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“fanny lopez”

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  • Digital Conquest

    Spatiality, Energy and Data Centres

    by Fanny Lopez, Cécile Diguet ...
    In an era of exponential digital growth, the physical impact of data flows is reshaping our cities and energy infrastructures.This book uncovers the hidden world of data centres, from vast complexes in Virginia to digital suburbs in Paris and innovative facilities in Sweden. Through twenty insightful case studies from Europe and the US, it reveals how these often overlooked infrastructures ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Dreams of disconnection

    From the autonomous house to self-sufficient territories

    by Fanny Lopez ...
    Series series Manchester University Press
    Why do we live in homes and communities built around the century-old industrial model of large service networks that use polluting resources? For more than a century, creative architects and planners have dreamed of decentralisation and self-sufficient living, not to cut themselves off from society, but to invent new modes of consumption and to rethink collective public services around common ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Local Energy Autonomy

    Spaces, Scales, Politics

    Edited by Fanny Lopez, Margot Pellegrino, Olivier Coutard ...
    In recent years, interest for local energy production, supply and consumption has increased in academic and public debates. In particular, contemporary energy transition discourses and strategies often emphasize the search for increased local energy autonomy, a phrase which can refer to a diverse range of configurations, both in terms of the spaces and scales of the local territory considered and ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD

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    by Theresa Enright ...
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    A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided populations; a new transportation ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Dream States

    Smart Cities and the Pursuit of Utopian Urbanism

    by John Lorinc ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARDIs the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for?The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart cit... ... Read more

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  • The Dark Cloud

    how the digital world is costing the earth

    by Guillaume Pitron ...
    Translated by Bianca Jacobsohn ...
    A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment.A simple ‘like’ sent from our smartphones mobilises what will soon constitute the largest infrastructure built by man. This small notification, crossing the seven operating layers of the Internet, travels around the world, using ... Read more

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  • Designing Disorder

    Experiments and Disruptions in the City

    by Richard Sennett, Pablo Sendra ...
    Rethinking the open cityPlanners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed?Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edited by Jason W. Moore ...
    Series series Kairos
    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Design

    A Typology of Procedures and Products

    by Jon Lang ...
    Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.Including over 50 updated international case studies, this new edition presents a three-dimensional model with which to categorize the processes and products involved: product type, ... Read more

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  • Mediocracy

    The Politics of the Extreme Centre

    by Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions over the phone that they themselves don’t understand, or sell books and newspapers that they ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Framing Strategic Urban Projects

    Learning from current experiences in European urban regions

    Edited by Willem Salet, Enrico Gualini ...
    Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences.Helpfully divided into three sections, Framing Strategic Urban Projects sets out the study framework, with its social, policy and institutional contexts ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • After the Car

    by Kingsley Dennis, John Urry ...
    It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher in a new transport system sometime in the next few decades. Specifically, the book examines how several major processes are ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD