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The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their(...)
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The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their(...)
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Sensing the city: a companion to urban anthropology
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The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses. The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers.With essays by PeterJackson, LesBack, RuthBehar, MoritzEge, RolfLindner, Mirko Zardini, Margarethe Kusenbach, Loic Wacquant.
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The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses. The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers.With essays by PeterJackson, LesBack, RuthBehar, MoritzEge, RolfLindner, Mirko Zardini, Margarethe Kusenbach, Loic Wacquant.
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Grâce à des récits sur la vie à Darwin, à des rencontres avec celles et ceux qui ont imaginé et construit ce lieu, et avec tous ceux qui y travaillent ou simplement y passent au quotidien, ce livre raconte la longue aventure d’entrepreneurs qui veulent réinventer le travail au coeur de nouveaux espaces urbains. Sous le sceau de la transition écologique et sociale ils(...)
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Grâce à des récits sur la vie à Darwin, à des rencontres avec celles et ceux qui ont imaginé et construit ce lieu, et avec tous ceux qui y travaillent ou simplement y passent au quotidien, ce livre raconte la longue aventure d’entrepreneurs qui veulent réinventer le travail au coeur de nouveaux espaces urbains. Sous le sceau de la transition écologique et sociale ils(...)
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Réinventer la ville, les (r)évolutions de Darwin à Bordeaux
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Grâce à des récits sur la vie à Darwin, à des rencontres avec celles et ceux qui ont imaginé et construit ce lieu, et avec tous ceux qui y travaillent ou simplement y passent au quotidien, ce livre raconte la longue aventure d’entrepreneurs qui veulent réinventer le travail au coeur de nouveaux espaces urbains. Sous le sceau de la transition écologique et sociale ils édifient un autre modèle de la ville de demain.
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Grâce à des récits sur la vie à Darwin, à des rencontres avec celles et ceux qui ont imaginé et construit ce lieu, et avec tous ceux qui y travaillent ou simplement y passent au quotidien, ce livre raconte la longue aventure d’entrepreneurs qui veulent réinventer le travail au coeur de nouveaux espaces urbains. Sous le sceau de la transition écologique et sociale ils édifient un autre modèle de la ville de demain.
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Urban Theory
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La circulation des modèles et des références en urbanisme se mondialise. La starchitecture s'impose dans les villes de tous les continents, les labels internationaux triomphent et les responsables des villes demandent toujours plus de benchmarking pour trouver de "bonnes pratiques". Ainsi, même si les modèles urbains ont toujours existé, ils changent aujourd'hui de statut(...)
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La circulation des modèles et des références en urbanisme se mondialise. La starchitecture s'impose dans les villes de tous les continents, les labels internationaux triomphent et les responsables des villes demandent toujours plus de benchmarking pour trouver de "bonnes pratiques". Ainsi, même si les modèles urbains ont toujours existé, ils changent aujourd'hui de statut(...)
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L'urbanisme des modèles ; références, benchmarking et bonnes pratiques
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La circulation des modèles et des références en urbanisme se mondialise. La starchitecture s'impose dans les villes de tous les continents, les labels internationaux triomphent et les responsables des villes demandent toujours plus de benchmarking pour trouver de "bonnes pratiques". Ainsi, même si les modèles urbains ont toujours existé, ils changent aujourd'hui de statut pour structurer de nouvelles manières de faire la ville. Ce livre interroge cette nouvelle situation : comment une conception de l'urbanisme circule-t-elle entre l'Europe et les USA ? Que devient le modèle lyonnais de l'éclairage quand il est importé au Mexique ? Comment met-on en oeuvre les "bonnes pratiques" ? Quel rôle la production et la diffusion des modèles jouent-elles dans l'organisation des communautés de professionnels ? Comment construit-on les références qui alimentent un projet urbain ? Plus largement, comment les savoirs de l'action urbanistique circulent-ils, quelle place les échanges de pratiques tiennent-ils dans la production de la ville, et comment caractériser cet urbanisme des modèles ?
L'urbanisme des modèles ; références, benchmarking et bonnes pratiques
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La circulation des modèles et des références en urbanisme se mondialise. La starchitecture s'impose dans les villes de tous les continents, les labels internationaux triomphent et les responsables des villes demandent toujours plus de benchmarking pour trouver de "bonnes pratiques". Ainsi, même si les modèles urbains ont toujours existé, ils changent aujourd'hui de statut pour structurer de nouvelles manières de faire la ville. Ce livre interroge cette nouvelle situation : comment une conception de l'urbanisme circule-t-elle entre l'Europe et les USA ? Que devient le modèle lyonnais de l'éclairage quand il est importé au Mexique ? Comment met-on en oeuvre les "bonnes pratiques" ? Quel rôle la production et la diffusion des modèles jouent-elles dans l'organisation des communautés de professionnels ? Comment construit-on les références qui alimentent un projet urbain ? Plus largement, comment les savoirs de l'action urbanistique circulent-ils, quelle place les échanges de pratiques tiennent-ils dans la production de la ville, et comment caractériser cet urbanisme des modèles ?
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Paysage, lieu et temps
Paysage, lieu et temps
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«Lorsque nous détruisons un paysage nous sommes un peu plus perdus, car notre rapport au temps, et donc avec nous-mêmes, s’en trouve appauvri et comme effiloché» affirme le poète-écrivain Giorgio Todde. Face à une société effrénée où tout le monde veut gagner du temps, alors que le réel défi consisterait à gagner un autre rapport au temps, cet ouvrage tente de calmer le(...)
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«Lorsque nous détruisons un paysage nous sommes un peu plus perdus, car notre rapport au temps, et donc avec nous-mêmes, s’en trouve appauvri et comme effiloché» affirme le poète-écrivain Giorgio Todde. Face à une société effrénée où tout le monde veut gagner du temps, alors que le réel défi consisterait à gagner un autre rapport au temps, cet ouvrage tente de calmer le(...)
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Paysage, lieu et temps
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«Lorsque nous détruisons un paysage nous sommes un peu plus perdus, car notre rapport au temps, et donc avec nous-mêmes, s’en trouve appauvri et comme effiloché» affirme le poète-écrivain Giorgio Todde. Face à une société effrénée où tout le monde veut gagner du temps, alors que le réel défi consisterait à gagner un autre rapport au temps, cet ouvrage tente de calmer le jeu en repositionnant les fondements d’une pensée de l’espace développée à partir du paysage et de son architecture. Dans ce contexte, l’auteur tisse des échanges privilégiés avec les travaux de l’Agence Latz+Partner. Temps et histoire, corps et tactilité, lieu et parcours, matériaux et restes, sol et profondeur, accueil et ouverture, seuils et limites ainsi qu’avenir du paysage postindustriel sont autant de thématiques alimentant une réflexion autour de cette pensée de l’espace et du projet. Cette approche spécifique prend ses distances du chant des sirènes et des éblouissements passagers qui nous guettent à tout moment. S’opposant à l’effilochement regretté par Todde, les points d’ancrage proposés dans cet ouvrage permettent d’appréhender les forces qui agissent sur l’espace des hommes et concourent à sa transformation. L’auteur montre par cet essai qu’il appartient au groupe restreint de ceux qui écrivent à la fois sur le paysage et sur l’architecture, et dont les réflexions contribuent au nécessaire rapprochement des deux versants d’une même pensée.
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«Lorsque nous détruisons un paysage nous sommes un peu plus perdus, car notre rapport au temps, et donc avec nous-mêmes, s’en trouve appauvri et comme effiloché» affirme le poète-écrivain Giorgio Todde. Face à une société effrénée où tout le monde veut gagner du temps, alors que le réel défi consisterait à gagner un autre rapport au temps, cet ouvrage tente de calmer le jeu en repositionnant les fondements d’une pensée de l’espace développée à partir du paysage et de son architecture. Dans ce contexte, l’auteur tisse des échanges privilégiés avec les travaux de l’Agence Latz+Partner. Temps et histoire, corps et tactilité, lieu et parcours, matériaux et restes, sol et profondeur, accueil et ouverture, seuils et limites ainsi qu’avenir du paysage postindustriel sont autant de thématiques alimentant une réflexion autour de cette pensée de l’espace et du projet. Cette approche spécifique prend ses distances du chant des sirènes et des éblouissements passagers qui nous guettent à tout moment. S’opposant à l’effilochement regretté par Todde, les points d’ancrage proposés dans cet ouvrage permettent d’appréhender les forces qui agissent sur l’espace des hommes et concourent à sa transformation. L’auteur montre par cet essai qu’il appartient au groupe restreint de ceux qui écrivent à la fois sur le paysage et sur l’architecture, et dont les réflexions contribuent au nécessaire rapprochement des deux versants d’une même pensée.
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Since 2014, CARTHA has provided a platform for critical thinking on architecture and society. Founded by an international team of architects and designers, it aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical approaches to contemporary architecture. Each year, CARTHA initiates research and the publication of four issues on a topic in its online magazine that are(...)
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Since 2014, CARTHA has provided a platform for critical thinking on architecture and society. Founded by an international team of architects and designers, it aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical approaches to contemporary architecture. Each year, CARTHA initiates research and the publication of four issues on a topic in its online magazine that are(...)
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Cartha: On relations in architecture
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Since 2014, CARTHA has provided a platform for critical thinking on architecture and society. Founded by an international team of architects and designers, it aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical approaches to contemporary architecture. Each year, CARTHA initiates research and the publication of four issues on a topic in its online magazine that are then brought together in an annual book. In 2015, CARTHA’s topic was relations within the architectural spectrum. Contributions explore models of collaboration and the ways in which architects relate to other architects, clients, workers, and users of space. Each of the four issues—Worth Sharing, Confrères, Mannschaft, and Santisima Trinidad—features an introductory interview with a renowned architect or firm, including Diogo Seixas Lopes, Grafton Architects, Samuel Schulze, and Marco Serra. Photography in the 2015 edition of CARTHA includes series by Guido Guidi, Rasmus Norlander, Joël Tettamanti, and Onnis Luque.
Cartha: On relations in architecture
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Since 2014, CARTHA has provided a platform for critical thinking on architecture and society. Founded by an international team of architects and designers, it aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical approaches to contemporary architecture. Each year, CARTHA initiates research and the publication of four issues on a topic in its online magazine that are then brought together in an annual book. In 2015, CARTHA’s topic was relations within the architectural spectrum. Contributions explore models of collaboration and the ways in which architects relate to other architects, clients, workers, and users of space. Each of the four issues—Worth Sharing, Confrères, Mannschaft, and Santisima Trinidad—features an introductory interview with a renowned architect or firm, including Diogo Seixas Lopes, Grafton Architects, Samuel Schulze, and Marco Serra. Photography in the 2015 edition of CARTHA includes series by Guido Guidi, Rasmus Norlander, Joël Tettamanti, and Onnis Luque.
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November 2016
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Architectural Theory
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''Extrastatecraft'' is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city(...)
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''Extrastatecraft'' is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city(...)
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Extrastatecraft: the power of infrastructure space
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''Extrastatecraft'' is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city the key site of power and resistance in the twenty-first century.
Extrastatecraft: the power of infrastructure space
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''Extrastatecraft'' is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city the key site of power and resistance in the twenty-first century.
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As leading radical writer on art John Berger celebrates his ninetieth year, he brings a lifetime's engagement with the ideas, artists, and thinkers that have shaped his thinking: Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht among them. In Landscapes Berger allows us to see the evolution of his own way of seeing. He explores the relationship between creativity and(...)
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As leading radical writer on art John Berger celebrates his ninetieth year, he brings a lifetime's engagement with the ideas, artists, and thinkers that have shaped his thinking: Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht among them. In Landscapes Berger allows us to see the evolution of his own way of seeing. He explores the relationship between creativity and(...)
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Landscapes: John Berger on art
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As leading radical writer on art John Berger celebrates his ninetieth year, he brings a lifetime's engagement with the ideas, artists, and thinkers that have shaped his thinking: Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht among them. In Landscapes Berger allows us to see the evolution of his own way of seeing. He explores the relationship between creativity and politics and the revolutionary potential of art through a series of different forms.
Landscapes: John Berger on art
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As leading radical writer on art John Berger celebrates his ninetieth year, he brings a lifetime's engagement with the ideas, artists, and thinkers that have shaped his thinking: Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht among them. In Landscapes Berger allows us to see the evolution of his own way of seeing. He explores the relationship between creativity and politics and the revolutionary potential of art through a series of different forms.
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November 2016
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Art Theory
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La grande arche
La grande arche
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Il existe à travers le monde une légende presque universelle, selon laquelle on ne peut pas construire un monument si un être humain n'est pas sacrifié. Sinon, le bâtiment s’écroule, et s’écroule toutes les fois qu’on essaye de le remonter. Pour conjurer cette malédiction, il faut emmurer quelqu’un de vivant dans les fondations. On recense plus de sept cents versions de(...)
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Il existe à travers le monde une légende presque universelle, selon laquelle on ne peut pas construire un monument si un être humain n'est pas sacrifié. Sinon, le bâtiment s’écroule, et s’écroule toutes les fois qu’on essaye de le remonter. Pour conjurer cette malédiction, il faut emmurer quelqu’un de vivant dans les fondations. On recense plus de sept cents versions de(...)
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La grande arche
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Il existe à travers le monde une légende presque universelle, selon laquelle on ne peut pas construire un monument si un être humain n'est pas sacrifié. Sinon, le bâtiment s’écroule, et s’écroule toutes les fois qu’on essaye de le remonter. Pour conjurer cette malédiction, il faut emmurer quelqu’un de vivant dans les fondations. On recense plus de sept cents versions de cette histoire. Celle de la Grande Arche de la Défense est la plus récente. Ce récit brosse l’épopée de la construction d’un des monuments les plus connus de Paris, dont on ignore qu’il fut l’enjeu de luttes politiques au couteau sous le règne de François Mitterrand. C’est surtout le portrait et l’histoire de son créateur, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, un architecte danois très secret, professeur aux Beaux-Arts de Copenhague.
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Il existe à travers le monde une légende presque universelle, selon laquelle on ne peut pas construire un monument si un être humain n'est pas sacrifié. Sinon, le bâtiment s’écroule, et s’écroule toutes les fois qu’on essaye de le remonter. Pour conjurer cette malédiction, il faut emmurer quelqu’un de vivant dans les fondations. On recense plus de sept cents versions de cette histoire. Celle de la Grande Arche de la Défense est la plus récente. Ce récit brosse l’épopée de la construction d’un des monuments les plus connus de Paris, dont on ignore qu’il fut l’enjeu de luttes politiques au couteau sous le règne de François Mitterrand. C’est surtout le portrait et l’histoire de son créateur, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, un architecte danois très secret, professeur aux Beaux-Arts de Copenhague.
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Architectural Theory
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For E. C. Relph, the landscape of late twentieth-century cities must be envisioned as a total environment—not just streets and buildings but billboards and parking meters as well. "The modern urban landscape" traces the developments since 1880 in architecture, technology, planning, and society that have formed the visual context of daily life. Each of these shaping(...)
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For E. C. Relph, the landscape of late twentieth-century cities must be envisioned as a total environment—not just streets and buildings but billboards and parking meters as well. "The modern urban landscape" traces the developments since 1880 in architecture, technology, planning, and society that have formed the visual context of daily life. Each of these shaping(...)
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The modern urban landscape: 1880 to the present
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For E. C. Relph, the landscape of late twentieth-century cities must be envisioned as a total environment—not just streets and buildings but billboards and parking meters as well. "The modern urban landscape" traces the developments since 1880 in architecture, technology, planning, and society that have formed the visual context of daily life. Each of these shaping influences is often viewed in isolation, but Relph surveys the ways in which they have operated independently to create what we see when we walk down a street, shop in a mall, or stare through a windshield on an expressway. Two sets of ideas and fashions, Relph argues, have had an especially important impact on urban landscapes in the twentieth century. An "internationalism" made possible by new building technologies and design ideologies has replaced regional style and custom as the dominant feature of city appearance, while a firm belief in the merits of self-consciousness has imposed logical analysis and technical manipulation on such commonplace objects as curbstones and park benches. "As a result," writes Relph, "the modern urban landscape is both rationalized and artificial, which is another way of saying that it is intensely human." This edition features a new preface in which the author identifies the major visible changes in urban landscapes over the past thirty years, including destination architecture, coffee shops, condominium towers, revitalized downtown streets, and the creation of edge cities. He also considers the less visible yet pervasive impacts associated with the emergence of electronic technologies and sustainable development.
The modern urban landscape: 1880 to the present
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For E. C. Relph, the landscape of late twentieth-century cities must be envisioned as a total environment—not just streets and buildings but billboards and parking meters as well. "The modern urban landscape" traces the developments since 1880 in architecture, technology, planning, and society that have formed the visual context of daily life. Each of these shaping influences is often viewed in isolation, but Relph surveys the ways in which they have operated independently to create what we see when we walk down a street, shop in a mall, or stare through a windshield on an expressway. Two sets of ideas and fashions, Relph argues, have had an especially important impact on urban landscapes in the twentieth century. An "internationalism" made possible by new building technologies and design ideologies has replaced regional style and custom as the dominant feature of city appearance, while a firm belief in the merits of self-consciousness has imposed logical analysis and technical manipulation on such commonplace objects as curbstones and park benches. "As a result," writes Relph, "the modern urban landscape is both rationalized and artificial, which is another way of saying that it is intensely human." This edition features a new preface in which the author identifies the major visible changes in urban landscapes over the past thirty years, including destination architecture, coffee shops, condominium towers, revitalized downtown streets, and the creation of edge cities. He also considers the less visible yet pervasive impacts associated with the emergence of electronic technologies and sustainable development.
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The Tree of Meaning is a collection of thirteen lectures given by internationally-renowned poet, linguist and typographer Robert Bringhurst. Together these lectures present a superbly grounded approach to the study of language, focusing on storytelling, mythology, comparative literature, humanity and the breadth of oral culture. Bringhurst’s commitment to what he calls(...)
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The Tree of Meaning is a collection of thirteen lectures given by internationally-renowned poet, linguist and typographer Robert Bringhurst. Together these lectures present a superbly grounded approach to the study of language, focusing on storytelling, mythology, comparative literature, humanity and the breadth of oral culture. Bringhurst’s commitment to what he calls(...)
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The tree of meaning: thirteen talks
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The Tree of Meaning is a collection of thirteen lectures given by internationally-renowned poet, linguist and typographer Robert Bringhurst. Together these lectures present a superbly grounded approach to the study of language, focusing on storytelling, mythology, comparative literature, humanity and the breadth of oral culture. Bringhurst’s commitment to what he calls ‘ecological linguistics’ emerges in his studies of Native American art and storytelling, his understanding of poetry, and his championing of a more truly universal conception of what constitutes literature. The collection features a sustained focus on Haida culture (including the work of storytellers Skaay and Ghandl, and artist Bill Reid), on the process of translation, and on the relationship between beings and language. Spanning ten years of lecturing, The Tree of Meaning is remarkable not only for the cohesion of its author’s own ideas but for the synthesis of such wide-ranging perspectives and examples of cultures both human and non-human. These thirteen lectures draw together a highly personalized and active study of Native American art and literature, world languages, philosophy and natural history. To each subject Bringhurst brings an ecologically conscious, humanitarian approach and an enthusiastic interest in the world around him.
The tree of meaning: thirteen talks
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The Tree of Meaning is a collection of thirteen lectures given by internationally-renowned poet, linguist and typographer Robert Bringhurst. Together these lectures present a superbly grounded approach to the study of language, focusing on storytelling, mythology, comparative literature, humanity and the breadth of oral culture. Bringhurst’s commitment to what he calls ‘ecological linguistics’ emerges in his studies of Native American art and storytelling, his understanding of poetry, and his championing of a more truly universal conception of what constitutes literature. The collection features a sustained focus on Haida culture (including the work of storytellers Skaay and Ghandl, and artist Bill Reid), on the process of translation, and on the relationship between beings and language. Spanning ten years of lecturing, The Tree of Meaning is remarkable not only for the cohesion of its author’s own ideas but for the synthesis of such wide-ranging perspectives and examples of cultures both human and non-human. These thirteen lectures draw together a highly personalized and active study of Native American art and literature, world languages, philosophy and natural history. To each subject Bringhurst brings an ecologically conscious, humanitarian approach and an enthusiastic interest in the world around him.
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November 2008
November 2008
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Art Theory
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