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Rat cities and beehive worlds: density and design in the modern city [PDF]

, 2011
Nestled among E. M. Forster's careful studies of Edwardian social mores is a short story called "The Machine Stops." Set many years in the future, it is a work of science fiction that imagines all humanity housed in giant high-density cities buried deep ...
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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The Production of Everyday Carcerality in State‐Led Redevelopment of Informal Settlement in Delhi, India

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract This paper focuses on the everyday experiences of carcerality of a community, known as Kathputli Colony, that has been waiting to be rehoused by the state for over a decade in Delhi, India. We draw on Kathputli Colony's everyday experiences to argue that state‐led housing policies and practices produce carceral socio‐spatialities, rather than ...
Syeda Jenifa Zahan, Rajarshee Narayan Chowdhury   +1 more
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Vers un Nouveau Continent: A divulgação da bibliografia corbusiana na América do Sul, 1929-1965

ARQUISUR Revista, 2016
Diversas investigações buscaram avaliar os impactos de Le Corbusier no meio profssional sul–americano. Muitas dessas centraram–se nas influencias de suas viagens a América do Sul (1929, 1936, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951 e 1962); na divulgação do ideário ...
Mg. Arq. Piero Carapiá Lima Baptista
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Fernand Pouillon's Symbiotic Spaces in Suburban Housing Complex in Paris—From the Perspective of Continuity with the “Three Districts of Algiers”

JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 9, Issue 1, January–December 2026.
This study examines Fernand Pouillon's HLM projects at Point du Jour and Meudon‐la‐Forêt to reveal how his concept of “coexistence” was realized. Cultural elements such as the tower, the Algerian Gate, and the Moucharabieh were identified as a result. This concept of coexistence is empirically supported by social surveys.
Rikako Toda, Kosuke Matsubara
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San Marco in Le Corbusier, San Marco in Bogota

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2016
There are many ties between the monumental compound of San Marco in Venice and Le Corbusier. This article follows, studies and organizes these ties to link them to how he resolves the urban project for the Administrative Centre for Bogotá.
María Cecilia O’byrne
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Colors, Position, and Harmonies in Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Palette

Color Research &Application, Volume 51, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin pallete NCS variables collage. Source: Maria Fernanda Pilotto Brandi. ABSTRACT This research analyzes the colors and their positions in Frank Lloyd Wright's 1955 Taliesin palette, examining whether their proximity forms harmonious sets based on predefined parameters. The study will use the Natural Color System (N.C.S.) and
Maria Fernanda Pilotto Brandi
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Le Corbusier y las casas de los monjes blancos [PDF]

, 2014
Le Corbusier sugere, em quatro escritos distintos, a influência de um mosteiro na concepção do seu projecto de habitação colectiva Immeuble-villas, de 1922. Refere-se a uma cartuxa em Galluzzo, nos arredores da cidade de Florença, chamada Cartuxa do Vale
Sequeira, Marta
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Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology

The Political Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 1, Page 93-100, January/March 2026.
Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
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Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late‐modern metropolis

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Short Abstract This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south‐east London. It develops the notion of ‘staged ecologies’ to examine how urban nature is being spatially and aesthetically arranged across the town's ...
Zuhri James
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