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Model city blues
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Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the �ideal city� by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven,(...)
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Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the �ideal city� by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven,(...)
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Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the �ideal city� by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1960s. Anchored in the physical spaces and political struggles of the city, it brings back to center stage the individuals and groups who demanded that their voices be heard. By reexamining the converging class- and race-based movements of 1960s New Haven, Mandi Jackson helps to explain the city�s present-day economic and political struggles. More broadly, by closely analyzing particular sites of resistance in New Haven, Model City Blues employs multiple academic disciplines to redefine and reimagine the roles of everyday city spaces in building social movements and creating urban landscapes.
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Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the �ideal city� by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1960s. Anchored in the physical spaces and political struggles of the city, it brings back to center stage the individuals and groups who demanded that their voices be heard. By reexamining the converging class- and race-based movements of 1960s New Haven, Mandi Jackson helps to explain the city�s present-day economic and political struggles. More broadly, by closely analyzing particular sites of resistance in New Haven, Model City Blues employs multiple academic disciplines to redefine and reimagine the roles of everyday city spaces in building social movements and creating urban landscapes.
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May 2008, Philadelphia
May 2008, Philadelphia
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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In his book, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts - knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology - and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. This may be seen at the heart of "Artifice and design" in Allen's discussion of seven bridges : he focuses at length on(...)
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In his book, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts - knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology - and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. This may be seen at the heart of "Artifice and design" in Allen's discussion of seven bridges : he focuses at length on(...)
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Artifice and design : art and technology in human experience
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In his book, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts - knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology - and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. This may be seen at the heart of "Artifice and design" in Allen's discussion of seven bridges : he focuses at length on two New York bridges — the Hell Gate Bridge and the Bayonne Bridge — and makes use of original sources for insight into the designers' ideas about the aesthetic dimensions of their work. Allen starts from the conviction that art and technology must be treated together, as two aspects of a common, technical human nature. The topics covered in "Artifice and design" are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, drawing from evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and the history and anthropology of art and technology. The book concludes that it is a mistake to think of Art as something subjective, or as an arbitrary social representation, and of Technology as an instrumental form of purposive rationality.
Artifice and design : art and technology in human experience
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In his book, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts - knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology - and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. This may be seen at the heart of "Artifice and design" in Allen's discussion of seven bridges : he focuses at length on two New York bridges — the Hell Gate Bridge and the Bayonne Bridge — and makes use of original sources for insight into the designers' ideas about the aesthetic dimensions of their work. Allen starts from the conviction that art and technology must be treated together, as two aspects of a common, technical human nature. The topics covered in "Artifice and design" are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, drawing from evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and the history and anthropology of art and technology. The book concludes that it is a mistake to think of Art as something subjective, or as an arbitrary social representation, and of Technology as an instrumental form of purposive rationality.
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July 2008, Ithaca, London
July 2008, Ithaca, London
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Design Theory
Design Theory
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The life and death of images
The life and death of images
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"The Life and Death of Images is a well-conceived intervention in one of the principal impasses in contemporary theories of the image: the question, broadly put, of what comes after the opposition of the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic. For almost three decades now, that question has been surfacing in various forms-as institutional critique, as relational aesthetics, as(...)
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"The Life and Death of Images is a well-conceived intervention in one of the principal impasses in contemporary theories of the image: the question, broadly put, of what comes after the opposition of the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic. For almost three decades now, that question has been surfacing in various forms-as institutional critique, as relational aesthetics, as(...)
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Art Theory
Art Theory
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April 2008, London, New York
April 2008, London, New York
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The life and death of images
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"The Life and Death of Images is a well-conceived intervention in one of the principal impasses in contemporary theories of the image: the question, broadly put, of what comes after the opposition of the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic. For almost three decades now, that question has been surfacing in various forms-as institutional critique, as relational aesthetics, as a return to beauty-but almost no interesting work has been done on the underlying issues. Costello and Willsdon conceive the problem in terms of aesthetics and ethics, and they enlist a number of the foremost writers in and around images in a series of exchanges. The format is innovative, and generates the kind of real interdisciplinary friction that is so often missing from ordinary edited volumes. The book's insights and hopes are an accurate reflection of the state of conceptualization of the image." -James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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"The Life and Death of Images is a well-conceived intervention in one of the principal impasses in contemporary theories of the image: the question, broadly put, of what comes after the opposition of the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic. For almost three decades now, that question has been surfacing in various forms-as institutional critique, as relational aesthetics, as a return to beauty-but almost no interesting work has been done on the underlying issues. Costello and Willsdon conceive the problem in terms of aesthetics and ethics, and they enlist a number of the foremost writers in and around images in a series of exchanges. The format is innovative, and generates the kind of real interdisciplinary friction that is so often missing from ordinary edited volumes. The book's insights and hopes are an accurate reflection of the state of conceptualization of the image." -James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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April 2008, London, New York
April 2008, London, New York
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Art Theory
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Pourquoi marchons-nous de moins en moins? Quelle influence a eu l'aménagement urbain sur le déclin de la marche dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, principalement en Amérique du Nord? Quelles sont les conséquences de la sédentarité sur la santé et la vie sociale? Pour une ville qui marche tente de répondre à ces questions en offrant une nouvelle vision de(...)
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Pourquoi marchons-nous de moins en moins? Quelle influence a eu l'aménagement urbain sur le déclin de la marche dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, principalement en Amérique du Nord? Quelles sont les conséquences de la sédentarité sur la santé et la vie sociale? Pour une ville qui marche tente de répondre à ces questions en offrant une nouvelle vision de(...)
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Pour une ville qui marche: aménagement urbain et santé
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Pourquoi marchons-nous de moins en moins? Quelle influence a eu l'aménagement urbain sur le déclin de la marche dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, principalement en Amérique du Nord? Quelles sont les conséquences de la sédentarité sur la santé et la vie sociale? Pour une ville qui marche tente de répondre à ces questions en offrant une nouvelle vision de l'aménegement urbain centrée sur le piéton plutôt que sur l'automobile, de façon à rendre la ville plus conviviale et plus saine.
Pour une ville qui marche: aménagement urbain et santé
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Pourquoi marchons-nous de moins en moins? Quelle influence a eu l'aménagement urbain sur le déclin de la marche dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, principalement en Amérique du Nord? Quelles sont les conséquences de la sédentarité sur la santé et la vie sociale? Pour une ville qui marche tente de répondre à ces questions en offrant une nouvelle vision de l'aménegement urbain centrée sur le piéton plutôt que sur l'automobile, de façon à rendre la ville plus conviviale et plus saine.
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February 2008, Montréal
February 2008, Montréal
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion(...)
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion(...)
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Manfredo Tafuri: choosing history
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion on both the premises of his practice and the historical questions that consequently emerge.
Manfredo Tafuri: choosing history
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion on both the premises of his practice and the historical questions that consequently emerge.
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January 1900
January 1900
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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The landscape architect has great responsibility in creating projects that don't undermine the fragile natural balance of arid areas. The understanding of these kinds of landscapes will be of enormous help in preserving our world and the quality of life of the population that inhabits such regions. This book presents numerous examples of oases, gardens and agriculture in(...)
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The landscape architect has great responsibility in creating projects that don't undermine the fragile natural balance of arid areas. The understanding of these kinds of landscapes will be of enormous help in preserving our world and the quality of life of the population that inhabits such regions. This book presents numerous examples of oases, gardens and agriculture in(...)
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Aridscapes: designing in harsh and fragile lands
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The landscape architect has great responsibility in creating projects that don't undermine the fragile natural balance of arid areas. The understanding of these kinds of landscapes will be of enormous help in preserving our world and the quality of life of the population that inhabits such regions. This book presents numerous examples of oases, gardens and agriculture in the desert. In short, it provides a demonstration of how it is possible to work within a hostile landscape.
Aridscapes: designing in harsh and fragile lands
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The landscape architect has great responsibility in creating projects that don't undermine the fragile natural balance of arid areas. The understanding of these kinds of landscapes will be of enormous help in preserving our world and the quality of life of the population that inhabits such regions. This book presents numerous examples of oases, gardens and agriculture in the desert. In short, it provides a demonstration of how it is possible to work within a hostile landscape.
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June 2008
June 2008
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Landscape Theory
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It's a truism of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter - we can work just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen as in a house in Provence or an office in Chicago. Wrong, argues Richard Florida. Globalization may open up more of the world to us, but it also makes place a key factor in life. Based on more than twenty years of research, 'Who's yor City?'(...)
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It's a truism of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter - we can work just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen as in a house in Provence or an office in Chicago. Wrong, argues Richard Florida. Globalization may open up more of the world to us, but it also makes place a key factor in life. Based on more than twenty years of research, 'Who's yor City?'(...)
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Who's your City? How the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life
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It's a truism of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter - we can work just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen as in a house in Provence or an office in Chicago. Wrong, argues Richard Florida. Globalization may open up more of the world to us, but it also makes place a key factor in life. Based on more than twenty years of research, 'Who's yor City?' shows how a new economic unit - the mega-region- is the real driver of the global economy explains why mega-regions are diverging not only in economic specialization but even in personality.
Who's your City? How the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life
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It's a truism of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter - we can work just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen as in a house in Provence or an office in Chicago. Wrong, argues Richard Florida. Globalization may open up more of the world to us, but it also makes place a key factor in life. Based on more than twenty years of research, 'Who's yor City?' shows how a new economic unit - the mega-region- is the real driver of the global economy explains why mega-regions are diverging not only in economic specialization but even in personality.
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March 2008, New York
March 2008, New York
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Trying Leviathan
Trying Leviathan
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational(...)
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational(...)
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Trying Leviathan
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature, and how we know it, was at stake.
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature, and how we know it, was at stake.
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October 2007, Princeton
October 2007, Princeton
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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The original accident
The original accident
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Urging us to face up to the consequences of our braves-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.
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Urging us to face up to the consequences of our braves-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.
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The original accident
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Urging us to face up to the consequences of our braves-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.
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Urging us to face up to the consequences of our braves-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.
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November 2006, Cambridge
November 2006, Cambridge
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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City of Panic
City of Panic
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City of Panic opens with a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt pf its Metro. Along the way, City of Panic tells the story of all cities. Cities everywhere are being reconstructed through a campaign of panic, the proliferation of gated-communities, policed shopping malls, the ever-widening net of surveillance, and a media consistently(...)
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City of Panic opens with a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt pf its Metro. Along the way, City of Panic tells the story of all cities. Cities everywhere are being reconstructed through a campaign of panic, the proliferation of gated-communities, policed shopping malls, the ever-widening net of surveillance, and a media consistently(...)
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City of Panic
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City of Panic opens with a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt pf its Metro. Along the way, City of Panic tells the story of all cities. Cities everywhere are being reconstructed through a campaign of panic, the proliferation of gated-communities, policed shopping malls, the ever-widening net of surveillance, and a media consistently fabricating a world of fear. As the past is torn downand replaced with an identikit present we seem to have accpted that our cities really are war zones and that every city must ben the same.
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City of Panic opens with a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt pf its Metro. Along the way, City of Panic tells the story of all cities. Cities everywhere are being reconstructed through a campaign of panic, the proliferation of gated-communities, policed shopping malls, the ever-widening net of surveillance, and a media consistently fabricating a world of fear. As the past is torn downand replaced with an identikit present we seem to have accpted that our cities really are war zones and that every city must ben the same.
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May 2007, Oxford, New York
May 2007, Oxford, New York
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
