Jones, Z.M., & Vigotti, F. (2022). Emerging links between Alpine landscape heritage and Mega-events in the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. In the Book of Proceedings III International Conference Culture and City: Architecture and Landscape: Historical transfers, contemporary challenges. Vol. 1, (pp. 755-763). Madrid: Abada Editores. ISBN: 978-84-19008-07-7
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Umbrellas, Incubators, Mothers and Killers: Four types of relationship between cultural mega-events and small and micro events in Heritage-rich European cities
Jones, Z. M., & Ponzini, D. (2020). Umbrellas, Incubators, Mothers and Killers: Four types of relationship between cultural mega-events and small and micro events in Heritage-rich European cities. In S. Di Vita & M. Wilson (Eds.), Downsizing Spectacle: Planning and Managing Smaller (Urban) Events (pp. 23-35). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367505257
The Faces of Contemporary Cities
The story of Permasteelisa, an Italian company behind the facades of some of the most famous buildings in the world.
The great global cities of the Western, Middle Eastern, and Asian world tend to resemble each other more and more. The new buildings of cities such as London, Hong Kong, New York, or Frankfurt are similar, and even the skylines increasingly seem to resemble one another. The fact that there are just a few great architects behind these constructions partly explains this phenomenon.
This book reveals how the work of these architectural talents is also made possible by companies such as Permasteelisa, which offer technological solutions for constructing the most futuristic buildings. Permasteelisa produces continuous external cladding: the skin of skyscrapers, large airports, and current business centers. Drawing on its constant research into technology and materials, it collaborates with large architectural firms to transform an architect’s project into a building. This was the case for the Sydney Opera House, with its futuristic sails; for the Guggenheim in Bilbao and its curved facades conceived by Frank Gehry; and for the scintillating blades of Renzo Piano’s Shard in London.
The book tells the story of Permasteelisa. With the texts by international urban planning scholars and data analysis and georeferencing methodologies developed at the Transnational Architecture and Urbanism Lab (TAU-Lab) of the Politecnico di Milano, it shows how this Italian company’s know-how has allowed it to shape the faces of many contemporary cities such as New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Milan, Hong Kong, and Sydney.
Ponzini, D. (Ed. 2024). The Faces of Contemporary Cities, New York: Rizzoli New York.
Developing an identities-based approach to support more robust resilience and recovery in heritage planning and management
Jones, Z. M., & Pappas, T. (2023). Developing an identities-based approach to support more robust resilience and recovery in heritage planning and management. Built Heritage, 7(1), pp. 1–12.
Seeing through Gulf Cities. Urbanization in and from the Arabian Peninsula
Cities like Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Dubai stand out with superlative claims, such as the world’s tallest building, most spectacular museum, and largest shopping mall. However, such achievements, for better or worse, have complex urban stories behind them, stories that usually remain invisible and inexplicable. By combining photography, graphics and text in an innovative way, this publication aims to fill this void and broaden the knowledge of urban planning today with particular attention to visual and sociocultural aspects, as well as design.
Molotch H., Ponzini, D. (2022). Seeing through Gulf Cities. Urbanization in and from the Arabian Peninsula, with Michele Nastasi (photography) and an afterword by Nasser Rabbat, Trento: ListLab.
