Transport and neighbourhoods
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As the environment becomes more fragile, existing transportation networks are more and more strained. Issues such as food miles and embodied energy in goods and products will become far more significant. Personal carbon quotas are likely to force a re-evaluation of our current lifestyles and single trips will carry greater levels of expectation. Casual long distance(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
June 2008, London
Transport and neighbourhoods
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As the environment becomes more fragile, existing transportation networks are more and more strained. Issues such as food miles and embodied energy in goods and products will become far more significant. Personal carbon quotas are likely to force a re-evaluation of our current lifestyles and single trips will carry greater levels of expectation. Casual long distance travel may be socially decried. Edge Futures are a series of six books that explore the impact that climate change will have on different aspects of our lives in the future. They are available to order as individual titles or as a complete set. The Edge is an innovative and creative think-tank, sponsored by building industry professions, that seeks to stimulate public interest in policy questions that affect the built environment and to inform and influence public opinion.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition All-Inclusive. A Tourist World Schrirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 30 january- 04 may 2008 This entertaining and often hilarious exhibition catalog from Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is a thought-provoking exploration of our global society through the tourist experience. The curators see tourism as something that(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
June 2008, Köln
All-inclusive a tourist world
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition All-Inclusive. A Tourist World Schrirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 30 january- 04 may 2008 This entertaining and often hilarious exhibition catalog from Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is a thought-provoking exploration of our global society through the tourist experience. The curators see tourism as something that perpetuates clichés about cultural and national identity; real landscapes blur into artificial geographies like ski resort-themed water parks, indoor beaches with synthetic sun lamps, or aircraft carriers equipped with roller coasters and volcanoes. More than 30 artists create photography, multimedia installations, sculpture and prose travelogues that veer between the authentic and the absurd, attempting to answer the question: how should tourists interact with the bogus world of tourism, and what should they learn?
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the backdrops for jet-setters who strutted, martinis in hand, through curvilinear terminals designed by Eero Saarinen. In the critically acclaimed Naked Airport, Alastair Gordon traces(...)
Naked Airport: a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure
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Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the backdrops for jet-setters who strutted, martinis in hand, through curvilinear terminals designed by Eero Saarinen. In the critically acclaimed Naked Airport, Alastair Gordon traces the cultural history of this defining institution from its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines to its frontline position in the struggle against international terrorism. From global politics to action movies to the daily commute, Gordon shows how the airport has changed our sense of time, distance, and style, and ultimately the way cities are built and business is done. He introduces the people who shaped and were shaped by this place of sudden transition: pilots like Charles Lindbergh, architects like Le Corbusier, and political figures like Fiorello LaGuardia and Adolf Hitler. Naked Airport is a profoundly original history of a long-neglected yet central component of modern life.
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Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana,(...)
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May 2004, Oxford, New York
Architecture and tourism: perception, performance and place
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Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius and Spain, Architecture and Tourism explores the touristic experience, representation and meaning of place within distinct cultural contexts. From the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanean coast to the urban renewal of Old Havana and the honeymoon resorts in the Poconos, this book provides provocative insights into the practice of tourism and the conception of place.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il(...)
Immeubles pour automobiles : histoire et transformations
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il suffira peut-être de re-programmer avec de nouveaux usages pour continuer la construction de la ville.
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Featuring the work of ten Canadian writers, this is not a collection of travel stories, but stories in which movement is central - stories which describes the pace(s) and places of our increasingly decentralized lives. Transits is about people who are mobile and things which are transient, (im)magrating, running away, coming home, waiting.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
March 2009, Halifax, Montreal
Transits stories from in-between
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Featuring the work of ten Canadian writers, this is not a collection of travel stories, but stories in which movement is central - stories which describes the pace(s) and places of our increasingly decentralized lives. Transits is about people who are mobile and things which are transient, (im)magrating, running away, coming home, waiting.
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Nova Scotia's Celtic heritage makes the province fertile ground for stories of ghouls and ghosts, but until Ghost Tracks, very few of these stories involved the railways that once criss-crossed the land. This work, the fifth book by railway historian Jay Underwood, is the first to focus upon the often bizarre events that occurred to fuel the fears and suspicions of(...)
Ghost tracks, surprising stories of the supernatural on rails
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Nova Scotia's Celtic heritage makes the province fertile ground for stories of ghouls and ghosts, but until Ghost Tracks, very few of these stories involved the railways that once criss-crossed the land. This work, the fifth book by railway historian Jay Underwood, is the first to focus upon the often bizarre events that occurred to fuel the fears and suspicions of railway employees.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal, encroaching on all aspects of everyday life. Starting from the most literal level—barricades and barriers in front of buildings,(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
December 2008, New York
Indefensible space: the architecture of the national insecurity space
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Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal, encroaching on all aspects of everyday life. Starting from the most literal level—barricades and barriers in front of buildings, beefed up border patrols, gated communities, "safe rooms,"—to more abstract levels—enhanced surveillance at public spaces such as airports, increasing worries about contagion, the psychological predilection for fortified space—the contributors cover the full gamut of securitized public life that is defining the zeitgeist of twenty-first century America
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Far more than a timeline of events, Lighter Than Air focuses on the people -- flamboyant and daring, heroes and scoundrels -- who made history in the sky. Here are the eighteenth-century(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
April 2009, Baltimore, Washington
Lighter than air: an illustrated history of balloons and airships
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This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Far more than a timeline of events, Lighter Than Air focuses on the people -- flamboyant and daring, heroes and scoundrels -- who made history in the sky. Here are the eighteenth-century pioneers who first took to the skies, the peripatetic aeronauts who criss-crossed two continents a century later, the airmen who manned the great rigid airships, and the intrepid balloonists who flew their craft across oceans and continents in the years following World War II. Tom D. Crouch, senior curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, has written and edited over a dozen books, including The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. He has won several major awards for historical writing, including prizes offered by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Aviation/Space Writers Association.
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A fresh look at an important but frequently contentious topic, how to accommodate cars in the built environment, this groundbreaking book will transform your perception of the often-maligned parking garage.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
January 2008, Washington
The parking garage: design and evolution of a modern urban form
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A fresh look at an important but frequently contentious topic, how to accommodate cars in the built environment, this groundbreaking book will transform your perception of the often-maligned parking garage.
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