This book is the product of a one-year investigation of New Orleans and its animate forms of exchange within the Lower Mississippi River Basin. Completed by the Harvard University GSD just weeks before Hurricane Katrina struck, the research cuts through multiple scales and topographies as it moves from synthesizing the vast deltaic plain to carefully measuring and calibrating the liminal space between the river and the city's urban edge, color & b&w illus.

New Orleans: Strategies For A City In A Soft Land

Joan Busquets

Ila Berman

Felipe Correa

Harvard University

Monograph that tries to calibrate at territorial scale the impact of the new century infrastructure and the need to find new ways to enrich their processes and project configuration. Simulate scenarios for infrastructure developed in recent difficult topographic conditions and territories with ancient cultural tradition and urban development.

Catalunya Continental: Rail Infraestructure As the Backbone for Development (Cat+es+en)

H-GSD +F

Maastricht Urban Surplus

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Barcelona is regarded as a prototype of a European Mediterranean city with a long urban tradition. It has undergone a specific process of historic formation: density and compactness of urban form, evolution by extension rather than by reform. A history of urban planning necessarily includes a summary of the territorial and urban experience, the physical dimensions of the city that condition its cultural and economic development. This book centers on the construction of Barcelona, taking as its basis the most important planning operations and city projects, and drawing from diverse sources and phases. The local scale of many of the projects contrasts with the cosmopolitan aspirations that have made these interventions so innovative; including major projects for special events, such as the 1888 (World Exhibition), 1929 (Electrical Industries Exhibition) and 1992 (Olympic Games). New prospects are emerging from the recent European institutional framework, particularly changes in the economic system to a post-industrial phase. The urban planning history of Barcelona shows how the city has overcome major contradictions.

Barcelona: The Urban Evolution of a Compact City

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Actar Distribution

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