20 años, 20 proyectos, escuela de arquitectura del paisaje Universidad Central

20 años, 20 proyectos, escuela de arquitectura del paisaje Universidad Central
Fernández Cano, Francisca, editora
2012
Santiago : Ediciones Universidad Central.    54, [14] p.
Resumen: Se trata de proyectos presentados por estudiantes de la carrera de Ecología y Paisaje -la que reestructurada dio paso, en el 2007, a Arquitectura del Paisaje-, los cuales abordan diversas temáticas referidas al paisaje, desde la planificación y gestión hasta el diseño y restauración.
De acuerdo a la presentación del libro "cada uno de ellos analiza, propone, diseña y restaura distintos lugares de nuestro país, en conjunto dan una visión panorámica de los trabajos de los estudiantes, sus intereses y sus propias visiones".
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Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns

Street design:  the secret to great cities and towns
Massengale, John Montague
Dover, Víctor
2014
Hoboken; New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons. xiii, 401 p. : il.
Resumen: Written by two accomplished architects and urban designers, this user-friendly street design manual shows both how to design new streets and enhance existing ones. It offers step-by-step instruction and shares examples of excellent streets, examining the elements that make them successful as well as how they were designed and created. Topics also include strategies for shaping space in the public right-of-way through correct building height to street width ratios, terminated vistas, landscaping, and street geometry. This book is a valuable resource for urban designers, planners, architects, and engineers.
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Urban microclimate : Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

Urban Microclimate.  Designing the Spaces Between Buildings
Erell, Evyatar
Pearlmutter, David
Williamson, Terry
2011
London : Earthscan. 266 p. : il.
Resumen:
Urban Microclimate bridges the gap between climatology research and applied urban design.
It provides architects and urban design professionals with an understanding of how the structure of the built environment at all scale affects microclimatic conditions in the space between buildings, and analyses the interaction between microclimate and each of the elements of the urban landscape.
The extensive body of work on this subject by climatologists and geographers is presented in the language of architecture and planning professionals in the first part of the book. Each step in the design process is then examined, followed by a critical analysis of selected case study projects, providing a demonstration of the complexity of applied urban design.
Practitioners will find this book a useful guide for consultation as they address these key environmental issues in their own work.
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Mémoires du Baron Haussmann

Mémoires du Baron Haussmann
Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron
2006
[San Bernardino, CA] : Elibron Classics.   v.2
Resumen: Préfecture de la Seine
Exposé de la situation en 1853 - Transformation de Paris - Plan et système financier des grands travaux - Résultats généraux en 1870
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Relatos para la educación en el bicentenario

Relatos para la educación en el bicentenario
2011
Santiago : Centro de Estudios de Políticas y Prácticas en Educación.   
188 p. : il.
Resumen: "Relatos para la educación en el Bicentenario", es un libro que recopila las conferencias realizadas entre agosto y septiembre de 2010, durante el ciclo “Relatos para la Educación en el Bicenterario”, donde fueron invitados destacadas personalidades del mundo de la educación, el arte, la política, la empresa, la sociología y la ciencia, para entregar su experiencia, testimonio y reflexión sobre la profesión docente y la educación chilena.
El ciclo de conferencias fue una iniciativa conjunta de la Universidad de Chile y la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile que, a través de sus centros interdisciplinarios de investigación en educación -CIAE y CEPPE, respectivamente- buscan confirmar el valor y su reconocimiento a la profesión docente, reafirmando también su compromiso con ella.
Este libro, incluye el relato de Juan Asenjo(científico), Beatrice Avalos (investigadora del CIAE y formadora de profesores), Antonio Bentué (teólogo), Elicura Chihuailaf(poeta), Claudio Di Girolamo (artista), Víctor Inzulza (profesor), Ricardo Lagos Escobar(Ex Presidente de la República), Pedro Morandé (sociólogo), Floridor Pérez (poeta), Bruno Philippi (empresario) y Cristián Warnken (profesor).
El libro se divide en cuatro focos: Relatos de identidad, donde se entrega una reflexión sobre qué somos y dónde estamos los chilenos; Relatos de sentido, que busca animar e inspirar al profesorado; Relatos para la acción, donde participaron los invitados ligados al mundo de la política y producción; y Relato de Educación, orientado a los estudiantes de pedagogía y donde se entrega una visión y testimonio acerca de la evolución de la profesión, entre otros.
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La estructura de las revoluciones científicas

La estructura de las revoluciones científicas
Kuhn, Thomas S.
2013
México : Fondo de Cultura Económica.   404 p.
Resumen: Es un análisis sobre la historia de la ciencia. Su publicación marca un hito en la sociología del conocimiento y epistemología, y significó la popularización de los términos paradigma y cambio de paradigma.
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Global gentrifications

Global gentrificación: Uneven development and displacement
Lees, Loretta, editor
Shin, Hyun Bang, editor
López Morales, Ernesto, editor
2015
Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press,   xv, 468 p. : il., mapas.
Resumen: Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses and test the meaning and significance of gentrification in places outside the 'usual suspects' of the Global North.
Informed by a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond, the book (re) discovers the important generalities and geographical specificities associated with the uneven process of gentrification globally.
It highlights intensifying global struggles over urban space and underlines gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world.
The book will be of value to students and academics, policy makers, planners and community organisations.
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The urban design reader

The urban design reader
Larice, Michael, editor
Macdonald, Elizabeth, editor
2013
London , Routledge.  xx, 660 p. : il.
Resumen: The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin.
Following the widespread success of the first edition of The Urban Design Reader, this updated edition continues to provide the most important historical material of the urban design field, but also introduces new topics and selections that address the myriad challenges facing designers today.
The six part structure of the second edition guides the reader through the history, theory and practice of urban design. The reader is initially introduced to those classic writings that provide the historical precedents for city-making into the twentieth century.
Part Two introduces the voices and ideas that were instrumental in establishing the foundations of the urban design field from the late 1950s up to the mid-1990s. These authors present a critical reading of the design professions and offer an alternative urban design agenda focused on vital and lively places. The authors in Part Three provide a range of urban design rationales and strategies for reinforcing local physical identity and the creation of memorable places.
These selections are largely describing the outcomes of mid-century urban design and voicing concerns over the placeless quality of contemporary urbanism. The fourth part of the Reader explores key issues in urban design and development.
Ideas about sprawl, density, community health, public space and everyday life are the primary focus here. Several new selections in this part of the book also highlight important international development trends in the Middle East and China. Part Five presents environmental challenges faced by the built environment professions today, including recent material on landscape urbanism, sustainability, and urban resiliency.
The final part examines professional practice and current debates in the field: where urban designers work, what they do, their roles, their fields of knowledge and their educational development.
The section concludes with several position pieces and debates on the future of urban design practice.
This book provides an essential resource for students and practitioners of urban design, drawing together important but widely dispersed writings. Part and section introductions are provided to assist readers in understanding the context of the material, summary messages, impacts of the writing, and how they fit into the larger picture of the urban design field.
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Multimodality

Multimodality: a social semiotic approach to contemporary communication
Kress, Gunther
2010
London ; New York, Routledge. xvi, 212 p. : il.
Resumen: The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects.
Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making.
Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication represents a long-awaited and much anticipated addition to the study of multimodality from the scholar who pioneered and continues to play a decisive role in shaping the field.
Written in an accessible manner and illustrated with a wealth of photos and illustrations to clearly demonstrate the points made, Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication deliberately sets out to locate communication in the everyday, covering topics and issues not usually discussed in books of this kind, from traffic signs to mobile phones.
In this book, Gunther Kress presents a contemporary, distinctive and widely applicable approach to communication. He provides the framework necessary for understanding the attempt to bring all modes of meaning-making together under one unified theoretical roof.
This exploration of an increasingly vital area of language and communication studies will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of English language and applied linguistics, media and communication studies and education.
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Urban design

Urban Design. The composition of complexity
Kasprisin, Ron
2011
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, Routledge. viii, 239 p. : il.
Resumen: For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation – yet losing sight of the importance of the design process is all too often exactly what has happened.
Ron Kasprisin has written a book for students of planning and urban design that reconnects the process of designing with outcomes on the ground, and puts thinking about design back at the heart of what planners do.
The book identifies the elements and principles of composition and explores compositional order and structure as they relate to the meaning and functionality of cities.
It discusses new directions and methods, outlines the importance of both buildings and the open spaces between them.
Mixing accessible theory, practical examples and carefully designed exercises in composition from simple to complex settings, Urban Design is an essential textbook for classrooms and design studios across the full spectrum of planning and urban studies fields.
Not only filled with illustrations and graphics of excellent projects, it gives students tools to enable them to sketch, draw, design and above all, to think.
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