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System city : infrastructure and the space of flows /
A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spatially extended materia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
John Wiley & Sons,
2013.
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| Colección: | Architectural Design ;
Jul./Aug. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front covers; Title Page; Contents; Copyright Page; EDITORIAL; ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR; SPOTLIGHT: Visual highlights of the issue; INTRODUCTION: System City: Infrastructure and the Space of Flows; Variation and Distribution: Forest Patterns as a Model for Urban Morphologies; A History of Territories, Movements and Borders: Politics of Inhabitation; A Distributed Ground: The Unknown Fields Division; Third Natures: Incubators of Public Space; Intelligent Cities and the Taxonomy of Cognitive Scales; Darwin Among the Machines; Cities and Grids: In Search of New Paradigms.
- The Grounds of a Renewed Practice: Groundlab's Approach Towards Landscape and InfrastructureScales of Metabolic Flows: Regional, Urban and Building Systems Design at SOM; Metasystems of Urban Flow: Buro Happold's Collaborations in the Generation of New Urban Ecologies; Local Climates of the City; Ex Silico Ad Vivo: Computational Simulation and Urban Design at Foster + Partners; Networks and the City; Data City: Urban Metabolic Decision Processes; COUNTERPOINT: The City Beyond Analogy; CONTRIBUTORS; ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; Back covers.