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People, Planet, DesignA Practical Guide to Realizing Architecture’s Potential
If you were asked to close your eyes and envision where you are happiest, would you picture somewhere inside a building? North Americans are inside buildings for more than 90% of the day. Meanwhile, the indoors are stifling us, sometimes even killing us. Buildings, and the materials that make them up, expose us to materials linked to negative health impacts. The construction and operation of bu…
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Making Industrial Pittsburgh ModernEnvironment, Landscape, Transportation, En…
Pittsburgh's explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary transportation, energy resources, and suitable industrial and residential sites. Meeting these requirements in the region's challenging hilly topogra…
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Empathic DesignPerspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces
How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including your race, age, ethnicity, or gender identity. In the architecture and design professions, decisions about the articulation of public spaces and who may be honored in them have often been made by white men. How do designers rethink design processe…
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Five Bay LandscapesCurious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin
Threatened by issues of environmental health, climate change, population growth, and industrial demands, the coastal zone of the Great Lakes reflects an increasingly dysfunctional relationship between the people of the basin and the resources that support them. Perhaps no place is the physical manifestation of this struggle more evident than in the basin's shallow bays. While many regional and …
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Pensieri sull'architettura
Questo libro riunisce un'antologia di scritti - molti dei quali inediti in Italia - dai primi anni Trenta in poi: saggi pubblicati in volumi e in riviste di architettura, introduzioni, conferenze, e conversazioni con gli studenti. Louis I. Kahn appartiene alla grande stagione dell'architettura del Novecento, i cui massimi protagonisti (tra i quali egli va senz'altro annoverato) sono stati in gr…
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Rise of the Modern HospitalAn Architectural History of Health and Healing, 18…
Rise of the Modern Hospital is a focused examination of hospital design in the United States from the 1870s through the 1940s. This understudied period witnessed profound changes in hospitals as they shifted from last charitable resorts for the sick poor to premier locations of cutting-edge medical treatment for all classes, and from low-rise decentralized facilities to high-rise centralized st…
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Basilica Concattedrale di San Cesareo in Terracina
Questo breve saggio descrive principalmente la Basilica Concattedrale di San Cesareo, l'attuale Duomo di Terracina, Concattedrale della Diocesi di Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno, uno dei monumenti più interessanti e più noti della provincia di Latina e racconta la storia di un restauro che ha avuto inizio con la ricerca di documenti e dati riguardanti la basilica, proseguito poi, a seguito d…
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Washed with SunLandscape and the Making of White South Africa
South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the …
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Postindustrial DIYRecovering American Rust Belt Icons
WINNER, 2025 CENTER FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOOK PRIZE Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations, one in Buffalo, the othe…
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Planning and the Urban Community
This book presents a broad overview of the planning profession, and discusses many of the major problems encountered in urbanism and planning. The essays discuss topics that include education, the urban community, the place of planning in governmental hierarchy, and its relationship to urban political dynamics.
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