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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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The sewer, in all its murkiness, filthiness, and subterranean seclusion, has been an evocative (and redolent) literary device, appearing in works by writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Graham Greene. This entertaining and erudite book provides the story behind, or beneath, these stories, offering a global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and(...)
An underground guide to sewers: or, down, through, and out in Paris, London, New York etc.
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The sewer, in all its murkiness, filthiness, and subterranean seclusion, has been an evocative (and redolent) literary device, appearing in works by writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Graham Greene. This entertaining and erudite book provides the story behind, or beneath, these stories, offering a global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures that lie underneath the world's great cities. Historian Stephen Halliday leads readers on an expedition through the execrable evolution of waste management—the open sewers, the cesspools, the nightsoil men, the scourge of waterborne diseases, the networks of underground piping, the activated sludge, the fetid fatbergs, and the sublime super sewers.
Urban Theory
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A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have(...)
Rambunctious garden: saving nature in a post-wild world
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A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. In this publication, Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management.
Urban Landscapes
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xii, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.
Fred Cumberland--building the Victorian dream / Geoffrey Simmins.
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Economic, Demographic, and Biological Politics of Detroit.
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« Maître d'ouvrage » : ce terme bien connu dans le monde de l'architecture trouve aussi sa légitimité dans celui de l'urbanisme - un monde en bouleversement face aux évolutions constatées dans l'échelle, la nature et l'ambition des projets urbains. La multiplicité des facettes qu'embrasse l'action urbaine, la diversité des acteurs, publics ou privés, qu'elle mobilise ont(...)
La maîtrise d'ouvrage urbaine
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« Maître d'ouvrage » : ce terme bien connu dans le monde de l'architecture trouve aussi sa légitimité dans celui de l'urbanisme - un monde en bouleversement face aux évolutions constatées dans l'échelle, la nature et l'ambition des projets urbains. La multiplicité des facettes qu'embrasse l'action urbaine, la diversité des acteurs, publics ou privés, qu'elle mobilise ont ainsi rendu indispensable la nouvelle fonction de maîtrise d'ouvrage urbaine. Partant de la réalité du terrain - l'aménagement des emprises Renault à Boulogne-Billancourt, la Cité internationale, le quartier de Vaise et le projet Confluent à Lyon, les opérations Euroméditerranée, Mantes-en-Yvelines, Montpellier Grand-Cœur, Île-de-Nantes et Plaine-de-France -, ce livre offre un éclairage inédit sur le chef d'orchestre de l'aménagement qu'est le maître d'ouvrage urbain. Celui-ci assure l'ensemble des missions de pilotage stratégique et de management d'un projet urbain portées par la collectivité publique, depuis la conception jusqu'à la mise en œuvre.
Urban Theory
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Ecologies of Urbanism in India explores how rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive urbanism affects everyday lived environments and the ecological processes that undergird them in Indian cities. Case studies on nature conservation in the city, urban housing and slum development, waste management, the history and practice of urban planning, and contestations over(...)
Ecologies of urbanism in India: metropolitain civility and sustainability
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Ecologies of Urbanism in India explores how rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive urbanism affects everyday lived environments and the ecological processes that undergird them in Indian cities. Case studies on nature conservation in the city, urban housing and slum development, waste management, the history and practice of urban planning, and contestations over the quality of air, water, and sanitation in the major cities of Delhi and Mumbai, illuminate the urban ecology perspective at different points across the twentieth century. The book therefore examines how struggles over the environment and quality of life in urban centers are increasingly framed in terms of their future place in a landscape of global sustainability, and the future relationship between cities and their changing hinterlands.
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Arch Middle East
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128 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
New York : Pantheon Books, ©1984.
The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered : The Search for a Skyscraper Style / Ada Louise Huxtable.
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Smaller architecture
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In this book, Michael Meredith speculates on the possibilities of what Robin Evans once described as a "smaller architecture." "Smaller Architecture" rejects the Larger Architecture that has come to dominate in the last thirty years, with the globalization of architecture, with what Rem Koolhaas celebrated as "Bigness," and with the embrace of new forms of large-scale(...)
Smaller architecture
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In this book, Michael Meredith speculates on the possibilities of what Robin Evans once described as a "smaller architecture." "Smaller Architecture" rejects the Larger Architecture that has come to dominate in the last thirty years, with the globalization of architecture, with what Rem Koolhaas celebrated as "Bigness," and with the embrace of new forms of large-scale finance and corporate management. Against the speculative financial models that define Larger Architecture and its rapacious mechanisms of real estate development, Meredith's vision for a "Smaller Architecture" proposes economic and social forms along the lines sketched out by the economist E. F. Schumacher and the urban theorist Jane Jacobs, and inspired by the philosophical writings of Emanuele Coccia, Edouard Glissant and Cornell West. Against the abstract and hierarchical business management models of large corporate firms, "Smaller Architecture" imagines local, radically inclusive, and anarchist forms of organization in smaller practices.
Architectural Theory
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Based in Miami, Laurinda Spear is an architect, landscape architect, and co-founder of ArquitectonicaGEO, through which she explores sustainable design principles in landscape architecture, master planning, and urban design. ''Geo Bio Miami'' presents an overview of the various issues and topics addressed by her practice – green infrastructure, climate change, storm water(...)
ArquitectonicaGEO: Geo Bio Miami
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Based in Miami, Laurinda Spear is an architect, landscape architect, and co-founder of ArquitectonicaGEO, through which she explores sustainable design principles in landscape architecture, master planning, and urban design. ''Geo Bio Miami'' presents an overview of the various issues and topics addressed by her practice – green infrastructure, climate change, storm water management, etc. – and explores the value that landscape architecture brings to a project. Designed by Irma Boom, the book takes shape as a dense collage of projects, sketches, bright colours, and insightful analyses, and also includes an introduction by landscape architect Charles Birnbaum.
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