Планировка и застройка населенных пунктов. Градостроительство

Mao once called the Chinese «a blank sheet of paper», and the modernising that came with the Cultural Revolution treated cities much the same. But Mao’s destructive impulses were as nothing compared to the liberalised policies of his recent successors. China has undergone urbanisation on a scale never seen before — much of it speculative, some of it a brazen display of power. In this incisive analysis by the acclaimed Sinologist Julia Lovell, we get inside the politics of architecture and city-making in China. There is a colourful cast, from the Western starchitects rushing into the land of opportunity, to political dissidents such as Ai Weiwei, to rebellious residents singing defiantly as the bulldozers advance. In this trenchant critique of urban policy, Lovell wonders what good all this thrusting ambition will have been if the property bubble bursts.

The vast, proverbially windswept plazas built under «really existing socialism» from the 1920s to the 1980s are widely considered to be useless spaces, designed to intimidate or at least impress. Yet if they are only of use to those in power, why is it they have been used so successfully in protest? From Petrograd in 1917 to Independence Square in Kiev during the Orange Revolution, these spaces have become focuses for mass protest. Beginning in Berlin's Alexanderplatz, and taking in Warsaw, Ljubljana, Kharkov and Moscow, Owen Hatherley heads in search of revolt, architectural glory and horror. Along the way he encounters the more civic squares that replaced their authoritarian predecessors and finds that, paradoxically, the old centres of power are more conducive to dissent than these new, ostensibly democratic plazas.

Рассматриваются проблемы урбанизации и потери уникальности архитектурного пространства современных городов.

В монографии раскрываются проблемы потепления климата Земли и влияния этого процесса на экологию и продовольственную безопасность. Особое внимание уделено таким аспектам, как экологическая безопасность, оценка уровня загрязнения окружающей среды, перспективы создания «чистых городов», эколого-ориентированное развитие современного градостроения в целях обеспечения здорового образа жизни человека. Авторы материалов высказывают свои предложения по наиболее эффективному развитию сельского хозяйства России, обеспечению экологической и продовольственной безопасности.