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In the mid-1960s, New York City Mayor Robert Wagner assembled a team of the best and brightest urban designers and architects to decide the future of downtown Manhattan. After six months of drawing and discussion, they produced "The Lower Manhattan Plan", a 368-page document that was hand-typed, hand-bound, and photocopied. Only one hundred copies were made. But in spite(...)
Lower Manhattan plan : the 1966 vision for downtown New York
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In the mid-1960s, New York City Mayor Robert Wagner assembled a team of the best and brightest urban designers and architects to decide the future of downtown Manhattan. After six months of drawing and discussion, they produced "The Lower Manhattan Plan", a 368-page document that was hand-typed, hand-bound, and photocopied. Only one hundred copies were made. But in spite of the limited number, this became the most influential document in determining the physical appearance of lower Manhattan. Now, as the future of downtown Manhattan is being reconsidered, "The Lower Manhattan Plan" takes on new relevance, offers new parallels for transforming Manhattan, and provides a thoughtful and careful consideration of many issues that are as pressing today as they were when the World Trade Center were just beginning construction. This complete reprint of the original document has an introduction by Skyscraper Museum Director Carol Willis and an essay by urban historian Ann Buttenwieser.
Urban Theory
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Chow offers an alternate vision to the conventional suburban housing that characterizes much of our domestic landscape. Her integrated, original approach to design sees the residential setting as a fabric of interrelated spaces that supports cultural diversity and change, promotes sharing in a setting, and sustains a more intense use of land. With its concise, informative(...)
Suburban space : the fabric of dwelling
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Chow offers an alternate vision to the conventional suburban housing that characterizes much of our domestic landscape. Her integrated, original approach to design sees the residential setting as a fabric of interrelated spaces that supports cultural diversity and change, promotes sharing in a setting, and sustains a more intense use of land. With its concise, informative text and illustrations--including photographs and Chow's drawings--"Suburban space" challenges architects, landscape architects, developers, and planners to reconceptualize suburban housing. Chow has made comparative studies of neighborhoods in Boston, Charleston, San Francisco, Levittown, Radburn, and housing by Rudolf Schindler and Irving Gill, as well as other residential settings. Her argument for a fabric of dwelling is founded not on generalizations about how people live but on documented observations of the particular ways in which people organize their daily lives. This book demonstrates how one of the most disparaged yet common types of housing in the United States can become more environmentally and culturally viable.
Urban Theory
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Moment of Grace tells the story of the American city in its heyday. Capturing the mood of the '50s in historical photographs and mining varied sources--including urban critics, interviews with city residents, novels, songs, magazines, and newspapers--Moment of Grace brings alive the downtowns, the neighborhoods, and the suburbs of the era. The book also portrays the '50s(...)
Moment of grace : the American city in the 1950s
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Moment of Grace tells the story of the American city in its heyday. Capturing the mood of the '50s in historical photographs and mining varied sources--including urban critics, interviews with city residents, novels, songs, magazines, and newspapers--Moment of Grace brings alive the downtowns, the neighborhoods, and the suburbs of the era. The book also portrays the '50s as a critical turning point in American culture and economy. Johns explores the '50s in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, writing about fashion, nightlife, architecture, literature, business and economic trends, and teenage culture. He tells us what was for sale in the stores, who lived in the neighborhoods, what life was like for women in the brand-new suburbs, and much more.
Urban Theory
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Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way(...)
Modern architecture and other essays
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Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made. This extensively illustrated volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s.
Architectural Theory
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Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich explores the ways in which Nazi Germany used art and media to portray their country as a champion of Kultur and civilization. Rather than focusing strictly on the role of the arts in state-supported propaganda as other studies do, this volume reveals how multiple domains of cultural activity served to conceptually dehumanize(...)
Art, culture, and media under the Third Reich
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Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich explores the ways in which Nazi Germany used art and media to portray their country as a champion of Kultur and civilization. Rather than focusing strictly on the role of the arts in state-supported propaganda as other studies do, this volume reveals how multiple domains of cultural activity served to conceptually dehumanize Jews and other groups, sowing the psychological seeds for the Holocaust to come. Topics covered by the essays range from the design of the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds to Nazi experiments with radio. Contributors address nearly every facet of the arts and mass media under the Third Reich-efforts to define degenerate music; the promotion of race hatred and warfare through film, architecture, and public assemblies; visual iconography and style; views of the racially ideal garden and landscape; portrayal and reception of art and culture abroad; the treatment of exiled artists; and issues of territory, conquest, and cult. Anyone studying the history of Nazi Germany or the role of the arts in nationalist projects will benefit from this book.
Architectural Theory
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Ce livre parle de la maison isolée, et des territoires directement associés à la vie de ses habitants. Construite de plus en plus loin des parties denses de la ville, la " villa " participe à l’étalement urbain, transforme les espaces ruraux en " campagnes urbaines " et contribue à l’augmentation des déplacement dans les agglomérations. Mais cette maison dépend de la(...)
La maison et ses territoires : de la villa à la ville diffuse
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Ce livre parle de la maison isolée, et des territoires directement associés à la vie de ses habitants. Construite de plus en plus loin des parties denses de la ville, la " villa " participe à l’étalement urbain, transforme les espaces ruraux en " campagnes urbaines " et contribue à l’augmentation des déplacement dans les agglomérations. Mais cette maison dépend de la ville plus qu’en aucune autre époque, car il lui faut s’alimenter de ressources matérielles et immatérielles. Le rapport de l’espace de résidence à l’espace urbain devient dès lors de plus en plus complexe. Préface de Jacques LEVY.
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This book reveals that historic sites and buildings have much to tell us about women's history. It documents women's contributions to the historic preservation movement at places such as Mount Vernon and explores women's history at several existing landmarks such as historic homes, as wells as in a wider array of cultural landscapes ranging from nurses' residences in(...)
Architectural Theory
November 2002, Baltimore
Restoring womens' history through historic preservation
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This book reveals that historic sites and buildings have much to tell us about women's history. It documents women's contributions to the historic preservation movement at places such as Mount Vernon and explores women's history at several existing landmarks such as historic homes, as wells as in a wider array of cultural landscapes ranging from nurses' residences in Montreal to prostitutes' quarters in Los Angeles. The book includes essays on six exemplary projects that have advanced the integration of women's history into historic preservation and closes with three perspectives on preservation policy and practice. National in scope but applicable in any locality, Restoring Women's History through Historic Preservation combines the most important recently published information with the best new research and covers many national, state, and local initiatives of the past decade. It collects in one volume the seminal work of twenty academic historians, preservationists, and professionals at parks and monuments throughout the country who examine practical ways to represent women's history through historic preservation programs. Over the past several decades, work in the areas of women's history and historic preservation has done much to change not only how we regard history but also how we might broaden the very notion of what we consider historical. This volume reflects a growing commitment to historic preservation and shows how practitioners in both fields can benefit from an exchange of insights and create more effective public history.
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L'arbre dans le paysage
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Cet ouvrage se propose de faire le point sur les changements subis par l'image de l'arbre au sein de notre culture visuelle. Car nous pensons le futur en images, et pour comprendre ce qui se joue entre l'arbre et nous, les auteurs réunis dans ce livre ont choisi d'interroger le cinéma, la peinture et la photographie. L'image de l'arbre semble indispensable face aux(...)
L'arbre dans le paysage
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Cet ouvrage se propose de faire le point sur les changements subis par l'image de l'arbre au sein de notre culture visuelle. Car nous pensons le futur en images, et pour comprendre ce qui se joue entre l'arbre et nous, les auteurs réunis dans ce livre ont choisi d'interroger le cinéma, la peinture et la photographie. L'image de l'arbre semble indispensable face aux bouleversements de notre monde. Mais quelle sorte d'image ?
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L'aménagement de l'espace
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Au-delà d'actions techniques ponctuelles, indépendantes les unes des autres ou simplement juxtaposées, l'aménagement s'attache à l'organisation générale de l'espace, pour y insérer aussi harmonieusement que possible l'ensemble des activités humaines. Aménagement du territoire, aménagement rural, aménagement urbain, aménagement des espaces de proximité : dans la diversité(...)
L'aménagement de l'espace
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Au-delà d'actions techniques ponctuelles, indépendantes les unes des autres ou simplement juxtaposées, l'aménagement s'attache à l'organisation générale de l'espace, pour y insérer aussi harmonieusement que possible l'ensemble des activités humaines. Aménagement du territoire, aménagement rural, aménagement urbain, aménagement des espaces de proximité : dans la diversité de ses contextes et de ses méthodes, l'aménagement de l'espace met en jeu des problématiques et des démarches communes.
Urban Theory
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Quand en 1999 la loi Voynet introduit le "contrat d'agglomération", la DATAR et l'Association des Maires des Grandes Villes de France décident d'en observer la mise en place dans quatorze grandes villes. À l'issue de ce travail, et comme en prolongement, les auteurs confrontent ses résultats aux exigences de l'économie globalisée. Redonnant au mot "ville" la plénitude de(...)
Urban Theory
May 2002, La Tour d'Aigues
La république des villes : une révolution en marche
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Quand en 1999 la loi Voynet introduit le "contrat d'agglomération", la DATAR et l'Association des Maires des Grandes Villes de France décident d'en observer la mise en place dans quatorze grandes villes. À l'issue de ce travail, et comme en prolongement, les auteurs confrontent ses résultats aux exigences de l'économie globalisée. Redonnant au mot "ville" la plénitude de son sens commun, ce livre explore le contexte de cette nouvelle place des villes dans la République. Il propose un aperçu global et transversal de problématiques trop souvent traitées de façon séparée et autonome : le développement économique de la ville, la pertinence et la cohésion des territoires, la démocratie locale, la gestion du développement durable, la cohésion sociale et les solidarités, la place des villes dans l'Union européenne. Il analyse enfin le triptyque fondamental, projet, contrat et évaluation, comme clé de la gouvernance. On y voit la décentralisation continue d'avancer, à petits pas. Pour les auteurs, le temps est venu de passer de la République des cantons à la République des villes et de parachever ainsi la décentralisation. Ils démontrent que c'est à ce prix que la France trouvera toute sa place dans l'Europe élargie et qu'elle conservera ses vertus essentielles, telle la démocratie.
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