Wolfgang Förster Livres

Vienna is renowned as a leader in social housing, with a unique subsidized housing system that has been in place since the 1920s, now serving over 60 percent of its population. The accompanying book to the successful exhibition, explores contemporary housing developments and documents 50 recent projects in Vienna. It highlights the continuous enhancement of technical, ecological, and social qualities through a broad participatory process, establishing new standards in urban living. The scope includes neighborhood revitalization and the planning of new city districts. Additionally, it covers the international building exhibition IBA_Vienna 2022, themed “New Social Housing.” Contributors Sorcha Edwards and Cédric Van Styvendael examine current housing challenges and solutions within the European Union, while Sasha Tsenkova discusses Canadian strategies for affordable living spaces. Mladen Jadric provides insights into social housing in countries like China, India, and South Korea, and William Menking analyzes the relationship between New York’s public housing and Vienna’s model. With 250 illustrations and graphics, this volume captures the innovative status of Viennese housing.

After examining historical and contemporary developments in Vienna, this monograph considers the New Danube residential complex, designed by the Australian architect Harry Seidler.

Housing in the 20th and 21st Centuries Wolfgang Förster This wide-ranging book examines the world’s most significant large-scale housing complexes, which point the way for the future of housing design. The seventy residential complexes featured here are recognized as architectural milestones, embodying forward-thinking attitudes towards urban planning. This book chronicles the evolution of these structures, revealing how each best represented its era’s housing a new society in the 1920s and 30s; the 40s and 50s’ leap toward functionality and the future; the high-density urban projects of the 60s and 70s; and diversity and environmental awareness in the 80s and 90s. It also looks at this century’s most progressive Beijing’s Looped Hybrid, a city within a city; India’s Aranya township, which provides housing for impoverished residents; and the environmentally friendly Solaire Apartments in Manhattan, among others. As today’s cities face myriad global challenges, this book provides ample food for thought for anyone concerned with socially responsible architecture. Wolfgang Förster oversees several European Union projects in the field of residential construction and has published widely in the field of housing and urban renewal.

The history of living is at the same time the (cultural) history of a city: from the rural settlement by the Celts to the social housing of the present. Political and economic developments as well as social norms are reflected in forms of living that are increasingly being questioned critically at the end of the 20th century and, under the influence of international developments, lead to today's diversity of society and housing.Wolfgang Förster presents his new book 2000 Years of Living in Vienna and thus explores the question of how the socio-cultural history of a city can be told through the development of living.

Die Geschichte der schönsten und schwierigsten Rennstrecke der Welt – von den Anfängen bis zur heutigen hochmodernen Erlebniswelt. Faszination und Information rund um die „Grüne Hölle“ in einem kompakten Bildband.

KlappentextFundierte Kenntnisse über die mechanischen Eigenschaften von Lockergesteinen sind unabdingbare Voraussetzungen für alle bodenmechanischen Untersuchungen im Grundbau, in der Umweltgeotechnik und im Lockergesteinsbergbau. Das Buch behandelt wesentliche Grundbegriffe (Spannungen, Deformationen) als Basis für eine Definition der mechanischen Eigenschaften, vermittelt Kenntnisse zur Klassifikation der Lockergesteine, erklärt den Deformationsmechanismus, den Scherfestigkeitsmechanismus und die Durchlässigkeit der Lockergesteine sowie die Ermittlung der sie bestimmenden Parameter. Es wendet sich an künftige Bauingenieure, Bergleute, Geotechniker, Geowissenschaftler und ist auch zum Selbststudium geeignet. Aus dem Inhalt: Hinweise auf Standards (DIN) - Ursprung und Bildung der Lockergesteine; ihre Bestandteile - Grundeigenschaften der Lockergesteine und Lockergesteinsklassifikation - Untersuchung von Lockergesteinen in situ; Aufschluß und Probenahme - Kornaufbau und seine Bedeutung - Die Spannungsübertragung und der Spannungszustand im Lockergestein - Spannungs-Deformations-Eigenschaften der Lockergesteine - Scherfestigkeit der Lockergesteine - Hydraulische Eigenschaften der Lockergesteine

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

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