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A line in the Andes = Una linea en Los Andes / [edited by Felipe Correa, Ramiro Almeida].
LIBRA NA9172.Q8 L55 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Ecuador--Quito.
- City planning.
- Architecture--Ecuador--Quito.
- Architecture.
- Urbanization--Ecuador--Quito.
- Urbanization.
- Urbanization--Ecuador--Quito--History.
- Subways--Ecuador--Quito.
- Subways.
- Urban renewal.
- urban renewal.
- Architecture--Ecuador.
- City planning--Ecuador.
- History.
- Subways--Ecuador.
- Urbanization--History--Ecuador.
- Urbanization--Ecuador.
- Ecuador--Quito.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 411 pages : color illustrations, color maps, plans ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Linea en Los Andes
- Place of Publication:
- [Cambridge, Mass] : Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2012.
- Language Note:
- In English and Spanish.
- Contents:
- Notes from Quito
- Introduction / Felipe Correa
- The foundational City 1 / Typological inventory of the historic core
- The elastic grid / Pablo Perez Ramos
- The foundational city 2: Morphological inventory of the historic core
- The distant gaze: Jones Oriozola and En Route modernity / Martin Cobas
- The compact city: Urban expansion along a perched valley
- The symbolic dimension of transportation infrastructure in South America: From the sublime to the everyday / Graciela Silvestri
- The draped city: A metropolitan region in extreme topography
- A design policy: The road to new urban centers / Ana Maria Duran Calisto
- Sub-surface spines: The transformative role of subways in the contemporary city
- The metro as spine: A system of recreational loops along a linear city
- Singular projects: A selection of design proposals for a valley- city.
- Notes:
- "This publication is part of the South American Project (SAP) research initiative."--Title page verso.
- Features detailed mapping.
- ISBN:
- 9781934510346
- 1934510343
- OCLC:
- 826452839
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