Planet of slums
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Urban theorist Davis takes a global approach to documenting the astonishing depth of squalid poverty that dominates the lives of the planet's increasingly urban population, detailing poor urban communities from Cape Town and Caracas to Casablanca and Khartoum. Davis argues health, justice and social issues associated with gargantuan slums (the largest, in Mexico City, has(...)
Planet of slums
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Urban theorist Davis takes a global approach to documenting the astonishing depth of squalid poverty that dominates the lives of the planet's increasingly urban population, detailing poor urban communities from Cape Town and Caracas to Casablanca and Khartoum. Davis argues health, justice and social issues associated with gargantuan slums (the largest, in Mexico City, has an estimated population of 4 million) get overlooked in world politics: "The demonizing rhetorics of the various international 'wars' on terrorism, drugs, and crime are so much semantic apartheid: they construct epistemological walls around gecekondus, favelas, and chawls that disable any honest debate about the daily violence of economic exclusion." Though Davis focuses on individual communities, he presents statistics showing the skyrocketing population and number of "megaslums" (informally, "stinking mountains of shit" or, formally, "when shanty-towns and squatter communities merge in continuous belts of informal housing and poverty, usually on the urban periphery") since the 1960s. Layered over the hard numbers are a fascinating grid of specific area studies and sub-topics ranging from how the Olympics has spurred the forceful relocation of thousands (and, sometimes, hundreds of thousands) of the urban poor, to the conversion of formerly second world countries to third world status. Davis paints a bleak picture of the upward trend in urbanization and maintains a stark outlook for slum-dwellers' futures
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Planet of slums
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In this book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues(...)
Planet of slums
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In this book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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1 videodisc (54 min., 23 sec.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
[France] : Films Grain de Sable : [Distribué par] Zarafa Films, ©2004.
L'épopée de l'or noir. ptie 3 : L'arme du pétrole / un film de Jean-Pierre Beaurenaut et Yves Billon.
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[France] : Films Grain de Sable : [Distribué par] Zarafa Films, ©2004.
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325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Toronto : Coach House Books, ©2007.
GreenTOpia : towards a sustainable Toronto / Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, Jonny Dovercourt, editors.
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325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Toronto : Coach House Books, ©2007.
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New York : Dover Publications, [1960], ©1960
Vitruvius : the ten books on architecture / translated by Morris Hicky Morgan ; with illustrations and original designs prepared under the direction of Herbert Langford Warren.
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New York : Dover Publications, [1960], ©1960
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4 preliminary leaves, 7-59, [1] pages, 1 leaf xxiv plates 26 cm.
Strassburg, J.H.E. Heitz, 1926.
Darstellungen von Planetengottheiten an und in deutschen Bauten, von O. Behrendsen; mit 24 Tafeln aus Handschriften, Drucken und Bauten.
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Strassburg, J.H.E. Heitz, 1926.
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München : Battenberg, 1985.
Planetenfeste August des Starken : zur Hochzeit des Kronprinzen 1719 / Ingrid S. Weber ; illustriert durch die Medaillen von Oluf Wif.
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München : Battenberg, 1985.
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Des idées écologiques appliquées dans 28 jolies maisons de la planète. Plus de 260 illustrations et graphiques, les propriétés écologiques de chacun des projets et un glossaire des principaux mots-clés.
Natural flair: maison de campagne/ ländliche häuser
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Des idées écologiques appliquées dans 28 jolies maisons de la planète. Plus de 260 illustrations et graphiques, les propriétés écologiques de chacun des projets et un glossaire des principaux mots-clés.
Architecture écologique
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Melbourne ; Oakland : Lonely Planet Publications, 2001., ©2001
Buddhist stupas in Asia : the shape of perfection / photography, Bill Wassman ; text, Joe Cummings ; foreword, Robert A.F. Thurman.
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Melbourne ; Oakland : Lonely Planet Publications, 2001., ©2001
Atlas de l'anthropocène
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Une centaine de cartes accompagnées de courts textes pour comprendre l'impact de l'activité humaine sur la planète : changements climatiques, érosion de la biodiversité, évolution démographique, urbanisation, pollution atmosphérique ou encore accidents industriels.
Architecture écologique
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Atlas de l'anthropocène
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Une centaine de cartes accompagnées de courts textes pour comprendre l'impact de l'activité humaine sur la planète : changements climatiques, érosion de la biodiversité, évolution démographique, urbanisation, pollution atmosphérique ou encore accidents industriels.
Architecture écologique