The New Urbanism has dramatically transformed the way illustrations are used to advance the dialogue of community planning and place making. New Urbanists have revived and advanced techniques of visual communication that enable professionals, elected officials and citizens from all walks of life to engage in designing their neighborhoods and communities. While created as means to an end, these …
El Dr. Fernando Valdés Fernández es un profesor retirado de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, quién ha colaborado y trabajado con instituciones como el Instituto Arqueológico Alemán, la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, la Universidad de la Soborna de París, entre otras. El presente libro es un recuento de los trabajos que se han desarrollado dentro de la escuela de arqueologí…
Esposizione Universale di Bruxelles, 1958. All'interno del Padiglione IBM scorrono le immagini del cortometraggio The Information Machine di Charles e Ray Eames che raccontano la storia evolutiva dell'essere umano come profondamente intrecciata all'ascesa tecnologica e delle macchine calcolatrici. A meno di settant'anni da quell'evento, si stima che ogni giorno vengano generati circa 2, 5 quint…
La ciudad colombiana es el gran legado de Jacques Aprile-Gniset. El rol de las distintas fuerzas involucradas en los procesos urbanos y su resultado en la ocupación de los territorios y en las conformaciones socio-espaciales guían su trabajo.Es justamente la relación entre las formaciones sociales con las espaciales, la que le permitió construir la primera gran historia urbana del país, la…
"La Ciudad Colombiana" es el gran legado de Jacques Aprile-Gniset. El rol de las distintas fuerzas involucradas en los procesos urbanos y su resultado en la ocupación de los territorios y en las conformaciones socio-espaciales guían su trabajo. Es justamente la relación entre las formaciones sociales con las espaciales, la que le permitió construir la primera gran historia urbana del país,…
A fascinating overview of the lands and peoples of the United States and Canada, both past and present. Based on decades of research and written in clear, concise prose by one of the foremost geographers in North America, John C. Hudson's Across This Land is a comprehensive regional geography of the North American continent. Dividing the terrain into ten regions, which are then subdivided into…
"The model of what a concise, attractive guidebook should be."—Mid-Atlantic Country This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 450 of Washington, DC's, most noteworthy buildings and monuments. Organized into 19 discrete walking tours, plus one general tour of peripheral sites, this thoroughly revised sixth edition features …
A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an American civil religion. In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first city planner of Washington, DC, introduced the idea of a "great church for national purposes." Unlike L'Enfant's plans for the White House, the US Capitol, and the National Mall, this grand temple to the republic never materialized. But in 1890, the Episcopal Ch…
Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlights both the futili…
In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that pr…