Readings

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

Catalan Nation Building and Bottom-Up Placemaking, 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
• Anchoring by Steven Holl

.   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

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06 Air Quality

Tigard Air Quality and Urban Design Report

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Air Pollution and Children’s Health. Let’s Protect our Future Generation with Improved Ambient Air Quality Guidelines, Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, Research Professor, Director of the Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative, and Head of the Climate, Air Pollution, Nature and Urban Health Programme, 

Jordi Sunyer: Less Air Pollution, Healthier Children – ISGLOBAL (Youtube, please CC click closed captions in English)

Sunyer, Jordi; Suades-González, Elisabet; García-Esteban, Raquel; Rivas, Ioar; Pujol, Jesús; Alvarez-Pedrerol, Mar; Forns, Joan; Querol, Xavier; Basagaña, Xavier. Traffic-related Air Pollution and Attention in Primary School Children: Short-term Association. Epidemiology 28(2):p 181-189, March 2017.

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07 Architectural Context: Place, Culture and Urban Ecology

Introduction: Cultures, building cultures, and place (Place Regeneration, Culture and Urban Ecology)
– Jackson, “A sense of place, a sense of time,” Design Quarterly, No. 164, Sprawl (Spring, 1995), pp. 24-27.
– Nitschke, The Japanese Sense of Place (excerpt) Nitschke, Ma–The Japanese Sense of Place, Architectural Design 36 (3) March 1966, pp. 116-56
– Echave, Place Regeneration and Urban Ecology (see lectures)
– Margalef, Teoría de los Sistemas Ecológicos   (review in English)

– Gibbons, “Regenerative – The New Sustainable?” Scientific Research on Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability, 2020.

20th century Contemporary architects in place & Building in the landscape
– Pigem RCR Arquitectes, La Vila and Barbieri Foundry adaptive reuse RCR Studio (visit and history explanation)
– Speranza, “Time as a Medium: Early Works of Enric Miralles,” in AD (+ Igualada Cemetery visit)- Beluschi Houses
– Arcos, Torre Baro Public Housing (El 47 movie and visit)
– Amat, Social Housing in Molins de Rei (Public Lecture and visit)

Urban Health
– Waldinger, “How Loneliness is Killing us” (lecture), CNC with Jeffrey Sachs “Why Finland And Denmark Are Happier Than The U.S?” (World Happiness Report)

– Global liveability index released| These are world’s most liveable cities in 2023 (video) Gentrification explained. Urban Displacement project; “To green or not to green,” (video)

– Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, Steven Johnson (lecture)

Urban origins and urban form systems
– Lynch and Hack, Site Planning
– Norberg-Schulz, Phenomenon of Place: Introduction and Phenomenon of Place
– Hume, Treatise of Human Nature (excerpt on perception and conception)
– Sola Morales, Ten Lessons on Barcelona (chapter 5); Terrain Vague (vision GSD symposium Moneo)

– Bailo, 22@10 years: Innovations District

– de Land, “Introduction Chapter,” A Thousand Year’s of Non-linear History, (excerpt)

– One Earth (video); The energy transition to energy democracy (video)

– Buettner, “Blue zones,” (video)

Urban building types & Dwelling in the city
– Jacobs, The Nature of Economies Jacobs, (Introduction and chapter 7)
– Lorente et al, Architecture From / For the Community: Cohousing in Barcelona (+ discussion with David)
– Rueda, Supermanzana: Una nova cèl·lula urbana per a un nou model funcional i urbanístic de la ciutat, (english)
– Franck and Stevens, Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life. (excerpt)

The local context of urban building, Fine-grained Urbanism
– Davis, “The city at eye level,” Living Over the Store (excerpt)
– “A Human Scaled GIS Measuring and Visualizing Social Interaction in Barcelona Superilles,” J of Urbanism, Speranza
– “Parametric Methods and Place,” Journal of Urban Design, Speranza
– Florida, Who’s Your City and Creative Class [opt. Anholt, Some Important Distinctions in Place Branding]

Building regulation and zoning & Inclusive Urbanism
– Rothstein, The Color of Law, excerpt(s) (wiki) (lecture) (NPR)
– Davis, “The future of ancient lights”
– Ruggieri, Participation and Inclusive Urbanism (remote lecture)

Industry in the city / Street-level Activities
– Davis, Working Cities, chapters 3 and 8
– Oldenberg, Celebrating the Third Space [opt Guallart, Towards-a-self-sufficient-habitat, Urban Metabolism]
– Franck and Speranza, “Food, Time and Space” in Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration
– Palenzuela et al, “Understanding Urban Complexity via the Spatial Diversity of Activities ”

Bottom up and top down / Politics
– Suzanne Hall, The migrant’s paradox: street livelihoods and marginal citizenship in Britain (excerpt)
– Richard Sennett, “How should we live?” [opt. Harvey, Right to the City and Urban Resistance (lecture)]
– “Catalan Nation Building and Bottom-Up Placemaking,” IASTE, Speranza
– Evgeny Morozov and Francesca Bria, Rethinking the Smart City: Democratizing Urban Technology