Readings

Reading List

Nabian, N., Offenhuber, D., Vanky A., and Ratti, C. (2013) “Data dimension: accessing urban data and making it accessible.” Proceedings of the ICE – Urban Design and Planning 166, no. 1: 60-75.

Franck, K and Speranza, P, (2015) “Food, Time and Space: Mobile Cuisine in New York and Portland,” Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration Edited by Mirjana Lozanovska, London: Routledge Press, pp 181-198.

Speranza, P. and Maher, S. (2017) “Social ‘Coding:’ Urban Processes and Socio-Computational Workflow,” Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association Annual Meeting 2017, EDRA, May 31-June 3, 2017, Madison: Wisconsin.

Speranza, P. (2017) “A human-scaled GIS: Measuring and visualizing social interaction in Barcelona’s Superilles” Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability” 

A human-scaled GIS measuring and visualizing social interaction in Barcelona’s Superilles, Journal of Urbanism accepted publication, by Philip Speranza (SA+UD visuals)

Speranza, P. and Prager, B (2016), “Business fabric and Place, a Methodology to Measure Business Identity in Barcelona’s New Superilles” Strategic Place Branding Methodologies and Theory for Tourist Attraction, Co-Edited by Can Usley and Ahmet Bayraktar, Pennsylvania: Hershey, IGI Global, pp. 157-180.

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“Atmosphere InFormed: Design Awareness of Small-scale Differences of Atmosphere in Architecture and Urban Design,” Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association Annual Meeting 2018, EDRA, June 6- 9, 2018, Oklahoma City: Oklahoma. Best Paper Award 2018. by Philip Speranza (2018)

New Ecological Interaction, 18th International Conference on Advanced Urban Designing and Transportation 2016, by Philip Speranza  (ICAUDT Presentation)

• Not Unlike Life Itself by James Corner
• Field Conditions by Stan Allen
• The Art of the Long View By Peter Schwartz
• Between Diagrams and Matter by Alejandro Zaera-Polo
• Diagrams Matter, by Stan Allen

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02 Readings, Urban Design

Ten Lessons on Barcelona_Ch 05, Manuel Sola-Morales

22@10 years, Manuel Bailo

Towards-a-self-sufficient-habitat, Vicente Guallart

.    supplemental readings,  urban design

• A Thousand Years of Non Linear History, Manuel DeLanda
• The Nature of Economies_Jacobs, J_Intro
• The Nature of Economies_Jacobs_7
• Los Angeles_The Architecture of Four Ecologies_Reyner Banham

 03 Readings, Barcelona Urban Design and Sustainability

Data dimension: accessing urbandata and making it accessible (Carlo Ratti, MIT SENSEable Cities Lab),

Sustainable Urban Expansions: the Legacy of the Cerdà Plan by Salvador Rueda,

Cities from the Bottom Up: 22@ Planning, A System Attached to Change, by Philip Speranza

.   supplemental Barcelona urban design readings

• Neighborhood garden in the eixample, S. Rueda
• Parametric Places 22@: Smart Urban Analysis Tools and Place Branding Value Sustainable Intelligent Materials conference, Lisbon, 2013 by Philip Speranza
• Cities from the Bottom Up_Speranza_ACSA 2012 by Philip Speranza
• Cities from the Bottom Up_Speranza_ACSA 2012 (presentation)

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04 Readings, Phenomenology

Phenomenon of Place_Introduction

Phenomenon of Place by Christian Norberg-Schulz

Envelope, Pidgen Seven by Alejandro Zaera-Polo

The Difference is in the Detail by Vitello, Willcocks

.   supplemental readings on phenomenology

•  Towards New Horizons in Architecture by Tadao Ando by  Tadao Ando …alt reading
• Geometry of Feeling_Introduction
• Geometry of Feeling by Juhani Pallasma
• Heidegger_Introduction
• Heidegger’s Thinking On Architecture by Christian Norberg-Schulz

.   supplemental readings on Place Branding

• Place Branding_Editorial_Anholt
• A country-Spain_GIlmore
• Place Branding from the Bottom Up_Speranza Paper

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05 Readings, Data and Politics

Data in cities counterpoint (politics)

“Open City” video, by Morozov