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Recent surveys have provided new and updated information into public insights of the nascent space tourism industry. Erik Seedhouse uniquely explores in detail the cutting-edge technologies, spacecraft capabilities, launch vehicles and the training that will define this commercial enterprise and also provides a manual for future suborbital and orbital private space(...)
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Tourist in space, a pratical guide
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Recent surveys have provided new and updated information into public insights of the nascent space tourism industry. Erik Seedhouse uniquely explores in detail the cutting-edge technologies, spacecraft capabilities, launch vehicles and the training that will define this commercial enterprise and also provides a manual for future suborbital and orbital private space explorers. This overview of the space tourism market is based upon choices the spaceflight participant must make, such as choice of agency, mode and spaceport.
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November 2008
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Beyond is a bookazine dedicated to new, experimental forms of architectural and urban writing. In the second issue of Beyond there is an excerpt of Douglas Coupland's new novel, "Generation A," and contributions from Lieven de Cauter, François Roche and many others.
Beyond no. 2: values and symptoms
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Beyond is a bookazine dedicated to new, experimental forms of architectural and urban writing. In the second issue of Beyond there is an excerpt of Douglas Coupland's new novel, "Generation A," and contributions from Lieven de Cauter, François Roche and many others.
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Amsterdam memory game
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Amsterdam is the world’s most cosmopolitan village. As a brand known all over the world and actually even more familiar than the Netherlands of which it is of course the capital. Amsterdam is full of iconic objects, sites, buildings, people and brands. This memory game is devoted to images of Amsterdam. The challenge is to find matching pairs of typical Amsterdam(...)
Amsterdam memory game
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Amsterdam is the world’s most cosmopolitan village. As a brand known all over the world and actually even more familiar than the Netherlands of which it is of course the capital. Amsterdam is full of iconic objects, sites, buildings, people and brands. This memory game is devoted to images of Amsterdam. The challenge is to find matching pairs of typical Amsterdam bridges, houses, bikes, architectural details, shop windows, ladies behind red light windows, kitsch Amsterdam souvenirs, famous Amsterdammers, street brands, Amsterdam boats et cetera.
Toys
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The computer game SimCity may have had its best time, but professional urban simulation and gaming programmes that model the development and growth of a city are increasingly complex. Presented here in this illustrated publication are the results of research by the International New Town Institute that examines these developments in connection with urban strategic(...)
Model Town : using urban simulation in New Town Planning
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The computer game SimCity may have had its best time, but professional urban simulation and gaming programmes that model the development and growth of a city are increasingly complex. Presented here in this illustrated publication are the results of research by the International New Town Institute that examines these developments in connection with urban strategic planning and the creation of new towns. Some ten chapters present a variety of essays and research, accompanied by a substantial body of plans and models.
Urban Theory
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The long period in-between demolition or renovation of a building site and the arrival of a new building can often impose a sad and somewhat ugly sight on a neighbourhood, however it can also offer possibilities to give a new and dynamic impulse. Hotel Transvaal, which lies in the neighbourhood of Transvaal, in The Hague, Netherlands, is such a source of inspiration. More(...)
Between times : Hotel Transvaal, catalyzing urban transformation
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The long period in-between demolition or renovation of a building site and the arrival of a new building can often impose a sad and somewhat ugly sight on a neighbourhood, however it can also offer possibilities to give a new and dynamic impulse. Hotel Transvaal, which lies in the neighbourhood of Transvaal, in The Hague, Netherlands, is such a source of inspiration. More than half of the social housing in this neighbourhood was demolished, however many of the finest rooms could be temporarily booked up until the moment of demolition. The interiors of the ‘hotel’ rooms were designed by artists and shop-owners from the neighbourhood. This book explores the development and realisation of the project.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Cities such as New York, Almere and Melbourne where once created behind a drawing table and delivered in a new condition, according to the master-plan. Yet from the moment that people started to occupy these places, the design has changed with substantial additions and alterations. Can architects and city-planners anticipate unplanned activities, contributions from(...)
New towns for the 21st Century
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Cities such as New York, Almere and Melbourne where once created behind a drawing table and delivered in a new condition, according to the master-plan. Yet from the moment that people started to occupy these places, the design has changed with substantial additions and alterations. Can architects and city-planners anticipate unplanned activities, contributions from citizens, along with changing political, economic and cultural conditions? The International New Town Institute (INTI) situated in the young Dutch town of Almere, conducts research into the development of new towns. In this book the institute searches for the relationships between planned and un-planned cities.
Urban Theory
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Wars, internal conflicts and natural catastrophes are plaguing the world. Millions of people are on the run in search of new, safer places to settle temporarily or permanently. This book goes in more depth into the aspects of modern settlements that are related to architecture, urban design and planning.
Human settlements, formulations and (re) calibration
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Wars, internal conflicts and natural catastrophes are plaguing the world. Millions of people are on the run in search of new, safer places to settle temporarily or permanently. This book goes in more depth into the aspects of modern settlements that are related to architecture, urban design and planning.
Collective Housing
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Catalogue published for the exhibition (october 2009-february 2010) organised by the international Centre for urbanism, architecture and landscape, in partnership with Espace architecture La Cambre Horta. This book provides the reader with the opportunity to explore avant-garde Chinese architecture, design and urban planning via five separate themes: living architecture,(...)
Heart-made, the cutting edge of chinese contemporary architecture
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Catalogue published for the exhibition (october 2009-february 2010) organised by the international Centre for urbanism, architecture and landscape, in partnership with Espace architecture La Cambre Horta. This book provides the reader with the opportunity to explore avant-garde Chinese architecture, design and urban planning via five separate themes: living architecture, digital architecture, video architecture, installation art and sound art. Influenced in large part by Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, contemporary Chinese architects and artists are pioneers in architecture and design in China, actively engaging with the fast-changing society that surrounds them.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Un pop-up très design qui évoque un jeu de cubes, labyrinthique et fascinant, sur la métamorphose d'une ville. Au commencement du livre Popville, on trouve un tout petit village, socle posé sur la première double page. C’est le cœur de la future ville : une église au toit rouge, deux maisons, une petite voiture jaune, des arbres de chaque côté. Et puis, sur la(...)
Popville
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Un pop-up très design qui évoque un jeu de cubes, labyrinthique et fascinant, sur la métamorphose d'une ville. Au commencement du livre Popville, on trouve un tout petit village, socle posé sur la première double page. C’est le cœur de la future ville : une église au toit rouge, deux maisons, une petite voiture jaune, des arbres de chaque côté. Et puis, sur la double suivante, voilà une grue qui surgit, une route qui s’allonge… Peu à peu, la ville se construit, s’étend, prend forme, en volumes de plus en plus imposants et chargés d’immeubles, de routes, de câbles… À chaque nouvelle double page, des découvertes : une gare, une école, une mosquée… et le paysage se métamorphose, pour finalement devenir une cité-mégapole traversée par des autobus, des voitures et des espaces verts.
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Le Walt Disney Concert Hall à Los Angeles de Frank Gehry, le Terminal 4 de l aéroport de Barajas à Madrid par Richard Rogers ou encore le nid , stade national olympique de Pékin par Herzog & de Meuron sont quelques-uns des 38 projets présentés dans cet ouvrage qui offre un panorama clair et concis des uvres architecturales majeures réalisées dans le monde depuis le(...)
Bâtir le nouveau millénaire, l'architecture à l'aube du XXIe siècle
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Le Walt Disney Concert Hall à Los Angeles de Frank Gehry, le Terminal 4 de l aéroport de Barajas à Madrid par Richard Rogers ou encore le nid , stade national olympique de Pékin par Herzog & de Meuron sont quelques-uns des 38 projets présentés dans cet ouvrage qui offre un panorama clair et concis des uvres architecturales majeures réalisées dans le monde depuis le passage au nouveau millénaire. Cette sélection réunit les plus grands et célèbres architectes contemporains tels que Toyo Ito, Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, Jean Nouvel, Tadao Ando ou Norman Foster. Il inclut un large éventail de types de bâtiments : stades, salles de concerts, musées, sièges d entreprises, bâtiments gouvernementaux ainsi que des constructions à échelle plus réduite telles que boutiques ou cafés.
History since 1900, Reference Books