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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a(...)
Urban rivers: remaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and North America
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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interact from the seventeenth century to the present.
Urban Landscapes
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This catalogue examines more than 100 works by sixteen artists, including Amiri Baraka, George Brecht, Dan Graham, Allan Kaprow, Gordon Matta-Clark, and George Segal. Organized around three themes—ruin, cooperation, and displacement—Kelly Baum’s essay considers their work in relationship to seismic shifts in the world of art and equally dramatic changes to New Jersey’s(...)
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This catalogue examines more than 100 works by sixteen artists, including Amiri Baraka, George Brecht, Dan Graham, Allan Kaprow, Gordon Matta-Clark, and George Segal. Organized around three themes—ruin, cooperation, and displacement—Kelly Baum’s essay considers their work in relationship to seismic shifts in the world of art and equally dramatic changes to New Jersey’s economy, infrastructure, landscape, demography, and social stability.
Technology and the garden
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What are the technologies of garden making, what are the concepts and ideas behind garden technologies, and what is the meaning and experience of those endeavors? Technology and the Garden examines the shaping and visualization of the landscape; the development of horticultural technologies; the construction of landscape through hydraulics, labor, and infrastructure; and(...)
Technology and the garden
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What are the technologies of garden making, what are the concepts and ideas behind garden technologies, and what is the meaning and experience of those endeavors? Technology and the Garden examines the shaping and visualization of the landscape; the development of horticultural technologies; the construction of landscape through hydraulics, labor, and infrastructure; and the effect of emerging technologies on the experience of landscape.
Gardens
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The volume examines access to social services by vulnerable groups who are not usually associated with the suburbs: recent immigrants, seniors, and low-income families. Investigating their access to four types of social infrastructure – education, employment, housing, and settlement services – this book presents a range of policy recommendations for how to address the(...)
Social structure and vulnerability in the suburbs
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The volume examines access to social services by vulnerable groups who are not usually associated with the suburbs: recent immigrants, seniors, and low-income families. Investigating their access to four types of social infrastructure – education, employment, housing, and settlement services – this book presents a range of policy recommendations for how to address the social inequalities that characterize contemporary outer suburbs.
Suburbs
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This volume examines various key topics of urban commons theoretically and empirically through a wide spectrum of international case studies providing perspectives from a variety of cities as diverse as Berlin, Hyderabad and Seoul. A wider discussion of commons in current scientific and activist literature from housing, public space, to urban infrastructure, is explored(...)
Urban commons: moving beyond state and market
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This volume examines various key topics of urban commons theoretically and empirically through a wide spectrum of international case studies providing perspectives from a variety of cities as diverse as Berlin, Hyderabad and Seoul. A wider discussion of commons in current scientific and activist literature from housing, public space, to urban infrastructure, is explored through the lens of the urban condition.
Urban Theory
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191 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 26 cm
[Vanves] : Hazan ; Paris : Musée d'Orsay, [2024], ©2024
La gare d'Orsay et ses métamorphoses / sous la direction de Clémence Raynaud.
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177 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans ; 25 cm
[Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2017], ©2017
Conway urban watershed framework plan : a reconciliation landscape for Little Creek-Palarm Creek sub-watershed / University of Arkansas Community Design Center.
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[Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2017], ©2017
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191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans (some color) ; 24 cm
Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2018], ©2018
Social design : participation and empowerment / edited by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Angeli Sachs ; essays by Claudia Banz, Michael Krohn, and Angeli Sachs.
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Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2018], ©2018
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This publication, which emanates from the "Emergent practices in South Asia" lecture series, catalogs 41 emergent architectural practices in South Asia that displayed a rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and infrastructure in the public realm. The publication and lecture series aims to capture the current pulse of the region, offering a platform(...)
December 2023
Architectures of Transition: Emergent practices in South Asia
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This publication, which emanates from the "Emergent practices in South Asia" lecture series, catalogs 41 emergent architectural practices in South Asia that displayed a rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and infrastructure in the public realm. The publication and lecture series aims to capture the current pulse of the region, offering a platform for dialogue among practitioners and exploring the pluralism of modes of practice.
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In her photographic work Austrian Aglaia Konrad has developed a distinctive way of documenting global urbanization. Her archive contains thousands of pictures concerning infrastructure and architecture, an almost unlimited collection that elucidates the relationship between society and place. The pictures allow the viewer to participate in a scenario where the(...)
January 2017
Angle 17° : Aglaia Konrad. shaping stones
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In her photographic work Austrian Aglaia Konrad has developed a distinctive way of documenting global urbanization. Her archive contains thousands of pictures concerning infrastructure and architecture, an almost unlimited collection that elucidates the relationship between society and place. The pictures allow the viewer to participate in a scenario where the dividing-lines between the old and the new, between architecture, nature, power and symbols are fluid.