Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Acebillo, Josep Antoni

Title The new urban metabolism : Barcelona / Lugano case studies / Josep Acebillo ; with research team, Paolo Caputo, ... [and others] ; edited by Alessandro Martinelli
Published Mendrisio, Switzerland : iCUP : AB Publ. ; New York Distributed by Actar, 2011

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 WATERFT ART&ARCH  711.55 Ace/Num  AVAILABLE
Description 266 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Contents Theory 1. Post-Fordist urban paradigms / Josep Acebillo -- Studies : Cities, energy and metabolism: an overview / Paolo Caputo ; City metabolism case-studies: Barcelona and Lugano / Enrico Sassi, Elena Molteni, Marc Montelleó Balsebre, Itzel Sanroma ; A calculation of urban metaolism efficiency / Alberto Vancheri, Paolo Giordano, Paolo Caputo -- Excursus : The possibility of a greater urban complexity: urban metabolism and urban project / Alessandro Martinelli ; A metabolic reading of the post-Soviet city / Stanislava Boskovic Sigon -- Theory 2. Urban metabolism & metropolitan efficiency / Josep Acebillo -- Debate : Positions about contemporary urban metabolism / Josep Acebillo, Sergio Alberverio, Stan Allen, Ed Soja
Notes "The iCUP (Institute for Contemporary Urban Project) is the institute, directed by ... Acebillo and coordinated by ... Enrico Sassi, within which this book has been produced and it is part of the Accademia di architettura, USI (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Mendrisio." - p.6
Subject City planning -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Case studies.
City planning -- Switzerland -- Lugano -- Case studies.
City planning -- Environmental aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Case studies.
Urbanization -- Spain -- Case studies.
Urbanization -- Switzerland -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Alessandro, Martinelli
ISBN 9788492861477
8492861479