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This publication presents a multifaceted and diverse platform of ideas about European public space and its social, cultural and economic significance. Based on seven themes--or lessons to be learned--, this discussion is approached from different disciplines, resulting in a wide-ranging reflection on public space as the intrinsic element that binds the European urban(...)
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This publication presents a multifaceted and diverse platform of ideas about European public space and its social, cultural and economic significance. Based on seven themes--or lessons to be learned--, this discussion is approached from different disciplines, resulting in a wide-ranging reflection on public space as the intrinsic element that binds the European urban(...)
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Europe city: lessons from the European prize for Urban Public Space
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This publication presents a multifaceted and diverse platform of ideas about European public space and its social, cultural and economic significance. Based on seven themes--or lessons to be learned--, this discussion is approached from different disciplines, resulting in a wide-ranging reflection on public space as the intrinsic element that binds the European urban experience together. These themes are Memory, Mobility, Mixture, Margins, Waterfronts, Marketplaces and Democracy, illustrated by a selection of about fifty projects of diverse scales and programs.
Europe city: lessons from the European prize for Urban Public Space
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This publication presents a multifaceted and diverse platform of ideas about European public space and its social, cultural and economic significance. Based on seven themes--or lessons to be learned--, this discussion is approached from different disciplines, resulting in a wide-ranging reflection on public space as the intrinsic element that binds the European urban experience together. These themes are Memory, Mobility, Mixture, Margins, Waterfronts, Marketplaces and Democracy, illustrated by a selection of about fifty projects of diverse scales and programs.
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Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In ''Architecture in Play'', Tamar Zinguer explores the nearly two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic(...)
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Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In ''Architecture in Play'', Tamar Zinguer explores the nearly two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic(...)
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Architecture in play: intimations of modernism in architectural toys
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Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In ''Architecture in Play'', Tamar Zinguer explores the nearly two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic inclinations in fascinating ways while also incorporating technological advances in their systems of construction. Zinguer’s history of these toys reveals broader social and economic trends from their respective periods.
Architecture in play: intimations of modernism in architectural toys
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Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In ''Architecture in Play'', Tamar Zinguer explores the nearly two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic inclinations in fascinating ways while also incorporating technological advances in their systems of construction. Zinguer’s history of these toys reveals broader social and economic trends from their respective periods.
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January 2016
January 2016
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Architectural Theory
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Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues. This publication documents new artworks assembled from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned into ready-mades. The intention is to invite(...)
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Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues. This publication documents new artworks assembled from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned into ready-mades. The intention is to invite(...)
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Blue Republic: Nostalgia for the Present
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Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues. This publication documents new artworks assembled from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned into ready-mades. The intention is to invite reflection on the meta-city and on the notions of utopia and dystopia through a fictional, futuristic lens in order to reveal the desires and fantasies and that drive contemporary society.
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Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues. This publication documents new artworks assembled from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned into ready-mades. The intention is to invite reflection on the meta-city and on the notions of utopia and dystopia through a fictional, futuristic lens in order to reveal the desires and fantasies and that drive contemporary society.
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July 2008, Montreal
July 2008, Montreal
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This book brings together writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation, and welcoming spaces for all residents. But cities must be managed well if they are to remain(...)
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This book brings together writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation, and welcoming spaces for all residents. But cities must be managed well if they are to remain(...)
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Making cities work : prospect and policies for urban America
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This book brings together writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation, and welcoming spaces for all residents. But cities must be managed well if they are to remain attractive places to work, relax, and raise a family; otherwise residents, firms, and workers will leave and the social and economic advantages of city living will be lost.
Making cities work : prospect and policies for urban America
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This book brings together writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation, and welcoming spaces for all residents. But cities must be managed well if they are to remain attractive places to work, relax, and raise a family; otherwise residents, firms, and workers will leave and the social and economic advantages of city living will be lost.
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March 2009, Princeton, Oxford
March 2009, Princeton, Oxford
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass(...)
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass(...)
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America and how we can take it back
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible.
Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America and how we can take it back
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible.
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November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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Urban Theory
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Superblocks are the basic unit of China’s urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined ‘Megablocks’ then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models,(...)
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Superblocks are the basic unit of China’s urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined ‘Megablocks’ then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models,(...)
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The China Lab guide to megablock urbanisms
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Superblocks are the basic unit of China’s urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined ‘Megablocks’ then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models, reconsidered through the filters of ecology, economics, and ethics. In this bilingual Guide to Megablock Urbanisms, China Lab aims to document and advance China’s urban future. Co-published with GSAPP, Columbia University.
The China Lab guide to megablock urbanisms
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Superblocks are the basic unit of China’s urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined ‘Megablocks’ then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models, reconsidered through the filters of ecology, economics, and ethics. In this bilingual Guide to Megablock Urbanisms, China Lab aims to document and advance China’s urban future. Co-published with GSAPP, Columbia University.
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November 2020
November 2020
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Urban Theory
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This volume is an immersive exploration of the social lives of urban landscapes - the actors and actions that compose the daily theatre of urban life. Conceived as a unique collaboration between an urbanist, Chris Reed, and a photographer, Mike Belleme, the book combines photo essays, original maps and drawings, newly commissioned essays, excerpts from historical(...)
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This volume is an immersive exploration of the social lives of urban landscapes - the actors and actions that compose the daily theatre of urban life. Conceived as a unique collaboration between an urbanist, Chris Reed, and a photographer, Mike Belleme, the book combines photo essays, original maps and drawings, newly commissioned essays, excerpts from historical(...)
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Mise en scène: the lives and afterlives of urban landscapes
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This volume is an immersive exploration of the social lives of urban landscapes - the actors and actions that compose the daily theatre of urban life. Conceived as a unique collaboration between an urbanist, Chris Reed, and a photographer, Mike Belleme, the book combines photo essays, original maps and drawings, newly commissioned essays, excerpts from historical writings, and interviews with residents. The result is a rigorous and artful examination of the social, cultural, environmental, and economic challenges of life in American cities today.
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This volume is an immersive exploration of the social lives of urban landscapes - the actors and actions that compose the daily theatre of urban life. Conceived as a unique collaboration between an urbanist, Chris Reed, and a photographer, Mike Belleme, the book combines photo essays, original maps and drawings, newly commissioned essays, excerpts from historical writings, and interviews with residents. The result is a rigorous and artful examination of the social, cultural, environmental, and economic challenges of life in American cities today.
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January 2022
January 2022
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Urban Landscapes
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165 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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Paris : Editions ouvrières, ©1983.
Paris : Editions ouvrières, ©1983.
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Physionomies de la ville : initiation économique / Alain Bonnafous, Hugues Puel.
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165 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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Paris : Editions ouvrières, ©1983.
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297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Roads to power : Britain invents the infrastructure state / Joanna Guldi.
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297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Roads to power : Britain invents the infrastructure state / Joanna Guldi.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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ix, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
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Infrastructural brutalism : art and the necropolitics of infrastructure / Michael Truscello.
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Infrastructural brutalism : art and the necropolitics of infrastructure / Michael Truscello.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
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