The Vertical Village - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vertical Village write by Winy Maas. This book was released on 2012. The Vertical Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The architecture practice MVRDV and The Why Factory envision a new model for the development of Asian cities. Their idea is The Vertical Village, a three-dimensional community intended to bring back personal autonomy, diversity, flexibility and neighbourhood life to cities in Asia. As a result of demographic and economic forces, cities in Asia are undergoing rapid change. Traditional urban villages, which formed the core of the cities for centuries, are being replaced at a merciless pace by uniform tower blocks. In tracking the development of nine very distinct Asian cities, The Vertical Village provides insight into the evolution, current situation and future of these 'vertical urban villages'. This book then introduces two tools: The VillageMaker© and The HouseMaker©, with which to design a dream house and find a dream location. The book also offers a glimpse into what it would be like to live in a 'Vertical Village'. Publisher's note.
Future City Architecture for Optimal Living
Future City Architecture for Optimal Living - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Future City Architecture for Optimal Living write by Stamatina Th. Rassia. This book was released on 2015-04-01. Future City Architecture for Optimal Living available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a wealth of interdisciplinary approaches to urbanization strategies in architecture centered on growing concerns about the future of cities and their impacts on essential elements of architectural optimization, livability, energy consumption and sustainability. It portrays the urban condition in architectural terms, as well as the living condition in human terms, both of which can be optimized by mathematical modeling as well as mathematical calculation and assessment. Special features include: • new research on the construction of future cities and smart cities • discussions of sustainability and new technologies designed to advance ideas to future city developments Graduate students and researchers in architecture, engineering, mathematical modeling, and building physics will be engaged by the contributions written by eminent international experts from a variety of disciplines including architecture, engineering, modeling, optimization, and related fields.
Vertical Village
Vertical Village - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vertical Village write by Ran Zhang. This book was released on 2013. Vertical Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The New African Diaspora in North America
The New African Diaspora in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New African Diaspora in North America write by Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang. This book was released on 2006. The New African Diaspora in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New African Diaspora in North America brings together sociologists, social workers, geographers, economists, anthropologists and others to explore the African immigrant experience from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The contributors shed light on the factors behind the increasing wave in African immigration to the U.S. and Canada, the socio-economic characteristics of African immigrants, their spatial distribution, obstacles, and contributions. Despite their increasing presence, African immigrant groups in the U.S. and Canada have engendered relatively little scholarly research on their pre- and post-migration experience. This collection helps fill that void, and will be valuable reading for anyone interested in African Diaspora studies.
Glasgow
Glasgow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glasgow write by Lynn Abrams. This book was released on 2020-04-13. Glasgow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high-rise estates on vacant sites within the city and on its periphery. This book uniquely focuses on the people's experience of this modern approach to housing, drawing on oral histories and archival materials to reflect on the long-term narrative and significance of high-rise homes in the cityscape. It positions them as places of identity formation, intimacy and well-being. With discussions on interior design and consumption, gender roles, children, the elderly, privacy, isolation, social networks and nuisance, Glasgow examines the connections between architectural design, planning decisions and housing experience to offer some timely and prescient observations on the success and failure of this very modern housing solution at a moment when high flats are simultaneously denigrated in the social housing sector while being built afresh in the private sector. Glasgow is aimed at an academic readership, including postgraduate students, scholars and researchers. It will be of interest to social, cultural and urban historians particularly interested in the United Kingdom.
