Urban Design and Planning Policy

by Luís Balula. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010. The rising authority of neo-traditional urban planning and design – either in the United States via New Urbanism or in Europe via the European Urban Renaissance – might provide much needed answers to the failures of modern urbanism to produce sustainable urban environments. Nevertheless, the ethos of Modernist spatial planning seems to be pervasive on current planning processes despite its many flaws. The first part of this book shows how urban design theory – and in particular neo- traditional urban design theory – might inspire and reform current planning practices so as …

Sensory Landscapes in Harold Pinter: a Study on Ecocriticism and Symbolist Aesthetics

by Graça P. Corrêa. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012.  Within the emerging interdisciplinary scope of landscape theory, and taking as its object of study the work written for the stage by contemporary British playwright Harold Pinter, this book is the first sustained in-depth study that relates Pinter’s dramatic images and sensory landscapes to Symbolist theatre and theory, so as to disclose several unexplored ecocritical and micropolitical resonances of his theatre for our times. Ecocritically, Pinter’s landscapes evoke a sense of warning against the end of “nature,” or against the ending of vital connections between human and extra-human realities. Micropolitically, his …

EDIÇÕES E LANÇAMENTOS

A ArtCom apoia a edição e o lançamento de obras dos seus membros e outras relevantes para os objectivos da associação. Desde 2003 editámos e/ou produzimos o lançamento de obras de teatro, filosofia, teoria do teatro, arquitectura, desenho urbano e urbanismo.