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437 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 cm
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437 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 cm
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- Al Attar, Ammar, 1981-,
- Elshahed, Mohamed,,
- Fabbri, Roberto,,
- Khorshid, Reem,,
- Kubo, Michael,,
- Mezaina, Hind,,
- Moaswes, Abdulla Saad,,
- El Mousfy, Mona,,
- Nasar, Hammad,,
- Sooud Al Qassemi, Sultan,,
- Rashoud, Talal,,
- Reisz, Todd,,
- Al Sabi, Alia,,
- Shamsudheen, K. V.,,
- Stanek, Łukasz,,
- Takesh, Suheyla,,
- Unnikrishnan, Deepak,
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Basel, Switzerland : Birkhauser, [2021], ©2021
Basel, Switzerland : Birkhauser, [2021], ©2021
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Building Sharjah / with contributions by Ammar Al Attar, Mohamed Elshahed, Roberto Fabbri, Reem Khorshid, Michael Kubo, Hind Mezaina, Abdulla Saad Moaswes, Mona El Mousfy, Hammad Nasar, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Talal Al-Rashoud, Todd Reisz, Alia Al Sabi, K. V. Shamsudheen, Łukasz Stanek, Suheyla Takesh, Deepak Unnikrishnan.
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437 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 cm
Building Sharjah / with contributions by Ammar Al Attar, Mohamed Elshahed, Roberto Fabbri, Reem Khorshid, Michael Kubo, Hind Mezaina, Abdulla Saad Moaswes, Mona El Mousfy, Hammad Nasar, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Talal Al-Rashoud, Todd Reisz, Alia Al Sabi, K. V. Shamsudheen, Łukasz Stanek, Suheyla Takesh, Deepak Unnikrishnan.
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Basel, Switzerland : Birkhauser, [2021], ©2021
Basel, Switzerland : Birkhauser, [2021], ©2021
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- Al Attar, Ammar, 1981-,
- Elshahed, Mohamed,,
- Fabbri, Roberto,,
- Khorshid, Reem,,
- Kubo, Michael,,
- Mezaina, Hind,,
- Moaswes, Abdulla Saad,,
- El Mousfy, Mona,,
- Nasar, Hammad,,
- Sooud Al Qassemi, Sultan,,
- Rashoud, Talal,,
- Reisz, Todd,,
- Al Sabi, Alia,,
- Shamsudheen, K. V.,,
- Stanek, Łukasz,,
- Takesh, Suheyla,,
- Unnikrishnan, Deepak,
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In 1924 two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city’s tallest building, or ‘skyscraper.’ Van Alen was a creative genius who envisioned a bold, contemporary building(...)
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In 1924 two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city’s tallest building, or ‘skyscraper.’ Van Alen was a creative genius who envisioned a bold, contemporary building(...)
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Higher : a historic race to the sky and the making of a city
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In 1924 two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city’s tallest building, or ‘skyscraper.’ Van Alen was a creative genius who envisioned a bold, contemporary building that would move beyond the tired architecture of the previous century. By a stroke of good fortune he found a larger-than-life patron in automobile magnate Walter Chrysler, and they set out to build the legendary Chrysler building. Severance, by comparison, was a brilliant businessman, and he tapped his circle of downtown, old-money investors to begin construction on the Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street. From ground-breaking to bricklaying, Van Alen and Severance fought a duel of wills. Each man was forced to revamp his architectural design in an attempt to push higher, to overcome his rival in mid-construction, as the structures rose, floor by floor, in record time. Yet just as the battle was underway, a third party entered the arena and announced plans to build an even larger building. This project would be overseen by one of Chrysler’s principal rivals--a representative of the General Motors group--and the building ultimately became known as The Empire State Building.
Higher : a historic race to the sky and the making of a city
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In 1924 two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city’s tallest building, or ‘skyscraper.’ Van Alen was a creative genius who envisioned a bold, contemporary building that would move beyond the tired architecture of the previous century. By a stroke of good fortune he found a larger-than-life patron in automobile magnate Walter Chrysler, and they set out to build the legendary Chrysler building. Severance, by comparison, was a brilliant businessman, and he tapped his circle of downtown, old-money investors to begin construction on the Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street. From ground-breaking to bricklaying, Van Alen and Severance fought a duel of wills. Each man was forced to revamp his architectural design in an attempt to push higher, to overcome his rival in mid-construction, as the structures rose, floor by floor, in record time. Yet just as the battle was underway, a third party entered the arena and announced plans to build an even larger building. This project would be overseen by one of Chrysler’s principal rivals--a representative of the General Motors group--and the building ultimately became known as The Empire State Building.
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September 2003, New York
September 2003, New York
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Gratte-ciels
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Paris : Onestar Press, 2001
Paris : Onestar Press, 2001
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Les pattes de l'Araignée / Alain Séchas
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1 online resource (62 PDF pages) : illustrations
Les pattes de l'Araignée / Alain Séchas
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Paris : Onestar Press, 2001
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''The Storyteller'' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, ''One-Way Street'' and ''The Arcades Project''. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory(...)
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''The Storyteller'' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, ''One-Way Street'' and ''The Arcades Project''. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory(...)
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The Storyteller : Tales out of Loneliness
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''The Storyteller'' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, ''One-Way Street'' and ''The Arcades Project''. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
The Storyteller : Tales out of Loneliness
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''The Storyteller'' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, ''One-Way Street'' and ''The Arcades Project''. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
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December 2025
December 2025
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Literature and poetry
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'The Storyteller' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, 'One-Way Street' and 'The Arcades Project'. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms,(...)
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'The Storyteller' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, 'One-Way Street' and 'The Arcades Project'. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms,(...)
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The storyteller: tales out of loneliness
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'The Storyteller' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, 'One-Way Street' and 'The Arcades Project'. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
The storyteller: tales out of loneliness
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'The Storyteller' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, 'One-Way Street' and 'The Arcades Project'. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
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April 2016
April 2016
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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ca. 700 items : ill., Alphabetically by name of theatre.
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ca. 700 items : ill., Alphabetically by name of theatre.
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- Adelphi Theatre (Glasgow, Scotland),
- Adelphi Theatre (London, England),
- Aldwych Theatre (London, England),
- Alexandra Palace (Haringey, London, England),
- Alhambra Palace (London, England),
- Apollo Theatre (London, England),
- Astley's Amphitheatre.,
- Battersea Palace (London, England),
- Bedford Theatre (London, England),
- Bower Saloon (London, England),
- Britannia Theatre.,
- Canterbury Music Hall (London, England),
- City of London Theatre.,
- Collins Music Hall (London, England),
- Colosseum (London, England),
- Criterion Theatre (London, England),
- Curtain Theatre (London, England),
- Daly's Theatre (London, England),
- Deacon's Music Hall (London, England),
- Dorset Garden Theatre.,
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
- Duke of York's Theatre (London, England),
- Duke's Theatre (High Holborn Street, London, England),
- Elephant and Castle Theatre (London, England),
- Empire Leicester Square (London, England),
- Foresters Music Hall (London, England),
- Fortune Theatre (Golden Lane, London, England),
- Gaiety Theatre (London, England),
- Gaiety Theatre (London, England : 1903-1957),
- Garrick Theatre (London, England),
- Gatti's Palace of Varieties (London, England),
- Globe Theatre (London, England : 1599-1644),
- Goodman's Fields Theatre.,
- Granville Theatre of Varieties (London, England),
- Grecian Theatre (London, England),
- Haymarket Theatre (London, England),
- Her Majesty's Theatre (London, England),
- Holborn Empire (London, England),
- Imperial Theatre (London, England),
- Islington Empire (London, England),
- Jersey Theatre.,
- Kingsway Theatre.,
- Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.,
- Little Theatre (London, England),
- London Coliseum (London, England),
- London Hippodrome (London, England),
- London Palladium (London, England),
- London Pavilion (Piccadilly Street, London, England),
- Lyceum Theatre (London, England),
- Lyric Theatre (London, England),
- Marylebone Music Hall (London, England),
- Mile End Empire (London, England),
- National Theatre (London, England : 1877-1879),
- New Theatre (London, Theatre),
- New Theatre (New York, N.Y.),
- Old Vic Theatre (London, England),
- Olympic Theatre (London, England),
- Opera Comique Theatre (London, England),
- Opéra de Paris.,
- Oxford Theatre (London, England),
- Palace Theatre (London, England),
- Pantheon (Oxford Street, London, England),
- Pavilion Theatre (London, England),
- Players' Theatre (London, England),
- Playhouse (London, England),
- Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, London, England),
- Prince's Theatre (London, England : Shaftesbury Ave.),
- Princess's Theatre (London, England),
- Queen's Theatre (London, England : Shaftesbury Avenue),
- Red Bull Theatre (London, England),
- Royal Agricultural Hall (London, England),
- Comedy Theatre (London, England),
- Royal Opera House (London, England),
- Royal Court Theatre.,
- Royalty Theatre (1840-1938),
- Royalty Theatre (Portugal Street, London, England),
- Royalty Theatre (Well Street, London, England),
- Teatro di Sabbioneta (Sabbioneta, Italy),
- Sadler's Wells Theatre (London, England),
- Savoy Theatre (London, England),
- Scala Theatre.,
- Sebright Music Hall (London, England),
- Shaftesbury Theatre (1888-1941),
- Shepherds Bush Empire (London, England),
- South London Palace of Varieties (London, England),
- St. George's Hall (London, England),
- St. James's Theatre (London, England),
- Star Music Hall (London, England),
- Strand Theatre (London, England),
- Summer Theatre at Phalerum Bay (Athens, Greece),
- Surrey Theatre.,
- Teatro Farnese (Parma, Italy),
- Terry's Theatre (London, England),
- Theatre at Cork (Cork, Ireland),
- Theatre Royal (Edinburgh, Scotland),
- Theatre Royal (Liverpool, England),
- Theatre Royal, Norwich.,
- Tivoli Music Hall (London, England),
- Toole's Theatre (London, England),
- Variety Theatre (London, England),
- Vaudeville Theatre.,
- West London Theatre.,
- Westminster Theatre (London, England),
- Winter Garden Theatre (London, England),
- Wyndham's Theatre (London, England),
- Globe Theatre (Londres, Angleterre : 1599-1644),
- Theaters England London.,
- Theaters New York (State) New York.,
- Theaters Scotland Glasgow.,
- Theaters Great Britain England London 1600-1990.,
- Theaters Great Britain Scotland Glasgow.,
- Theaters Italy Parma.,
- Theaters United States New York (State) New York.,
- Variety theaters Great Britain England London 1600-1990.,
- Music halls Great Britain England London 1600-1990.,
- Fonds (collections),
- Black-and-white photographs.,
- Broadsides.,
- Clippings (information artifacts),
- Engravings (prints),
- Manuscripts (document genre),
- Postcards.,
- Posters.,
- Seating plans (drawings)
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Edward Craig Theatre Collection : ephemeral documents, 1613-ca. 1984 (bulk 1800-1900).
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ca. 700 items : ill., Alphabetically by name of theatre.
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- Adelphi Theatre (Glasgow, Scotland),
- Adelphi Theatre (London, England),
- Aldwych Theatre (London, England),
- Alexandra Palace (Haringey, London, England),
- Alhambra Palace (London, England),
- Apollo Theatre (London, England),
- Astley's Amphitheatre.,
- Battersea Palace (London, England),
- Bedford Theatre (London, England),
- Bower Saloon (London, England),
- Britannia Theatre.,
- Canterbury Music Hall (London, England),
- City of London Theatre.,
- Collins Music Hall (London, England),
- Colosseum (London, England),
- Criterion Theatre (London, England),
- Curtain Theatre (London, England),
- Daly's Theatre (London, England),
- Deacon's Music Hall (London, England),
- Dorset Garden Theatre.,
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
- Duke of York's Theatre (London, England),
- Duke's Theatre (High Holborn Street, London, England),
- Elephant and Castle Theatre (London, England),
- Empire Leicester Square (London, England),
- Foresters Music Hall (London, England),
- Fortune Theatre (Golden Lane, London, England),
- Gaiety Theatre (London, England),
- Gaiety Theatre (London, England : 1903-1957),
- Garrick Theatre (London, England),
- Gatti's Palace of Varieties (London, England),
- Globe Theatre (London, England : 1599-1644),
- Goodman's Fields Theatre.,
- Granville Theatre of Varieties (London, England),
- Grecian Theatre (London, England),
- Haymarket Theatre (London, England),
- Her Majesty's Theatre (London, England),
- Holborn Empire (London, England),
- Imperial Theatre (London, England),
- Islington Empire (London, England),
- Jersey Theatre.,
- Kingsway Theatre.,
- Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.,
- Little Theatre (London, England),
- London Coliseum (London, England),
- London Hippodrome (London, England),
- London Palladium (London, England),
- London Pavilion (Piccadilly Street, London, England),
- Lyceum Theatre (London, England),
- Lyric Theatre (London, England),
- Marylebone Music Hall (London, England),
- Mile End Empire (London, England),
- National Theatre (London, England : 1877-1879),
- New Theatre (London, Theatre),
- New Theatre (New York, N.Y.),
- Old Vic Theatre (London, England),
- Olympic Theatre (London, England),
- Opera Comique Theatre (London, England),
- Opéra de Paris.,
- Oxford Theatre (London, England),
- Palace Theatre (London, England),
- Pantheon (Oxford Street, London, England),
- Pavilion Theatre (London, England),
- Players' Theatre (London, England),
- Playhouse (London, England),
- Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, London, England),
- Prince's Theatre (London, England : Shaftesbury Ave.),
- Princess's Theatre (London, England),
- Queen's Theatre (London, England : Shaftesbury Avenue),
- Red Bull Theatre (London, England),
- Royal Agricultural Hall (London, England),
- Comedy Theatre (London, England),
- Royal Opera House (London, England),
- Royal Court Theatre.,
- Royalty Theatre (1840-1938),
- Royalty Theatre (Portugal Street, London, England),
- Royalty Theatre (Well Street, London, England),
- Teatro di Sabbioneta (Sabbioneta, Italy),
- Sadler's Wells Theatre (London, England),
- Savoy Theatre (London, England),
- Scala Theatre.,
- Sebright Music Hall (London, England),
- Shaftesbury Theatre (1888-1941),
- Shepherds Bush Empire (London, England),
- South London Palace of Varieties (London, England),
- St. George's Hall (London, England),
- St. James's Theatre (London, England),
- Star Music Hall (London, England),
- Strand Theatre (London, England),
- Summer Theatre at Phalerum Bay (Athens, Greece),
- Surrey Theatre.,
- Teatro Farnese (Parma, Italy),
- Terry's Theatre (London, England),
- Theatre at Cork (Cork, Ireland),
- Theatre Royal (Edinburgh, Scotland),
- Theatre Royal (Liverpool, England),
- Theatre Royal, Norwich.,
- Tivoli Music Hall (London, England),
- Toole's Theatre (London, England),
- Variety Theatre (London, England),
- Vaudeville Theatre.,
- West London Theatre.,
- Westminster Theatre (London, England),
- Winter Garden Theatre (London, England),
- Wyndham's Theatre (London, England),
- Globe Theatre (Londres, Angleterre : 1599-1644),
- Theaters England London.,
- Theaters New York (State) New York.,
- Theaters Scotland Glasgow.,
- Theaters Great Britain England London 1600-1990.,
- Theaters Great Britain Scotland Glasgow.,
- Theaters Italy Parma.,
- Theaters United States New York (State) New York.,
- Variety theaters Great Britain England London 1600-1990.,
- Music halls Great Britain England London 1600-1990.,
- Fonds (collections),
- Black-and-white photographs.,
- Broadsides.,
- Clippings (information artifacts),
- Engravings (prints),
- Manuscripts (document genre),
- Postcards.,
- Posters.,
- Seating plans (drawings)
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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through(...)
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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through(...)
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Brooklyn is : southeast of the island, travel notes
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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 10,000 remarkable words the essence of a place and its people.
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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 10,000 remarkable words the essence of a place and its people.
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October 2005, New York
October 2005, New York
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Shenzhen architectural guide
Shenzhen architectural guide
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The first of its kind, the Shenzhen Architectural Guide is dedicated to the city’s architecture and conceived as an atlas. The pages inside are filled with more than 150 relevant buildings and places that constitute the physical palimpsest of modern China’s most famous foundational town. Founded in 1978 as one of the first Special Economic Zones under Deng Xiaoping’s(...)
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The first of its kind, the Shenzhen Architectural Guide is dedicated to the city’s architecture and conceived as an atlas. The pages inside are filled with more than 150 relevant buildings and places that constitute the physical palimpsest of modern China’s most famous foundational town. Founded in 1978 as one of the first Special Economic Zones under Deng Xiaoping’s(...)
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The first of its kind, the Shenzhen Architectural Guide is dedicated to the city’s architecture and conceived as an atlas. The pages inside are filled with more than 150 relevant buildings and places that constitute the physical palimpsest of modern China’s most famous foundational town. Founded in 1978 as one of the first Special Economic Zones under Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, Shenzhen is a young city that was essentially built from the ground up at a rapid pace – hence the infamous ‘Shenzhen Speed’. Unlike most places, it has built its fortune on being propelled into the future without any connection to the past. Shenzhen is a place where business, immigration, ports, borders, and nature come together to shape a unique and, at times, mystifying architectural experience. This guide will introduce the reader to Shenzhen’s kaleidoscopic architecture with the help of bilingual coordinates and geodata. It will also refer to the city's political history and cultural geography. By photographing these state-of-the-art works in 2020, the book captures a sort of 'here-and-now' that will soon be transformed once again.
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The first of its kind, the Shenzhen Architectural Guide is dedicated to the city’s architecture and conceived as an atlas. The pages inside are filled with more than 150 relevant buildings and places that constitute the physical palimpsest of modern China’s most famous foundational town. Founded in 1978 as one of the first Special Economic Zones under Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, Shenzhen is a young city that was essentially built from the ground up at a rapid pace – hence the infamous ‘Shenzhen Speed’. Unlike most places, it has built its fortune on being propelled into the future without any connection to the past. Shenzhen is a place where business, immigration, ports, borders, and nature come together to shape a unique and, at times, mystifying architectural experience. This guide will introduce the reader to Shenzhen’s kaleidoscopic architecture with the help of bilingual coordinates and geodata. It will also refer to the city's political history and cultural geography. By photographing these state-of-the-art works in 2020, the book captures a sort of 'here-and-now' that will soon be transformed once again.
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January 2023
January 2023
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City Guides
City Guides
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In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim(...)
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In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim(...)
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Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity
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In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.” But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.
Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity
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In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.” But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.
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February 2012
February 2012
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Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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Building Sharjah
Building Sharjah
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'Building Sharjah' reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world’s final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past’s mistakes or one that reimagined(...)
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'Building Sharjah' reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world’s final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past’s mistakes or one that reimagined(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
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June 2021
June 2021
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Building Sharjah
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'Building Sharjah' reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world’s final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past’s mistakes or one that reimagined how wealth can build a city. Sharjah’s potential enticed an international cast of experts to create a bold, new city. As their projects begin to vanish, this book preserves them through unseen photographs and recovered documents. New writing chronicles how local and arriving residents arranged the designed, concrete environment into a home. Beyond just a local artifact, this book examines the confident promises made by global practices of urbanization.
Building Sharjah
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'Building Sharjah' reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world’s final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past’s mistakes or one that reimagined how wealth can build a city. Sharjah’s potential enticed an international cast of experts to create a bold, new city. As their projects begin to vanish, this book preserves them through unseen photographs and recovered documents. New writing chronicles how local and arriving residents arranged the designed, concrete environment into a home. Beyond just a local artifact, this book examines the confident promises made by global practices of urbanization.
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June 2021
June 2021
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Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
