Evry: a New Town in the Master Plan for the Paris Region
Author : Evry, Fr. Établissement Public d'Aménagement
Publisher :
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Evry, Fr. Établissement Public d'Aménagement
Publisher :
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : James M. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1421431858
Originally published in 1978. At the time this book was published, new towns were cropping up as a matter of public policy in "advanced industrial countries," yet the United States abandoned this project and deemed new towns "inappropriate and impractical for the American situation." The purpose of this book is to inform planners and policy makers around the world about French new towns. It analyzes what French new towns tried to accomplish; the administrative, financial, and political reforms needed to secure implementation of the program; and the achievements of the new towns. The author's evaluation of French new towns is undertaken with an eye to international applicability. In the United States, new towns have been proposed as a means for integrating low-income families into suburbs that are otherwise closed to them. The French experience demonstrates that socially heterogeneous new communities can be developed, even within the framework of a market system, if a sufficiently high priority is placed on the effort.
Author : Kenneth Kolson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801876303
“Similar in spirit to Lewis Mumford’s The City in History and Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities . . . wonderful, funny, idiosyncratic.” —Frederick R. Steiner, author of The Living Landscape Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user’s perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlights both the futility of social engineering and the resilience of the human spirit. “A book that should be read by all those people, and there seem to be more of them as week chases week, who are thinking about the fate of lower Manhattan right now.” —Bloomberg News “Kenneth Kolson has lots of material: Some of what’s been built in cities lately is astonishing and not in a good way.” —The Boston Globe “Kolson is a passionate critic of urban schemes, with well-founded skepticism about the role rationality has played in designing them.” —Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians “A fascinating read about the utopian goal of Big Plans and the dystopian reality of lived experience.” —Design Issues
Author : Pascaline Gaborit
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2010
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9789052016719
More than 30 years after their creation new towns are facing numerous challenges in terms of social cohesion, urban planning, regeneration, sustainable development and identities. This book identifies different paths for adapting to current challenges and addresses the fundamental issues of image and identity of territories.
Author : Jean Laterrasse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1119579457
In a context where climate change urgently requires us to alter our paradigms, this book explores the possibilities of cities that are both more energy efficient and more respectful of the environment. Based on the observation that urban planning has been detrimentally affected by the compartmentalization of knowledge and practices, this book is conceived as a dialog between transport and urban planning on the one hand, and between engineering and social science on the other. Systemic analysis and a historical approach, integrating the teachings of the last two centuries, constitute at the methodological level the framework in which this dialog unfolds. Based on examples of good practice, Transport and Town Planning identifies an effective set of levers of action and proposes an original method to guide and accompany urban transition with a large share of the initiative reserved for the actors concerned.
Author : Eugene Clute
Publisher :
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Architectural drawing
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Author : David Fée
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 183909432X
This book explores the evolution of New Towns in France and the UK in a number of areas (governance, planning and heritage) and assess whether their legacy can inspire current planned settlements.
Author : Ervin Y. Galantay
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
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Author : Beth S. Epstein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857450859
The banlieue, the mostly poor and working-class suburbs located on the outskirts of major cities in France, gained international media attention in late 2005 when riots broke out in some 250 such towns across the country. Pitting first- and second-generation immigrant teenagers against the police, the riots were an expression of the multiplicity of troubles that have plagued these districts for decades. This study provides an ethnographic account of life in a Parisian banlieue and examines how the residents of this multiethnic city come together to build, define, and put into practice their collective life. The book focuses on the French ideal of integration and its consequences within the multicultural context of contemporary France. Based on research conducted in a state-planned ville nouvelle, or New Town, the book also provides a view on how the French state has used urban planning to shore up national priorities for social integration. Collective Terms proposes an alternative reading of French multiculturalism, suggesting fresh ways for thinking through the complex mix of race, class, nation, and culture that increasingly defines the modern urban experience.
Author : Great Britain. Department of the Environment. Headquarters Library
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 1970
Category : City planning
ISBN :