Albenga GlassCity
From the GlassCity to the GreenCity
The Albenga GlassCity study is part of a broader doctoral research focusing on the urban, energetic, tourist-economic and socio-cultural development strategies of MedCoast AgroCities—Mediterranean Coast-Agricultural Cities. Specifically the book focu...
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Smart Landscape
Architecture of the "Micro Smart Grid" as a Resilience Strategy for Landscape
Renewable energies have an important role in today's changing landscapes. This research analyses the current transition to sustainable energy from the architectural landscape point of view.
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What is Landscape?
The contemporary debate on landscape is no longer expressed through the exclusie idiolect of a social class. We are instead confronted with a relentless landscape chatter, which invades every domain of daily life. Human sciences have participated in...
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Mikrokosmos
Industrial Production Areas in an Alpine Urban Countryside
How is the alpine urban countryside modified by widespread industrial production? How can the productive mikrokosmos be reinforced as a system into complex orographic contexts? What design devices can be used to rethink the existing situations? The b...
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Intersections and Ambiguity
Urban Infrastructural Thresholds of the European Metropolis
Contemporary large scale interventions, leading ongoing transformation processes of world cities, are often related to mobility systems. Developed around the re-conversion or the implementation of infrastructural nodes, they deeply impact surrounding...
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Urban Technologies
This manual nurtures initiative in public administrators, designers and citizens. Promoting social cooperation, it recommends projects that use systems, technologies, and innovative economies to achieve a greater urban quality of life. Featured chapt...
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Ideas and the Matter
What Will Be Made Of and What Will the World Be Made Of?
Science and technology are extending into design fields, modifying materials and everything that surrounds us, even our bodies, redefining on a perceptive level the boundary between things and us.
To identify the actual evolution of the relationship...
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Augmented City
A Paradigm Shift
The perfect city is a vibrant organism of data and information, sensors and actuators, actions and reactions, generated by users and environment both. Ten thousand years ago the city was invented as an aide for evolving communities. It bought togethe...
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Facies
Urban Architectures
"Facies" refers to the ability of architecture to enable, by means of its outward appearance, interaction between the space occupied by the building and the setting within which it is found.
Architecture, Gio Ponti argues, is made to be looked at, b...
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Camp and the City
Territories of Extraction
Urbanization metabolizes territories surrounding cities as well as territories that are located far beyond the centers themselves and provide the needed resources and goods. Landscapes of extraction are probably one of the most evident examples of th...
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