#books #urbanism | Green obsession : trees towards cities, humans towards forests

Green obsession : trees towards cities, humans towards forests / Stefano Boeri ... [et al.] ; edited by Maria Chiara Pastore, Simone Marchetti ; with contributions by Enrico Alleva ... [et al.].
New York [etc.] : Actar, 2021.
383 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Árboles / Desarrollo sostenible / Plantas en arquitectura / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781948765589
Cita APA-7: Pastore, Maria Chiara & Marchetti, Simone (eds.) (2021). Green obsession : trees towards cities, humans towards forests. Actar.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 GRE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1323249081

[.en] Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio -Stefano Boeri Architetti- have followed in the last fifteen years of practice, aiming at the redefinition of the relationship between city and nature. The book follows a discursive thread, alternating dialogues and scientific essays by some of the main protagonists who have contributed to widening the perspective on this subject, helping to raise awareness while protecting the world and its biodiversity.

Cities have contributed for centuries to the promotion of some of humanity’s greatest ideas, we must now urgently include them as among the principal players in the environmental debate and at the forefront of any policy tackling and countering -possibly reversing- climate change. Nevertheless, even today one of the most significant technologies capable of absorbing CO2 and restoring our environment is photosynthesis. Planting trees, in addition to protecting existing natural areas and biodiversity, together with de-carbonization, renewable energies, digitalization, smart mobility and the circular economy could be the set of strategies necessary to tackle climate change.

Today the effects of the Anthropocene age are ever more visible, changing our environment and affecting every species that lives within it. Green Obsession offers a path to be taken, a hard but still necessary paradigm shift –even for architecture and urbanism– that aims to give a voice to this much needed ecological transition.

This book aims to unveil the processes and the complexity involved in the search for a new kind of urbanism, while raising questions and opening old wounds related to the relationship between the human species and Nature and finally putting these fragments together to create a portrait of our era. We need to conceive cities as new green catalysts. Now more than ever, it is essential to act together as separate individuals and professionals, joining the cause as members of the global community with a shared environmental strategy. We all have to open the era of a new alliance between Nature and City.

With contributions by: Enrico Alleva, Emanuele Coccia, Fredi Devas, Laura Gatti, Jane Goodall, Paul Hawken, Cecil Konijnendijk, Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci, David Miller, Harini Nagendra, Thomas B. Randrup, Giuseppe Sala, Mitchell Silver, Giorgio Vacchiano, Li Xiangning.

#books #environment | Smart and sustainable technology for resilient cities and communities

Smart and sustainable technology for resilient cities and communities / Robert J. Howlett ... [et al.], editors.
Singapore : Springer Nature, 2022.
XVI, 322 p. : il.
Serie: Advances in sustainability science and technology.
/ EN / Libros / Pandemia de COVID-19 / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Urbanismo – Innovaciones / Urbanismo – Siglo XXI

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9789811691003
Cita APA-7: Howlett, Robert J. [et al.] (eds.) (2022). Smart and sustainable technology for resilient cities and communities. Springer Nature.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 SMA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1335376472

[.en] This book is a collection of extended versions of papers presented at the KES Covid-19 Challenge international summit. The book focusses on technological, economic, and social developments to combat the effects of global and local disasters as well as the ways in which the recovery from Covid can be used to build more resilient and sustainable communities, industry, and improve the environment. It also discusses the global challenges of human-influenced climate change. There are chapters on making cities and communities more resilient through energy self-sufficiency, food production, resilient housing and buildings, human health and intelligent systems e.g. for forecasting and prediction.

Examining pedagogical approaches in developing employability skills in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Relating work-integrated learning to the employability skills discussion in the post-COVID-19 era. Integration of Indoor Air Quality concerns in educational community through collaborative framework of Campus Bizia Lab of the University of the Basque Country. An overview of methods for control and estimation of capacity in COVID19 pandemic from point cloud and imagery data. Forecasting the COVID-19 spread in Iran, Italy and Mexico using novel nonlinear autoregressive neural network and ARIMA-based hybrid models. A Comparative Study of Deep-Learning Models for COVID-19 Diagnosis based on X-ray Images-. Equipping European higher education teachers for successful and sustainable e-learning with home remote work. Anticipating and Preparing for Future Change and Uncertainty: Building Adaptive Pathways. A Sustainable Nutritional Behavior In The Era Of Climate Changes. The Development of a Smart Tunable Full-Spectrum LED Lighting Technology which may Prevent and Treat Covid-19 Infections, for Society's Resilience and Quality of Life. Energy efficient technologies for ultra-low temperature refrigeration.

#books #architecture | Energy and Sun : Sustainable Energy Solutions for Future Megacitie

Energy and Sun : Sustainable Energy Solutions for Future Megacitie / Ludger Eltrop, Thomas Telsnig, Ulrich Fahl (Editors).
Berlin : Jovis , [2013].
246 p. : il.
Serie: Future Megacities ; 1.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura - Aspecto del medio ambiente / Arquitectura y radiación solar / Energías renovables / Urbanismo - Aspecto del medio ambiente

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783868592733
Cita APA-7: Eltrop, Ludger, Telsnig, Thomas, & Fahl, Ulrich (eds.) (2013). Energy and sun : sustainable energy solutions for future megacitie. Jovis.
ehuBiblioteka A-620.91 ENE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1303216531

[.en] Solar energy is in focus worldwide. So is the role of cities and public governments for creating a more sustainable urban future. This volume highlights the role of solar energy and other solar related energy technologies for a low carbon and sustainable energy system, particularly for cities and city regions in the South. The articles refer to solar energy generation technologies, smart city planning concepts, as well as “passive” solar building design approaches. Thus, the volume takes a broad and applied approach by analysing projects and different solutions for a more efficient and solar oriented building design and technology implementation.

‘Energy and Sun’ takes a close look at the current possibilities of solar energy, which is safe, sustainable and low in carbon emissions, and particularly viable for urban regions in the Southern hemisphere. The essays in this volume are grouped into three sections: "Solar and Sustainable Energy Technologies" (with discussions on photovoltaic off-grid technologies in rural Andhra Pradesh, energy efficiency in irrigation, solar power plants for South Africa and the Joined Biogas, Charcoal and Erosion Prevention Project in Hyderabad, India); "Solutions For Buildings and Settlements" (including essays on housing design in the MENA region and the calculation of the energy performance of buildings and energy efficiency in Iranian cities); and "System Analytical and Integration Approaches" (with essays on solar and other options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, solar energy usage in Gauteng, South Africa and photovoltaic systems for social and economic empowerment in peri-urban and rural areas in South Africa).

#livres #architecture | La beauté d'une ville : controverses esthétiques et transition écologique à Paris

La beauté d'une ville : controverses esthétiques et transition écologique à Paris / conception éditoriale, Alexandre Labasse, Marianne Carrega, Baptiste Lanaspeze.
Paris : Pavillon de l'Arsenal ; [Marseille] : Wildproject éditions, 2021.
569 p. : il.
Coedición del Pavillon de l'Arsenal y Wildproject con motivo de la exposición homónima organizada por el Pavillon de l'Arsenal en mayo de 2021.
/ FR / Libros / Ciudades – Embellecimiento / Ecología urbana – Francia / París (Francia) / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9782381140216
Cita APA-7: Labasse, Alexandre, Carrega, Marianne, Lanaspeze, Baptiste (eds.) (2021). La beauté d'une ville : controverses esthétiques et transition écologique à Paris. Pavillon de l'Arsenal.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4 BEA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1305024271

[.fr] Qu'est-ce qui fait la beauté d'une ville ? Son site, ses bâtiments, ses jardins, ses matières, ses rivières ? Ses habitants, ses milieux, son hospitalité, ses fragilités, sa mesure ? Comment se définit, en fonction des projets et des contraintes de chaque siècle, l'esthétique urbaine ? Quelles formes doit inventer la ville pour opérer sa transition climatique ? Architectes, écrivains, philosophes, historiens, paysagistes, artistes, écologues, sociologues, urbanistes... A partir des enjeux parisiens émergents, 56 autrices et auteurs explorent nos héritages et esquissent l'avenir de nos territoires urbains. Un pied dans l'histoire, et l'autre engagé sur les chemins de l'écologie, cet ouvrage collectif conçu comme une promenade nous invite à regarder d'un autre oeil la beauté de Paris.

#books #townplanning | Transect urbanism : readings in human ecology

Transect urbanism : readings in human ecology / edited by Andrés Duany and Brian Falk.
Novato, California : ORO, 2020.
269 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Ecología urbana / Ordenación del territorio – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Zonas verdes

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781951541019
Cita APA-7: Duany, Andrés, & Falk, Brian (2020). Transect urbanism : readings in human ecology. ORO.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 TRA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1246782431

[.en] ‘Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology’ is the definitive reference on the Rural-to-Urban Transect, a compilation of the most important essays, diagrams, and images on the subject. It provides historical, practical, and theoretical insights into one of the most effective urban planning methodologies developed in the 20th Century. The Transect is a unifying theory, serving as a framework for the various fields of urban design. The editors selected the most important previously published essays and commissioned preeminent academics and professionals to write on the use of the Transect in their areas of expertise, including retail, zoning, thoroughfare design, environmental sustainability, and philosophy. As diagrams and drawings are essential to the understanding and use of the Transect, this book also contains the most complete collection of Transect images ever published. Transect Urbanism will serve as a primary reference source for academics, students, and practitioners interested in creating great places.

#books #townplanning | Patch atlas : integrating design practices and ecological knowledge for cities as complex systems

Patch atlas : integrating design practices and ecological knowledge for cities as complex systems / Victoria J. Marshall … [et al.].
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
XI, 116 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Urbanismo – Innovaciones

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780300239935
Cita APA-7: Marshall, Victoria J. (2020). Patch atlas : integrating design practices and ecological knowledge for cities as complex systems. Yale University Press.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 PAT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1182010607 

[.en] This atlas is a unique conceptual tool to describe and analyze cities as complex systems, using a new, hybrid approach to urban land cover classification. As an impetus to bring ecologists and urban designers together, it builds on over a decade of shared knowledge from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study to inspire ecologically motivated design practice. Rather than separating human-constructed environments from predominantly biological and geological ones, this book integrates built and ecological structures and shows how this integration can contribute to the scholarship of ecology and the practice of design. The atlas displays maps and tables depicting these hybrid land cover classes and the relationships between them; information on how the specific patch arrangements evolved over time; and speculations on how cover might change through design, disturbance, or succession. Interdisciplinary and strikingly illustrated, the atlas is a new way to study, measure, and view cities with a more effective interaction of scientific understanding and design practice.

#books #architecture | Nature of the city : green infrastructure from the ground up

Nature of the city : green infrastructure from the ground up / Andrew Tempany and Tom Armour.
London : RIBA Publishing, 2020.
IX, 150 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura del paisaje / Jardines – Arquitectura / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781859468722
Cita APA-7: Tempany, Andrew, & Armour, Tom (2020). Nature of the city : green infrastructure from the ground up. RIBA Publishing.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 NAT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1155391614

[.en] This is a practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of delivery through an array of design approaches and case studies, it demystifies the concept and provides the tools for practical implementation - highlighting the challenges and opportunities on both small and large projects.

#books #townplanning | Masterplanning for change : designing the resilient city

Masterplanning for change : designing the resilient city / Ombretta Rómice, Sergio Porta, Alessandra Feliciotti.
London : Riba Publication Ltd., 2020.
182 p.
/ EN / Libros / Ecología urbana / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781859469262
Cita APA-7: Romice, O. R. L., Porta, S., & Feliciotti, A. (2020). Masterplanning for change : designing the resilient city. Riba Publication.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 MAS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1193011826

[.en] Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated in to practice. This book presents a practical approach to masterplanning the city and its areas (existing and new) as urban environments for the 21st century, addressing the design of cities as complex adaptive systems.

#books #urbanism | Green wedge urbanism : history, theory and contemporary practice

Green wedge urbanism : history, theory and contemporary practice / Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira.
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
XIV, 285 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Ecología urbana / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781350154346
Cita APA-7: Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano (2020). Green wedge urbanism : history, theory and contemporary practice. Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 GRE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1158512364

[.en] As towns and cities worldwide deal with fast-increasing land pressures, while also trying to promote more sustainable, connected communities, the creation of green spaces within urban areas is receiving greater attention than ever before.

At the same time, the value of the 'green belt' as the most prominent model of green space planning is being widely questioned, and an array of alternative models are being proposed. This book explores one of those alternative models – the 'green wedge', showing how this offers a successful model for integrating urban development and nature in existing and new towns and cities around the world.

Green wedges, considered here as ducts of green space running from the countryside into the centre of a city or town, are not only making a comeback in urban planning, but they have a deeper history in the twentieth century than many expect – a history that provides valuable insight and lessons in the employment of networked green spaces in city design and regional planning today.

Part history, and part contemporary argument, this book first examines the emergence and global diffusion of the green wedge in town planning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, placing it in the broader historic context of debates and ideas for urban planning with nature, before going on to explore its use in contemporary urban practice. Examining their relation to green infrastructures, landscape ecology and landscape urbanism and their potential for sustainable cities, it highlights the continued relevance of a historic idea in an era of rapid climate change.

#libros #urbanismo | EUA 9 | La humanización del espacio urbano : la vida social entre los edificios

La humanización del espacio urbano : la vida social entre los edificios / Jan Gehl ; prólogo, Enrique Peñalosa ; presentación, Julio Pozueta ; traducción María Teresa Valcarce.
Barcelona : Reverté, 2006.
211 p. : il.
Serie: Estudios Universitarios de Arquitectura ; 9.
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura y sociedad / Geografía urbana / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788429121094
Cita APA-7: Gehl, Jan (2006). La humanización del espacio urbano : la vida social entre los edificios. Reverté.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4 HUM
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/932545519

[.es] Este libro analiza por qué el uso del automóvil deteriora la calidad urbana; por qué los edificios residenciales altos son inconvenientes; qué hace que una calle sea atractiva para caminar, por qué en una ciudad sana los espacios públicos, y no los centros comerciales, son el lugar de encuentro; cuántos bancos debe haber en un espacio público y cómo se deben situar. El autor se adentra en temas tan fascinantes como el de los bordes, y por qué preferimos estar en el borde de una plaza y no en medio de ella.

El trabajo del autor es profundamente humano; explora las necesidades que tenemos los seres humanos más allá de la supervivencia. ¿Qué necesitamos los seres humanos para nuestra realización más plena?. Necesitamos, por ejemplo, caminar, ver gente, estar con gente. Y la ciudad debe tener características que propicien ese contacto con otros. Una ciudad es sólo un medio para una manera de vivir; lo que propone este libro es una mejor manera de vivir, una manera más feliz de vivir.

Este libro es un mensaje para los arquitectos y les recuerda que su propósito no es ganar premios, sino enaltecer lo humano. Aunque sea hermoso -y debe serlo- lo que diseñan es para ser vivido, no para ser evaluado por los críticos de arte. En la ciudad bien diseñada, la estrella es el ciudadano común y no el arquitecto fulgurante.

#books #townplanning | Sustainable urban planning : vibrant neighbourhoods, smart cities, resilience

Sustainable urban planning : vibrant neighbourhoods, smart cities, resilience / Helmut Bott, Gregor C Grassl, Stephan Anders.
Munich : Edition Detail, 2019.
ISBN 9783955534622
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Desarrollo sostenible / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 SUS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1121582616

Life in the city is popular and creating liveable urban space is undoubtedly a priority for planners. Yet what makes a city worth living in? How do we define sustainable neighbourhoods that will function properly and continue to attract people in the future? What does "Smart City" or "resilience" really mean? The completely revised, new edition of this publication provides the answers. It addresses the fundamental challenges of urban planning today and offers planners essential knowledge, implementation strategies and ways toward holistic concept development. Examples of international neighbourhood developments clearly show how aspects of sustainable urban planning can be implemented in practice.

#books #landsacaping | Green infrastructure planning : reintegrating landscape in urban planning

Green infrastructure planning : reintegrating landscape in urban planning / Ian Mell.
London : Lund Humphries, 2019.
160 p. : il.
Serie: Concise Guides to Planning.
ISBN 9781848222755
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura del paisaje / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 GRE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1121629310

[.en] What is green infrastructure? Why should we develop it? Who uses it? And what socio-economic and ecological value does it provide? This useful guide provides an essential introduction to green infrastructure for planners, landscape architects, engineers and environmentalists keen to understand how we can use landscape principles to deliver more sustainable urban planning. Using multiple examples from practice in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia, the book illustrates how good policy ideas and innovative planning practice can help create more sustainable and ecologically focused urban landscapes.

#books #urbanism | Planning, sustainability and nature

Planning, sustainability and nature / Dave Counsell and Rob Stoneman.
London : Lund Humphries, 2018.
144 p. : il.
Serie: Concise Guides to Planning.
ISBN 9781848222854
/ EN / Libros / Medio ambiente – Protección / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 PLA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1121629121

[.en] Why it is important to plan for the natural environment at a whole-landscape scale and to connect wildlife habitats together? Why do planners need to look beyond protecting particular species and their habitats? Why should planners help nature to recolonise towns and cities and how can they best do this?

In seeking to answer such questions, this book provides a grounding for planners and professionals in related fields in the key concepts associated with biodiversity and the natural environment, and in how to apply them in practice. It looks at how natural environment policy has shifted from the protection of rare species and nature reserves to a more holistic approach, based on biodiversity.

Beginning with a brief history of environmental movements, the guide then focuses on changing approaches to conserving the natural environment. It explains environmental sustainability approaches as well as techniques for planners, using ideas such as environmental capacity and natural capital and, more recently, ecosystem services and multi-functional solutions. It addresses issues of spatial scale, connectivity, and ecological networks, recognising that small nature reserves are vulnerable and lack resilience to change. Other key topics include rebuilding biodiversity through habitat creation, enhancement, and restoration, along with the ‘re-naturing’ of cities. The tools and policies are set out before identifying key lessons and implications for future policy development and planning practice.

#libros #urbanismo | Urbanismo ecológico en América Latina

Urbanismo ecológico en América Latina = Urbanismo ecológico na América Latina / Mohsen Mostafavi ... [et al.] (eds.).
Barcelona : Gustavo Gili, 2019. 
305 p. : il. 
Ed. bilingüe español - portugués.
ISBN 9788425229480
/ ES / Libros / Ecología urbana / Urbanismo – América latina / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteca BCG A-711.4:504 URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1122551251

[.es] Urbanismo ecológico es una iniciativa de la Graduate School of Design de la Harvard University que entiende el proyecto como una síntesis capaz de conectar la ecología y el urbanismo. La iniciativa intenta poner de manifiesto métodos imaginativos y prácticos para abordar los cambios climáticos y la sostenibilidad en el entorno urbano, entendiendo la ecología como un proyecto ético y político que engloba el medio ambiente, no solo como realidad física, sino también desde las relaciones sociales y la subjetividad humana. 

En 2014 se publicó en castellano y portugués el primer volumen de ‘Urbanismo ecológico’, una compilación de los textos surgidos de esta línea de investigación y acción urbanística de la célebre universidad estadounidense. La aparición de este volumen dio origen a una serie de encuentros y debates en diversos países de América Latina y al conjunto de ensayos y obras que se recogen ahora en ‘Urbanismo ecológico en América Latina’. Este nuevo volumen, editado por Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty, Marina Correia, Ana María Durán Calisto y Luis Valenzuela, presenta la realidad compleja y poliédrica de América Latina a partir de siete ejes temáticos —anticipar, colaborar, sentir, incluir, movilizar, comisariar, adaptar— que dialogan con la publicación original y exploran nuevas interpretaciones. 

Parques, sistemas fluviales, chinampas, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile, infraestructuras educativas, movilidad, agroecología, Diana Wiesner, Elemental, Ermínia Maricato, Tomás Saraceno, Solano Benítez, Guilherme Wisnik, Teresa Moller, Carla Juaçaba… Multiplicidad de casos y miradas aportan una panorámica excepcional para el debate de lo urbano y lo político a la luz de la ecología y la sostenibilidad.

#books #landscape | Revising green infrastructure : concepts between nature and design

Revising green infrastructure : concepts between nature and design / Daniel Czechowski, Thomas Hauck, Georg Hausladen (coeds.).
Boca Raton [etc.] : CRC Press, 2017.
464 p. : il.
ISBN 9781138892811
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura del paisaje / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Zonas verdes
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712 REV
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1117337649

[.en] Revising Green Infrastructure: Concepts Between Nature and Design examines these questions and presents innovative approaches in designing green, landscape or nature as infrastructure from different perspectives and attitudes instead of adding another definition or category of green infrastructure. The editors bring together the work of selected ecologists, engineers, and landscape architects who discuss a variety of theoretical aspects, research projects, teaching methods, and best practice examples in green infrastructure. The approaches range from retrofitting existing infrastructures through landscape-based integrations of new infrastructures and envisioning prospective landscapes as hybrids, machines, or cultural extensions. 

The book explores a scientific functional approach in landscape architecture. It begins with an overview of green functionalism and includes examples of how new design logics are deducted from ecology in order to meet economic and environmental requirements and open new aesthetic relationships toward nature. The contributors share a decidedly cultural perspective on nature as landscape. Their ecological view emphasizes the individual nature of specific local situations. 

Building on this foundation, the subsequent chapters present political ideas and programs defining social relations toward nature and their integration in different planning systems as well as their impact on nature and society. They explore different ways of participation and cooperation within cities, regions, and nations. They then describe projects implemented in local contexts to solve concrete problems or remediate malfunctions. These projects illustrate the full scope presented and discussed throughout the book: the use of scientific knowledge, strategic thinking, communication with municipal authorities and local stakeholders, design implementation on site, and documentation and control of feedback and outcome with adequate indicators and metrics. 

Although diverse and sometimes controversial, the discussion of how nature is regarded in contrast to society, how human-natural systems could be organized, and how nature could be changed, optimized, or designed raises the question of whether there is a new paradigm for the design of social relations to nature. The multidisciplinary review in this book brings together discussions previously held only within the respective disciplines, and demonstrates how they can be used to develop new methods and remediation strategies.

#books #architecture | Critical care : architecture and urbanism for a broken planet

Critical care : architecture and urbanism for a broken planet / Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny, editors.
Cambridge, Massachusetts [etc.] : MIT Press [etc.], 2019.
303 p. . il.
Publicado con motivo de la exposición "Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet" en el Architekturzentrum Wien (24 de abril - 9 de septiembre de 2019).
ISBN 9780262536837
/ EN / Libros / Catálogos / Arquitectura – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Urbanismo –Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 CRI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1108618444

[.en] How architecture and urbanism can help to care for and repair a broken planet: essays and illustrated case studies. Today, architecture and urbanism are capital-centric, speculation-driven, and investment-dominated. Many cannot afford housing. Austerity measures have taken a disastrous toll on public infrastructures. The climate crisis has rendered the planet vulnerable, even uninhabitable. This book offers an alternative vision in architecture and urbanism that focuses on caring for a broken planet. Rooted in a radical care perspective that always starts from the given, in the midst of things, this edited collection of essays and illustrated case studies documents ideas and practices from an extraordinarily diverse group of contributors. Focusing on the three crisis areas of economy, ecology, and labor, the book describes projects including village reconstruction in China; irrigation in Spain; community land trust in Puerto Rico; revitalization of modernist public housing in France; new alliances in informal settlements in Nairobi; and the redevelopment of traditional building methods in flood areas in Pakistan. Essays consider such topics as ethical architecture, land policy, creative ecologies, diverse economies, caring communities, and the exploitation of labor. Taken together, these case studies and essays provide evidence that architecture and urbanism have the capacity to make the planet livable, again.

#books #architecture #urbanism | From fallow : 100 ideas for abandoned urban landscapes

From fallow : 100 ideas for abandoned urban landscapes / text, Jill Desimini.
Novato, CA : ORO Editions, 2019.
345 p. : il.
ISBN 9781940743981
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Urbanismo – Aspecto social
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 FRO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1105925689

[.en] 'From Fallow' is a curated collection of 100 ideas for abandoned property. Through drawing and text each idea is elaborated and each entry serves both as documentation and speculation. The intention, here, is to think differently about pre-existing conditions and to be particular about them. I offer examples of different spatial characteristics around abandonment in North American legacy cities. The variations are mesmerizingly complicated and varied. A vacant lot is never one thing. Terrains have different scales, elevations, adjacencies, uses, climates and cultures. And just as no one territory is the same, so no one idea is sufficient. The goal, in considering these disparate ideas, is not to imagine any singular solution but to understand the many possibilities. Ideas can be tested, substituted and combined.

#books #urbanism | Urban renewal design

Urban renewal design / editing, Dandan Song.
London : Design Media Publishing, 2018.
287 p. : il.
ISBN 9781912268283
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Ciudades – Renovación / Espacios públicos / Urbansimo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.25 URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099465493

[.en] Urban renewal means reconstruction practices conducted upon structures and places that can no longer adapt themselves to new developments of the urban environment. Urban renewal plays a critical role in improving the living environment for modern urban dwellers, and renovation and regeneration of public open spaces has become a key component of urban renewal. The book collects many fabulous world landscape projects and focuses on urban renewal design from three aspects: conservation of historical sites, eco-sustainability of urban environment, and artistic regeneration. In this way we hope the book can help explore new strategies for urban development driven by renovation and landscape architecture.

#monograficos #urbanismo #turismo | DACT 14 | Canarias : territorios : paisajes del turismo

Canarias : territorios : paisajes del turismo / Departamento de Arte, Ciudad y Territorio. Sección de Urbanismo. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria : DACT, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2018.
195 p. : il.
Serie: Materiales de trabajo (DACT) ; 14.
ISBN 9788417591359
/ ES / Monográficos / Turismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Turismo – Canarias / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 CAN
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1085852038

[.es] "Retomar cada cierto tiempo la colección Materiales de Trabajo en cuanto trabajo colectivo de profesores y colaboradores de la Sección de Urbanismo del DACT, nos da la oportunidad de reunir una serie de textos a modo de reflexión abierta y necesariamente diversa. Este número 14 se dirige directamente hacia la cuestión del turismo, un tema central en Canarias al que no se le ha prestado atención suficiente desde nuestra disciplina. El turismo en el contexto geográfico de las Islas Canarias y su papel relativo en un contexto de fenomenología de global, es el hilo conductor que se ofrece para ir trenzando distintas reflexiones abordadas en sus diversas vertientes; tanto desde el análisis territorial y urbano, como desde posibles respuestas o estrategias que pudieran adoptarse al respecte."

‘Materiales de Trabajo’ es un trabajo colectivo de profesores y colaboradores de la Sección de Urbanismo del DACT. Este número 14 trata sobre el turismo, un tema central en Canarias. Aborda el turismo desde diversas vertientes: análisis territorial y urbano y posibles respuestas o estrategias que pueden adaptarse.

• El paisaje del turismo de masas / Alfredo Bescós. Para los países receptores del turismo de masas la destrucción del paisaje originario que el fenómeno comporta y que se evidencia en pocos años se convierte en preocupación cuando ésta alcanza la forma económica.
• Turismo frente a urbanística. El caso de Gran Canaria como modelo / Jesús Álvarez. El fenómeno del turismo, en un territorio limitado y frágil y la modificación del modelo de ocupación, que tiende a la dispersión de lo urbano hacia el espacio exterior, hacen que sean precisas medidas de control. La fácil accesibilidad actual hace que se produzcan transformaciones con rapidez, sin tiempo para la reflexión y la corrección de errores.
• La avenida de Tirajana. El paseo de las Canteras. Dos formas de tejido turístico en Gran Canaria / Óscar De Castro. Confronta dos morfologías muy diversas para indagar sobre las manifestaciones físicas del fenómeno del turismo.
• Territorios y paisajes del ocio. Canarias / Pablo Ley. El paisaje es primordial para el turismo, que tiene un interés creciente por acercarse a los paisajes naturales.
• Más allá de Gran Canaria. Apuesta por un geoturismo transfronterizo en el Atlántico medio 
/ Lucía Martínez & Eduardo Cáceres. Desde hace unos años, se está apostando en Europa y en América por un turismo sostenible que invierta en valores culturales, diversidad y patrimonio, para revalorizar las singularidades territoriales y humanas. Es el geoturismo, una modalidad alternativa sustentable.
• Trolley / Vicente Mirallave. Aplicar la técnica del viaje con trolley a los centros históricos, teniendo en cuenta su capacidad no ilimitada.
• El turismo de interior. Rubió en Artenara / Leonardo Navarro. La población ha abandonado la actividad agrícola y se ha desplazado hacia las áreas de actividad turística. El Cabildo quiere incorporar al turismo los municipios del interior.
• Level / Flora Pescador. En Gran Canaria los hoteles han sido piezas fundamentales para el desarrollo turístico. Se analiza la remodelación de dos hoteles históricos.
• La gran escapada / Jin Taira. La naturaleza del turismo como transformador de la ciudad, la arquitectura y sus valores estratégicos en el ámbito económico, social y ambiental, es un fenómeno global. Se analiza su impacto en el territorio insular canario.

#books #architecture | The urban microclimate as artifact : towards an architectural theory of thermal diversity

The urban microclimate as artifact : towards an architectural theory of thermal diversity / Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi (eds.).
Basel : Birkhäuser, 2018.
197 p : il.
ISBN 9783035615463
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Arquitectura del paisaje / Arquitectura y clima / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1083545049

[.en] Urban microclimates cannot be explained solely on the basis of scientific phenomena, but are also affected materially and spatially by the city's local architecture. The layout, design, and facade construction of buildings have a major impact on wind and temperature conditions. For this reason, architecture and urban design that have an effect on microclimates must be investigated in their social and cultural contexts. The publication uses international case studies to explain these relationships. The focus is on manifestations of urban microclimates in an architectural and urban design context. The places investigated are located in France, Italy, the USA, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Burkina Faso.