Conceptions of the Desirable: What Cities Ought to Know About the Future - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3211712593 ISBN 13: 9783211712597

Casa editrice: Springer Vienna Architecture, 2007

Riassunto

If one reads this book, one will be torn back and forth between hope and despair. Between the subjective multitude of one-sided opinions and the recognition that, between the covers, there is much in the way of individual reflection and awareness, much in the way of being human.

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L'autore

Asset OneSince May 2005, the Real Estate Development Corporation, headquartered in Graz, has owned the properties formerly held by the Brau AG. The intention is to create greater living satisfaction through an increase in value that balances economic and cultural interests.

Contenuti

Life: Simply Stop from Time to Time; The Knowledge of Life; Tactful Resistance; Religion as a Form of Wisdom; Parallel Lines Don’t Intersect; Crazy for Intensity; City, Alpine Pasture, Art; The Value(s) of Technology: Dealing with Divergence; Think Globally, Act Globally; The City as an Ever-Changing Being; Anarchism with Feeling; Copenhagen; What Cities Ought to Know about Life.-  Work: The Culture of Failure; Be Not Afraid; Free Floating; A Little Piece of Happiness; A Life Less Ordinary; San Patrignano – Rehabilitation in the Vineyard; The Children of the Revolution; The End of the Youth Craze; Everything’s Getting Better; Rush Hour; Cambridge; What Cities Ought to Know about Work.- Urbanity: My Re-Generation; We Have this Craving for Mobility; Living on Holy Turf.; A Wealth of Ideas; Shared Space – An Appeal to Reason; From Edible to Enjoyable; Building for the Arts Section; We are All Designer Engineers; Without Words; There’s No Such Thing as a Perfect City; No Time to Slow Down; Barcelona; What Cities Ought to Know about Urbanity.- Education: Life Can’t Be Faked; Our Raw Material Is Creativity; Blue Sky Thinking; Bring Along Your Passion; The Project 400 Rule List; A Farewell to Thoughtlessness; There’s Never Been More Beginning than Now; Making Recurring Patterns Recurringly Interesting; Mama, I Wanna Go to Boarding School!; The Naturalization of Emotions; What Children Ought to Learn, If Teachers Had Their Way; A Refreshing Cold Shower of Pragmatism; London; What Cities Ought to Know about Education;   Reflections: A Look into the Past of the Future; Hope and Despair.    

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer Vienna Architecture
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3211712593
• ISBN 13: 9783211712597
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 203
• Redattore: Hirschmugl Franz