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Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.
Urban theory beyond the west : a world of cities
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Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.
Urban Theory
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Drawing on research from the UK, US, Europe, and Asia the book outlines the problems surrounding energy and architecture and provides the reader with a considered overview of this important topic.
Architecture and energy: performance and style
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Drawing on research from the UK, US, Europe, and Asia the book outlines the problems surrounding energy and architecture and provides the reader with a considered overview of this important topic.
Architectural Theory
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Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is one of the most read and beloved in the New York Times. More Scenes from the Rural Life gathers together 150 of his best pieces since his last collection was published a decade ago.
More scenes from the rural life
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Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is one of the most read and beloved in the New York Times. More Scenes from the Rural Life gathers together 150 of his best pieces since his last collection was published a decade ago.
Landscape Theory
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The Designer Says is a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's leading practitioners. Paired on page spreads like guests at a dinner party, a designer from the nineteenth century might sit next to one working today or two contemporary designers may strike up a conversation.
The designers says: quotes, tips, and words of wisdom
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The Designer Says is a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's leading practitioners. Paired on page spreads like guests at a dinner party, a designer from the nineteenth century might sit next to one working today or two contemporary designers may strike up a conversation.
Design Theory
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In this thought-provoking book, Martijn de Waal, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, discusses the ways in which digital and mobile media are changing urban life and our everyday experience of our physical surroundings. Few would deny the convenient and engaging nature of new media. But, probing deeper, de Waal delves into how the rise of these "urban(...)
The city as interface: how new media are changing the city
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In this thought-provoking book, Martijn de Waal, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, discusses the ways in which digital and mobile media are changing urban life and our everyday experience of our physical surroundings. Few would deny the convenient and engaging nature of new media. But, probing deeper, de Waal delves into how the rise of these "urban media" also presents an important philosophical issue: how do they affect how the city functions as a community?
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Cycle infrastructure
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As cycling continues to enjoy a worldwide revival, experiments in new cycling facilities are underway everywhere. Cycle Infrastructure includes international examples, interviews with the makers of prominent cycling routes and a glimpse at future innovations. Its goal is to activate the full potential of cycling for the urban landscape and to consider cycling(...)
Cycle infrastructure
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As cycling continues to enjoy a worldwide revival, experiments in new cycling facilities are underway everywhere. Cycle Infrastructure includes international examples, interviews with the makers of prominent cycling routes and a glimpse at future innovations. Its goal is to activate the full potential of cycling for the urban landscape and to consider cycling infrastructure as an integral design challenge, rather than purely an issue of traffic engineering.
Urban Theory
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C’est l’urbanité, au sens large, qui est en jeu dans ces fluctuations de la perception, dans ces transitions du sensible, engendrant une esthétique mineure. Les lieux du sensible : une anthropologie singulière des faits intimes, des presque-rien, de l’inconnu ; une esthétique du reste qui appréhende le battement du réel.
Les lieux du sensible : villes, hommes, images
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C’est l’urbanité, au sens large, qui est en jeu dans ces fluctuations de la perception, dans ces transitions du sensible, engendrant une esthétique mineure. Les lieux du sensible : une anthropologie singulière des faits intimes, des presque-rien, de l’inconnu ; une esthétique du reste qui appréhende le battement du réel.
Urban Theory
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From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures.
The breathless zoo : taxidermy and the cultures of longing
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From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures.
Landscape Theory
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In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art.
What we made : conversations on art and social cooperation
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In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art.
Art Theory
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Designing Cities examines the most important design and presentation principles of urban design, using selected historical examples and contemporary international competition entries designed by practices including Foster + Partners, KCAP Architects & Planners, MVRDV, and OMA.
Designing cities : basics, principles, projects
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Designing Cities examines the most important design and presentation principles of urban design, using selected historical examples and contemporary international competition entries designed by practices including Foster + Partners, KCAP Architects & Planners, MVRDV, and OMA.
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