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xix, 108 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
London ; New York : Verso Books, [2026], ©2026
Hyperpolitics : extreme politicization without political consequences / Anton Jager.
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xix, 108 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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London ; New York : Verso Books, [2026], ©2026
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Sharjah Art Foundation 2022
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Sharjah Art Foundation 2022
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This issue of 'Arch+' aims to help change how we view urban land and encourage land law reform, to return land governance to the local level. Secondly, it addresses the domestic sphere and its activities with the help of feminist theory, because this largely falls outside the economic equation yet is also a genuinely political place. With 16 pages special feature on the(...)
Arch+ Spring 2018: the property issue
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This issue of 'Arch+' aims to help change how we view urban land and encourage land law reform, to return land governance to the local level. Secondly, it addresses the domestic sphere and its activities with the help of feminist theory, because this largely falls outside the economic equation yet is also a genuinely political place. With 16 pages special feature on the Luxembourg Pavilion at Venice Biennale.
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Paradise lost
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This book explores the notion of architectural obsolescence through a study of the contemporary United States. While the US was the world's greatest economic, scientific and cultural force during the twentieth century, it now appears to be obsessed with its own decline. In this obsession the changing patterns of consumption and demand often result in an architectural(...)
Paradise lost
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This book explores the notion of architectural obsolescence through a study of the contemporary United States. While the US was the world's greatest economic, scientific and cultural force during the twentieth century, it now appears to be obsessed with its own decline. In this obsession the changing patterns of consumption and demand often result in an architectural redundancy where buildings exist as a form of by-product or residue.
Architectural Theory
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The Architect as Worker presents a range of essays exploring the issues central to architectural labor. These include questions about the nature of design work; immaterial and creative labor and how it gets categorized, spatialized, and monetized within architecture; the connection between parametrics and BIM and labor; theories of architectural work; architectural design(...)
The architect as worker: immaterial labor, the creative class, and the politics of design
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The Architect as Worker presents a range of essays exploring the issues central to architectural labor. These include questions about the nature of design work; immaterial and creative labor and how it gets categorized, spatialized, and monetized within architecture; the connection between parametrics and BIM and labor; theories of architectural work; architectural design as a cultural and economic condition; entrepreneurialism; and the possibility of ethical and rewarding architectural practice.
Architectural Theory
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Roman towns and their history are generally regarded as being the preserve of the archaeologist or the economic historian. In this book, Joseph Rykwert has considered them as works of art. His starting point is the mythical, historical and ritual texts in which their foundation is recounted rather than the excavated remains, such texts having parallels not merely in(...)
The idea of a town : the anthropology of urban form in Rome, Italy, and the Ancient world
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Roman towns and their history are generally regarded as being the preserve of the archaeologist or the economic historian. In this book, Joseph Rykwert has considered them as works of art. His starting point is the mythical, historical and ritual texts in which their foundation is recounted rather than the excavated remains, such texts having parallels not merely in ancient Greece but also further afield Mesopotamia, India and China.
Urban Theory
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The book offers an exploration of intersecting concerns of urban residents and scholars today that include social relations and diversity, public space and civic life, privatization and suburbanization and economic and cultural globalization. At a moment when cities around the world are undertaking similar efforts to revitalize their centers, Sound, Space, and the City(...)
Sound, space and the city: civic performance in downtown Los Angeles
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The book offers an exploration of intersecting concerns of urban residents and scholars today that include social relations and diversity, public space and civic life, privatization and suburbanization and economic and cultural globalization. At a moment when cities around the world are undertaking similar efforts to revitalize their centers, Sound, Space, and the City conveys the underlying tensions of such projects and their relevance for understanding urban futures.
Urban Theory
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With rapid urbanisation, a slow economy and worsening climate crisis, the need for more sustainable practices and buildings is urgent. David Chipperfield, Michael Sorkin and Anne Lacaton are among more than 40 contributors offering essays, reports and case studies in this examination of the relationship between commercial and sustainable values, which evaluates(...)
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The economy of sustainable construction
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With rapid urbanisation, a slow economy and worsening climate crisis, the need for more sustainable practices and buildings is urgent. David Chipperfield, Michael Sorkin and Anne Lacaton are among more than 40 contributors offering essays, reports and case studies in this examination of the relationship between commercial and sustainable values, which evaluates architectural practices and models and introduces materials and methods to improve the environmental, social and economic performance of buildings.
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Mikulak examines competing narratives of food, pleasure, sustainability, and value that have emerged from the growing sustainable food movement as well as food's past and present relationship to environmentalism in order to understand the potential and the limits of food politics. He also considers whether or not sustainable food practices can address questions about(...)
The politics of the pantry : stories, food, and social change
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Mikulak examines competing narratives of food, pleasure, sustainability, and value that have emerged from the growing sustainable food movement as well as food's past and present relationship to environmentalism in order to understand the potential and the limits of food politics. He also considers whether or not sustainable food practices can address questions about health, environmental sustainability, and local economic development, while at the same time articulating an ethical globalization.
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In this volume, we offer a perspective on the domestic shelters fabricated by and for a wide range of urban and rural peoples over more than three centuries of transforming the land that is today Canada. In so doing, we seek to shed light not only on the commonalities and differences in house form and appearance, but also on the social and economic forces(...)
Architecture in Canada
September 1998, Toronto
Homeplace : the making of the Canadian dwelling over three centuries
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In this volume, we offer a perspective on the domestic shelters fabricated by and for a wide range of urban and rural peoples over more than three centuries of transforming the land that is today Canada. In so doing, we seek to shed light not only on the commonalities and differences in house form and appearance, but also on the social and economic forces that lay behind their creation.
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September 1998, Toronto
Architecture in Canada