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Urban Ecological Design

A Process for Regenerative Places

By: Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner

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Urban Ecological Design

A Process for Regenerative Places

By: Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner

This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban Ecological Design illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theories, techniques, images, and case studies. In essence, it presents a "how-to" method to transform the urban landscape that is thoroughly informed by theory and practice. The authors note that urban design is viewed as an interface between different disciplines. They describe the field as "peacefully overrun, invaded, and occupied" by city planners, architects, engineers, and landscape architects (with developers and politicians frequently joining in). They suggest that environmental concerns demand the consideration of ecology and sustainability issues in urban design. It is, after all, the urban designer who helps to orchestrate human relationships with other living organisms in the built environment. The overall objective of the book is to reinforce the role of the urban designer as an honest broker and promoter of design processes and as an active agent of social creativity in the production of the public realm.

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Island Press

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1610912268

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Urban Ecological Design

A Process for Regenerative Places

By: Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner

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A Process for Regenerative Places

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To the discovery of the Chianti Wine Road. From Florence to San Gimignano and Siena passing by way of Volterra

By: Danilo Papi

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To the discovery of the Chianti Wine Road. From Florence to San Gimignano and Siena passing by way of Volterra

By: Danilo Papi

Does another Chianti guide really make sense? It does, if written by an author hailing from Chianti. The author is indeed a real Chianti native who, with his camera, has traveled this territory far and wide to accompany us through its extraordinary particularities. Very often there is still a lack of adequate support to visit the so-called minor areas, which indeed are not minor, as shown by the Chianti territory so rich in art, breathtaking landscapes, history and food. This guide wants to fill this void, accompanying us with simplicity and frankness through unusual itineraries, villages, churches and abbeys where, in addition to works of art, we will be able to learn about lesser-known glimpses, Tuscan expressions, owners of shops and clubs frequented by Chianti residents, the “chiantigiani”. Briefly, there is everything we need here: a local friend who, with suggestions, anecdotes and advices, accompanies us in discovering Chianti with some excursions to the nearby wonders of Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Certaldo, Volterra.

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goWare

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8833632369

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9788833632360

Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes

Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938

By: Danilo Udovicki-Selb

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Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes

Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938

By: Danilo Udovicki-Selb

Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges that view. Radically redefining the historiography of the period, it reveals how the relationship between the Party and practicing architects was much more complex and contradictory than previously believed, and shows, in contrast to the conventional scholarly narrative, how the architectural avant-garde was able to persist at a time when it is widely considered to have been driven underground. In doing so, this book provides an essential perspective on how to analyse, evaluate, and “re-imagine” the history of modernist expression in its cultural context. It offers a new understanding of ways in which 20th century social revolutions and their totalitarian sequels inflected the discourse of both modernity and modernism. The book relies on close analyses of archival documents and architectural works. Many of the documents have been rarely – if ever – discussed in English before, while the architectural projects include iconic works such as the Palace of Soviets and the Soviet Pavilion at the Paris 1937 World Exposition, as well as remarkable works that until now have been neglected by architectural historians inside and outside Russia. In a fascinating final chapter, it also reveals for the first time the details of Frank Lloyd Wright's triumphant welcome at the First Congress of Soviet Architects in Moscow in 1937, at the height of Stalin's Terror.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474299857

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9781474299855

Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century

Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII–VIII

By: Raffaele Pisano,Danilo Capecchi

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Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century

Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII–VIII

By: Raffaele Pisano,Danilo Capecchi

This book presents a historical and scientific analysis as historical epistemology of the science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century, particularly as developed by Tartaglia in his Quesiti et inventioni diverse, Book VII and Book VIII (1546; 1554). In the early 16th century mechanics was concerned mainly with what is now called statics and was referred to as the Scientia de ponderibus, generally pursued by two very different approaches. The first was usually referred to as Aristotelian, where the equilibrium of bodies was set as a balance of opposite tendencies to motion. The second, usually referred to as Archimedean, identified statics with centrobarica, the theory of centres of gravity based on symmetry considerations. In between the two traditions the Italian scholar Niccolò Fontana, better known as Tartaglia (1500?–1557), wrote the treatise Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1546). This volume consists of three main parts. In the first, a historical excursus regarding Tartaglia’s lifetime, his scientific production and the Scientia de ponderibus in the Arabic-Islamic culture, and from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, is presented. Secondly, all the propositions of Books VII and VIII, by relating them with the Problemata mechanica by the Aristotelian school and Iordani opvsculvm de ponderositate by Jordanus de Nemore are examined within the history and historical epistemology of science. The last part is relative to the original texts and critical transcriptions into Italian and Latin and an English translation. This work gathers and re-evaluates the current thinking on this subject. It brings together contributions from two distinguished experts in the history and historical epistemology of science, within the fields of physics, mathematics and engineering. It also gives much-needed insight into the subject from historical and scientific points of view. The volume composition makes for absorbing reading for historians, epistemologists, philosophers and scientists.

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Springer

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9401797102

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9789401797108

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Urban Ecological Design

Urban Ecological Design

Urban Ecological Design

Urban Ecological Design

To the discovery of the Chianti Wine Road. From Florence to San Gimignano and Siena passing by way of Volterra

To the discovery of the Chianti Wine Road. From Florence to San Gimignano and Siena passing by way of Volterra

Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes

Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes

Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century

Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century

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