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Cities Under Pressure
A Design Strategy for Urban Reconstruction

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By Benno Albrecht and Jacopo Galli
Università Iuav di Venezia

Description

Historical evolutions and processes of cultural and economic globalisation have brought out relevant and frightening risks on a global scale: from urbicide and violence to climate change and increase in natural disasters and the enormous widening of economic and social inequalities. Humanity as a whole is today facing epochal challenges that require radical metamorphosis of inhabited spaces. Cities Under Pressure illustrates a new design paradigm, an open intervention system that seeks the establishment of a dynamic equilibrium to be triggered and continuously renegotiated. Cities Under Pressure imagines and define new urban environments that abandon rigid design scheme in favour of growing evolutionary mechanisms capable of embodying the ongoing sustainable transition and guarantee a resilient and peaceful future.

Details

Weight 700 g
Dimensions 245 × 170 × 30 mm
Authors

Benno Albrecht and Jacopo Galli

Art Director

Stefano Mandato

Language

English

Features

Hardback, full color, stich bound, embossed

Size

17 x 24,5 cm, 6.7 x 9.6 in

Illustrations

150

Page count

224 pages

Date

May 2023

ISBN

978-3-96680-023-5

Author's Biographies

Benno Albrecht

Benno Albrecht is the rector of the Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV). He has devoted his entire professional and academic career to the study of sustainability, combining research and architectural practice. In 2016, he established the Iuav Urbicide Task Force, a think tank conducting multidisciplinary research on urban and social reconstruction.

Jacopo Galli

Jacopo Galli is an assistant professor at the Università Iuav di Venezia and an associate researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He has authored various books and papers, lectured at numerous universities, curated international exhibitions, and provided consultancy to different international organizations.

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