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vii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016], ©2016
Whole Earth field guide / edited by Caroline Maniaque-Benton with Meredith Gaglio.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016], ©2016
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Under the unforgiving sun of southern California's Colorado Desert lies Slab City, a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, survivalists, and homeless people. Called by some “the last free place” and by others “an enclave of anarchy,” Slab City is also the end of the road for many. Without official electricity, running water, sewers, or trash pickup, Slab(...)
Slab city: dispatches from the last free place
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Under the unforgiving sun of southern California's Colorado Desert lies Slab City, a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, survivalists, and homeless people. Called by some “the last free place” and by others “an enclave of anarchy,” Slab City is also the end of the road for many. Without official electricity, running water, sewers, or trash pickup, Slab City dwellers also live without law enforcement, taxation, or administration. Built on the concrete slabs of Camp Dunlap, an abandoned Marine training base, the settlement maintains its off-grid aspirations within the site's residual military perimeters and gridded street layout; off-grid is really in-grid. In this book, architect Charlie Hailey and photographer Donovan Wylie explore the contradictions of Slab City.
Urban Theory
The city that never was
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One of the most troubling consequences of the--2008 global financial collapse was the midstream abandonment of several large-scale speculative urban and suburban projects. The resulting scars on the landscape, large subdivisions with only marked-out plots and half-finished roads, are the subject of The City That Never Was, an eye-opening look at what happens when(...)
The city that never was
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One of the most troubling consequences of the--2008 global financial collapse was the midstream abandonment of several large-scale speculative urban and suburban projects. The resulting scars on the landscape, large subdivisions with only marked-out plots and half-finished roads, are the subject of The City That Never Was, an eye-opening look at what happens when development, particularly what the author calls "speculative urbanism," is out-of-sync with financial reality. Presenting historical and recent examples from around the world---from the sprawl of the US Sun Belt and the unoccupied towns of western China, to the "ghost estates" of Ireland---and focusing on case studies in Spain, Marcinkoski proposes an ecologically based model in place of the capricious economic and political factors that typically drive development today.
Urban Theory
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359 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 32 cm
New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, 2023.
Climatic architecture / Philippe Rahm.
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359 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 32 cm
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New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, 2023.
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239 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 34 x 27 cm
New York : Rizzoli International Publications, 2025., ©2025
Koichi Takada Architects : naturalizing architecture / [text by] Philip Jodidio.
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239 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 34 x 27 cm
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New York : Rizzoli International Publications, 2025., ©2025
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Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin's evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over(...)
In the watches of the night: life in the nocturnal city
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Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin's evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors - scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike - in the nocturnal city.
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The two World Wars had a tremendous impact in transforming Canada into a confident and robust industrial nation. With that came a building boom and an artistic explosion that gave young entrepreneurs, designers, artists and architects opportunities to dream big, bold and modern. MEAN CITY celebrates this great boom in architecture and industrial design (1945-1975),(...)
Architecture in Canada
March 2005, Toronto
Mean city : from architecture to design : how Toronto went boom !
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The two World Wars had a tremendous impact in transforming Canada into a confident and robust industrial nation. With that came a building boom and an artistic explosion that gave young entrepreneurs, designers, artists and architects opportunities to dream big, bold and modern. MEAN CITY celebrates this great boom in architecture and industrial design (1945-1975), with emphasis on the work of John B. Parkin Associates: works that include the Sun Life Building, Yonge Subway and Terminal One at the Toronto International Airport. Also, MEAN CITY takes a closer look at the CNE's distinctive cluster of modern buildings. Beginning in 1947 with the new Grandstand Stadium and culminating in the Better Living Centre in 1962, young architects like Richard Fisher, George Robb and Peter Dickinson were given the opportunity to execute '50s fantastic and futuristic buildings.
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March 2005, Toronto
Architecture in Canada
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Building home : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream / Eric John Abrahamson.
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x, 357 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013.
Building home : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream / Eric John Abrahamson.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013.
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James H. Bollen’s photographs are inspired by the legendary British writer J. G. Ballard (1930- 2009), and Ballard’s semi-autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 in what was then known as the International Settlement. Through extensive readings of Ballard’s highly visual fiction, Bollen explores a literary exhibition and heritage of(...)
Jim's terrible city: J.G. Ballard and Shangai
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James H. Bollen’s photographs are inspired by the legendary British writer J. G. Ballard (1930- 2009), and Ballard’s semi-autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 in what was then known as the International Settlement. Through extensive readings of Ballard’s highly visual fiction, Bollen explores a literary exhibition and heritage of Shanghai with his own painterly photographic language.
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323 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
New York, New York : Monacelli Press, 2000.
Isamu Noguchi : a study of space / Ana Maria Torres ; foreword by Shoji Sadao.
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323 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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New York, New York : Monacelli Press, 2000.