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Author | : Dana Cuff |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262532020 |
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A look at urban transformation through the architecture and land development of large-scale residential projects.
Author | : Renata Tyszczuk |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2017-11-02 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317074041 |
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This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene – the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the Earth system. It charts an environmental history of curfews, admonitions and alarms about dwelling on Earth. ‘Provisional cities’ are explored as exemplary sites for thinking about living in this unsettled time. Each chapter focuses on cities, settlements or proxy urbanisations, including past disaster zones, remote outposts in the present and future urban fossils. The book explores the dynamic, changing and contradictory relationship between architecture and the global environmental crisis and looks at how to re-position architectural and urban practice in relation to wider intellectual, environmental, political and cultural shifts. The book argues that these rounder and richer accounts can better equip humanity to think through questions of vulnerability, responsibility and opportunity that are presented by immense processes of planetary change. These are cautionary tales for the Anthropocene. Central to this project is the proposition that living with uncertainty requires that architecture is reframed as a provisional practice. This book would be beneficial to students and academics working in architecture, geography, planning and environmental humanities as well as professionals working to shape the future of cities.
Author | : Frances L. Reinhold |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1512806099 |
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author | : Dana Cuff |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0262356996 |
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Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies. Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpreting their histories, engaging with them in the present, and speculating about their futures. This book introduces both the theory and practice of urban humanities, tracing the evolution of the concept, presenting methods and practices with a wide range of research applications, describing changes in teaching and curricula, and offering case studies of urban humanities practices in the field. Urban humanities views the city through a lens of spatial justice, and its inquiries are centered on the microsettings of everyday life. The book's case studies report on real-world projects in mega-cities in the Pacific Rim—Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, and Los Angeles—with several projects described in detail, including playful spaces for children in car-oriented Mexico City, a commons in a Tokyo neighborhood, and a rolling story-telling box to promote “literary justice” in Los Angeles.
Author | : Dana Cuff |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262531122 |
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Dana Cuff delves into the architect's everyday world in "Architecture" to uncover an intricate social art of design, resulting in a new portrait of the profession that sheds light on what it means to become an architect.
Author | : Elite Kedan |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-10-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781568988788 |
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Provisional profiles nine of the United States' most exciting architectural practices. They all share a pragmatic, "roll-up-your-sleeves" approach that seeks opportunities to redefine the role of craft in architectural practice. Enlightening interviews together with a selection of drawings, diagrams, models, renderings, and building process photographs reveal a shared commitment to experimentation and learning-by-doing. Projects by SHoP Architects, Front Studio, Gehry Technologies, Lewis.Tsurumaki. Lewis, Hweler + Yoon Architecture, nARCHITECTS, servo, GYA Architects, and Chris Hoxie Design are included as well as the following projects: Beijing National Stadium, China Central Television (CCTV) Station and Headquarters (Beijing), Dee and Charles Wyly Theater (Dallas); FutureGen Power Plant (Illinois); Highline HL23 (New York City); and the Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle).
Author | : Li Zhang |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804779341 |
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With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control. This book traces the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government’s household registration system. The author explores this important social change through a detailed ethnographic account of the construction, destruction, and eventual reconstruction of the largest migrant community in Beijing. She focuses on the informal privatization of space and power in this community through analyzing the ways migrant leaders build their power base by controlling housing and market spaces and mobilizing social networks. The author argues that to gain a deeper understanding of recent Chinese social and political transformations, one must examine not only to what extent state power still dominates everyday social life, but also how the aims and methods of late socialist governance change under new social and economic conditions. In revealing the complexities and uncertainties of the shifting power and social relations in post-Mao China, this book challenges the common notion that sees recent changes as an inevitable move toward liberal capitalism and democracy.
Author | : New York (N.Y.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
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Includes Official canvas of votes (varies slightly) 1878-1943.
Author | : Abdou Maliqalim Simone |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2004-10-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780822334453 |
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DIVA study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning./div
Author | : Ysolda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Knitting |
ISBN | : 9780956525826 |
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"From ... designer Ysolda Teague comes Little red in the city. Part pattern collection, part resource book Ysolda shares all of her tips for successful sweaters that perfectly fit your body. Each of the seven inspiring designs is modelled by Ysolda herself and by her friend Amanda Allen, showing the garment in two different sizes and helping you envision how each design will look on your own shape. 15-17 sizes are included in each pattern, ranging from a 28-60" finished bust"--P. [4] of cover.