Cities under pressure : a design strategy for urban reconstruction /

Historical evolutions and processes of cultural and economic globalization 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 wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Albrecht, Benno, 1957- (Author), Galli, Jacopo (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin : ArchiTangle GmbH, [2023].
Subjects:	Urban renewal > Case studies. Postwar reconstruction > Case studies. City planning > Case studies. Architecture > Design > Environmental aspects. Architecture and climate. Architecture and energy conservation.

Table of 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.