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Governing by debt
Governing by debt
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Experts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get back on a path to prosperity. Maurizio Lazzarato's diagnosis, however, is completely different: under capitalism, debt is not primarily a question of budget and economic concerns but a(...)
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Experts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get back on a path to prosperity. Maurizio Lazzarato's diagnosis, however, is completely different: under capitalism, debt is not primarily a question of budget and economic concerns but a(...)
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Governing by debt
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Experts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get back on a path to prosperity. Maurizio Lazzarato's diagnosis, however, is completely different: under capitalism, debt is not primarily a question of budget and economic concerns but a political relation of subjection and enslavement.
Governing by debt
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Experts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get back on a path to prosperity. Maurizio Lazzarato's diagnosis, however, is completely different: under capitalism, debt is not primarily a question of budget and economic concerns but a political relation of subjection and enslavement.
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February 2015
February 2015
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Social
Social
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Urban transformation
Urban transformation
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If we want to get a grip on what is ‘urban' today, we have to capture it in all of its disguises, gradations, and transformations as it simultaneously occurs on a global scale. This comprehensively illustrated book takes the reader on a global dérive, through emerging urban conditions in five continents, as seen through the eyes of more than 50 international architects,(...)
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If we want to get a grip on what is ‘urban' today, we have to capture it in all of its disguises, gradations, and transformations as it simultaneously occurs on a global scale. This comprehensively illustrated book takes the reader on a global dérive, through emerging urban conditions in five continents, as seen through the eyes of more than 50 international architects,(...)
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Urban transformation
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If we want to get a grip on what is ‘urban' today, we have to capture it in all of its disguises, gradations, and transformations as it simultaneously occurs on a global scale. This comprehensively illustrated book takes the reader on a global dérive, through emerging urban conditions in five continents, as seen through the eyes of more than 50 international architects, urban planners, politicians, and artists.
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If we want to get a grip on what is ‘urban' today, we have to capture it in all of its disguises, gradations, and transformations as it simultaneously occurs on a global scale. This comprehensively illustrated book takes the reader on a global dérive, through emerging urban conditions in five continents, as seen through the eyes of more than 50 international architects, urban planners, politicians, and artists.
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October 2008, Amsterdam
October 2008, Amsterdam
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Local Motion presents an in-depth analysis of civic engagement in Canada’s largest city. Essays by politicians and senior journalists explain what makes one city, Toronto, tick and stall. They explore electoral reform, civic organizations, ethnicity and racism, the press gallery and grassroots activism, offering up ways in which the people who live there might help to(...)
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Local Motion presents an in-depth analysis of civic engagement in Canada’s largest city. Essays by politicians and senior journalists explain what makes one city, Toronto, tick and stall. They explore electoral reform, civic organizations, ethnicity and racism, the press gallery and grassroots activism, offering up ways in which the people who live there might help to(...)
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Architecture in Canada
Architecture in Canada
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August 2010
August 2010
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Local motion: The art of civic engagement in Toronto
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Local Motion presents an in-depth analysis of civic engagement in Canada’s largest city. Essays by politicians and senior journalists explain what makes one city, Toronto, tick and stall. They explore electoral reform, civic organizations, ethnicity and racism, the press gallery and grassroots activism, offering up ways in which the people who live there might help to make their city a better, more humane one.
Local motion: The art of civic engagement in Toronto
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Local Motion presents an in-depth analysis of civic engagement in Canada’s largest city. Essays by politicians and senior journalists explain what makes one city, Toronto, tick and stall. They explore electoral reform, civic organizations, ethnicity and racism, the press gallery and grassroots activism, offering up ways in which the people who live there might help to make their city a better, more humane one.
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August 2010
August 2010
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Architecture in Canada
Architecture in Canada
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xxix, 544 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
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Verso Books, 2014.
Verso Books, 2014.
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New orleans under reconstruction.
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xxix, 544 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
New orleans under reconstruction.
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Verso Books, 2014.
Verso Books, 2014.
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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these(...)
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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these(...)
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Pride in modesty: Modernist architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy
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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.
Pride in modesty: Modernist architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy
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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.
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May 2010
May 2010
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Modernism
Modernism
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with(...)
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with(...)
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September 2013
September 2013
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Free city
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with their vested interests, each with new reasons for spinning fictions of their own.
Free city
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with their vested interests, each with new reasons for spinning fictions of their own.
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September 2013
September 2013
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317 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
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317 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2008.
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2008.
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Hyperborder : the contemporary U.S.-Mexico border and its future / Fernando Romero.
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317 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
Hyperborder : the contemporary U.S.-Mexico border and its future / Fernando Romero.
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317 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2008.
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2008.
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On the Irish waterfront
On the Irish waterfront
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Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which(...)
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Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which(...)
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On the Irish waterfront
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Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the classic film's backstory.
On the Irish waterfront
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Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the classic film's backstory.
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September 2009
September 2009
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History since 1900, Reference Books
History since 1900, Reference Books
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ix, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Country, park & city : the architecture and life of Calvert Vaux / Francis R. Kowsky.
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ix, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Country, park & city : the architecture and life of Calvert Vaux / Francis R. Kowsky.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2018]
Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2018]
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Unbuilding walls : vom Todesstreifen zum freien Raum = Unbuilding walls : from death strip to freespace / Marianne Birthler, Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit (Hrsg.).
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285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Unbuilding walls : vom Todesstreifen zum freien Raum = Unbuilding walls : from death strip to freespace / Marianne Birthler, Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit (Hrsg.).
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Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2018]
Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2018]
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