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With global environmental change and quality of life issues at the forefront of international discussions today, urban development strategies and policies are often framed around various sustainability or liveability goals. Regardless of the sustainability ...
Mobility hubs with customer-oriented mobility solutions and integrated area developments make an important contribution to the careful use of scarce land resources and create livable urban space for the population.The transdisciplinary research project "Co ...
Eight years after the last visit of Bernardo Secchi to Brazil, the new cycle of online seminars Prima Lezione: Bernardo Secchi and the project of the contemporary city will be a posthumous tribute to the Italian professor, given his important contribution ...
The Anthology concludes the series of publications on the “Horizontal Metropolis,” a research and an oxymoron whose strength resides in expanding the traditional image of the metropolis to a larger territory where urban and non-urban elements live side by ...
This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the “Horizontal Metropolis” concept. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it explores various theoretical, methodological and political implications of the Horizontal Metropolis hypothesis. Assemb ...
Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds were inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2009 under the label “watchmaking town planning”. The contribution aims at developing a few questions linked to this heritage site. To what extent the “outstanding universal values ...
The Seminar proposes a European and transatlantic dialogue around the questions of the social and ecological transition (post-carbon) of marginal spaces, and territories of exploitation as the ancient coal territories on the two sides of the Atlantic. Th ...
2022
Participation in the context of urban planning is growing in the urban and architectural processes of democratic cities. Urban co-creation means working with communities by integrating their needs, giving them the opportunity to collaborate in the transfor ...
Barcelona2023
This chapter explores touristic infrastructures as politics of ambiance, paying attention to the way they enable urban environment and engage pedestrians to experience cities critically. This issue will be documented through an ethnographic study of two to ...
Inspired by Bernardo Secchi’s 1986 text “Progetto di Suolo,” this issue of Oase offers critical analyses of how soil, as an intermediary entity between surface and subsurface, can further the practices of urbanism and urban design. ...
