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Augmented Landscapes features a landscape architecture practice for the first time in Pamphlet history. London's Smout Allen presents five projects that respond to the way in which man has enlarged the landscape through architecture and infrastructure, manipulating and blurring perceptions of what is natural and what is artificial.
Pamphlet architecture 28 : augmented landscapes
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Augmented Landscapes features a landscape architecture practice for the first time in Pamphlet history. London's Smout Allen presents five projects that respond to the way in which man has enlarged the landscape through architecture and infrastructure, manipulating and blurring perceptions of what is natural and what is artificial.
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March 2007, New York
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Providing expert insight into the ways the nation's metropolitan areas are changing, this book explores the land use issues that affect quality of life and makes recommendations for reducing sprawl dependence on cars , encouraging sustainability, investing on infrastructure, availability of workforce housing, shopping and leadership in land use.
Changing metropolitan America: planning for a sustainable future
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Providing expert insight into the ways the nation's metropolitan areas are changing, this book explores the land use issues that affect quality of life and makes recommendations for reducing sprawl dependence on cars , encouraging sustainability, investing on infrastructure, availability of workforce housing, shopping and leadership in land use.
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224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Civitas by design : building better communities, from the garden city to the new urbanism / Howard Gillette, Jr.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
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Merge Lane.
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1 online resource.
[Place of publication not identified] : EBM(T), 2017.
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[Place of publication not identified] : EBM(T), 2017.
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"Designs for Different Futures" records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly 100 contemporary examples—from wearable objects to urban infrastructure—this handbook interrogates attitudes toward technology,(...)
Industrial Design
December 2019
Designs for different futures
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"Designs for Different Futures" records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly 100 contemporary examples—from wearable objects to urban infrastructure—this handbook interrogates attitudes toward technology, consumption, beauty, and social and environmental challenges.
Industrial Design
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Busquets’ designs include new urban centres, reconstruction of old and neglected urban areas and the development of infrastructure. His practice had been developed mainly in Europe. This is the first overview of the work of this Catalan architect, to be published on the occasion of his acception of the Erasmus prize 2011.
Joan Busquets - City In Layers (Erasmus Prize 2011)
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Busquets’ designs include new urban centres, reconstruction of old and neglected urban areas and the development of infrastructure. His practice had been developed mainly in Europe. This is the first overview of the work of this Catalan architect, to be published on the occasion of his acception of the Erasmus prize 2011.
Architecture Monographs
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Handmade Urbanism examines the possibilities of urban transformation that stem from community initiatives. It showcases projects that focus on the provision of social infrastructure, aiming to improve the living conditions of residents in the more impoverished areas of five major cities across the world: Mumbai, São Paulo, Istanbul, Mexico City and Cape Town.
Handmade urbanism : from community initiatives to participatory models
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Handmade Urbanism examines the possibilities of urban transformation that stem from community initiatives. It showcases projects that focus on the provision of social infrastructure, aiming to improve the living conditions of residents in the more impoverished areas of five major cities across the world: Mumbai, São Paulo, Istanbul, Mexico City and Cape Town.
Urban Theory
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208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm
Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2008.
Rome : new architecture / Sebastiano Brandolini ; foreword by Mosé Ricci.
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Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2008.
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Often associated with factories, offices, and transport infrastructure, High-Tech is an elusive architectural style defined by expressed structure and services, “clip-on” prefabrication, flexible interiors, and the technological aesthetic of outriggers, tension rods, and glossy cladding. This beautifully photographed book is an authoritative survey of the most(...)
High-tech Britain: Futuristic buildings 1968-today
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Often associated with factories, offices, and transport infrastructure, High-Tech is an elusive architectural style defined by expressed structure and services, “clip-on” prefabrication, flexible interiors, and the technological aesthetic of outriggers, tension rods, and glossy cladding. This beautifully photographed book is an authoritative survey of the most groundbreaking British examples of the style.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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''This Colossal Project'' presents an absorbing epic on the building of the fourth Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass Niagara Falls. An immense undertaking, the canal is a vital part of North America’s infrastructure and still functions as an essential part of the St Lawrence Seaway.
Architecture in Canada
December 2016
This colossal project: building the Welland Ship canal 1913-1932
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''This Colossal Project'' presents an absorbing epic on the building of the fourth Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass Niagara Falls. An immense undertaking, the canal is a vital part of North America’s infrastructure and still functions as an essential part of the St Lawrence Seaway.
Architecture in Canada