Learning from... Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
28 May 2009
Learning from... Los Angeles
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Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from… Lagos
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
29 March 2007 , 6pm
Learning from… Lagos
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
5 November 2015
John Palmesino: Territorial Agency
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Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
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Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
CCA Bookstore
14 February 2010 , 3pm
Peter Galison: Waste-Wilderness
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Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
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Learning from... Luanda
With a metropolitan population of over 5 million, Luanda is the third most populated Portuguese-speaking city in the world after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Architect and researcher Paulo Moreira proposes alternative approaches to urbanism based on ongoing research in Chicala, an informal settlement with direct connection with the commercial areas of the city, as well(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
1 November 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Luanda
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With a metropolitan population of over 5 million, Luanda is the third most populated Portuguese-speaking city in the world after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Architect and researcher Paulo Moreira proposes alternative approaches to urbanism based on ongoing research in Chicala, an informal settlement with direct connection with the commercial areas of the city, as well(...)
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2 preliminary leaves, 71, [1] pages illustrations (including portraits) 36 x 29 cm
Montréal, Édition "Le Quartier latin", 1943.
Documentaire sur l'Université de Montréal.
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Montréal, Édition "Le Quartier latin", 1943.
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397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Paris : Macula, 2001.
Le style documentaire : d'August Sander à Walker Evans, 1920-1945 / Olivier Lugon.
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397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Paris : Macula, 2001.
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320 p. ; 22 cm.
La Pocatière, Qué. : Documentor Inc. : Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnels du Québec, 1986.
Lexique d'information documentaire = Lexicon of information and documentation / Claude-André Bonin ... [et al.].
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La Pocatière, Qué. : Documentor Inc. : Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnels du Québec, 1986.
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274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
[Montréal] : Éditions ASTED, 2009.
Guide pratique pour l'élaboration d'un thésaurus documentaire / Michèle Hudon avec la collaboration de Danièle Dégez et Dominique Ménillet.
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274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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[Montréal] : Éditions ASTED, 2009.
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45 pages ; 30 cm
[France] : Iaurif : Urbamet, ©1982.
Répertoire des périodiques entres sur la base documentaire Urbamet : février 1982.
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[France] : Iaurif : Urbamet, ©1982.