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Architecture in Global SocialismEastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle E…
How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet era In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. Architecture …
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Building Construction Illustrated
The #1 visual guide to building construction principles, updated with the latest materials, methods, and systems For over four decades, Building Construction Illustrated has been the leading visual guide to the principles of building construction. Filled with rich illustrations and in-depth content by renowned author Francis D.K. Ching, it offers students and practicing professionals the infor…
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A Modern History of European Cities1815 to the Present
Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey to cities and towns across the continent, in search of the patterns of development that have shaped the urban landscape as indelibly European. The focus is on the built environment, the social and cultural transformations that mark the patterns of co…
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Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World
Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World examines the philology of orientalism. It discusses how European (and in particular German) orientalism has influenced the modern understanding of how language accesses reality and offers a critical reinterpretation of orientalism, ontology and modernity. This book pushes an innovative focus on the global history of knowledge as e…
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Traces of J. B. JacksonThe Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America
J. B. Jackson transformed forever how Americans understand their landscape, a concept he defined as land shaped by human presence. In the first major biography of the greatest pioneer in landscape studies, Helen Horowitz shares with us a man who focused on what he regarded as the essential American landscape, the everyday places of the countryside and city, exploring them as texts that reveal i…
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Crafting HistoryArchiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy
What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much beyond the act of building or the life of a creator. In this book we …
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Architectural Models, Second EditionConstruction Techniques
Architects' models serve as bridge between an idea and its realization. Models are one of the three means by which an architect invents and develops his design: sketch-model-computer model. No other representational form is as effective in enabling the viewer to perceive the spaces, shapes, surfaces and textures created by the architect's design — it is therefore a prerequisite in the design …
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Sustainable CommunitiesSkills and Learning for Place Making
Drawing upon interdisciplinary research conducted across various universities within the United Kingdom, this book offers insights into how local initiatives can enhance sustainable development and engage people in creating better places in which to live. Demonstrating how to embed sustainability in all levels of education, this account contains imaginative, practical, and accessible ways in wh…
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Una città per tuttiDiritti, spazi, cittadinanza
La questione del «diritto alla città», per richiamare il titolo di un famoso libro di Henri Lefebvre, pubblicato nel 1968 e tornato negli ultimi anni alla ribalta, è centrale in un'epoca come quella attuale in cui le megalopoli mettono sempre più sotto i nostri occhi la difficoltà, per i progettisti e la classe politica, di governare la natura complessa e mobile della dimensione urbana co…
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Per una città sostenibileQuattordici voci per un manifesto
«La centralità della questione dei limiti richiede una sempre più accurata conoscenza dei territori in termini di cicli di vita, con un approccio non resistenziale ma capace di muoversi entro uno spazio disponibile che, in termini ecologici, è limitato. Muoversi dentro i limiti sollecita stili di vita diversi e un differente approccio al consumo esteso alla città, ai suoi spazi e alle sue …
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