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Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways(...)
Roads to power: Britain invents the infrastructure state
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Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life.
Architectural Theory
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Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they have no means to control their own destinies. Alan Broadbent suggests that the problem is a slavish devotion to a constitutional structure and a federal government that is ignorant of how crucial large cities are to our national prosperity and heritage.
Urban nation : why we need to give power back to the cities to make Canada strong
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Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they have no means to control their own destinies. Alan Broadbent suggests that the problem is a slavish devotion to a constitutional structure and a federal government that is ignorant of how crucial large cities are to our national prosperity and heritage.
Architecture in Canada
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A particular feature of Dutch social housing is their development and operation by housing corporations. At the beginning of 2008, one of these corporations the ‘Woonmaatschappij' merged with another called ‘Ymere.' This publication takes stock of all the various buildings that they control while also celebrating a tradition that offers occupants the chance of good(...)
Ymere: it starts with housing
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A particular feature of Dutch social housing is their development and operation by housing corporations. At the beginning of 2008, one of these corporations the ‘Woonmaatschappij' merged with another called ‘Ymere.' This publication takes stock of all the various buildings that they control while also celebrating a tradition that offers occupants the chance of good quality housing, healthy lifestyles, individuality and growth.
Collective Housing
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The photographer offers the viewer an objective yet aesthetically captivating look at what now awaits visitors to the elaborately planned and expensive sports venues. The variety of possible subsequent uses shown here is both insightful and educational. It also demonstrates the effectiveness of architecture in an environment that is beyond the reaches of planning control.(...)
Olympic realities: six cities after the games
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The photographer offers the viewer an objective yet aesthetically captivating look at what now awaits visitors to the elaborately planned and expensive sports venues. The variety of possible subsequent uses shown here is both insightful and educational. It also demonstrates the effectiveness of architecture in an environment that is beyond the reaches of planning control. A book that is both poetic and inspiring.
Contemporary Architecture
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In 'The Responsive Environment', Larry D. Busbea takes up the concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input(...)
The responsive environment: design, aesthetics and the human in the 1970s
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In 'The Responsive Environment', Larry D. Busbea takes up the concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input from its newly sensitized inhabitants.
Environment and environmental theory
Taking a line for a walk
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This catalog based on the Klee exhibition at the Zentrum in Bern focuses on the significance of handwriting, writing and scriptive signs in artistic practice.In the modern era, script, characters and calligraphy have been areas in which artists have been able to choose between spontaneity and control, and between intuition and rule in their work, exploring the spaces in between.
Taking a line for a walk
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This catalog based on the Klee exhibition at the Zentrum in Bern focuses on the significance of handwriting, writing and scriptive signs in artistic practice.In the modern era, script, characters and calligraphy have been areas in which artists have been able to choose between spontaneity and control, and between intuition and rule in their work, exploring the spaces in between.
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xvi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Inside culture : art and class in the American home / David Halle.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. City Bound explores how state law determines what cities can and cannot do to raise revenue, control(...)
City bound: How states stifle urban innovation
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Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. City Bound explores how state law determines what cities can and cannot do to raise revenue, control land use, and improve city schools.
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August 2008
Urban Theory
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Based on a five-year research project between the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art and two global industry partners, Haworth and Philips Lighting, the book takes lessons from the interactions of the academic library, the emotional landscapes of stage design, flexible temporary events in the city and intensive team environments in air traffic(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Life of works : what office design can learn from the world around us
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Based on a five-year research project between the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art and two global industry partners, Haworth and Philips Lighting, the book takes lessons from the interactions of the academic library, the emotional landscapes of stage design, flexible temporary events in the city and intensive team environments in air traffic control and emergency medical departments.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative(...)
Venusia
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Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative access to the real.
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February 2005
Architecture and the imaginary