Passages: Transitional Spaces for the 21st-Century City Espaces de Transition pour la Ville du 21e Siècle
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1945150467 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-29 |
| Language | : | English, French |
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The book is the culmination of an international program and of the exhibition Passages, Transitional Spaces for the 21st-century City, conducted by Scientific Director Marcel Smets, architect and urban designer, Emeritus Professor at Louvain University, with expert input from: Mireille Apel-Muller, Director of City on the Move (IVM); Pascal Amphoux, architect and geographer (Contrepoint, urban projects, Lausanne), researcher and professor at ENSA Nantes; Andrs Borthagaray, architect, Director of the IVM Latin America program; Carles Llop, architect, urban designer (Jornet-Llop-Pastor), teacher and researcher at Catalonia University of Technology; Jean-Pierre Orfeuil, engineer and d
City on the Move Institute, seeks to draw attention to the crucial importance of the quality of the spaces of mobility. . The book is the culmination of an international program and of the exhibition Passages, Transitional Spaces for the 21st-century City, conducted by Scientific Director Marcel Smets, architect and urban designer, Emeritus Professor at Louvain University, with expert input from: Mireille Apel-Muller, Director of City on the Move (IVM
Tunnels, footbridges, escalators, urban cable cars, pathways ? passages are essential links, with the potential to generate distinctive urban environments. Penser et raliser les passages, c?est agir sans attendre et poser les bases d?une transformation plus grande chelle : analyses et exemples internationaux.---Bilingual French & English Edition. Designing and building passages is a way to act quickly and to lay the foundations for larger scale transformations: international analyses and examples.--Tunnels, passerelles, escalators, tlphriques urbains, cheminements, les passages sont des maillons essentiels et potentiellement porteurs d?urbanits singulires. Ils demandent peu d?investissements et devraient systmatiquement accompagner les grandes oprations d?amnagement et aider rparer les fractures opres par les infrastructures de transport rapide et le zoning de l?urbanisation rcente. They require little investment and should be an integral part of all big urban projects, helping to repair the fractures produced by fast transit infrastructures and the urban zoning practices of the recent past