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248 pages : illustrations (black and white), plans ; 26 cm
London : Lund Humphries, 2025., ©2025
1960s University Buildings : the golden age of British modern architecture / John Barr.
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xviii, 191 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
Speaking for a long time : public space and social memory in Vancouver / Adrienne L. Burk.
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Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
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''The importance of mistakes'', an interview with Terrt Dowling by Adrian Shaughnessy - ''Mapping the terrain : illustration for children'', by Martin Salisbury - ''Mario Hugo : a Modern romantic'', by Mark Webster - ''Paul Farrington : the beauty of the unpredictable'', by Anna Gerber - ''Heated debate : the borrowers'', by Robert Mason -''The compelling image'',(...)
Varoom 05 2007 : the journal of illustration and made images
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''The importance of mistakes'', an interview with Terrt Dowling by Adrian Shaughnessy - ''Mapping the terrain : illustration for children'', by Martin Salisbury - ''Mario Hugo : a Modern romantic'', by Mark Webster - ''Paul Farrington : the beauty of the unpredictable'', by Anna Gerber - ''Heated debate : the borrowers'', by Robert Mason -''The compelling image'', chosen by George Hardie - ''A beginners guide to propaganda'', a visual essay by Nick McFarlane - ''An unwritten diary'', by Richard Beards
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The Sixties takes a multidisciplinary approach that includes history, architecture, art, political science, and journalism. Contributors examine a range of eclectic issues, from the clash between Joyce Wieland's artwork and Pierre Trudeau's nationalism, to the debate over changing skylines of Toronto and Montréal, to de Gaulle's famous 1967 'Vive le Québec libre!' speech,(...)
The Sixties: Passion, Politics and Style
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The Sixties takes a multidisciplinary approach that includes history, architecture, art, political science, and journalism. Contributors examine a range of eclectic issues, from the clash between Joyce Wieland's artwork and Pierre Trudeau's nationalism, to the debate over changing skylines of Toronto and Montréal, to de Gaulle's famous 1967 'Vive le Québec libre!' speech, to provide a distinctly Canadian perspective on one of the liveliest and most debated periods in modern history.
Architecture de Montréal
The participatory city
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''The Participatory City'' is the first international and interdisciplinary collection of texts encompassing the whole spectrum of the debate within a wide geographical framework. Offering international perspectives on the question of urban participation, the contributors to this volume examine participatory dimensions of social housing, land-use policies, migrant rights,(...)
The participatory city
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''The Participatory City'' is the first international and interdisciplinary collection of texts encompassing the whole spectrum of the debate within a wide geographical framework. Offering international perspectives on the question of urban participation, the contributors to this volume examine participatory dimensions of social housing, land-use policies, migrant rights, environmental problems and health issues through the exploration of case studies from Chicago, Detroit, London, Mexico City and Bangalore.
Urban Theory
Bauhaus: a graphic novel
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The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an idea—the school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, and emerged as the fundamental reference point for virtually every avant-garde artistic movement that followed. Visually arresting illustrations and engaging texts place the novel’s protagonist squarely in the middle of the(...)
Bauhaus: a graphic novel
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The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an idea—the school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, and emerged as the fundamental reference point for virtually every avant-garde artistic movement that followed. Visually arresting illustrations and engaging texts place the novel’s protagonist squarely in the middle of the twentieth-century debate on the relationship between technology and culture.
Modernism
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality(...)
Architecture in Canada
June 2009
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality of urban neighbourhoods with the requirements of suburban traffic.
Architecture in Canada
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Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is a collection of essays exploring the debate over urban reform, often polarized around the two competing paradigms of «Landscape Urbanism» and «New Urbanism». Landscape Urbanism is conceived as a more ecologically-based approach, while New Urbanism is more concerned with built form. Urban theorists such as Andres Duany and James(...)
Landscape urbanism and its discontents : dissimulating the sustainable city
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Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is a collection of essays exploring the debate over urban reform, often polarized around the two competing paradigms of «Landscape Urbanism» and «New Urbanism». Landscape Urbanism is conceived as a more ecologically-based approach, while New Urbanism is more concerned with built form. Urban theorists such as Andres Duany and James Howard Kunstler delve into the impact of the tension between the two perspectives.
Urban Landscapes
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ix, 242 pages ; 22 cm
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Keywords for environmental studies / edited by Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, and David N. Pellow.
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New York : New York University Press, [2016]
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337 pages ; 23 cm
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, [2024], ©2024
Making space for Indigenous feminism / edited by Gina Starblanket.
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337 pages ; 23 cm
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Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, [2024], ©2024