Building the Caldecott Tunnel

Today, the Caldecott Tunnel connects Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The original two bores of this tunnel opened in 1937, the same year as the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, and changed Contra Costa County from an area of small rural communities into one of growing suburbs. But this was not the first tunnel to connect these counties. The Kennedy T…

La clandestinidad anarquista. De la Comuna de París a la Mano Negra (1871-1883)

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Industrial Green GameImplications for Environmental Design and Management

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9780309520423

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Adaptive Urban TransformationUrban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Te…

This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development…

bauen, retten, pflegenTexte zur Bauwende

Im Bauwesen hatte die Zeitenwende sich lange angekündigt: in Befunden, Warnungen, Bekenntnissen. Seit die Hinterlassenschaften des Bauens – maroder Altbestand, Brachen, Schutt und Emissionen – mehr Aufmerksamkeit finden als die Bauten selbst, müssen die Architektur, der Städte- und Landschaftsbau und auch die Denkmalpflege den Kurs wechseln. Aber wohin? Wo das Ziel ungewiss oder umstritt…

Industrial Green GameImplications for Environmental Design and Management

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Anche Mosè beveva birraAlle origini della bevanda più diffusa al mondo

La birra, nella cultura occidentale, è stata spesso considerata una bevanda rozza e meno dignitosa rispetto al vino. In realtà nel Vicino Oriente Antico aveva un'importanza notevole, a livello sia sociale sia religioso, tanto che in Mesopotamia vi era addirittura una divinità ad essa dedicata. Questo libro traccia una documentata storia del «pane liquido» nelle civiltà mesopotamiche e nel…

Playhouses and PrivilegeThe Architecture of Elite Childhood

Examining playhouses of the super-rich to understand how architecture contributed to the construction of elite identity and modern childhood Playhouses and Privilege explores children’s playhouses built on British and American estates between the 1850s and the mid-1930s. Different from the prefabricated buildings that later populated suburban backyards, these playhouses were often fully …

Urban Policy in a Changing Federal SystemProceedings of a Symposium

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Progettare la Biblioteca

Questo volume nasce a scopo principalmente didattico, e da qui l'idea di inserire dodici schede relative ad altrettanti progetti di biblioteche di media dimensione, biblioteche di quartiere, come quella che è oggetto del Laboratorio di Progettazione di cui le autrici di questo libro si occupano. In un testo dattiloscritto del 1964, dal titolo "L'architettura delle piccole biblioteche civiche",…