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Permanente Charaktere nachhaltiger Architektur und StädtebauVisionen einer p…
Wir benötigen Energie in sämtlichen Lebensbereichen – Haushalte verbrauchen riesige Mengen von Wasser und Strom, in unseren Städten ist ein Leben ohne Auto noch immer undenkbar. Doch die kritische Lage unseres Planeten zwingt Architekten und Stadtplaner, neue Wege zu gehen und gesellschaftlich Stellung zu beziehen. Ist unser Leben in hochtechnisierten Haushalten, in autogerechten Städten …
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Miami – Spaß und SturmWarum die Partymetropole zur Schicksalsstadt des Kli…
Sollte der Klimawandel den Weltuntergang bringen, findet die Generalprobe in Miami statt. Dort ist alles angerichtet für eine epische Katastrophe: eine exponierte Großstadt, stetig steigende Sturmfluten und ringsherum kollabierende Ökosysteme. Miami kämpft aber seit jeher mit einer zweiten, inneren Natur, die Stürme an Spekulation, Korruption, Drogen und brutalster Kriminalität durch die …
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High Country SummersThe Early Second Homes of Colorado, 1880–1940
High Country Summers considers the emergence of the "summer home" in Colorado's Rocky Mountains as both an architectural and a cultural phenomenon. It offers a welcome new perspective on an often-overlooked dwelling and lifestyle. Writing with affection and insight, Melanie Shellenbarger shows that Colorado's early summer homes were not only enjoyed by the privileged and wealthy but crossed bou…
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A Guide to Tucson Architecture
Tucson is a city rich in architectural heritage spanning three cultures, with a history of human settlement that makes it one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the United States. Hispanic barrios, American architectural forms, and remnants of a prehistoric Native American past give Tucson a unique and eclectic identity unlike any other city. This book is a comprehensive, richly illu…
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An Even Better Way to ZoneAchieving More Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainab…
Zoning is the tool that everyone loves to hate. It may also be the most important and least understood process affecting how US communities shape the lives of their residents. While almost every community comprehensive plan calls for more affordable, equitable, and sustainable development, zoning is often blamed for preventing that from happening. As US communities face an unprecede…
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Hoover DamThe Photographs of Ben Glaha
Hoover Dam was constructed during one of the most depressed economic climates in American history, in a remote desert canyon where temperatures ranged from single to triple digits. In order to visually document the project, the Bureau of Reclamation assigned employee Ben Glaha to photograph all aspects of the dam's construction. Glaha's photographs were used in press releases, periodicals, book…
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No Communication with the SeaSearching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin
Few other places in the United States are as high, dry, sparsely inhabited—and urbanized—as the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada. The great majority of the population of this rapidly growing region lives in the two metropolitan areas at its edges, Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front, and Reno and the Truckee Meadows. These cities embody the allure and the challenge of the contemporary Americ…
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Josef Riedmann, Historische BeziehungsgeflechteFünfzig Aufsätze aus fünf J…
Josef Riedmann prägte die Innsbrucker Mediävistik und Landesgeschichte der letzten Jahrzehnte in Forschung und Lehre. Dabei beschränkt sich sein Wirken keineswegs auf das akademische Umfeld, sondern ist weit in eine historisch interessierte Öffentlichkeit diffundiert. Die ganze Bandbreite seines wissenschaftlichen Oeuvres erschließt sich in erster Linie über seine zahlreichen Aufsätze, d…
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The Mobile IndividualMobile Life, Longer-term Approaches and Subjectivities
"Being mobile is more than just traveling." Early research on transportation long believed that daily commutes were a waste of time, and that modes of transportation were simply interchangeable depending on changing circumstances. However, as research on daily mobility advances, a better understanding of the social and symbolic significance of such practices emerges. All of this contributes to…
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Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and LightThe Churches of Northern New Spain, 153…
Over nearly three centuries, Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries built a network of churches throughout the "new world" of New Spain. Since the early twentieth century, scholars have studied the colonial architecture of southern New Spain, but they have largely ignored the architecture of the north. However, as this book clearly demonstrates, the colonial architecture of Northern New…
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