Urban studies - By subject - Architecture & Landscape

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Urban agriculture. Spaces of cultivation for a sustainable city

Graciela Arosemena

17 x 24 cm, 128 pages
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The proliferation of urban gardens in the city is no circumstantial phenomenon: it responds to a series of needs—economic, planning, environmental and social—that reflect a profound change in the conception of the city and its relationship to the farmland surrounding it. ... Read more

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28,37 €
Vigo Waterfront

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra

27 x 22 cm, 320 pages

The reorganization of the waterfront of Vigo is the focal point of 'Open Vigo to the Sea', a large urban scheme that has allowed to eliminate the barrier of port structures that separated the city from the sea and to create new public spaces. A series of interventions designed by Guillermo Váz... Read more

40,38 €
Metropolitan Networks

Jordi Julià Sort

23 x 30 cm, 200 pages

This book is a study of mass transit networks in urban areas and of their role in shaping the structure of the city. It establishes links between the history, planning and transport networks of eleven international cities (London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Madrid, Barcelo... Read more

43,27 €
The Good Life. A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity

Iñaki Ábalos

17 x 21 cm, 200 pages

This text is an essay on the relationship between ways of thinking, the rich seams of contemporary thought and the forms of the house, of planning and living in it. The descriptive method is based on seven guided visits to a group of real or imaginary houses that make up a sufficiently exte... Read more

26,92 €