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Barcelona, city in space
Barcelona
Author: Joan Busquets
Publisher: Actar D
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Barcelona is regarded as a prototype of a European Mediterranean city with a long urban tradition. It has undergone a specific process of historic formation: density and compactness of urban form, evolution by extension rather than by reform. A history of urban planning necessarily includes a summary of the territorial and urban experience, the physical dimensions of the city that condition its cultural and economic development. This book centers on the construction of Barcelona, taking as its basis the most important planning operations and city projects, and drawing from diverse sources and phases. The local scale of many of the projects contrasts with the cosmopolitan aspirations that have made these interventions so innovative; including major projects for special events, such as the 1888 (World Exhibition), 1929 (Electrical Industries Exhibition) and 1992 (Olympic Games). New prospects are emerging from the recent European institutional framework, particularly changes in the economic system to a post-industrial phase. The urban planning history of Barcelona shows how the city has overcome major contradictions.
City in space
Author: Grand Lurker
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9783952204610
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Self-sufficient City
Author: Vicente Guallart
Publisher: Actar
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781940291031
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Barcelona, City of Margins
Author: Olga Sendra Ferrer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2022-01-27
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1487538359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Barcelona, City of Margins studies the creation of a space of dissent in the 1950s and 1960s that became the pillar of the protest movements during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy. This space of dissent took shape in the margins of what is considered the official space of the city of Barcelona, revealing the interconnection of urbanism, literature, and photography in the formation of the political, social, and cultural movements to come in the 1970s. Olga Sendra Ferrer draws from theoretical readings on built environments, neighbourhoods, housing projects and developments, and everyday life within Spanish urban spaces. Literature and photography demonstrate the political value of cultural production and forms of cultural representation that occur from peripheral zones – those pushed aside by exclusionary politics, fascist forms of control, surveillance, and homogenization. In search of the origins of the protest movements and counter culture that would come in the final years of the Franco regime, Barcelona, City of Margins asserts the value of urban movement and cultural practice as a challenge to the spatial and urbanistic regime of Francoism.
Cities In Space
Author: Prof David Herbert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1134089341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the third major revision of a text first published in 1982 with the title Urban Geography: A First Approach and in 1990 as Cities in Space: City as Place. The study of urban geography remains an important part of the geographical curriculum both in schools and in higher education. This book analyses life in an urban society and in a world which is being transformed by the processes of urbanization: to study urban geography is to study environments and phenomena significant to our everyday lives. This is an introductory text which aims to present both more traditional and newer approaches to urban geography in an accessible and educational way.
Henri Lefebvre on Space
Author: Lukasz Stanek
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0816666164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.
Barcelona
Author: Helena Buffery
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1783161434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fully illustrated, edited volume brings together fresh insights into the changing urban space of Barcelona from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The volume will contribute to the excavation of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period, although its primary focus will be on the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day.
The City in Time and Space
Author: Aidan Southall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780521784320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This ambitious book treats urbanisation and urbanism all over the world, and from the earliest times to the present. Aidan Southall, a pioneer in the study of African cities, discusses the urban centres of ancient Sumeria, Greece and Rome, as well as medieval European cities, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic and Indic cities, colonial cities, and the great metropolises of the twentieth century. Drawing on this historical and comparative perspective, he offers a fresh analysis of world urbanisation in the contemporary period of globalisation. The study emphasises the enduring paradox of the city, which juxtaposes splendid cultural productions with the poverty and deprivation of the majority.
