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UNIVERSITY RESIDENCES AS A TOOL FOR PUBLIC HOUSING REGENERATION

Nowadays in Rome public housing suburbs face several critical issues, both physical and social: buildings obsolescence, state of neglect of open spaces, inhabitant’s sense of segregation and lack of social inclusion. These critical issues cause a huge redu ...

Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca TESIS, Università degli Studi di Firenze2016

The city and the urban space as a "forum" of collective living. The urban complex Stockholm Town Hall- Committee building of Ragnar Östberg (1909-1940)

Chiara Monterumisi

“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of the ...

2016

Renovatio urbis Stockholm. Conferring a proper character to a city on the archipelago

Chiara Monterumisi

The paper examines how the leading exponent of the National-Romanticism Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945) contributed to conferring a proper and national character to the Stockholm’s "imago urbis" at the turn of the nineteenth century. The Swedish capital, once a ...

EGU-Editorial Universidad de Granada2016

Round table discussion with Alfredo Brillembourg, Urban Think Tank (Caracas and ETZH Zurich) on Interdisciplinary design for social architecture

Alexandra Belinesh Thorer

Urban Think Tank (Caracas and ETZH Zurich) ...

2016

Dense or sprawling cities: what future for the peripheries of the Cities of the Global South?

Jérôme Chenal

In Nouakchott in Mauritania, as in all the Cities of the Global South, the demographic explosion has led to unbridled growth in peripheral zones. This process will continue in future decades when a new Afri- can urban population numbering hundreds of milli ...

2016

Rich and Poor Cities in Europe. An Urban Scaling Approach to Mapping the European Economic Transition

Vishal Sood, Emanuele Strano

Recent advances in the urban science make broad use of the notion of scaling. We focus here on the important scaling relationship between the gross metropolitan product (GMP) of a city and its population (pop). It has been demonstrated that GMP alpha Y Ypo ...

Public Library of Science2016

Londres, capitale du post-modernisme?

Nicolas Bruno Jacquet

The advantage of the dynamism of the London architectural scene seems rather ignored by historians and theorists. Not only is London absent from the grand narrative of modernity, but it is also denied the status of avant-garde, although since the 1960s, th ...

EPFL2016

Southern echoes in a Swedish Wanderer. The urban complex Stockholm Town hall-Committee building of Ragnar Östberg (1909-1940)

Chiara Monterumisi

Towards the end of the 19th century travels were still marking a rite de passage in the education and self- development of architects’ idiom, especially for Norden countries. Albeit manifesting significant German influences, their condition of a seemingly ...

2016

Building Environment and Interior Comfort in 20th-Century Architecture : Understanding Issues and Developing Conservation Strategies / Les Dispositifs du confort dans l’architecture du XXe siècle : connaissance et stratégies de sauvegarde

The notion of physiological comfort – meaning responses to temperature and humidity but also to lighting and acoustics – has been a driving force in architectural production throughout the twentieth century. Whether concealed, embedded, exposed, or ‘featur ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2016

Objets risqués: le pari durable du projet d’architecture

Inès Lamunière

Inès Lamunière présente les enjeux contemporains des infrastructures intégratives, en rappelant des projets historiques du début des années 30 comme Hugh Ferris et Le Corbusier ...

2016

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