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La Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne est une institution d'un nouveau genre consacrée à la recherche et la formation, la communication, la diffusion et les services liés au design. Elle s'adresse aux acteurs les plus divers et intègre des pratiques variées, artistiques, industrielles, universitaires, urbaines, sociétales. Un seul volume élancé, la Platine, s'intègre dans(...)
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La Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne est une institution d'un nouveau genre consacrée à la recherche et la formation, la communication, la diffusion et les services liés au design. Elle s'adresse aux acteurs les plus divers et intègre des pratiques variées, artistiques, industrielles, universitaires, urbaines, sociétales. Un seul volume élancé, la Platine, s'intègre dans(...)
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Cité du design Saint-Étienne 2006 : 01, observations
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La Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne est une institution d'un nouveau genre consacrée à la recherche et la formation, la communication, la diffusion et les services liés au design. Elle s'adresse aux acteurs les plus divers et intègre des pratiques variées, artistiques, industrielles, universitaires, urbaines, sociétales. Un seul volume élancé, la Platine, s'intègre dans le site de l'ancienne Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Etienne. Ce mono espace connecte les activités communicatives avec les programmes spécifiques qui s'inscrivent dans les bâtiments historiques de la Manufacture. Une tour observatoire est l'élément pionnier qui marque le point de départ de cette transformation. Trois livres décrivent la genèse de la Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne. «Observations» explore le lieu et montre la tour observatoire. «Projections» retrace le processus de la conception architecturale. «Constructions» présentera la Cité du Design achevée en 2008.
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La Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne est une institution d'un nouveau genre consacrée à la recherche et la formation, la communication, la diffusion et les services liés au design. Elle s'adresse aux acteurs les plus divers et intègre des pratiques variées, artistiques, industrielles, universitaires, urbaines, sociétales. Un seul volume élancé, la Platine, s'intègre dans le site de l'ancienne Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Etienne. Ce mono espace connecte les activités communicatives avec les programmes spécifiques qui s'inscrivent dans les bâtiments historiques de la Manufacture. Une tour observatoire est l'élément pionnier qui marque le point de départ de cette transformation. Trois livres décrivent la genèse de la Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne. «Observations» explore le lieu et montre la tour observatoire. «Projections» retrace le processus de la conception architecturale. «Constructions» présentera la Cité du Design achevée en 2008.
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October 2006, Paris
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Walker Evans’ work was spread over forty-six fitful and prolific years, yet in a scant two years, 1935-1936, he produced a singular body of work that defined his career. In the process he refined a hybrid style which combined documentation with sly personal comment. During that brief time he worked for the Farm Security Administration (previously the U.S. Resettlement(...)
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Walker Evans’ work was spread over forty-six fitful and prolific years, yet in a scant two years, 1935-1936, he produced a singular body of work that defined his career. In the process he refined a hybrid style which combined documentation with sly personal comment. During that brief time he worked for the Farm Security Administration (previously the U.S. Resettlement(...)
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Photography monographs
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September 2006, Göttingen
September 2006, Göttingen
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Walker Evans : lyric documentary
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Walker Evans’ work was spread over forty-six fitful and prolific years, yet in a scant two years, 1935-1936, he produced a singular body of work that defined his career. In the process he refined a hybrid style which combined documentation with sly personal comment. During that brief time he worked for the Farm Security Administration (previously the U.S. Resettlement Administration) photographing the consequences of the Great Depression. He delighted in being the artist traveling incognito as an artless photojournalist, but with the independence to satisfy his own designs. This volume presents those seminal images for the first time as a comprehensive body and in chronological order. These are prime examples of Evans’ alchemy — his seemingly effortless transformation of mundane fact into sweeping lyricism. This series not only defines his mature style but also offers a path for artists of future generations.
Walker Evans : lyric documentary
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Walker Evans’ work was spread over forty-six fitful and prolific years, yet in a scant two years, 1935-1936, he produced a singular body of work that defined his career. In the process he refined a hybrid style which combined documentation with sly personal comment. During that brief time he worked for the Farm Security Administration (previously the U.S. Resettlement Administration) photographing the consequences of the Great Depression. He delighted in being the artist traveling incognito as an artless photojournalist, but with the independence to satisfy his own designs. This volume presents those seminal images for the first time as a comprehensive body and in chronological order. These are prime examples of Evans’ alchemy — his seemingly effortless transformation of mundane fact into sweeping lyricism. This series not only defines his mature style but also offers a path for artists of future generations.
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September 2006, Göttingen
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En un demi-siècle, la société paysanne a connu une mue stupéfiante, dont les effets se sont lus rapidement et violemment dans les paysages. Tandis que les remembrements remodelaient les territoires au gré des nouvelles pratiques agricoles, la standardisation gagnait les édifices désormais bien éloignés de la diversité des constructions traditionnelles. Si cet(...)
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En un demi-siècle, la société paysanne a connu une mue stupéfiante, dont les effets se sont lus rapidement et violemment dans les paysages. Tandis que les remembrements remodelaient les territoires au gré des nouvelles pratiques agricoles, la standardisation gagnait les édifices désormais bien éloignés de la diversité des constructions traditionnelles. Si cet(...)
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Histoire de l'architecture agricole, 1945-1999 : la modernisation des fermes
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En un demi-siècle, la société paysanne a connu une mue stupéfiante, dont les effets se sont lus rapidement et violemment dans les paysages. Tandis que les remembrements remodelaient les territoires au gré des nouvelles pratiques agricoles, la standardisation gagnait les édifices désormais bien éloignés de la diversité des constructions traditionnelles. Si cet aboutissement est bien connu, les raisons et les modalités qui l’ont produit demeurent opaques. À travers l’évolution des édifices, cet ouvrage révèle les ressorts politiques, économiques et réglementaires de la transformation du monde rural durant la seconde partie du XXe siècle. Portés par des acteurs divers aux motivations multiples, de l’État aux dépositaires d’intérêts privés, en passant par les territoires, ces nouveaux modes d’organisation des campagnes modifient en profondeur et à un rythme soutenu les paysages, mais également la sociologie et l’organisation du monde paysan.
Histoire de l'architecture agricole, 1945-1999 : la modernisation des fermes
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En un demi-siècle, la société paysanne a connu une mue stupéfiante, dont les effets se sont lus rapidement et violemment dans les paysages. Tandis que les remembrements remodelaient les territoires au gré des nouvelles pratiques agricoles, la standardisation gagnait les édifices désormais bien éloignés de la diversité des constructions traditionnelles. Si cet aboutissement est bien connu, les raisons et les modalités qui l’ont produit demeurent opaques. À travers l’évolution des édifices, cet ouvrage révèle les ressorts politiques, économiques et réglementaires de la transformation du monde rural durant la seconde partie du XXe siècle. Portés par des acteurs divers aux motivations multiples, de l’État aux dépositaires d’intérêts privés, en passant par les territoires, ces nouveaux modes d’organisation des campagnes modifient en profondeur et à un rythme soutenu les paysages, mais également la sociologie et l’organisation du monde paysan.
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July 2019
July 2019
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Architectural Theory
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Alphand est connu pour son travail d'embellissement de Paris aux côtés du baron Haussmann. À cette époque, il est chef au service des Promenades de Paris. Il oeuvre avec ses collaborateurs à dessiner un nouveau paysage urbain. Par rapport à la Ville de Paris, les orientations prises par Alphand et ses collaborateurs répondent de nos jours à certains impératifs(...)
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Alphand est connu pour son travail d'embellissement de Paris aux côtés du baron Haussmann. À cette époque, il est chef au service des Promenades de Paris. Il oeuvre avec ses collaborateurs à dessiner un nouveau paysage urbain. Par rapport à la Ville de Paris, les orientations prises par Alphand et ses collaborateurs répondent de nos jours à certains impératifs(...)
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Le Grand Pari(s) d'Alphand : création et transmission d'un paysage urbain
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Alphand est connu pour son travail d'embellissement de Paris aux côtés du baron Haussmann. À cette époque, il est chef au service des Promenades de Paris. Il oeuvre avec ses collaborateurs à dessiner un nouveau paysage urbain. Par rapport à la Ville de Paris, les orientations prises par Alphand et ses collaborateurs répondent de nos jours à certains impératifs environnementaux liés aux Plans climat et biodiversité. Certaines évolutions techniques pensées à l'origine dans une logique hygiéniste contribuent à diminuer aujourd'hui des risques liés aux changements climatiques. Il s'agit également de comprendre l'évolution de la notion de paysage urbain parisien dans ses rapports entre les espaces bâtis et les espaces ouverts, la transformation du sens de la notion de nature, l'entrecroisement des échelles et des rapports entre ville et banlieue particulièrement dans l'essor et la gestation du Grand Paris.
Le Grand Pari(s) d'Alphand : création et transmission d'un paysage urbain
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Alphand est connu pour son travail d'embellissement de Paris aux côtés du baron Haussmann. À cette époque, il est chef au service des Promenades de Paris. Il oeuvre avec ses collaborateurs à dessiner un nouveau paysage urbain. Par rapport à la Ville de Paris, les orientations prises par Alphand et ses collaborateurs répondent de nos jours à certains impératifs environnementaux liés aux Plans climat et biodiversité. Certaines évolutions techniques pensées à l'origine dans une logique hygiéniste contribuent à diminuer aujourd'hui des risques liés aux changements climatiques. Il s'agit également de comprendre l'évolution de la notion de paysage urbain parisien dans ses rapports entre les espaces bâtis et les espaces ouverts, la transformation du sens de la notion de nature, l'entrecroisement des échelles et des rapports entre ville et banlieue particulièrement dans l'essor et la gestation du Grand Paris.
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August 2018
August 2018
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History until 1900, France
History until 1900, France
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A conversation that seeks to apply the prefix "Xeno-" in philosophical discourse to the discourse of architecture.This book aims to unpack the prefix, probing what it entails--not merely rhetorically but also as a means of practice, in an attempt to bring the ideas it contains more concretely into the domain of architecture. It proposes to link the more philosophical(...)
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A conversation that seeks to apply the prefix "Xeno-" in philosophical discourse to the discourse of architecture.This book aims to unpack the prefix, probing what it entails--not merely rhetorically but also as a means of practice, in an attempt to bring the ideas it contains more concretely into the domain of architecture. It proposes to link the more philosophical(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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March 2019
March 2019
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Perhaps it is high time for a xeno-architecture to match
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A conversation that seeks to apply the prefix "Xeno-" in philosophical discourse to the discourse of architecture.This book aims to unpack the prefix, probing what it entails--not merely rhetorically but also as a means of practice, in an attempt to bring the ideas it contains more concretely into the domain of architecture. It proposes to link the more philosophical discussions on the notion of xeno with questions of instrumentalization and governance that are necessarily involved in the praxis of architecture. And it relates the significance of legal architecture and technologically driven transformation in the metaphysics of law back to the agenda of xeno-architecture. By researching how architects, artists, thinkers, and activists operating in the spatial field might endorse a process of "alienation" to confront global issues, this project attempts to re-radicalize spatial practice.
Perhaps it is high time for a xeno-architecture to match
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A conversation that seeks to apply the prefix "Xeno-" in philosophical discourse to the discourse of architecture.This book aims to unpack the prefix, probing what it entails--not merely rhetorically but also as a means of practice, in an attempt to bring the ideas it contains more concretely into the domain of architecture. It proposes to link the more philosophical discussions on the notion of xeno with questions of instrumentalization and governance that are necessarily involved in the praxis of architecture. And it relates the significance of legal architecture and technologically driven transformation in the metaphysics of law back to the agenda of xeno-architecture. By researching how architects, artists, thinkers, and activists operating in the spatial field might endorse a process of "alienation" to confront global issues, this project attempts to re-radicalize spatial practice.
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March 2019
March 2019
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Architectural Theory
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For 30 years, David T. Hanson (born 1948) has made photographs that are widely celebrated for their powerful depictions of the American landscape and its dramatic transformation and despoilment by humans. His newest collection, Wilderness to Wasteland, presents four series of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs from Hanson’s early work, made between 1982(...)
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For 30 years, David T. Hanson (born 1948) has made photographs that are widely celebrated for their powerful depictions of the American landscape and its dramatic transformation and despoilment by humans. His newest collection, Wilderness to Wasteland, presents four series of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs from Hanson’s early work, made between 1982(...)
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Photography monographs
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February 2016
February 2016
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David T. Hanson: Wilderness to Wasteland
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For 30 years, David T. Hanson (born 1948) has made photographs that are widely celebrated for their powerful depictions of the American landscape and its dramatic transformation and despoilment by humans. His newest collection, Wilderness to Wasteland, presents four series of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs from Hanson’s early work, made between 1982 and 1987. Atomic City documents the former nuclear boomtown in Idaho, site of the world’s first nuclear power plant and first reactor meltdown. The Richest Hill on Earth is a study of the vast copper mines, housing and surrounding wasteland of Butte, Montana. The eponymous series is a dynamic group of aerial and ground-view photographs of hazardous waste sites, while the final series, Twilight in the Wilderness, comprises spectacular night views of industrial sites for power production. Together, these photographs constitute a haunting meditation on a ravaged landscape.
David T. Hanson: Wilderness to Wasteland
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For 30 years, David T. Hanson (born 1948) has made photographs that are widely celebrated for their powerful depictions of the American landscape and its dramatic transformation and despoilment by humans. His newest collection, Wilderness to Wasteland, presents four series of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs from Hanson’s early work, made between 1982 and 1987. Atomic City documents the former nuclear boomtown in Idaho, site of the world’s first nuclear power plant and first reactor meltdown. The Richest Hill on Earth is a study of the vast copper mines, housing and surrounding wasteland of Butte, Montana. The eponymous series is a dynamic group of aerial and ground-view photographs of hazardous waste sites, while the final series, Twilight in the Wilderness, comprises spectacular night views of industrial sites for power production. Together, these photographs constitute a haunting meditation on a ravaged landscape.
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February 2016
February 2016
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Platform capitalism
Platform capitalism
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What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of(...)
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What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of(...)
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Platform capitalism
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What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of ‘platform capitalism’. This book critically examines these new business forms, tracing their genesis from the long downturn of the 1970s to the boom and bust of the 1990s and the aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. It shows how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future.
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What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of ‘platform capitalism’. This book critically examines these new business forms, tracing their genesis from the long downturn of the 1970s to the boom and bust of the 1990s and the aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. It shows how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future.
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December 2016
December 2016
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Social
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This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture’s role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called “golden age of the welfare(...)
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This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture’s role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called “golden age of the welfare(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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September 2022
September 2022
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Architectures of dismantling and restructuring: Spaces of Danish welfare, 1970-present
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This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture’s role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called “golden age of the welfare state” in the early 1970s until today. Rather than unfolding a singular narrative of loss and nostalgia associated with welfare dismantlement – or one of triumphant humanization and restructuring of modernist planned environments – it describes shifting spatial materializations of welfare and the “good life” at the intersection of these two tendencies, under the influence of a Danish version of the neoliberal turn and other important societal transformations. A rich analytical sequence of drawn visualization supplements the book’s textual and photographic descriptions of welfare space transformation.
Architectures of dismantling and restructuring: Spaces of Danish welfare, 1970-present
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This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture’s role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called “golden age of the welfare state” in the early 1970s until today. Rather than unfolding a singular narrative of loss and nostalgia associated with welfare dismantlement – or one of triumphant humanization and restructuring of modernist planned environments – it describes shifting spatial materializations of welfare and the “good life” at the intersection of these two tendencies, under the influence of a Danish version of the neoliberal turn and other important societal transformations. A rich analytical sequence of drawn visualization supplements the book’s textual and photographic descriptions of welfare space transformation.
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September 2022
September 2022
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Architectural Theory
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Beginning with the earliest human occupation of North America, nearly 14,000 years ago, Nelles takes us on a whirlwind tour of the land and its inhabitants to the present day. Canada's enduring theme, he argues, is transformation. The country has undergone several fundamental changes-from Aboriginal occupation, to French and British colonization, to the rise of an(...)
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Beginning with the earliest human occupation of North America, nearly 14,000 years ago, Nelles takes us on a whirlwind tour of the land and its inhabitants to the present day. Canada's enduring theme, he argues, is transformation. The country has undergone several fundamental changes-from Aboriginal occupation, to French and British colonization, to the rise of an(...)
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A little history of Canada: second edition
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Beginning with the earliest human occupation of North America, nearly 14,000 years ago, Nelles takes us on a whirlwind tour of the land and its inhabitants to the present day. Canada's enduring theme, he argues, is transformation. The country has undergone several fundamental changes-from Aboriginal occupation, to French and British colonization, to the rise of an independent nation and distinct society-and it is doing so yet again. Fully revised throughout, this updated edition incorporates the latest research that helps us understand the course of history. A new concluding chapter unpacks the challenges that the country has faced in the twenty-first century: Canada-US relations post 9/11, the country's place within the global economy, a continuous influx of immigration, and the geographical consequences of global warming. Lively and opinionated, this is the ever-evolving story of a nation.
A little history of Canada: second edition
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Beginning with the earliest human occupation of North America, nearly 14,000 years ago, Nelles takes us on a whirlwind tour of the land and its inhabitants to the present day. Canada's enduring theme, he argues, is transformation. The country has undergone several fundamental changes-from Aboriginal occupation, to French and British colonization, to the rise of an independent nation and distinct society-and it is doing so yet again. Fully revised throughout, this updated edition incorporates the latest research that helps us understand the course of history. A new concluding chapter unpacks the challenges that the country has faced in the twenty-first century: Canada-US relations post 9/11, the country's place within the global economy, a continuous influx of immigration, and the geographical consequences of global warming. Lively and opinionated, this is the ever-evolving story of a nation.
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April 2011
April 2011
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Architecture in Canada
Architecture in Canada
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Addressing East Asia’s rapid urban transformation, The Vertical Village looks at radical alternatives to the familiar standardized block architecture that has eradicated low-rise, “lighter” varieties of architecture, such as the Hutong in Beijing, Tokyo’s wooden house and the villages of Singapore. These “urban villages” have fostered a connected community living instead(...)
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Addressing East Asia’s rapid urban transformation, The Vertical Village looks at radical alternatives to the familiar standardized block architecture that has eradicated low-rise, “lighter” varieties of architecture, such as the Hutong in Beijing, Tokyo’s wooden house and the villages of Singapore. These “urban villages” have fostered a connected community living instead(...)
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The vertical village: individual, informal, intense. The Why factory
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Addressing East Asia’s rapid urban transformation, The Vertical Village looks at radical alternatives to the familiar standardized block architecture that has eradicated low-rise, “lighter” varieties of architecture, such as the Hutong in Beijing, Tokyo’s wooden house and the villages of Singapore. These “urban villages” have fostered a connected community living instead of isolating citizens in tower blocks. This volume, the latest publication from The Why Factory, attempts to reconcile the two models, proposing a contemporary “vertical village” that restores neighborhood life to East Asian--and perhaps western--civic centers. It features innovative designs for high-rise structures, detailed case studies for Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Djakarta, Seoul and Bangkok, plus interviews with Winy Maas, Alfredo Brillemburg, Hubert Klumpner, Lieven De Cauter, Peter Trummer and families living in Taipei (where the originating Why Factory exhibition was held).
The vertical village: individual, informal, intense. The Why factory
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Addressing East Asia’s rapid urban transformation, The Vertical Village looks at radical alternatives to the familiar standardized block architecture that has eradicated low-rise, “lighter” varieties of architecture, such as the Hutong in Beijing, Tokyo’s wooden house and the villages of Singapore. These “urban villages” have fostered a connected community living instead of isolating citizens in tower blocks. This volume, the latest publication from The Why Factory, attempts to reconcile the two models, proposing a contemporary “vertical village” that restores neighborhood life to East Asian--and perhaps western--civic centers. It features innovative designs for high-rise structures, detailed case studies for Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Djakarta, Seoul and Bangkok, plus interviews with Winy Maas, Alfredo Brillemburg, Hubert Klumpner, Lieven De Cauter, Peter Trummer and families living in Taipei (where the originating Why Factory exhibition was held).
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March 2012
March 2012
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Collective Housing
Collective Housing
