Passages

The product of a joint program with an international network of cities, universities, and experts from different disciplines, as well as the catalog of a touring exhibition, the book analyzes more than 150 completed passage projects and describes methods for action. It is addressed to researchers, d [...]
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The product of a joint program with an international network of cities, universities, and experts from different disciplines, as well as the catalog of a touring exhibition, the book analyzes more than 150 completed passage projects and describes methods for action. It is addressed to researchers, designers, politicians and technicians, transit firms and operators, citizen groups and anyone interested in the right to the city and concerned with the quality of these small spaces of movement. Eight articles by the exhibition curators punctuate the catalog and provide insights into passages in their historical, spatial, social, and sensory dimensions, as well as from the perspective of emerging mobilities and the desires of citydwellers. Contents: the thousand and one barriers of the contemporary city; historical chronology; global panorama of passages defined in terms of Link, Place, and Transition; mutating mobilities and passages; taking action: international examples and actions by IVM; Manifesto for the Passage and call for innovation. -- Fruit d'un travail collectif avec un reseau international de villes, d'universites et d'experts de differentes disciplines, egalement catalogue d'une exposition itinerante, l'ouvrage analyse plus de 150 realisations de passages et presente des methodes pour l'action. Il s'adresse aux chercheurs, concepteurs, elus et techniciens, entreprises et operateurs de transport, collectifs de citoyens et passants attentifs au droit a la ville et soucieux de la qualite de ces petits espaces du mouvement. Huit articles des commissaires de l'exposition rythment le catalogue et proposent une lecture des passages dans leurs dimensions historique, spatiale, sociale, sensible, ainsi que du point de vue des mobilites emergentes et des desirs des habitants. Au sommaire: les mille et une barrieres de la ville contemporaine; chronologie historique; panorama mondial des passages definis comme lien, lieu, et transition; passages et mobilites en mutation; passage a l'acte: exemples internationaux et actions de l'IVM; Manifeste des passages et appel a l'innovation.