Informal arrangements
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With a keen eye and strong political instincts, photographer Peter Bialobrzeski has made photobooks about new Asian metropolises, wastelands on the outskirts of global cities and a Filipino squatters' camp. His latest project, opens a window onto the interiors of a South African slum.
Informal arrangements
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With a keen eye and strong political instincts, photographer Peter Bialobrzeski has made photobooks about new Asian metropolises, wastelands on the outskirts of global cities and a Filipino squatters' camp. His latest project, opens a window onto the interiors of a South African slum.
Photography monographs
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xix, 200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Mussolini's Rome : rebuilding the Eternal City / Borden W. Painter, Jr.
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xix, 200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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xv, 262 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Non-standard architectural productions : between aesthetic experience and social action / edited by Sandra Karina Löschke.
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xv, 262 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, ©2009.
Brazil contemporary : architectuur, beeldcultuur, kunst = architecture, visual culture, art / Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
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317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, ©2009.
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ix, 198 pages ; 25 cm
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Yes to the city : millennials and the fight for affordable housing / Max Holleran.
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ix, 198 pages ; 25 cm
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
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Cities Are Good for You introduces us to dreamers, planners, revolutionaries, writers, scientists, architects, slum-dwellers and kings. Ranging globally and through time in search of answers--from the archive to the laboratory, from City Hall to the architect's desk--it is above all driven by the idea that cities are for people and by people.
Cities are good for you: the genius of the metropolis
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Cities Are Good for You introduces us to dreamers, planners, revolutionaries, writers, scientists, architects, slum-dwellers and kings. Ranging globally and through time in search of answers--from the archive to the laboratory, from City Hall to the architect's desk--it is above all driven by the idea that cities are for people and by people.
Urban Theory
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222 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Boston : Beacon Press, [2024], ©2024
Don't build, rebuild : the case for imaginative reuse in architecture / Aaron Betsky.
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222 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Boston : Beacon Press, [2024], ©2024
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Bender delves deeply into the culture and politics of the age of industry. Linking urban slum tourism and imperial science with immigrant better-baby contests and hoboes, American Abyss uncovers the complex interactions of turn-of-the-century ideas about race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Moreover, at a time when immigration again lies at the center of American economy(...)
American abyss: savagery and civilization in the age of industry
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Bender delves deeply into the culture and politics of the age of industry. Linking urban slum tourism and imperial science with immigrant better-baby contests and hoboes, American Abyss uncovers the complex interactions of turn-of-the-century ideas about race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Moreover, at a time when immigration again lies at the center of American economy and society, this book offers an alarming and pointed historical perspective on contemporary fears of immigrant laborers.
Architectural Theory
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Berlin architecture firm Bplus.xyz's political campaign to enshrine adaptive re-use across Europe, Toronto’s experiment in pairing affordable housing and social medicine, Urbz Mumbai’s mission to improve and empower India’s largest slum – all are brilliant examples of design and policy coming together to effect positive change for communities. We feature these incredible(...)
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Berlin architecture firm Bplus.xyz's political campaign to enshrine adaptive re-use across Europe, Toronto’s experiment in pairing affordable housing and social medicine, Urbz Mumbai’s mission to improve and empower India’s largest slum – all are brilliant examples of design and policy coming together to effect positive change for communities. We feature these incredible pursuits and more in our Mar/Apr 2025 issue. Plus, we report from Iqaluit, where a growing number of Canadian architects are contributing to the architectural infrastructure.
Magazines
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xl, 252 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Theatre of conflict, city of hope : Mumbai, 1660 to present times / Mariam Dossal.
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xl, 252 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
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New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.