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This publication is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. The author offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local(...)
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This publication is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. The author offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local(...)
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History until 1900, Middle East
History until 1900, Middle East
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August 2008, Standford
August 2008, Standford
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Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia
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This publication is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. The author offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local experiences of place, justice, relatedness, and possibilities for belief in an aggressively changing world.
Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia
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This publication is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. The author offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local experiences of place, justice, relatedness, and possibilities for belief in an aggressively changing world.
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August 2008, Standford
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In Architecture of the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailled and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the(...)
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In Architecture of the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailled and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the(...)
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History until 1900, Middle East
History until 1900, Middle East
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January 1900, Cairo, New York
January 1900, Cairo, New York
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Architecture for the Dead: Cairo's Medieval Necropolis
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In Architecture of the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailled and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the necropolis: from Mamluk to neo-Mamluk via baroque and neo-pharaonic, from the grandest stone buildings with their decorative domes and minarets to the humblest, but elaborately decorated, wooden structures.
Architecture for the Dead: Cairo's Medieval Necropolis
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In Architecture of the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailled and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the necropolis: from Mamluk to neo-Mamluk via baroque and neo-pharaonic, from the grandest stone buildings with their decorative domes and minarets to the humblest, but elaborately decorated, wooden structures.
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January 1900, Cairo, New York
January 1900, Cairo, New York
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In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change. Having ceded control of development to the private sector, the Johannesburg city(...)
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In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change. Having ceded control of development to the private sector, the Johannesburg city(...)
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History until 1900, Middle East
History until 1900, Middle East
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June 2008, Ithaca, London
June 2008, Ithaca, London
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Taming the disorderly city: the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid
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In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change. Having ceded control of development to the private sector, the Johannesburg city government has all but abandoned residential planning to the unpredictability of market forces. This failure to plan for the civic good--and the resulting confusion--is a perfect example of the entrepreneurial approaches to urban governance that are sweeping much of the Global South as well as the cities of the North. Martin J. Murray brings together a wide range of urban theory and local knowledge to draw a nuanced portrait of contemporary Johannesburg. In Taming the Disorderly City, he provides a focused intellectual and political critique of the often-ambivalent urban dynamics that have emerged after the end of apartheid. Exploring the behaviors of the rich and poor, each empowered in their own way, as they rebuild a new Johannesburg, we see the entrepreneurial city: high-rises, shopping districts, and gated communities surrounded by and intermingled with poverty. In graceful prose, Murray offers a compelling portrait of the everyday lives of the urban poor as seen through the lens of real-estate capitalism and revitalization efforts.
Taming the disorderly city: the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid
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In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change. Having ceded control of development to the private sector, the Johannesburg city government has all but abandoned residential planning to the unpredictability of market forces. This failure to plan for the civic good--and the resulting confusion--is a perfect example of the entrepreneurial approaches to urban governance that are sweeping much of the Global South as well as the cities of the North. Martin J. Murray brings together a wide range of urban theory and local knowledge to draw a nuanced portrait of contemporary Johannesburg. In Taming the Disorderly City, he provides a focused intellectual and political critique of the often-ambivalent urban dynamics that have emerged after the end of apartheid. Exploring the behaviors of the rich and poor, each empowered in their own way, as they rebuild a new Johannesburg, we see the entrepreneurial city: high-rises, shopping districts, and gated communities surrounded by and intermingled with poverty. In graceful prose, Murray offers a compelling portrait of the everyday lives of the urban poor as seen through the lens of real-estate capitalism and revitalization efforts.
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June 2008, Ithaca, London
June 2008, Ithaca, London
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History until 1900, Middle East
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In "Histories of dirt," Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number(...)
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In "Histories of dirt," Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number(...)
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Histories of dirt: media and urban life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
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In "Histories of dirt," Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number of texts ranging from newspaper articles by elite Lagosians to colonial travel writing, public health films, and urban planning to show how understandings of dirt came to structure colonial governance. Seeing Lagosians as sources of contagion and dirt, British colonizers used racist ideologies and discourses of dirt to justify racial segregation and public health policies. Newell also explores possibilities for non-Eurocentric methods for identifying African urbanites' own values and opinions by foregrounding the voices of contemporary Lagosians through interviews and focus groups in which their responses to public health issues reflect local aesthetic tastes and values. In excavating the shifting role of dirt in structuring social and political life in Lagos, Newell provides new understandings of colonial and postcolonial urban history in West Africa.
Histories of dirt: media and urban life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
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In "Histories of dirt," Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number of texts ranging from newspaper articles by elite Lagosians to colonial travel writing, public health films, and urban planning to show how understandings of dirt came to structure colonial governance. Seeing Lagosians as sources of contagion and dirt, British colonizers used racist ideologies and discourses of dirt to justify racial segregation and public health policies. Newell also explores possibilities for non-Eurocentric methods for identifying African urbanites' own values and opinions by foregrounding the voices of contemporary Lagosians through interviews and focus groups in which their responses to public health issues reflect local aesthetic tastes and values. In excavating the shifting role of dirt in structuring social and political life in Lagos, Newell provides new understandings of colonial and postcolonial urban history in West Africa.
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December 2019
December 2019
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This book focuses on 200 of the plants which enjoy particularly high esteem in The Orient. Oriental Flowers presents these specimens by means of beautifully hand-drawn plates. It may come as a surprise to many peoplethat the majority of the cultivated plants and trees we are so fond of here in the western world originally hailed from China and the Orient. The Chinese(...)
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This book focuses on 200 of the plants which enjoy particularly high esteem in The Orient. Oriental Flowers presents these specimens by means of beautifully hand-drawn plates. It may come as a surprise to many peoplethat the majority of the cultivated plants and trees we are so fond of here in the western world originally hailed from China and the Orient. The Chinese(...)
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Oriental flowers: Chinese brush paintings
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This book focuses on 200 of the plants which enjoy particularly high esteem in The Orient. Oriental Flowers presents these specimens by means of beautifully hand-drawn plates. It may come as a surprise to many peoplethat the majority of the cultivated plants and trees we are so fond of here in the western world originally hailed from China and the Orient. The Chinese revere the plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum as the "four gentlemen," believing that they possess incomparably noble qualities; and for the Japanese, cherry blossoms symbolize love and hope. This has led to a longstanding tradition of painting plants that developed into a significant style of painting. The book is firmly rooted in this tradition, and of particular importance is the way in which it has been produced; printed on paper scroll which is as thin as silk, it is bound using traditional methods.
Oriental flowers: Chinese brush paintings
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This book focuses on 200 of the plants which enjoy particularly high esteem in The Orient. Oriental Flowers presents these specimens by means of beautifully hand-drawn plates. It may come as a surprise to many peoplethat the majority of the cultivated plants and trees we are so fond of here in the western world originally hailed from China and the Orient. The Chinese revere the plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum as the "four gentlemen," believing that they possess incomparably noble qualities; and for the Japanese, cherry blossoms symbolize love and hope. This has led to a longstanding tradition of painting plants that developed into a significant style of painting. The book is firmly rooted in this tradition, and of particular importance is the way in which it has been produced; printed on paper scroll which is as thin as silk, it is bound using traditional methods.
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June 2013
June 2013
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Une conversation imaginaire entre deux réalisateurs, libanais et israélien, qui évoque, à partir de souvenirs des conflits locaux, la manière dont le souvenir et le témoignage mêlent inéluctablement fiction et documentaire, qui apporte un éclairage singulier sur l'histoire récente du Moyen-Orient et qui pose aussi la question de ce que signifie « faire des images » aujourd'hui.
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Une conversation imaginaire entre deux réalisateurs, libanais et israélien, qui évoque, à partir de souvenirs des conflits locaux, la manière dont le souvenir et le témoignage mêlent inéluctablement fiction et documentaire, qui apporte un éclairage singulier sur l'histoire récente du Moyen-Orient et qui pose aussi la question de ce que signifie « faire des images » aujourd'hui.
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July 2012
July 2012
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Conversation avec un cinéaste israélien imaginé : Avi Mograbi
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Une conversation imaginaire entre deux réalisateurs, libanais et israélien, qui évoque, à partir de souvenirs des conflits locaux, la manière dont le souvenir et le témoignage mêlent inéluctablement fiction et documentaire, qui apporte un éclairage singulier sur l'histoire récente du Moyen-Orient et qui pose aussi la question de ce que signifie « faire des images » aujourd'hui.
Conversation avec un cinéaste israélien imaginé : Avi Mograbi
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Une conversation imaginaire entre deux réalisateurs, libanais et israélien, qui évoque, à partir de souvenirs des conflits locaux, la manière dont le souvenir et le témoignage mêlent inéluctablement fiction et documentaire, qui apporte un éclairage singulier sur l'histoire récente du Moyen-Orient et qui pose aussi la question de ce que signifie « faire des images » aujourd'hui.
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July 2012
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This guide provides basic tips and hints to help students make the most of their work. Advice ranges from the practical (how to orient a building on a site) to the thought-provoking (notions of taste) to just plain fun (how to dress, or not to dress, like an architect). All accompanied by the author's illustrations.
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This guide provides basic tips and hints to help students make the most of their work. Advice ranges from the practical (how to orient a building on a site) to the thought-provoking (notions of taste) to just plain fun (how to dress, or not to dress, like an architect). All accompanied by the author's illustrations.
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The architecture school survival guide
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This guide provides basic tips and hints to help students make the most of their work. Advice ranges from the practical (how to orient a building on a site) to the thought-provoking (notions of taste) to just plain fun (how to dress, or not to dress, like an architect). All accompanied by the author's illustrations.
The architecture school survival guide
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This guide provides basic tips and hints to help students make the most of their work. Advice ranges from the practical (how to orient a building on a site) to the thought-provoking (notions of taste) to just plain fun (how to dress, or not to dress, like an architect). All accompanied by the author's illustrations.
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August 2015
August 2015
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Syrie, Liban, Jordanie, Israël, Territoires palestiniens, Turquie, ont été depuis des millénaires le théâtre de confrontations majeures entre civilisations qui ont laissé derrière elles des monuments divers. On peut désormais mieux appréhender les influences réciproques entre belligérants, mesurer combien les facteurs de guerre propres au Moyen-Orient ont pu engendrer des(...)
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Syrie, Liban, Jordanie, Israël, Territoires palestiniens, Turquie, ont été depuis des millénaires le théâtre de confrontations majeures entre civilisations qui ont laissé derrière elles des monuments divers. On peut désormais mieux appréhender les influences réciproques entre belligérants, mesurer combien les facteurs de guerre propres au Moyen-Orient ont pu engendrer des(...)
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May 2004, Rennes
May 2004, Rennes
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La fortification au temps des Croisades
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Syrie, Liban, Jordanie, Israël, Territoires palestiniens, Turquie, ont été depuis des millénaires le théâtre de confrontations majeures entre civilisations qui ont laissé derrière elles des monuments divers. On peut désormais mieux appréhender les influences réciproques entre belligérants, mesurer combien les facteurs de guerre propres au Moyen-Orient ont pu engendrer des solutions architecturales originales et innovantes.
La fortification au temps des Croisades
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Syrie, Liban, Jordanie, Israël, Territoires palestiniens, Turquie, ont été depuis des millénaires le théâtre de confrontations majeures entre civilisations qui ont laissé derrière elles des monuments divers. On peut désormais mieux appréhender les influences réciproques entre belligérants, mesurer combien les facteurs de guerre propres au Moyen-Orient ont pu engendrer des solutions architecturales originales et innovantes.
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May 2004, Rennes
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6 volumes : color illustrations ; 9-36 cm, in box 37 x 27 x 4 cm
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Basel : Birkhäuser Verlag Gmb7H, [2014], ©2014
Basel : Birkhäuser Verlag Gmb7H, [2014], ©2014
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City by landscape : die Landschaftsarchitektur von Rainer Schmidt = The landscape architecture of Rainer Schmidt / Thies Schröder (Hrsg./Ed.) ; mit Essay-Beiträgen von Helmut Jahn, Kirsten Merete Langkilde, Sohrab Mashhoodi, Daniel Roehr, Thies Schröder, Marc Treib und Stefan Winter ; Übersetzung vom Deutschen ins Englische und vom Englischen ins Deutsche = translation from German into English and from English into German, Philip Schäfer.
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City by landscape : die Landschaftsarchitektur von Rainer Schmidt = The landscape architecture of Rainer Schmidt / Thies Schröder (Hrsg./Ed.) ; mit Essay-Beiträgen von Helmut Jahn, Kirsten Merete Langkilde, Sohrab Mashhoodi, Daniel Roehr, Thies Schröder, Marc Treib und Stefan Winter ; Übersetzung vom Deutschen ins Englische und vom Englischen ins Deutsche = translation from German into English and from English into German, Philip Schäfer.
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New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, [2025]
New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, [2025]
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Tips from the top : architects share their advice for success / edited by Clifford Pearson, Ken Yeang, and Raghda AlHayali.
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New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, [2025]
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