Town planning versus urbanismo

The point of departure of this article is the contrast drawn by Giorgio Piccinato between ‘Anglo‐Saxon’ town planning and ‘Latin’ urbanism, one based on rational method and theory of planning as intervention, the other on architecture, urban morphology and project‐based action. Gordon Cherry and Oriol Bohigas represent the two poles of the dichotomy – Cherry because of the emphasis he placed on separation from architecture in the professional emergence of the UK’s Royal Town Planning Institute, Bohigas because of his equally insistent emphasis on reintegrating planning with its mother discipline. The paper sets Bohigas and the regeneration of Barcelona into the wider context of a postmodern urbanism troubled by the neighbouring internecine rivalry between modernist and traditionalist architects. It is argued that Barcelona’s most distinctive contribution is less the replacement of ‘plans’ by ‘projects’ than its reconciliation of modernism and contextualism, a lesson duly acknowledged in the Anglo‐Saxon planning world through an award of the RIBA Gold Medal. This narrative of the triumph of urbanism ends with the RTPI’s acceptance that making place and mediating space are at the heart of town planning.     

Willem Marinus Dudok: the lyrical music of architecture

Willem Marinus Dudok stands out from his Dutch and European peers for resisting the temptation to conform to the aesthetic norms of the avant-garde and for the unique aesthetics in his work. A man who shunned movements and dogma in a time when new architectural manifestos abounded, Dudok preferred to say little about his designs. Yet by combining a close reading of his design work with the few essays that survive, it becomes apparent that one important inspiration for Dudok was classical music composition, in particular counterpoint. Dudok was the son of a professional musician; he played the piano all his life, even sketching his design ideas on scores, probably when he was practising. Analogies between music and architecture date back centuries; typically architects worked with the aspects of form, rhythm, harmony and proportion. But Dudok added another element to the musical arsenal: he used classical counterpoint as an organising principle in plan and elevation. Although he never outlined exactly how he translated his extensive knowledge of music to architecture, Dudok used musical metaphors often enough when describing his work for us to know that music was always on his mind. Dudok was a prolific architect, and considered important during his lifetime—he won the UK's Royal Gold Medal and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, there were Dudok societies all around the world—and yet he is largely overlooked today because his work never conformed to the aesthetic expectations of modernism. This paper examines Dudok's design method, in particular his use of musical composition techniques, and re-positions his work as an outstanding example of a different kind of modernism.     

Response to Berkowitz:ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BALTIMORE: Some Additional Perspectives

ABSTRACT: This article is written as a response to Bernard L Berkowitz's rejoinder appearing in the Journal of Urban Affairs, 9(2):125–132, to the author's article “Downtown Redevelopment as an Urban Growth Strategy: A Critical Appraisal of the Baltimore Renaissance,” appearing in the Journal of Urban Affairs, 9(2): 103–123.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Economic Growth and Fiscal Planning: New York in the 1990s , by Roy Bahl and William Duncombe Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change , by Arthur D. Murphy and Alex Stepick Official Leadership in the City: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation , by James H. Svara The Pentagon and the Cities , Urban Affairs Annual Reviews #40, edited by Andrew Kirby     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Ending the Stalemate: Moving Housing and Urban Development into the Main-stream of America's Future, by Mary K. Nenno. Lanham Affordable Housing and Urban Redevelopment in the United States, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews 46, edited by Willem Van Vliet. Housing Management, Consumers and Citizens, by Liz Cairncross, David Clapham, and Robina Goodlad. Households and Housing: Choice and Outcomes in the Housing Market, by William A. V. Clark and Frans M. Dieleman. New Brunswick, NJ: The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, by Neil Smith. London and New York: Selling Cities: Attracting Homebuyers Through Schools and Housing Programs, by David P. Varady and Jeffrey A. Raffel, Albany, Community Builders: A Tale of Neighborhood Mobilization in Two Cities, by Gordana Rabrenovic. Philadelphia:     

CANCER IN MINORITY ETHNIC/RACIAL GROUPS: A Rejoinder To “Black Male Cancer And American Urban Health Policy”

ABSTRACT: This article was written as a rejoinder to “Black Male Cancer and American Urban Health Policy,” by Michael Greenberg, appearing in this issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs.     

拉克伦·麦夸里奖

建筑年度奖是由澳大利亚皇家建筑师协会主办的国家级建筑奖项。拉克伦·麦寺里奖是授予古建保护方面的最佳项目的奖项。获奖工程都代表了澳大利亚古建保护方面的最高水平。     

浅谈城市体验与城市设计

人和空间存在互动关系,衍生出城市体验和城市设计的互动关系.城市设计的理念有助于营造良好的城市体验,而城市体验又可以为城市设计提供直接的方向性的指导.本文以城市体验为切入点,介绍了城市设计的一些基本原则和方法,以期更好的认识并运用城市设计.     

以世界级的城市标准打造新的多伦多——2007年多伦多城市设计奖（TUDA 2007）

2007年多伦多城市设计奖（TUDA 2007）的获奖名单已于近期公布,该奖项由多伦多城市规划建设中心每两年评选次,由安大略省建筑师协会、安大略省景观设计师协会、安大略省职业规划学院以及加拿大皇家建筑学院共同协助评选。此次参与的候选单位共有138家,同比2005年增加了25％。今年的主题由原来的独立作品转变为“建筑本身以及对公共空间的设计与周围环境的巧妙结合”,既是鼓励优秀的设计作品要有利于城市的整体规划和人民的生活建设,也要求能够在视觉上与其特定的环境保持和谐。该奖项的设置是用来表彰那些能够提升城市审美和居住舒适性的设计师。     

Crafting the archive: Minnette De Silva,Architecture, and History

This article is about the work of Minnette De Silva, which made claims upon heritage and historical meaning through its concerns with craft. It investigates three facets of her oeuvre—her building, her writing and teaching, her design and handicraft—through the lens of her pictorial autobiography, The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect. She identified this remarkable publication as her ‘archives’, documenting in it her life and work (in the absence of a dedicated collection of records), and the equally notable twentieth-century sites and spheres through which she moved. Few careers invite critical investigation of South Asia's modern architectural forms and history as does that of De Silva, an understudied figure credited as a pioneer: a Sri Lanka Institute of Architects Gold Medal recipient, a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Associate, a co-founder of the journal MARG, a participant in the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), and an architect practising in a range of discursive media. This article argues that De Silva positioned her intellectual and practical labour as a basis for authority rooted in a situated knowledge. In a reading of gender, caste, race and labour that maintains a scholarly scepticism about the purpose of the artist's biography, this article recovers her life and work from a fragmented archive, including an interview with De Silva in the year before her death, as well as a consideration of craft—interrogating each vis-à-vis the politics of historiography.     

Hidden Spaces and Urban Health: Exploring the Tactics of Rural Migrants Navigating the City of Gold

Urban health practitioners working in African cities require an in-depth understanding of the context within which they work in order to plan and implement effective urban public health programmes. This paper provides insights into the complexities of the urban African environment and its residents by describing and analysing the tactics employed by a population of rural migrants as they enter and navigate the City of Gold: Johannesburg. This population resides within inner-city areas that are broadly disconnected from local government initiatives, that I term here as ‘hidden spaces’. Reflecting on personal experiences and involvement in participatory photography and film projects within these ‘hidden spaces’, the paper considers the concept of ‘being hidden’ as something that can be both a deliberate tactic employed by particular urban populations to evade the state, and as a result of marginalisation where the state bypasses groups in need of intervention.     

Alexander Responds

Maintaining the Safety Net: Income Redistribution Programs in the Reagan Administration John C. Weicher, ed. American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., 1984. 204 pp. $17.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paperback).

The Social Contract Revisited: Aims and Outcomes of President Reagan's Social Welfare Policy D. Lee Bawden, ed. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1984. 250 pp. $28.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

The Attack on the Welfare State Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham, eds. Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, Ill., 1984. 209 pp. $8.95 (paperback).

The Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies Chaim I. Waxman. Second edition. Pergamon Press, New York, 1983. 159 pp. $20.00 (cloth), $8.95 (paperback).

The New Politics of Inequality Thomas Byrne Edsall. Norton, New York, 1984. 287 pp. $15.95.

Approaches to Welfare Philip Bean and Stewart MacPherson, eds. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, 1983. 301 pp. $27.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paperback).

The State and the Poor in the 1980s Manuel Carballo and Mary Jo Bane, editors. Auburn House Publishing Co., Boston, 1984. 328 pp. $24.95 (cloth), $16.00 (paperback).

Applied Poverty Research Richard Goldstein and Stephen M. Sachs, editors. Rowman and Allanheld, Totowa, N.J., 1984. 305 pp. $25.00.

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. Harper and Row, Warner Books, New York, 1982. 360 pp. $19.95 (cloth), $8.95 (paperback).

Population: A Basic Orientation Charles B. Nam and Susan G. Philliber. Second edition. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1984. 384 pp. $23.95.

Opposition Planning in Wales and Appalachia Pierre Gavel. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1983. 246 pp. $29.95.

An Introduction to Rural Settlement Planning Paul J. Cloke. Methuen, New York, 1983. 380 pp. $17.95 (paperback).

Mount Laurel II: Challenge and Delivery of Low-Cost Housing Robert W. Burchell, W. Patrick Beaton, David Listokin, George Sternlieb, Robert W. Lake, and Richard L. Florida. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1983. 440 pp. $25.00 (paperback).

Rebuilding America's Infrastructure: An Agenda for the 1980s Michael Barker, editor. Duke University Press Policy Studies, Durham, N.C., 1984. 368 pp. $27.50.

Environmental Regulation of Industrial Plant Siting: How to Make It Work Better Christopher J. Duerksen. The Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1983. 232 pp. $15.00.

Facility Siting and Public Opposition Michael O'Hare, Lawrence Bacow, and Debra Sanderson. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1983. 223 pp. $28.50.

The Politics of Public-Facility Planning John E. Seley. Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., 1983. 237 pp. $24.00.

Principles of Water Resources Planning Alvin S. Goodman et al., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1984. 563 pp. $34.95.

Cities and Sickness: Health Care in Urban America Ann Lennarson Greer and Scott Greer, editors. Volume 25, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif., 1983. 303 pp. $28.00 (cloth), $14.00 (paperback).

Health Care for the Urban Poor: Directions for Policy Edith M. Davis, Michael L. Millman, and associates: Patricia M. Alt, Albert A. Bocklet, Ann Lennarson Greer, David E. Hayes-Bautista, Ann Akridge Jones, and George D. Wendel. Volume 21, Conservation of Human Resources Series. Rowman and Allenheld, Totowa, N.J., 1983. 206 pp. $30.00.

A Social Geography of the City David Ley. Harper and Row, New York, 1983. 441 pp. $17.50 (paperback).

Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives and Urban Design John S. Pipkin, Mark E. LaGory, and Judith R. Blau, editors. State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y., 1983. 409 pp. $49.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paperback).

Urban Development in the Third World: Internal Dynamics of Lahore, Pakistan Mohammad A. Qadeer. Praeger, New York, 1983. 282 pp. $36.95.

Urban Life in Contemporary China William King Whyte and William L. Parish. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984. 408 pp. $30.00.

The Planning Commissioner's Guide David J. Allor. APA Planners Press, Chicago, 1984. 186 pp. $13.95 (paperback).

Stakeholders of the Organizational Mind Ian I. Mitroff. Jossey-Bass, Inc., San Francisco, 1983. 178 pp. $18.95.

Housing for the Elderly: The Handbook for Managers Rosetta E. Parker. Institute of Real Estate Management of the National Association of Realtors, Chicago, 1984. $19.95 (paperback).

The New Garden Apartment: Current Market Realities of an American Housing Form Carl F. Horowitz. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1983. 180 pp. $12.95 (paperback).

Planning for Organizational Success: A Practical Guide Roger Kaufman and Bruce Stone. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1983. 201 pp. $12.95 (paperback).

An MBO Approach to Long-Range Planning R. Henry Migliore. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1983. 241 pp. $21.95 (cloth).

Managing Organizational Performance Michael Nash. Jossey-Bass, Inc., San Francisco, 1983. 362 pp. $18.95.

The Entrepreneur in Local Government Barbara Moore, editor. International City Management Association, Washington, 1983. 214 pp. $19.50 (paperback).

Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan David E. Apter and Nagayo Sawa. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1984. 271 pp. $22.50.

Public Policymaking Reexamined Yehezkel Dror. Transaction Books, New Brunswick, N.J., 1983. 370 pp. $19.95.

Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development Stanley Brunn and Jack F. Williams. Harper &; Row, New York, 1983. 506 pp. $19.50 (paperback).     

不老的现代性:阿尔瓦·西扎的建筑历程

通过对2011年国际建协金奖获得者葡萄牙建筑师阿尔瓦.西扎(Alvaro Siza)的建筑历程的介绍,从其各时期的建筑思想和代表作品出发,分析了其建筑中的空间特点,总结了其作品中的设计方法,揭示了西扎对当代建筑学的贡献和价值。     

维多利亚花园

维多利亚花园在2006年度获得了由城市土地研究所颁发的优秀奖,成为加利福尼亚州快速发展的杰出典范．此外，在为数不多的大型综合项目中，它被该机构评为具有代表性的项目之一．     

开县陈家坪水厂一期工程创优措施与方法简介

重庆开县陈家坪水厂工程是三峡水库三期移民工程——开县新城建设中的重要配套项目,一期工程已竣工投入使用,工程质量荣获2009年度重庆市"市政工程金杯奖"。本文简要阐述了开县这座现代化水厂的设计亮点和建设中的创优措施。     

规划跨世纪宏图 建设现代化首都——北京城市总体规划修订完成

1991年～1992年由北京市城市规划设计研究院主持进行的总体规划修订工作已全面完成。本文归纳总结了规划修订工作的背景条件;规划修订的指导思想和基本目标以及规划修订的四项重点内容。     

Time as a Medium: Early Work of Miralles

Regarding permanence ‘as contrary to existence’, Enric Miralles employed architecture as a means of providing people with experiences of the passage of time. Here Philip Speranza , Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon and Director of its Barcelona Urban Design Program, describes three early works that Miralles and his partner Carme Pinós undertook in the early 1990s with this preoccupation in mind: the Boarding School in Morella, Castellon, Spain; the pergola walkway for the Paseo Icaria, in Barcelona's Olympic Village; and the Igualada Cemetery in Barcelona.     

US housing policies for the 1980s

Conference on Housing Policies in the Eighties: Choices and Outcomes, organized jointly by the Urban Affairs Programme of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 17–18 May 1985     

REJOINDER TO “BLACK MALE CANCER AND AMERICAN URBAN HEALTH POLICY”

ABSTRACT: This article is written in rejoinder to Dr. Michael R. Greenberg's article, “Black Male Cancer and American Urban Health Policy,” which appears in the Journal of Urban Affairs, 11(2):113–130.