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Trafic : l’art conceptuel au Canada 1965–1980 est la première publication et exposition à explorer les manifestations complexes, rigoureuses et diverses de l’art conceptuel au pays. Présentant le travail de plus de 90 artistes, Trafic s’attarde aux besoins et intérêts locaux et géographiques particuliers exprimés par des artistes, collectifs et communautés artistiques de(...)
Trafic : l'art conceptuel au Canada 1965-1980
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Trafic : l’art conceptuel au Canada 1965–1980 est la première publication et exposition à explorer les manifestations complexes, rigoureuses et diverses de l’art conceptuel au pays. Présentant le travail de plus de 90 artistes, Trafic s’attarde aux besoins et intérêts locaux et géographiques particuliers exprimés par des artistes, collectifs et communautés artistiques de partout au Canada.
Canadian art
Urban street design guide
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The NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials) Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. This design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than(...)
Urban street design guide
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The NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials) Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. This design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic.
Urban Theory
Cycle infrastructure
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As cycling continues to enjoy a worldwide revival, experiments in new cycling facilities are underway everywhere. Cycle Infrastructure includes international examples, interviews with the makers of prominent cycling routes and a glimpse at future innovations. Its goal is to activate the full potential of cycling for the urban landscape and to consider cycling(...)
Cycle infrastructure
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As cycling continues to enjoy a worldwide revival, experiments in new cycling facilities are underway everywhere. Cycle Infrastructure includes international examples, interviews with the makers of prominent cycling routes and a glimpse at future innovations. Its goal is to activate the full potential of cycling for the urban landscape and to consider cycling infrastructure as an integral design challenge, rather than purely an issue of traffic engineering.
Urban Theory
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Based on a five-year research project between the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art and two global industry partners, Haworth and Philips Lighting, the book takes lessons from the interactions of the academic library, the emotional landscapes of stage design, flexible temporary events in the city and intensive team environments in air traffic(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
October 2014
Life of works : what office design can learn from the world around us
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Based on a five-year research project between the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art and two global industry partners, Haworth and Philips Lighting, the book takes lessons from the interactions of the academic library, the emotional landscapes of stage design, flexible temporary events in the city and intensive team environments in air traffic control and emergency medical departments.
Commercial interiors, Building types
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality(...)
Architecture in Canada
June 2009
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality of urban neighbourhoods with the requirements of suburban traffic.
Architecture in Canada
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Lodged in the middle of this pocket-sized blank note book are a collection of images based around one of cinema’s more iconic figures, Jacques Tati. Appearing are stills taken from classic films as Mon Oncle, Traffic and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, along with lesser known journal entries, sketches and on-scene photographs. The blank pages allow room for anything from notes,(...)
Tati note
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Lodged in the middle of this pocket-sized blank note book are a collection of images based around one of cinema’s more iconic figures, Jacques Tati. Appearing are stills taken from classic films as Mon Oncle, Traffic and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, along with lesser known journal entries, sketches and on-scene photographs. The blank pages allow room for anything from notes, sketches and drawings to thoughts and reflections.
Contemporary Art Monographs
The pedestrian and the city
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The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key issues addressed include the struggle of pedestrianization in town centers, the attempts to create independent pedestrian(...)
The pedestrian and the city
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The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key issues addressed include the struggle of pedestrianization in town centers, the attempts to create independent pedestrian footpaths and the popularity of traffic calming as a powerful policy for reducing pedestrian accidents.
Urban Theory
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Behind the stately canal facades of Amsterdam lies a green and silent world largely invisible to traffic and pedestrians. The designers of the 17th century ring of canals stipulated that the plots that came with the houses should be filled with green, not with brick a specification that is still observed up until today. Here, the history and beauty of these gardens are(...)
Gardens
May 2006, Amsterdam
Behind the facades : gardens of canal houses in Amsterdam
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Behind the stately canal facades of Amsterdam lies a green and silent world largely invisible to traffic and pedestrians. The designers of the 17th century ring of canals stipulated that the plots that came with the houses should be filled with green, not with brick a specification that is still observed up until today. Here, the history and beauty of these gardens are comprehensively documented in an accessible way through text and photographs
Gardens
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Karin Bijsterveld examines the persistence of noise on the public agenda, looking at four episodes of noise and the public response to it in Europe and the United States between 1875 and 1975: industrial noise, traffic noise, noise from neighborhood radios and gramophones, and aircraft noise. She also looks at a twentieth-century counterpoint to complaints about noise:(...)
Mechanical sound, technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century
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Karin Bijsterveld examines the persistence of noise on the public agenda, looking at four episodes of noise and the public response to it in Europe and the United States between 1875 and 1975: industrial noise, traffic noise, noise from neighborhood radios and gramophones, and aircraft noise. She also looks at a twentieth-century counterpoint to complaints about noise: the celebration of mechanical sound in avant-garde music composed between the two world wars.
Acoustics
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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men(...)
Dirty old London: the victorian fight against filth
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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them.
History until 1900, Great Britain