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Housing for the greatest number
Docomomo Journal, 2021 Addressing a broader vision, entitled “Housing for All”, this issue is dedicated to the welfare era, when governments across the world established ambitious housing programs to provide housing for the greatest number and improve the citizens’ living ...
Ana Tostões
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The survival and resurrection of a “Bakema-experiment” in an Amsterdam garden city
Docomomo Journal, 2021 There is a hidden gem in the Amsterdam garden cities. Jaap Bakema was the founder of an experiment in the 1950s. A piece of “Rotterdam in Amsterdam.” Based on the philosophy of an open society and the human scale.
Tim Nagtegaal
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Smart Cities: Sustainable and Safety Roads Study Model [PDF]
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities, 2020 Sustainable Satisfaction in Smart Cities has been discussed extensively within the academic context, however; it is argued the fast-urban development and technology, strong trend towards facilitating of urban communities through achieving user’s ...
R. Kamal, N. Elsayed, N. Gado
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President Alemán Urban Housing Project
Docomomo Journal, 2021 The Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán, inaugurated in 1949, was a pioneer in more ways than one and can be considered as one of the most transcendent works of Mario Pani.
Louise Noelle
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Modernity and housing production in France after WWII
Docomomo Journal, 2021 After the collapse of 1940 and Occupation (1940-1944), France experienced a remarkable renewal after Liberation in 1944. Through reconstruction and intensive efforts to bring the country out of the housing crisis, the State set up a powerful production ...
Joseph Abram
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When Modern Housing Built Optimistic Suburbia: A Comparative Analysis Between Lisbon and Luanda
Urban Planning, 2022 Throughout the 1960s, the urban peripheries in several Portuguese colonial cities embarked on a profound process of transformation. With different urban histories and distant geographical contexts, Lisbon and Luanda were united by urban planning and ...
Inês Rodrigues
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The right to comfort in the century of the self
Docomomo Journal, 2021 After the war, the world was divided between two main powers, a Western capitalist bloc led by the USA, and an Eastern communist bloc, driven by the USSR.
Zara Ferreira
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Reconstructing housing and communities
Docomomo Journal, 2021 Among the Italian initiatives for social and material reorganization in the aftermath of WWII, the most interesting was undoubtedly the INA-Casa Plan.
Rosalia Vittorini
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Torres Blancas, a Vertical Garden City
Docomomo Journal, 2021 Torres Blancas, the building designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza for the Huarte company, was built between 1964 and 1972. Its powerful sculptural form, the expressive use of bare concrete and its experimental nature make it an iconic example of ...
Alberto Sanz
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THE IMPACT OF MODERNITY ON TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS IN BAGHDAD
Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development, 2022 This research traces the study of the development of traditional housing in Baghdad in terms of the internal changes of housing and the impact of modernity on them in AL Adhamiya area in the city of Baghdad.
Shahbaa Ahmed Ali, M. Tayfun Yildirim
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