City economics
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This introductory textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes,(...)
City economics
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This introductory textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.
Urban Theory
dot dot dot 9
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The somethings in the water of DDD9 appear to be biography, Poland, poetry, triads, truth, repetition and the applied fantastic. With contributions from David Reinfurt, Mark and Steve Beasley, Ryan Gander, B.S.Johnson, Esther Johnson, Rob Giampietro, Sanne de Boer, goodwill, David Crowley, Klaus Stadtmüller, Robert Garnett, Rick Poynor, Chris Evans, Maria Fusco, Radim(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
May 2005, The Hague
dot dot dot 9
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The somethings in the water of DDD9 appear to be biography, Poland, poetry, triads, truth, repetition and the applied fantastic. With contributions from David Reinfurt, Mark and Steve Beasley, Ryan Gander, B.S.Johnson, Esther Johnson, Rob Giampietro, Sanne de Boer, goodwill, David Crowley, Klaus Stadtmüller, Robert Garnett, Rick Poynor, Chris Evans, Maria Fusco, Radim Pesko, Steve Rushton, Els Kuijpers, Alon Levin, and Roma Pas.
Graphic Design and Typography
Where architects work
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How do things actually look where people spend their days thinking about good architecture? Seventy-six architectural firms open their doors and show us the spaces in which they work. Employees work in skyscrapers and barns, in townhouses and storage buildings, on the water and in the woods. The exemplary views are accompanied by a fundamental observation of the “atelier/studio.”
Where architects work
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How do things actually look where people spend their days thinking about good architecture? Seventy-six architectural firms open their doors and show us the spaces in which they work. Employees work in skyscrapers and barns, in townhouses and storage buildings, on the water and in the woods. The exemplary views are accompanied by a fundamental observation of the “atelier/studio.”
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Although Legorreta Architecture has been often labeled a high modernist, its buildings are rooted in the traditional architecture of its native Mexico. Best known for geometric and planar buildings with stucco walls, painted in reds and coppers, yellows, purples, and blues, the classic Mexican house plan is a recurrent theme in Legorrata's oeuvre, with courtyards, water(...)
Legorreta
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Although Legorreta Architecture has been often labeled a high modernist, its buildings are rooted in the traditional architecture of its native Mexico. Best known for geometric and planar buildings with stucco walls, painted in reds and coppers, yellows, purples, and blues, the classic Mexican house plan is a recurrent theme in Legorrata's oeuvre, with courtyards, water features, and arcades playing a prominent role.
Architecture Monographs
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In the second of three books, the author explores the elusive rules that govern flow in nature - from the swirl of a wisp of smoke and eddies in rivers, to the huge persistent storm that is the Great Spot on Jupiter. Whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds, he explains the science of the extraordinary forms and patterns that emerge.
Flow: a tapestry in three parts
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In the second of three books, the author explores the elusive rules that govern flow in nature - from the swirl of a wisp of smoke and eddies in rivers, to the huge persistent storm that is the Great Spot on Jupiter. Whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds, he explains the science of the extraordinary forms and patterns that emerge.
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Landscape Theory
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This compendium of images by photographer Guillaume Simoneau is unhinged from the moorings of conventional narrative readings. They speak of travel, pilgrimage, epiphany and discovery with a simple, selfless stoicism. Time of day, experiments out on the water, scientific equipment, all suggest an itinerary at once mysterious and immanent, pungent and rich. A fragmented(...)
Guillaume Simoneau: Experimental lake
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This compendium of images by photographer Guillaume Simoneau is unhinged from the moorings of conventional narrative readings. They speak of travel, pilgrimage, epiphany and discovery with a simple, selfless stoicism. Time of day, experiments out on the water, scientific equipment, all suggest an itinerary at once mysterious and immanent, pungent and rich. A fragmented litany of objectivities forms a cohesive chain of elliptical meanings.
Photography monographs
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A digital atlas containing a wealth of information. The general maps show how the New Dutch Water Defence Line coheres as a strategic landscape structure. Maps at scale 1:25.000 show its typographic build-up in layers and components. The more detailed maps of the forts along its length reveal the sheer wealth of its historic places buildings forms and defining elements. In dutch.
Architectural Drawing
January 2007, Rotterdam
Strategisch Laagland Digital atlas
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A digital atlas containing a wealth of information. The general maps show how the New Dutch Water Defence Line coheres as a strategic landscape structure. Maps at scale 1:25.000 show its typographic build-up in layers and components. The more detailed maps of the forts along its length reveal the sheer wealth of its historic places buildings forms and defining elements. In dutch.
Architectural Drawing
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Designed with curious city-dwellers and nature-lovers in mind, this accessible illustrated book provides all the inspiration you need to become an urban explorer and naturalist. Packed with 200 illustrations and 50 projects, this practical urban activity guide teaches you how to explore the wild land, water, and sky in your own city, offering inventive ways to interact(...)
50 things to do in the urban wild
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Designed with curious city-dwellers and nature-lovers in mind, this accessible illustrated book provides all the inspiration you need to become an urban explorer and naturalist. Packed with 200 illustrations and 50 projects, this practical urban activity guide teaches you how to explore the wild land, water, and sky in your own city, offering inventive ways to interact with nature in all its forms.
Urban Landscapes
Lumière, light, licht
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Light is the central design element concerning our perception and has the power to change the mental state we are in. Light is equally elementary for life as are water and air. The industrial developments of the past few years have made possible amazing light and lamp designs. This volume illustrates the many new possibilities as well as giving some practical examples of(...)
Lumière, light, licht
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Light is the central design element concerning our perception and has the power to change the mental state we are in. Light is equally elementary for life as are water and air. The industrial developments of the past few years have made possible amazing light and lamp designs. This volume illustrates the many new possibilities as well as giving some practical examples of how to apply light.
The Queen's dolls' house
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Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House is one of the most famous dolls’ houses in the world. Standing over 2m (7ft) high, it is a perfect replica of an Edwardian private residence of the grandest possible design, complete with Saloon, Library, Dining Room, private apartments, servants’ rooms, kitchen, wine cellar and a garage full of vintage miniature limousines – plus working lifts,(...)
The Queen's dolls' house
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Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House is one of the most famous dolls’ houses in the world. Standing over 2m (7ft) high, it is a perfect replica of an Edwardian private residence of the grandest possible design, complete with Saloon, Library, Dining Room, private apartments, servants’ rooms, kitchen, wine cellar and a garage full of vintage miniature limousines – plus working lifts, running water and electric light.
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