Tag: Metropolitan

Free Download Jody Beck, "John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape"
English | ISBN: 0415664853 | 2013 | 192 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
"A model city, the hope of democracy" – John Nolen on his suggested plans for Madison, Wisconsin

Free Download Dancing with the Modernist City: Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900 by Wesley Lim
English | July 22, 2024 | ISBN: 0472133306 | 324 pages | EPUB | 1.33 Mb
As the 20th century dawned, authors, artists, and filmmakers flocked to cities like Paris and Berlin for a chance to experience a bustling urban life and engage with other artists and intellectuals. Among them were German-speaking authors and filmmakers such as Harry Graf Kessler, Rainer Maria Rilke, August Endell, Alfred Döblin, Else Lasker-Schüler, Segundo de Chomón, and the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky. In their writing and artistic work from that period, they depicted the perpetual influx of stimuli caused by urban life-including hordes of pedestrians, bustling traffic, and a barrage of advertisements-as well as how these encounters repeatedly paralleled their experiences of watching early twentieth-century dance performances by Loïe Fuller, Ruth St. Denis, and Vaslav Nijinsky. The convergence these writers and filmmakers saw between the unexpected encounters during their urban strolls and experimental dance performances led to writings that interwove the two motifs.

Free Download Francine van den Brandeler, "Scalar Mismatches in Metropolitan Water Governance: A Comparative Study of São Paulo and Mexico City "
English | ISBN: 3031080602 | 2022 | 306 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The book provides insights into the particular nature of water-related challenges in metropolitan regions of the Global South and the "scalar mismatches" that prevent their sustainable and inclusive development. It argues for the adoption of a metropolitan water governance approach to assess these challenges, including the drivers and institutions that shape these, and the policy instruments at river basin and urban scales that aim to address these. The cases of Mexico City and São Paulo, as two mega-cities with a wide ranging of water-related challenges, present lessons to other fast growing urban agglomerations on the variety of possible responses as well as obstacles to their effectiveness that receive little attention.

Free Download Urban and Metropolitan Rivers: Geomorphology, Planning and Perception by Joaquim Farguell Pérez, Albert Santasusagna Riu
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 310 Pages | ISBN : 3031626400 | 163.3 MB
This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites. During the urban expansion of modern cities throughout the twentieth century, rivers have become a source of problems during high flood events. However, due to growing social pressure, especially in dense cities, rivers are viewed as new leisure areas given that they also provide highly valuable ecosystem services. People seek open and environmentally friendly spaces amidst the dense street networks of cities. Yet, we should not forget that rivers are not merely domesticated elements of nature for leisure purposes only. Flooding risks and damages are possible within urban environments. How should we address the social and ecological interactions? How should we plan for these complexities to meet the growing social requirements and needs while respecting river dynamics? Hydrologists, geomorphologists, engineers, geographers and urban planners could leverage the knowledge and examples provided to enhance the interaction between nature and society in the growing cities of the twenty-first century.

Free Download Toulouse-Lautrec in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Colta Ives
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0300193831 | 72 Pages | PDF | 13.4 MB
The Metropolitan Museum has in its collection an exceptional body of art in a range of media by the late-nineteenth-century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.