Cities & Rivers

Socioecological Public Space

Inaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesus Arcos , Francisco Mesonero

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English

Actar Publishers
01 December 2023

Architecture

A selection of architecture, landscape and urbanism with selected comments on the perspectives of its authors like other independent perspectives in the academic realm, the world of the profession and the users.

This is a collection of projects - designed from their local and territorial DNA - that respond in new ways to the global socio-ecological crisis in which we have been in engaged with since the beginning of the 21st century. Featured works include public spaces, architecture and urban studies that incorporate natural dynamics and that also emphasise - recovering in some cases - legal access among all citizens and equal access to the city and its opportunities. The works presented are particularly renowned given their leadership role in a new approach to the relationship between cities and rivers, in which natural dynamics become part of the public space, eliminating the effect of catastrophe.

By: Inaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesus Arcos, Francisco Mesonero
Edited by: Erica Sogbe
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: English ed.
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 305mm,
ISBN: 9781945150746
ISBN 10: 1945150742
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 01 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"About the editors: aldayjover architecture and landscapeis headed by three partners,Iaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesus Arcos, and an associate director of landscape architecture Francisco Mesonero. aldayjover is a multidisciplinary research based practice, focused in innovation and in the specific character of the place. The work is particularly renowned by its leadership in a new approach to the relation between cities and rivers, in which natural dynamics as the flood become part of the public space, eliminating the effect of ""catastrophe"". The integration of hydrological, transportation, or energy generation infrastructures with public space and public architecture rely heavily in interdisciplinary collaborations that start in the beginning of the concept phase. Engineers from different areas, environmentalists, social scientists, historians and artists work together with architects in the holistic understanding of the problems and the conceptual frame of possible answers. Innovative solutions and new methodologies are developed to tackle the complexity of contemporary urban and territorial challenges."

Reviews for Cities & Rivers: Socioecological Public Space

"""This monograph from the architectural and landscape practice Alday-jover tracks the firm's work, starting with a floodable public space in Zuera, Span, which opened in 2001. The firm's expertise on large-scale water and infrastructure projects grew over the next two decades, becoming more timely as adaptation and sustainability become unavoidably mainstream."" --Landscape Architecture Magazine ""This large format hardcover edition (10.5 x 1.5 x 12.25 inches, 4.89 pounds) of ""Cities & Rivers"" is an impressive compendium of forty eloquently written and exceptionally informative essays by experts in their field and will prove to be of exceptional interest and value for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Urbanism and Landscape Architecture collections, as well as a supplemental contribution to Urban/Land Use curriculum studies lists."" --Midwest Book Review"