Book: Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
“Two books I read in the past month overlap with each other in useful ways. The first, Commonwealth by Toni Negri and Michael Hardt, is the third volume of their epic theoretical work that began with Empire and continued through Multitudes. While I’m not a camp follower per se, I did get a lot out of these efforts and was glad to read Commonwealth as the conclusion. It made some parts of their argument clearer, but left some important areas unresolved and even self-contradictory. I suppose that’s to be expected with such an ambitious effort to unravel this moment in history, the rise of new paradigms of both capitalist self-perpetuation and (potentially) revolutionary subversion.
Integrating ICT into sustainable local policies
”Integrating ICT into sustainable local policies“ - Author: Antonio Caperna This book analyses the Information and Communication Technologies (hereafter referred to as ICT) phenomenon, the opportunities it offers, the potential problems, and the relationship with local policies. It moves on the actions needed to develop, within the Agenda 21 process, a framework able to define some [...]
Complessità e incertezza nella pianificazione [IT]
Il concetto di “territorio” ha subito negli ultimi decenni, una trasformazione radicale: da risorsa materiale suscettibile di sfruttamento, spazio controllabile ove le diversità sono viste come resistenze alla trasformazione, si è giunti ad una interpretazione in cui è riconosciuto il carattere relazionale e incerto proprio di un sistema complesso. Di conseguenza, la pianificazione esige nuovi approcci: la sfida della complessità, come ricorda Morin, può essere affrontata con successo tramite una maggiore complessità, ovvero una maggiore ideazione di risposte multiple ed intelligibili.
Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction
Anti Architecture and deconstruction is a collection of essays on deconstructivist architecture. This book raises questions about how the public can be indoctrinated to accept an architecture that is hostile to human sensibilities, and which often causes physiological and psychological distress. In trying to understand the adoption of an architectural fashion, writers often focus only on aesthetic points, and ignore psychological conditioning and the role of the media. I look at the dark underside of contemporary architecture, and the world that promotes and sustains it.and precedents, while distancing themselves from basic human needs and cultural contexts.
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