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In ''Looking for the voids'', Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from more than fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia. Her research focuses on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and other territorial buffer zones that are in constant flux and move between the poles of(...)
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In ''Looking for the voids'', Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from more than fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia. Her research focuses on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and other territorial buffer zones that are in constant flux and move between the poles of(...)
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Looking for the voids: Learning from Asia's liminial urban spaces as a foundation to expand
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In ''Looking for the voids'', Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from more than fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia. Her research focuses on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and other territorial buffer zones that are in constant flux and move between the poles of inside–outside, public–private, as well as legal–illegal.
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In ''Looking for the voids'', Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from more than fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia. Her research focuses on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and other territorial buffer zones that are in constant flux and move between the poles of inside–outside, public–private, as well as legal–illegal.
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July 2023
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Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the(...)
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Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the(...)
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Ranches, rowhouses & railroad flats : American homes - how they shape our landscapes and neighbourhoods
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Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the immediate outdoors, mechanical and plumbing connections, and connections to society. She emphasizes the varied and often conflicting environmental concerns, and examines how homes are grouped and combined with other building types and open spaces into neighborhoods.
Ranches, rowhouses & railroad flats : American homes - how they shape our landscapes and neighbourhoods
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Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the immediate outdoors, mechanical and plumbing connections, and connections to society. She emphasizes the varied and often conflicting environmental concerns, and examines how homes are grouped and combined with other building types and open spaces into neighborhoods.
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May 1999, New York
May 1999, New York
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Collective Housing
Collective Housing
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`Landscape as Territory` is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called ‘Urban Age’, understanding the notion of ‘territory’ as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced. Territory, understood as a ‘political technology,’ has the capacity to involve architects and designers into(...)
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`Landscape as Territory` is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called ‘Urban Age’, understanding the notion of ‘territory’ as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced. Territory, understood as a ‘political technology,’ has the capacity to involve architects and designers into(...)
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Landscape as territory: a cartographic design project
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`Landscape as Territory` is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called ‘Urban Age’, understanding the notion of ‘territory’ as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced. Territory, understood as a ‘political technology,’ has the capacity to involve architects and designers into complex social, political, technical, legal, strategic and economic processes that are both historical and geographical engines of contemporary urbanization.
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`Landscape as Territory` is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called ‘Urban Age’, understanding the notion of ‘territory’ as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced. Territory, understood as a ‘political technology,’ has the capacity to involve architects and designers into complex social, political, technical, legal, strategic and economic processes that are both historical and geographical engines of contemporary urbanization.
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January 2020
January 2020
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Gardens
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Mute vol 2 no 7
Mute vol 2 no 7
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We are living through an intensification of citizens', and non-citizens', visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and points-based immigration systems destroy the legal and informational grey zones in which the poor shelter and organise. As black economies and shadow sectors are exposed to the light of networked information in the interests of(...)
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We are living through an intensification of citizens', and non-citizens', visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and points-based immigration systems destroy the legal and informational grey zones in which the poor shelter and organise. As black economies and shadow sectors are exposed to the light of networked information in the interests of(...)
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Mute vol 2 no 7
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We are living through an intensification of citizens', and non-citizens', visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and points-based immigration systems destroy the legal and informational grey zones in which the poor shelter and organise. As black economies and shadow sectors are exposed to the light of networked information in the interests of population management, border enforcement, welfare clamps-downs and, above all, profit, what are the risks and advantages of visibility?
Mute vol 2 no 7
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We are living through an intensification of citizens', and non-citizens', visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and points-based immigration systems destroy the legal and informational grey zones in which the poor shelter and organise. As black economies and shadow sectors are exposed to the light of networked information in the interests of population management, border enforcement, welfare clamps-downs and, above all, profit, what are the risks and advantages of visibility?
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January 2008, London
January 2008, London
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Urban sprawl has gained much national attention in recent years. Sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and race relations. Comprehensive enough for high school students and also appropriate for college undergraduates, this book delves into the challenges of urban sprawl by turning(...)
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Urban sprawl has gained much national attention in recent years. Sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and race relations. Comprehensive enough for high school students and also appropriate for college undergraduates, this book delves into the challenges of urban sprawl by turning(...)
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Remaking american communities
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Urban sprawl has gained much national attention in recent years. Sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and race relations. Comprehensive enough for high school students and also appropriate for college undergraduates, this book delves into the challenges of urban sprawl by turning to some of America's top thinkers on the problem, including Robert Yaro, president of the Regional Plan Association.
Remaking american communities
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Urban sprawl has gained much national attention in recent years. Sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and race relations. Comprehensive enough for high school students and also appropriate for college undergraduates, this book delves into the challenges of urban sprawl by turning to some of America's top thinkers on the problem, including Robert Yaro, president of the Regional Plan Association.
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January 2007
January 2007
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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On photography
On photography
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Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power. In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred(...)
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Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power. In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred(...)
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On photography
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Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power. In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.
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Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power. In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.
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August 2019
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xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2025.
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2025.
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Concrete colonialism : architecture, urbanism, and the US imperial project in the Philippines / Diana Jean S. Martinez.
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xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2025.
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"Against landlords" overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which boosts house prices and makes tenancy unaffordable. Furthermore, building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law, and legal reforms must sweep(...)
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"Against landlords" overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which boosts house prices and makes tenancy unaffordable. Furthermore, building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law, and legal reforms must sweep(...)
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Against landlords: How to solve the housing crisis
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"Against landlords" overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which boosts house prices and makes tenancy unaffordable. Furthermore, building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law, and legal reforms must sweep away the rot at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life.
Against landlords: How to solve the housing crisis
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"Against landlords" overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which boosts house prices and makes tenancy unaffordable. Furthermore, building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law, and legal reforms must sweep away the rot at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life.
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April 2025
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Humans and cities
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Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, ©2012.
Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, ©2012.
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Forensic architecture : notes from fields and forums = Forensische Architektur : Notizen von Feldern und Foren / Eyal Weizman.
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Forensic architecture : notes from fields and forums = Forensische Architektur : Notizen von Feldern und Foren / Eyal Weizman.
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Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, ©2012.
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Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2006.
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The hanging of Angelique : the untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of old Montréal / Afua Cooper.
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The hanging of Angelique : the untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of old Montréal / Afua Cooper.
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Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2006.
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