maîtrise. Mohamed Mahmoud Abdallahi également va utiliser les informations recueillies auprès des collections de manuscrits au centre Ahmed Baba. Il va écrire un article sur les mentions historiques des changements environnementaux.

Colloquium on Urbanization in Ancient Africa Brings Together New Scholars

by Douglas Park 

Douglas P. Park (2011). Written with Lauren Lippiello. 2011. Published in Yale Environmental News, Vol:17; No: 1; Pp. 10

Graduate and post-graduate students gathered at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM) on April 8–9, 2011,... more Graduate and post-graduate students gathered at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM) on April 8–9, 2011, for the Urbanization in Ancient Africa Colloquium, which brought together new scholars from around the world to explore the conception, appearance and function of different forms of urbanity on the African continent. Presentations included material on urban communities from Senegal to Egypt, Libya to Tanzania, and spanned the period from 4000 BC to AD 1700.

Analyzing Neighbourhoods Suitable for Urban Renewal Programs with Autocorrelation Techniques

by Beniamino Murgante

Murgante, B., Las Casas, G., Danese, M., (2012), "Analyzing Neighbourhoods Suitable for Urban Renewal Programs with Autocorrelation Techniques" In Burian J. (Eds.) Advances in Spatial Planning. InTech — Open Access

The Ancient Oasis Landscape of Chorasmia: The role of the kala in Central Asia settlement patterns.

by Michelle Negus Cleary

Negus Cleary, M. 2007. "The Ancient Oasis Landscape of Chorasmia: The role of the kala in Central Asia settlement patterns." In Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Proceedings of the 2005 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, edited by L. Popova, C. Hartley and A. T. Smith. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press: 334-358.

The ancient Central Asian land of Chorasmia was an agricultural oasis surrounded by nomadic communities and largely... more The ancient Central Asian land of Chorasmia was an agricultural oasis surrounded by nomadic communities and largely isolated from other settled peoples. Previous scholars have interpreted the large, fortified enclosures preserved from this oasis society as urban centres, despite the fact that most of these sites lack key urban features such as residential areas, streets, and production quarters. A different interpretation of these monumental kala sites can be attempted by looking at the preserved remains of the ancient oasis as an entire landscape. This paper investigates the strength of this alternative interpretation by looking at the landscape around the Chorasmian complex of Ayaz-kala, drawing from the archaeological investigations of previous scholars, and the author’s field surveys. From this study another picture emerges concerning how these ancient Central Asians may have inhabited the oasis and occupied their sites in a non-nucleated pattern.
challenging geographic conditions to form a unique, Central Asian oasis
settlement pattern.

From the Myth to the Margins: The Patriarch's Piazza at San Pietro di Castello in Venice

by Areli Marina

Renaissance Quarterly , Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 353-429.

This study analyzes the campo of San Pietro di Castello from its mythologized origins to the Renaissance, paying... more This study analyzes the campo of San Pietro di Castello from its mythologized origins to the Renaissance, paying particular attention to the architectural and political forces that shaped it. Although San Pietro was Venice's cathedral from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, civic leaders marginalized the site, which incarnated the contentious relationship between the Roman Church and the Venetian republic. The essay places the campo at the center of inquiry because the episcopal complex's significance is best discerned through diachronic analysis of the urban landscape. The building activities of its medieval and Quattrocento patrons generated a heterogeneous campo that incorporated morphological elements from two Venetian urbanistic types: the parish campo and the monastic island. Its sixteenth-century patriarchs created a new architectural vision of the campo, contesting its slippage from the center of Venetian life and forging a distinctive ensemble that differs markedly from the better-known piazzas at San Marco and Rialto.

La ville qu'ils veulent, la ville qu'ils font

by André Ourednik

Publiié avec Jacques Lévy

Comment se fabrique l’urbain ? On a pu penser que de grandes structures aveugles (les infrastructures, la classe... more Comment se fabrique l’urbain ? On a pu penser que de grandes structures aveugles (les infrastructures, la classe dominante, les institutions…) imposaient leur logique à son tissu et à ses pratiques. On a aussi pu croire qu’il fallait d’abord créer un cadre matériel, qui était ensuite occupé et habité par les individus. Une étude récente que nous avons conduite montre au contraire que les individus ordinaires disposent d’un grand pouvoir pour façonner l’espace urbain et que ce pouvoir leur vient d’abord de l’idée qu’ils se font de la ville désirable. La ville apparaît alors moins comme le résultat d’un dessin d’architecte que comme une configuration en mouvement, dont la dynamique résulte avant tout des interactions entre ses habitants.

El urbanismo en la costa de los Esclavos Nuevos datos arqueológicos revelan la estructura y funcionamiento de las ciudades africanas entre los siglos xvii y xix

by J. Cameron Monroe

INVESTIGACIÓN Y CIENCIA, marzo 2012, pp. 2-11

Working class heritage without the working class. An ethnographic inquiry on gentrification in Ciutat (Mallorca)

by Marc Morell

2011 L. Smith, P.A. Shakle and G. Campbell (eds.) Heritage Labur and the working classes. London: Routldege, 283-302.

The Flavor of the Place: Eating and Drinking in Payottenland

by Tim Waterman

Chapter published in Strong, Jeremy, ed. (2011) Educated Tastes: Food, Drink and Connoisseur Culture, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press

This paper explores the links between food, beer, landscape and identity in the Belgian region of Payottenland and... more This paper explores the links between food, beer, landscape and identity in the Belgian region of Payottenland and proposes that a new vision for sustainable living on the urban fringe might be emerging, and that this vision is manifested in new and traditional foodways.