Introduction - A brief annotated bibliography around the concept of "evolutionary city". East-Africa Cities; Hydro-Generated Urbanism in Latin America, China New Urbanization
Abstract
Following the forewords essays expanding the theme of "evolutionary city", this second volume of the review "L'architettura delle città – The Journal of the Scientific Society Ludovico Quaroni" includes a dense number of papers from the proceedings of the Seminar East-Africa Cities Lab. Urbanization vs Human Survival – organized by the UNESCO-Chair in "Sustainable Urban Quality and Urban Culture, notably in Africa" of Sapienza University of Rome and held in Rome on April 28th 2014“ and a number of papers submitted by international scholars for an "internal"call for paper among the partners institutions of the UNESCO-Chair on the theme: "the evolutionary age of the city". The volume is divided in three sections distinguished for geographical areas and issues: East-Africa Cities, Hydro-Generated Urbanism in Latin America, China New Urbanization. Here after some bibliographical notes follow. They are supposed to be useful to integrate the studies related to the themes of the three sections of this volume and to the contributions collected.
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