Carla Liesching: Good Hope
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In this book, Carla Liesching constructs a fragmented visual and textual assemblage that centres around Cape Town in South Africa, Liesching’s place of birth, which was an historic location at the height of the empire is now an epicentre for anti-colonial resistance movements. Bringing together documentary and autobiographic prose with found photographic material drawn(...)
Carla Liesching: Good Hope
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In this book, Carla Liesching constructs a fragmented visual and textual assemblage that centres around Cape Town in South Africa, Liesching’s place of birth, which was an historic location at the height of the empire is now an epicentre for anti-colonial resistance movements. Bringing together documentary and autobiographic prose with found photographic material drawn from tourist pamphlets, apartheid-era journals, newspapers, and family albums, Liesching reflects on the past and present of empire and resistance, questioning the politics involved in the very acts of looking, discovering, collecting, naming, and putting to language.
Photography monographs
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As African societies come to live more and more in cities, they do so in ways that challenge prevailing theories and models of urban development in geography, sociology, anthropology, and planning. This book uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns in urban studies and disciplines that study cities, as well as in(...)
African cities: alternative visions of urban theory and practice
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As African societies come to live more and more in cities, they do so in ways that challenge prevailing theories and models of urban development in geography, sociology, anthropology, and planning. This book uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns in urban studies and disciplines that study cities, as well as in African studies. It argues for a re-vision a seeing again, and a revising of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies.
Urban Theory
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Founded in 2004 in Amsterdam, the Khatt Foundation is dedicated to advancing Arabic typography and design thinking in the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere. This publication is the result of a Khatt Foundation research project on the differences and synergies between Latin and Arabic scripts, and on applying typographic design to three dimensional urban spaces. With(...)
Typographic matchmaking in the city
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Founded in 2004 in Amsterdam, the Khatt Foundation is dedicated to advancing Arabic typography and design thinking in the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere. This publication is the result of a Khatt Foundation research project on the differences and synergies between Latin and Arabic scripts, and on applying typographic design to three dimensional urban spaces. With a pleasing and orderly graphic design, the book’s nine essays and five projects raise thought-provoking questions, and offer the tools that designers can use to innovate in their own real or imagined cities.
Graphic Design and Typography
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vii, 468 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
New York : New Village Press, 2021., ©2021
Jane Jacobs's first city : learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania / Glenna Lang.
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vii, 468 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
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New York : New Village Press, 2021., ©2021
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1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[Sausalito, CA] : Vista Clara Films, ©2006.
Crude impact / Vista Clara Films presents ; a film by James Jandak Wood ; co-producers, Joanne Shen, Jennifer Jandak Wood ; produced, directed and written by James Jandak Wood.
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1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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[Sausalito, CA] : Vista Clara Films, ©2006.
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272 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 x 31 cm
Los Angeles, California, United States : Gulf Pacific Press, 2016., ©2016
Coral stone mosques of Maldives : the vanishing legacy of the Indian Ocean / Mauroof Jameel and Yahaya Ahmad ; edited by James Steele ; illustrated by Mauroof Jameel.
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272 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 x 31 cm
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Los Angeles, California, United States : Gulf Pacific Press, 2016., ©2016
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Archive Books 2017
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Archive Books 2017
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319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
[London] : Reaktion Books Ltd, [2015], ©2015
Posters : a global history / Elizabeth E. Guffey.
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319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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[London] : Reaktion Books Ltd, [2015], ©2015
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320 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2007.
Old Canadian cemeteries : places of memory / Jane Irwin ; photographs by John de Visser.
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320 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2007.
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1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
New Haven, CT : Yale School of Architecture, [2020]
Within or without : Yale School of Architecture, The Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship / Scott Ruff, Florencia Pita & Jackilin Hah Bloom, Omar Gandhi ; editors: Nina Rappaport and Benjamin Olsen.
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1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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New Haven, CT : Yale School of Architecture, [2020]