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London, E. & F.N. Spon, 1936.
Modern domestic scientific appliances; being a treatise for the guidance of users and manufacturers of domestic appliances, architects and teachers of domestic science, with special regard to efficiency, economy and correct method of use, by Charles R. Darling.
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London, E. & F.N. Spon, 1936.
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In this publication, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared.
On bicycles: a 200-year history of cycling in New York City
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In this publication, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared.
Urban Theory
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After the large-scale production of new buildings in the late 20th century and the economic crisis, architects must find ways to reuse and transform existing structures. Presenting examples from The Albany in London to the Klushuizen in Amsterdam, this volume brings the current challenge into international perspective.
DASH: from dwelling to dwelling. Radical housing transformation
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After the large-scale production of new buildings in the late 20th century and the economic crisis, architects must find ways to reuse and transform existing structures. Presenting examples from The Albany in London to the Klushuizen in Amsterdam, this volume brings the current challenge into international perspective.
Collective Housing
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Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German photographer Stefan Koppelkamm (born 1952) traveled through eastern Germany, capturing houses, streets and squares in black-and-white photographs. Ten years later, he took pictures of them from exactly the same position. Social and economic transformations permeate these images.
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Stefan Koppelkamm: houses rooms voices
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Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German photographer Stefan Koppelkamm (born 1952) traveled through eastern Germany, capturing houses, streets and squares in black-and-white photographs. Ten years later, he took pictures of them from exactly the same position. Social and economic transformations permeate these images.
Photography monographs
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Liz Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change. She also adresses northern communities' historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures.
Industrial transformation of subarctic Canada
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Liz Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change. She also adresses northern communities' historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures.
Architecture in Canada
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In HK Lab, an array of scholars from the fields of design, visual culture, business management, architecture, urban planning, art history, and semiotics focus on the unique conditions--geographic, historic, political, economic, social, and cultural--that have produced the ever-expanding network of ideas that make up Hong Kong.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
August 2002, Hong Kong
HK Lab
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In HK Lab, an array of scholars from the fields of design, visual culture, business management, architecture, urban planning, art history, and semiotics focus on the unique conditions--geographic, historic, political, economic, social, and cultural--that have produced the ever-expanding network of ideas that make up Hong Kong.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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122 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Paris : Découverte, 2006.
L'urbanisation du monde / Jacques Véron.
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122 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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Paris : Découverte, 2006.
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135 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 21 cm
Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Pub., ©2010.
Rome the centre(s) elsewhere : a Berlage Institute project / [editors, Pier Vittorio Aureli and others].
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Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Pub., ©2010.
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181 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Paris : Éditions B42, 2021
Paris ville invisible / Bruno Latour, Émilie Hermant.
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Paris : Éditions B42, 2021