Techniques & architecture 351

Living in the City (december 1983)

In this issue:

- Contemporary towns or temporal dissimultaneousness? by Pierre Sansot, professor at the University of Social Sciences in Grenoble and author of numerous works on the poetics of the city and suburbs
- Interview with Giulio Carlo Argan, art historian and former mayor of Rome, by Michèle Humbert
- Competition for the Maison-des-Gardes concerted development zone (ZAC) in Arcueil (France), Henri Gaudin, PLI-Architecture, Serge and Lipa Goldstein, Patrick Berger 
- An urban area in Saint-Denis (France), Roland Simounet 
- Restructuring the station sector in Rochefort (France), public spaces and collective housing, Pierre Gangnet and Jean-Marie Léon Architectes, Yves Lion and Daniel H. Tajan
- Urban composition in Evry, France, Paul Chemetov and Adrien Fainsilber
- Plaine de Neauphle neighborhood, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France), Adrien Fainsilber
- The Zen neighbourhood, Palermo (Italy), interview with Vittorio Gregotti
- The Malagueira neighbourhood in Evora (Portugal), Álvaro Siza
- Milton Keynes: the growth of an English ‘new town’, by Peter Hawkes, Director of Planning at Milton Keynes Planning Authority: classical composition at Oldbrook, Colquhoun and Miller; the humanist tradition, Bradwell Common I, Martin Richardson; variation for a minimal habitat, Woughton Campus, Sebire and Allsopp
- Exhibition of urban architecture, the Documenta Urbana exhibition in Kassel (West Germany): Serpent House 2, Otto Steidle and Léo Fritsch; The Kloster, Otto Steidle and Michael Bunge 
- Berlin International Exhibition 1984-87, by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani: for a new urban architecture in Berlin, interview with Joseph Paul Kleihues, Development Director for the International; exhibition of Architecture in Berlin, 1984-87; block 31 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Rob Krier, Bangert-Jansen-Scholz-Schultes, Benzmüller-Wörner, 
Brandt-Heiss-Liepe-Steigelmann, Feddersen-Von Herder & Associés, Ganz-Rolfes, Müller-Rhode
- Constructing the town from its empty spaces, by Oriol Bohigas 
- Wenders in the city, by Michel Boujut 
- Learning from space, the Moulin Blanc youth hostel in Brest (France, 1983), Roland Schweitzer and Philippe Jean