Cities under pressure : a design strategy for urban reconstruction / Benno Albrect, Jacopo Galli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albrecht, Benno, 1957- author.

Galli, Jacopo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban renewal--Case studies.

Urban renewal.

Postwar reconstruction--Case studies.

Postwar reconstruction.

City planning--Case studies.

City planning.

Architecture--Design--Environmental aspects.

Architecture.

Architecture and climate.

Architecture and energy conservation.

energy efficient buildings.

Genre:

Case studies

Physical Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, charts ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Design strategy for urban reconstruction

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : ArchiTangle GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

"Historical evolutions and processes of cultural and economic globalisation have brought out relevant and frightening risks on a global scale: from urbicide and violence to climate change and increase in natural disasters and the enormous widening of economic and social inequalities. Humanity as a whole is today facing epochal challenges that require radical metamorphosis of inhabited spaces. Cities Under Pressure illustrates a new design paradigm, an open intervention system that seeks the establishment of a dynamic equilibrium to be triggered and continuously renegotiated. Cities Under Pressure imagines and define new urban environments that abandon rigid design scheme in favour of growing evolutionary mechanisms capable of embodying the ongoing sustainable transition and guarantee a resilient and peaceful future" -- Provided by publisher.

"Cities Under Pressure presents a design strategy for the reconstruction of cities and territories involved in extreme events. War and urbicide, climate change and natural catastrophes, major social and economic distress, which characterize the global risk society, are all factors that in the near future will play a decisive role in urban environments. Cities Under Pressure takes the first steps in the establishment of a discipline of reconstruction by devising an innovative design approach. It offers a new framework capable of providing design experts with the necessary tools to successfully tackle a complex entanglement of challenges and to reestablish sustainable and resilient cities'"-- Back cover.

Contents:

Global challenges. The city in the risk society

Urbicide and violence

Conflict recurrence

Disasters and climate change Social and economic risks ; Historical experiences. Reassessing reconstruction

Transformation map

Classifying reconstruction

Unprecedented scale of destruction ; Strategy. Top down / bottom up

Cataclysmic credit / gradual credit

Layers / cells

Project / process - Reconstruction laboratory

Operational phases ; Sustainable transition. Exporting the historical core

The leap forward

Decentralized model

Adaptive circularity ; Explorations. Settlement principle as a chance for urban metamorphosis / Venzia

Urban triggers in post-earthquake reconstruction / Lima

The reconstruction of a small size / Aleppo

Souks as urban catalysts / Mosul

From hazard to opportunity: the controlled flooding strategy / Nile delta

Design without a design / Accra

Piecemeal planning at work / Irpin ; Design. Urban restoration

Urban triggers

Backbones

Induced design

Growing evolutionary mechanisms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-215).

ISBN:

9783966800235

3966800233

OCLC:

1391151992

Publisher Number:

90101409378