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A radical reconceptualization of modernism, this book traces the appearance of the modern artist to the Paris of the 1830s and links the emergence of an enduring modernist aesthetic to the fleeting forms of popular culture.
Popular Bohemia: modernism and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris
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Welcome to Blubberland--a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home entertainment system, pension fund, cosmetic surgery), but in fact we've grown increasingly bloated, bored, and miserable. In(...)
Blubberland: the dangers of happiness
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Welcome to Blubberland--a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home entertainment system, pension fund, cosmetic surgery), but in fact we've grown increasingly bloated, bored, and miserable. In Blubberland, award-winning critic Elizabeth Farrelly looks at our "superfluous superfluity," our huge eco-footprint, and asks why we find it so hard to abandon habits we know to be destructive. Why can't we build human-scale cities, design meaningful public spaces, eat reasonable meals, and stop assaulting nature? Farrelly, trained as an architect, begins this story with architecture, urban sprawl, and housing, but she does not end there. She also looks at "affluenza," childhood asthma, diabetes, addiction, beauty, ugliness, narcissism, climate change, mega-churches, big box retailers, sustainability, depression, anorexia, and the links that collect all of these issues under the same roof--the roof, as it were, of the McMansion. As "big" becomes more and more pervasive, and success is seen in increasingly measurable and material terms, the goal of happiness jeopardizes our survival. Blubberland is a smart, thoughtful, and stylish argument for turning things around.
Urban Theory
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Contributions by Agnes Förster, Alain Thierstein, Christian Kruse, Simin Davoudi, Maurits Schaafsma, Wilhelm Natrup, Reinhard Frei, Wil Zonneveld, Heiri Leuthold, Ursula Stein, Henrik Schultz, Julian Petrin, Remo Burkhard, Eckart Lange, Urs Primas, Meret Wandeler, Beatrix Bencseky. For the majority of politicians, planners, institutions, and residents the features of(...)
The image and the region - making mega-city regions visible!
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Contributions by Agnes Förster, Alain Thierstein, Christian Kruse, Simin Davoudi, Maurits Schaafsma, Wilhelm Natrup, Reinhard Frei, Wil Zonneveld, Heiri Leuthold, Ursula Stein, Henrik Schultz, Julian Petrin, Remo Burkhard, Eckart Lange, Urs Primas, Meret Wandeler, Beatrix Bencseky. For the majority of politicians, planners, institutions, and residents the features of mega-city regions remain invisible. They are scarcely charted; there are no concepts for representing them or any direct sensory understanding of them in everyday life. The book is based on the understanding that the visual depiction of mega-city regions is fundamental to identifying, acting, and developing within existing concentrations of urban populations. Through essays from various disciplines the book approaches the phenomenon and discusses the necessity to visualize mega-city regions.
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Histoire de la ville
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Première édition en 1983
Histoire de la ville
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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs(...)
The death and life of great American cities
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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
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December 1992, New York
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City speculations
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Originally an exhibition at the Queens Museum, 'City Specualtions' includes projects by: Balch & Baratloo; Diller + Scofidio; Keller Easterling; the Environmental Simulation Center; Andrea Kahn; Ana Marton; Brian(...)
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Originally an exhibition at the Queens Museum, 'City Specualtions' includes projects by: Balch & Baratloo; Diller + Scofidio; Keller Easterling; the Environmental Simulation Center; Andrea Kahn; Ana Marton; Brian McGrath; Kyong Park; Richard Plunz; RAAUm; Mark Robbins; Newark Metametrics; Wellington Reiter; Mierle Ukeles; and Camilio Vergara.
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April 1996, New York
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Un autre point de vue, un nouveau type de regard s'avèrent nécessaire afin d'apprivoiser la grande ville contemporaine. Tout regard présuppose un sujet. La ville idéale de la Renaissance était inséparable de cet homme générique, animal doué de raison, microcosme ordonnateur, dont la perspective cherchait à codifier la vision. Dans cet essai, le cyborg(...)
La ville territoire des cyborgs
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Un autre point de vue, un nouveau type de regard s'avèrent nécessaire afin d'apprivoiser la grande ville contemporaine. Tout regard présuppose un sujet. La ville idéale de la Renaissance était inséparable de cet homme générique, animal doué de raison, microcosme ordonnateur, dont la perspective cherchait à codifier la vision. Dans cet essai, le cyborg tient un rôle comparable, s'agissant cette fois d'explorer les complexités de la ville territoire d'aujourd'hui. Hybride d'homme et de machine, individu parfait parce que rendu pleinement autonome par la technologie, le cyborg est bien sûr une fiction. Cette fiction n'en permet pas moins d'analyser des aspects essentiels de la grande ville d'aujourd'hui, de son étrange parenté avec l'univers des jeux électroniques au rôle qu'y tiennent les réseaux avant de se pencher sur son architecture.
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With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible.
Good city form
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With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible.
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'Seaside' provides a history of the town, interviews with its planners, zoning and building codes, and drawings, photographs, and descriptions of over 120 buildings by 40 architects.
Seaside : making a town in America
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'Seaside' provides a history of the town, interviews with its planners, zoning and building codes, and drawings, photographs, and descriptions of over 120 buildings by 40 architects.
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December 1988, New York
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Cloth edition published in 1995.
City life : urban expectations in a new world
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Cloth edition published in 1995.
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January 1900, Toronto
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