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Cities For A Small Planet
Nothing else damages the earth and that is beautiful, a city whose buildings and spaces spark the creative potential of its inhabitants.As our population grows larger, our planet grows smaller. Cities for a Small Planet is a passionate and eloquent blueprint for the cities we must create in response, cities that provide for the needs of both their residents and the earth o...more
Paperback, 196 pages
Published
July 24th 1998
by Basic Books
(first published 1997)
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Consist on two parts: an analysis of the urban problematics, and a proposal for a model of develepment for cities, also approaches solutions to Londons urbanistic matter.
It is a clear and very accurate analysis of the sustainability problematic for actual cities. Not only points and analyzes the problematics also studies and shows differents aproaches to solutions that are been taken around the world to the same pathologies and how have they succeded or fail.
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It is a clear and very accurate analysis of the sustainability problematic for actual cities. Not only points and analyzes the problematics also studies and shows differents aproaches to solutions that are been taken around the world to the same pathologies and how have they succeded or fail.
In the proposal w...more
Loved it - light and quick and so important for understanding people, places and cities
Alex Cunningham
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people who live in places, places who have people living in them
Sir Richard Rogers (the Lloyds of London building, Musee D'Orsee, etc) knows buildings. Damned if he doesn't know people, too. He's not Le Corbusier; Rogers' dreams actually come closer to being realized every time one of his buildings goes up. What he is is underfunded, under-appreciated outside of Europe, and seemingly unable to fix either of these problems with his adroit - not to mention pretty - books. I am so swayed by his arguments that I illogically find the fault in this case to be ...more
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Sir Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, FRIBA FCSD is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs.
Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. He is a winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jeffe...more
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Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. He is a winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jeffe...more
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