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Making Healthy Places, Second EditionDesigning and Building for Well-Being, E…
The first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environments and human health. Since its publication over 10 years ago, the field of healthy community design has evolved significantly to address major societal problems, including health disparities, obesity, and climate change. Most recently, the COVID-19 …
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Chora 5Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture.
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The Art of the City
In The Art of the City Raffaele Milani reflects on the ways in which inhabitants of the cityscape have interacted on a spiritual, psychological, and philosophical level with the architecture that surrounds them. Working with the premise that the city has a "soul," which is externalized in the physical structures of its urban space, Milani expresses alarm in the face of sprawling megacities that…
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Ghost StoreysRalph Adams Cram, Modern Gothic Media, and Deconstructive Microh…
Most studies of modern Gothic media assume that, beyond the 1830s, modern Gothic architecture and literature had very little in common. The work of Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942), America’s most prolific Gothic Revival architect and an author of ghost stories, challenges that assumption. The first interdisciplinary study of Cram’s aesthetics, Cameron Macdonell’s Ghost Storeys d…
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Arquitecturas de la Universidad del Rosario
"Esta obra es un recorrido por las edificaciones más representativas de la Universidad del Rosario, organizadas en tres grandes capítulos según las sedes en las que se encuentran y los periodos históricos en los que se construyeron. Además de las fotografías y reseñas que acompañan a cada edificación, los capítulos cuentan con un ensayo introductorio que explica al lector no especiali…
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Managing the Climate CrisisDesigning and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, …
The climate, which had been relatively stable for centuries, is well into a new and dangerous phase. In 2020 there were 22 weather and climate disasters in the United States, which resulted in 262 deaths. Each disaster cost more than a billion dollars to repair. This dangerous trend is continuing with unprecedented heat waves, extended drought, extraordinary wildfire seasons, torrential d…
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City ForwardHow Innovation Districts Can Embrace Risk and Strengthen Community
Innovation districts and anchor institutions—like hospitals, universities, and technology hubs—are celebrated for their ability to drive economic growth and employment opportunities. But the benefits often fail to reach the very neighborhoods they are built in. As CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Matt Enstice took a different approach. Under Matt's leadership, BNMC has supported e…
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Remote PracticesArchitecture at a Distance
As advancements in transportation and technology continue to close the gap between architect, client, builder and site, critique and place, this book considers how architects, designers, theorists, and critics design, describe and critique future and past constructions in absentia. This book engages with remote practice, providing students, academics and professionals with the understanding and…
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A New Way of Living
A New Way of Living tells the broad story of the development of new towns in the Scottish Highlands and Islands post-1750.It pulls together the various strands that influenced the development of the North West Highlands after the disastrous risings and charts the government-backed attempts at establishing fishing villages from Argyll to Sutherland, as well as private initiatives to do likewise …
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Cleveland's Cultural GardensA Landscape of Diversity
Honoring and embodying the cultural heritages of a region through the beauty of shared outdoor spaces From their beginnings as private farmland to their current form as monuments to cultural and ethnic diversity, the unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens that compose Cleveland's Cultural Gardens holds a rich history. John J. Grabowski guides readers through this story, using both arc…
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