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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Luc Adolphe (École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Toulouse, France)Publisher: ISTE Ltd Imprint: ISTE Ltd Dimensions: Width: 1.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 1.00cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781789450774ISBN 10: 1789450772 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 28 September 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Jean-Pierre MIGNOT and Marc MÉQUIGNON Chapter 1 Morpho-Sociological Approach to the City 1 Marc MÉQUIGNON and Patrizia LAUDATI 1.1 Introduction: socio-morphological analysis as a tool for understanding the city 1 1.2 The city’s modes of production 3 1.2.1 Combining different modes 7 1.2.2 Urban sprawl and morphological changes 8 1.3 Difficulties of apprehension 11 1.4 The city: object or subject? 12 1.5 The shapes and form of the city 13 1.6 Representations of the city: “drawings and designs” 14 1.6.1 Drawings 14 1.6.2 Designs 17 1.7 The constituent elements of the city 18 1.7.1 Limits 18 1.7.2 Structure 19 1.7.3 Layout 22 1.7.4 Plot division and private property 26 1.7.5 The city block 28 1.7.6 The street 34 1.7.7 The square 39 1.7.8 Unique elements 41 1.8 Conclusion 44 1.9 References 45 Chapter 2 Space, Production and Urban Forms 49 Jean-Pierre MIGNOT 2.1 General introduction 49 2.2 The city between space and time 51 2.2.1 Back to the concept of space 52 2.2.2 Produced urban space and social production 63 2.2.3 Mode of production, production relationships and urban composition: the weight of history 67 2.3 Forms of accumulation and urban forms 71 2.3.1 Capitalism, regulation and the regime of accumulation 71 2.3.2 Fordist accumulation and urban growth 76 2.3.3 Digitization and service accumulation 83 2.4 Urban space, environment and resilience 91 2.4.1 Demography and urbanization: a major challenge for the environment 94 2.4.2 From the Fordist city to the sustainable city: a gamble? 102 2.4.3 Cities and resilience 107 2.5 The city under the regime of service accumulation 111 2.5.1 From the center to the periphery or the peripheral expansion of commerce 112 2.5.2 Smart city and sustainable city 115 2.6 A provisional conclusion 123 2.7 References 124 Chapter 3 A Territorial Approach to Urban Spaces between Sustainability and Liveability 129 Fabrice ESCAFFRE, Mélanie GAMBINO and Sinda HAOUÈS-JOUVE 3.1 Urban diversification and transformation 131 3.1.1 The criteria for necessary urban differentiation 132 3.1.2 Urbanization as a global phenomenon 134 3.2 The urban issue through the prism of housing 137 3.2.1 Urban housing in transformation 137 3.2.2 Housing policies in question 139 3.3 Urban spaces and mobilities 144 3.3.1 Residential mobility 144 3.3.2 Daily and leisure urban mobility 146 3.4 An urban agriculture… 150 3.4.1 Multifunctional urban agriculture 152 3.4.2 … But a diversified agriculture 154 3.4.3 Six types of urban agriculture activities 155 3.4.4 The establishment of food governance 158 3.4.5 The sustainability challenges for urban agriculture 159 3.5 The interface between urban spaces and climate 160 3.5.1 The city and climate change 161 3.5.2 Mobility and buildings: prime urban targets for mitigation 164 3.5.3 The urban microclimate: a new challenge for urban livability 165 3.5.4 Putting the climate issue on the urban policy agenda 168 3.5.5 How does this translate into urban planning practices? 171 3.6 Conclusion 175 3.7 References 176 Chapter 4 The City: A Space for Tensions in Modernity 183 Yann FERGUSON 4.1 Living together in urban societies 185 4.1.1 City dwellers: liberated, but with a weakened collective conscience 186 4.1.2 The diversity of the urban population: a threat to the social connection? 192 4.1.3 Producing urban solidarity 196 4.2 The socio-spatial dynamics of the urban population 202 4.2.1 The fragmentation of urban society from above 202 4.2.2 The fragmentation of urban society from below 209 4.2.3 The disunity of the city 214 4.3 The city in search of sustainability 222 4.3.1 City and nature: an unlikely union 223 4.3.2 The sustainable urban project: the city as a solution 231 4.4 References 241 List of Authors 247 Index 249ReviewsAuthor InformationLuc Adolphe is a professor at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Architecture within the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Toulouse, France, as well as a DPLG-registered architect and a TPE engineer. His research focuses on the city studied from a systemic and interdisciplinary perspective. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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