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Equal parts travel adventure, history and journalistic exploration, ''The Peace in Peril'' is a story about the dubious trade-off of hydro power for resources like timber and farmland, but also far more: the Peace valley has been a prosperous home to people for eleven thousand years. How will lives, human and otherwise, be erased or irrevocably altered when the next great(...)
Environment and environmental theory
November 2016
The peace in peril: the real cost of the Site C dam
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Equal parts travel adventure, history and journalistic exploration, ''The Peace in Peril'' is a story about the dubious trade-off of hydro power for resources like timber and farmland, but also far more: the Peace valley has been a prosperous home to people for eleven thousand years. How will lives, human and otherwise, be erased or irrevocably altered when the next great flood rises up to engulf the Peace River valley?
Environment and environmental theory
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Skycrapers have been making their mark on skylines for hundred of years, amazing casual viewers and experts alike. In rich narrative and with stunning historical and contemporary photographs, Master Builder: Skyscrapers brings these remarkable landmarks to life, and then lets you re-create them at home. With this handsome collector's kit, you'll be able to take your place(...)
Master Builder Skyscrapers: Build your own models of the world's most famous structures
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Skycrapers have been making their mark on skylines for hundred of years, amazing casual viewers and experts alike. In rich narrative and with stunning historical and contemporary photographs, Master Builder: Skyscrapers brings these remarkable landmarks to life, and then lets you re-create them at home. With this handsome collector's kit, you'll be able to take your place among the visionaries of architecture with your own feats of skyscraper construction!
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This publication is reconstructing, in words and images, the wild island that millions of New Yorkers now call home. By geographically matching an 18th-century map of Manhattan's landscape to the modern cityscape, combing through historical and archaeological records, and applying modern principles of ecology and computer modeling, Sanderson is able to re-create the(...)
Architectural Plans and Cartography
May 2009, New York
Mannahatta : a natural history of New York City
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This publication is reconstructing, in words and images, the wild island that millions of New Yorkers now call home. By geographically matching an 18th-century map of Manhattan's landscape to the modern cityscape, combing through historical and archaeological records, and applying modern principles of ecology and computer modeling, Sanderson is able to re-create the forests of Times Square, the meadows of Harlem, and the wetlands of downtown.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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One of Andrée Putman's latest home designs, from the plans, drawings, and pictures of an amazing apartment in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain). This publication is the story of one of Putman's latest projects, an apartment in the vasque city of San Sebastián. The book includes the original designs made to plan the house and pictures of the completed project. The(...)
Design Monographs
April 2021
Andrée Putman in San Sebastián: the story of a singular project
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One of Andrée Putman's latest home designs, from the plans, drawings, and pictures of an amazing apartment in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain). This publication is the story of one of Putman's latest projects, an apartment in the vasque city of San Sebastián. The book includes the original designs made to plan the house and pictures of the completed project. The house remains contemporary and atemporal in both ways.
Design Monographs
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From Atlantis in The Spy Who Loved Me to Nathan Bateman's ultra-modern abode in Ex Machina, big-screen villains often live in architectural splendor. From a design standpoint, the villain’s lair, as popularized in many of our favorite movies, is a stunning, sophisticated, envy-inducing expression of the warped drives and desires of its occupant. "Lair: Radical Homes and(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
November 2019
Lair: radical homes and hideouts of movie villains
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From Atlantis in The Spy Who Loved Me to Nathan Bateman's ultra-modern abode in Ex Machina, big-screen villains often live in architectural splendor. From a design standpoint, the villain’s lair, as popularized in many of our favorite movies, is a stunning, sophisticated, envy-inducing expression of the warped drives and desires of its occupant. "Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains", celebrates and considers several iconic villains’ lairs from recent film history.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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As a pattern book for design concepts for modern living, 'Housey housey' takes inspiration from a long tradition of disseminating knowledge about architecture and construction in a form aimed at, and accessible to, experts and the general public alike. At the same time, its approach to issues of flexible space, robust, sustainable construction, and interaction with the(...)
Residential Architecture
January 2005, London
Housey housey : a pattern book of ideal homes
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As a pattern book for design concepts for modern living, 'Housey housey' takes inspiration from a long tradition of disseminating knowledge about architecture and construction in a form aimed at, and accessible to, experts and the general public alike. At the same time, its approach to issues of flexible space, robust, sustainable construction, and interaction with the public realm, underlines its engagement with a progressive and optimistic tradition of idealism about social change.
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Building with nature.
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223 pages illustrations, plans 31 cm
New York, Universe Books [1971]
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New York, Universe Books [1971]
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v, 175 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm
Newcastle upon Tyne : Riba Publishing, [2017], ©2017
Social housing : definitions & design exemplars / Paul Karakusevic, Abigail Batchelor.
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v, 175 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm
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Newcastle upon Tyne : Riba Publishing, [2017], ©2017
journals and magazines
Human rights quarterly.
Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981-
journals and magazines
Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981-
books
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[9]-753, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Philadelphia : The Blakiston Company, [©1943]
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Philadelphia : The Blakiston Company, [©1943]