These designs for a "low speed," "rurban," neighborhood in Valencia, Spain, created by 13 international architecture firms (Toyo Ito, MVRDV, FOA, Fran ois Roche and others) under the direction of Vicente Guallart, look again at public housing as a site for architectural utopianism. Each contributor was asked to bring an agricultural sensibility to the high-density project, and ...(展开全部)

The city is often depicted as a sort of self-organizing chaos. This collection of essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, makes the case for the opposite hypothesis: The city is always the result of political intention, often in the form of specific architectural projects. Cities are shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions. This thesis is s...(展开全部)

The city is often depicted as a sort of self-organizing chaos. This collection of essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, makes the case for the opposite hypothesis: The city is always the result of political intention, often in the form of specific architectural projects. Cities are shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions. This thesis is s...(展开全部)

Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the slow, fragmented, and contentious transformation of Dabaodao—an area in the c...(展开全部)

Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and shared with Earth-bound audiences the view of their own planet hanging in the sky instead. Recently, the connection has been discovered to be even closer: a fragment of the Earth's surface was found embedded in a rock b...(展开全部)

约翰·罗默，1945年生，美国著名经济学家，曾任加州大学戴维斯学院经济学教授，“经济、正义与社会”研究中心负责人，现为耶鲁大学经济学与政治学教授，是“分析的马克思主义经济学”流派的主要代表人物。其教学与研究领域主要是：分配公正的经济学、马克思经济理论、最优化经济学和微观经济学。主要著作有：《马克思经济理论的分析基础》、《剥削与阶级的一般理论》、《在自由中丧失——马克思主义经济哲学导论》。苏联、东欧剧变后，他坚持为社会主义辩护，并运用经济模式构造未来社会主义的蓝图，写下了这部《社会主义的未来》。 余文烈，经济学教授、哲学研究员，曾任中国社会科学院研究室主任，研究员、博士生导师，现为深圳市委党校教授，中华外国经济学说研究会副会长。曾受聘比利时鲁汶大学、瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学等院校客座教授或访问教授。主持完成国家社科基金项目3项，出版专著和译著《市场社会主义：...(展开全部)

约翰·罗默，1945年生，美国著名经济学家，曾任加州大学戴维斯学院经济学教授，“经济、正义与社会”研究中心负责人，现为耶鲁大学经济学与政治学教授，是“分析的马克思主义经济学”流派的主要代表人物。其教学与研究领域主要是：分配公正的经济学、马克思经济理论、最优化经济学和微观经济学。主要著作有：《马克思经济理论的分析基础》、《剥削与阶级的一般理论》、《在自由中丧失——马克思主义经济哲学导论》。苏联、东欧剧变后，他坚持为社会主义辩护，并运用经济模式构造未来社会主义的蓝图，写下了这部《社会主义的未来》。 余文烈，经济学教授、哲学研究员，曾任中国社会科学院研究室主任，研究员、博士生导师，现为深圳市委党校教授，中华外国经济学说研究会副会长。曾受聘比利时鲁汶大学、瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学等院校客座教授或访问教授。主持完成国家社科基金项目3项，出版专著和译著《市场社会主义：...(展开全部)

Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the slow, fragmented, and contentious transformation of Dabaodao—an area in the c...(展开全部)

An energy expert shows why hydrogen can fight climate change and become the fuel of the future.

An energy expert shows why hydrogen can fight climate change and become the fuel of the future.