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Designing to HealPlanning and Urban Design Response to Disaster and Conflict
Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery. It examines the relationship that people have with their surroundings and the profound disruption to people's lives that can occur when that relationship is violently c…
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La vera storia del Natale
Perché il Natale si celebra il 25 dicembre? Perché è proprio la cometa, ritenuta in genere presagio di cattivo augurio in tutto il mondo antico, ad annunciare la nascita del Redentore? Perché la tradizione ci ha tramandato la figura di tre Re Magi mentre in realtà il Vangelo non specifica alcun numero? A queste e ad altre domande e curiosità risponde questo interessante testo di Francesco…
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Urban NationAustralia's Planning Heritage
Urban Nation: Australia's Planning Heritage provides the first national survey of the historical impact of urban planning and design on the Australian landscape. This ambitious account looks at every state and territory from the earliest days of European settlement to the present day. It identifies and documents hundreds of places - parks, public spaces, redeveloped precincts, neighbourhoods, s…
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Le ali della creativitàI Pomilio: una storia imprenditoriale dall'aeronautic…
Aeronautica e chimica, industria, alimentare ed edilizia. Ma anche sport a livello olimpico e soprattutto, a partire dagli anni '60, comunicazione e pubblicità- Quello della famiglia Pomilio - quattro generazioni che si snodano dai primi del Novecento a oggi - è un percorso peculiare e unico, che attraversa una molteplicità di settori e interessi sotto la comune insegna della creatività com…
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The Challenge of Interior DesignProfessional Value and Opportunities
A groundbreaking work—at an affordable price!* Fully revised and updated to reflect current trends * Invaluable for designers and the contractors and consultants who work with them Where is the business of interior design now? Where is it going? The Challenge of Interior Design shows designers how to see the big picture—how to understand the trends and movements in current design, then use …
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Architecture and UglinessAnti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture
Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This book presents sixteen new scholarly essays which rethink ugliness in recent architecture – from Brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions – and together offer a diverse reappraisa…
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- 9781350068254
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Becoming PhiladelphiaHow an Old American City Made Itself New Again
Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the "Next Detroit"—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city's physical transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Through her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on architecture and urbanism in the Philadelphia Inq…
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American AutopiaAn Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury
Early to mid-twentieth-century America was the heyday of a car culture that has been called an "automobile utopia." In American Autopia, Gabrielle Esperdy examines how the automobile influenced architectural and urban discourse in the United States from the earliest days of the auto industry to the aftermath of the 1970s oil crisis. Paying particular attention to developments after World War II…
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The Tender DetailOrnament and Sentimentality in the Architecture of Louis H. …
The Tender Detail tells a story about the repression of sentimentality through architectural ornament. The protagonists are Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, two of the most important architects and designers of ornament in American history. Interweaving close readings of their architecture and writings with wide-ranging discussions about sexuality, gender, and philosophy, the book expl…
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Modern Architecture and ClimateDesign before Air Conditioning
How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fos…
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