560 Résultats
Classification:
livres
livres
Actions:
Exemplaires:
Description:
287 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Description:
287 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Auteur:
Sujet:
Publication:
Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, [2019], ©2019
Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, [2019], ©2019
Titre:
Midwest architecture journeys / edited by Zach Mortice ; introduction by Alexandra Lange.
Actions:
Exemplaires:
Description:
287 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Midwest architecture journeys / edited by Zach Mortice ; introduction by Alexandra Lange.
Actions:
Exemplaires:
Description:
287 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, [2019], ©2019
Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, [2019], ©2019
Auteur:
Sujet:
Classification:
livres
livres
Actions:
Prix:
$34.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Just as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context of community, region, nation and beyond. Based on findings from menus, cookbooks,(...)
$34.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Just as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context of community, region, nation and beyond. Based on findings from menus, cookbooks,(...)
Titre:
Edible histories, cultural politics : towards a Canadian food history
Actions:
Prix:
$34.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Just as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context of community, region, nation and beyond. Based on findings from menus, cookbooks, government documents, advertisements, media sources, oral histories, memoirs, and archival collections, Edible Histories offers a veritable feast of original research on Canada's food history and its relationship to culture and politics. This exciting collection explores a wide variety of topics, including urban restaurant culture, ethnic cuisines, and the controversial history of margarine in Canada. It also covers a broad time-span, from early contact between European settlers and First Nations through the end of the twentieth century.
Edible histories, cultural politics : towards a Canadian food history
Actions:
Prix:
$34.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Just as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context of community, region, nation and beyond. Based on findings from menus, cookbooks, government documents, advertisements, media sources, oral histories, memoirs, and archival collections, Edible Histories offers a veritable feast of original research on Canada's food history and its relationship to culture and politics. This exciting collection explores a wide variety of topics, including urban restaurant culture, ethnic cuisines, and the controversial history of margarine in Canada. It also covers a broad time-span, from early contact between European settlers and First Nations through the end of the twentieth century.
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
décembre 2012
décembre 2012
Sujet:
Bouffe
Bouffe
Classification:
livres
livres
Prix:
$64.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
Native artists are at the vanguard of performance art practices and discourse, using humor as a strategy for cultural critique and reflection, parsing the relationships between objecthood and agency. This reader centers performance and theater as origin points for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Alaska Native(...)
$64.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
Native artists are at the vanguard of performance art practices and discourse, using humor as a strategy for cultural critique and reflection, parsing the relationships between objecthood and agency. This reader centers performance and theater as origin points for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Alaska Native(...)
Titre:
Native visual sovereignty: A reader on art and performance
Actions:
Prix:
$64.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
Native artists are at the vanguard of performance art practices and discourse, using humor as a strategy for cultural critique and reflection, parsing the relationships between objecthood and agency. This reader centers performance and theater as origin points for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Alaska Native artists. Song, dance and music are also posited as a basis for collectivity and resistance and a means to speak to a time when Native traditional ceremony and public gatherings were illegal in both the United States and Canada. Featuring excerpts from the 1969 document Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Process, this illustrated reader also includes four long-form essays by leading Indigenous scholars, nine artist contributions, oral history interviews and a selection of key texts from the fields of Native contemporary art, art history and theory.
Native visual sovereignty: A reader on art and performance
Actions:
Prix:
$64.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
Native artists are at the vanguard of performance art practices and discourse, using humor as a strategy for cultural critique and reflection, parsing the relationships between objecthood and agency. This reader centers performance and theater as origin points for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Alaska Native artists. Song, dance and music are also posited as a basis for collectivity and resistance and a means to speak to a time when Native traditional ceremony and public gatherings were illegal in both the United States and Canada. Featuring excerpts from the 1969 document Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Process, this illustrated reader also includes four long-form essays by leading Indigenous scholars, nine artist contributions, oral history interviews and a selection of key texts from the fields of Native contemporary art, art history and theory.
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
décembre 2025
décembre 2025
Sujet:
Théorie de l’art
Théorie de l’art
Classification:
livres
livres
Actions:
Prix:
$60.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
"Village" is Swedish artists Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt's look at the ambiguous links between Quebec, Canadian, and First Nations cultures. The book presents a series of photographs taken along the artists' multiple peregrinations in Quebec and Ontario, from Gaspé to Toronto, by way of Chicoutimi and Quebec City, as Källström and Fäldt approach the different(...)
$60.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
"Village" is Swedish artists Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt's look at the ambiguous links between Quebec, Canadian, and First Nations cultures. The book presents a series of photographs taken along the artists' multiple peregrinations in Quebec and Ontario, from Gaspé to Toronto, by way of Chicoutimi and Quebec City, as Källström and Fäldt approach the different(...)
Publication:
mars 2015
mars 2015
Titre:
Klara Källström et Thobias Fäldt : village
Actions:
Prix:
$60.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
"Village" is Swedish artists Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt's look at the ambiguous links between Quebec, Canadian, and First Nations cultures. The book presents a series of photographs taken along the artists' multiple peregrinations in Quebec and Ontario, from Gaspé to Toronto, by way of Chicoutimi and Quebec City, as Källström and Fäldt approach the different cultural, linguistic and political realities of these places with humour and criticality. "Village" présente le regard des artistes suédois Klara Källström et Thobias Fäldt sur les liens ambigus entre les cultures québécoise, canadienne et autochtones. Le livre présente une série de photographies issues de leurs multiples pérégrinations au Québec et en Ontario, de Gaspé à Toronto en passant par Chicoutimi et Québec. Les artistes y abordent avec humour, mais non sans esprit critique, les strates des différentes réalités culturelles, linguistiques et politiques de ces lieux
Klara Källström et Thobias Fäldt : village
Actions:
Prix:
$60.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
"Village" is Swedish artists Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt's look at the ambiguous links between Quebec, Canadian, and First Nations cultures. The book presents a series of photographs taken along the artists' multiple peregrinations in Quebec and Ontario, from Gaspé to Toronto, by way of Chicoutimi and Quebec City, as Källström and Fäldt approach the different cultural, linguistic and political realities of these places with humour and criticality. "Village" présente le regard des artistes suédois Klara Källström et Thobias Fäldt sur les liens ambigus entre les cultures québécoise, canadienne et autochtones. Le livre présente une série de photographies issues de leurs multiples pérégrinations au Québec et en Ontario, de Gaspé à Toronto en passant par Chicoutimi et Québec. Les artistes y abordent avec humour, mais non sans esprit critique, les strates des différentes réalités culturelles, linguistiques et politiques de ces lieux
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
mars 2015
mars 2015
Classification:
livres
livres
Actions:
Prix:
$46.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This first collection reveals the remarkably eloquent writings and conversations of sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975). The compilation finally makes available previously out-of-print and inaccessible writings, and includes a significant number of unpublished texts. A surprisingly large body of work, it spans almost the whole of Hepworth’s artistic life. Her gift for(...)
$46.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This first collection reveals the remarkably eloquent writings and conversations of sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975). The compilation finally makes available previously out-of-print and inaccessible writings, and includes a significant number of unpublished texts. A surprisingly large body of work, it spans almost the whole of Hepworth’s artistic life. Her gift for(...)
Titre:
Barbara Hepworth: writings and conversations
Actions:
Prix:
$46.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This first collection reveals the remarkably eloquent writings and conversations of sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975). The compilation finally makes available previously out-of-print and inaccessible writings, and includes a significant number of unpublished texts. A surprisingly large body of work, it spans almost the whole of Hepworth’s artistic life. Her gift for language and desire to communicate to a public are evident throughout. Alongside the writings are Hepworth’s lectures and speeches, a selection of interviews and conversations with writers and journalists, and radio and television broadcasts. The collection sheds new light on Hepworth’s life, her artistic practices, the sources of her inspiration, the breadth of her intellectual interests, and her deep engagement with contemporary politics and society, from the United Nations to St. Ives. Images include replications of the sculptor’s manuscripts and archive photographs from Hepworth’s own collection.
Barbara Hepworth: writings and conversations
Actions:
Prix:
$46.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This first collection reveals the remarkably eloquent writings and conversations of sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975). The compilation finally makes available previously out-of-print and inaccessible writings, and includes a significant number of unpublished texts. A surprisingly large body of work, it spans almost the whole of Hepworth’s artistic life. Her gift for language and desire to communicate to a public are evident throughout. Alongside the writings are Hepworth’s lectures and speeches, a selection of interviews and conversations with writers and journalists, and radio and television broadcasts. The collection sheds new light on Hepworth’s life, her artistic practices, the sources of her inspiration, the breadth of her intellectual interests, and her deep engagement with contemporary politics and society, from the United Nations to St. Ives. Images include replications of the sculptor’s manuscripts and archive photographs from Hepworth’s own collection.
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
avril 2016
avril 2016
Sujet:
Théorie de l’art
Théorie de l’art
Classification:
livres
livres
Titre:
Dana Claxton
Dana Claxton
Actions:
Prix:
$91.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Dana Claxton (born 1959) is a critically acclaimed, award-winning artist and filmmaker working across film, video, photography, single and multichannel video installation and performance art. Her practice investigates the body, the socio-political and the spiritual within realms of indigenous beauty. This book consolidates our understanding of Dana Claxton’s dominant(...)
$91.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Dana Claxton (born 1959) is a critically acclaimed, award-winning artist and filmmaker working across film, video, photography, single and multichannel video installation and performance art. Her practice investigates the body, the socio-political and the spiritual within realms of indigenous beauty. This book consolidates our understanding of Dana Claxton’s dominant(...)
Publication:
septembre 2021
septembre 2021
Titre:
Dana Claxton
Actions:
Prix:
$91.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Dana Claxton (born 1959) is a critically acclaimed, award-winning artist and filmmaker working across film, video, photography, single and multichannel video installation and performance art. Her practice investigates the body, the socio-political and the spiritual within realms of indigenous beauty. This book consolidates our understanding of Dana Claxton’s dominant and recurring themes—indigenous history, culture, beauty and spirituality. While Claxton’s art often alludes to the destructive legacy of colonialism, it also celebrates the resurgence of First Nations’ presence and contemporary identity. What emerges is an artist delivering works of ever greater power and conviction. With her expansive and genre-defying practice—photography, videos, mixed-media installations, text works, performances and curatorial work—she continues to critically reimagine the space of the gallery to be accessible for wider Indigenous audiences and to uphold new understandings of beauty.
Dana Claxton
Actions:
Prix:
$91.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Dana Claxton (born 1959) is a critically acclaimed, award-winning artist and filmmaker working across film, video, photography, single and multichannel video installation and performance art. Her practice investigates the body, the socio-political and the spiritual within realms of indigenous beauty. This book consolidates our understanding of Dana Claxton’s dominant and recurring themes—indigenous history, culture, beauty and spirituality. While Claxton’s art often alludes to the destructive legacy of colonialism, it also celebrates the resurgence of First Nations’ presence and contemporary identity. What emerges is an artist delivering works of ever greater power and conviction. With her expansive and genre-defying practice—photography, videos, mixed-media installations, text works, performances and curatorial work—she continues to critically reimagine the space of the gallery to be accessible for wider Indigenous audiences and to uphold new understandings of beauty.
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
septembre 2021
septembre 2021
Classification:
livres
livres
Actions:
Prix:
$30.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In an era of unprecedented mobility, people can now live and work not only in different places, but even in different countries. Binational Urbanism examines the lifestyle of these people who start a second life in a second city, in a second country, without saying goodbye to their first city. In a uniquely 21st-century diaspora, they live in constant transit between two(...)
$30.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In an era of unprecedented mobility, people can now live and work not only in different places, but even in different countries. Binational Urbanism examines the lifestyle of these people who start a second life in a second city, in a second country, without saying goodbye to their first city. In a uniquely 21st-century diaspora, they live in constant transit between two(...)
Titre:
Binational urbanism: on the road to paradise
Actions:
Prix:
$30.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In an era of unprecedented mobility, people can now live and work not only in different places, but even in different countries. Binational Urbanism examines the lifestyle of these people who start a second life in a second city, in a second country, without saying goodbye to their first city. In a uniquely 21st-century diaspora, they live in constant transit between two homes and two nations. "Binational urbanists" come from all strata of society, from the working class to the highly educated and cosmopolitan creative classes. For this volume, German architect Bernd Upmeyer interviewed people of Turkish origin living in Germany who commute regularly between cities in Germany and Turkey. From these interviews the author develops a theory of binational urbanism, concluding that it has the potential to become one of the most interesting forms of life in the 21st century.
Binational urbanism: on the road to paradise
Actions:
Prix:
$30.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In an era of unprecedented mobility, people can now live and work not only in different places, but even in different countries. Binational Urbanism examines the lifestyle of these people who start a second life in a second city, in a second country, without saying goodbye to their first city. In a uniquely 21st-century diaspora, they live in constant transit between two homes and two nations. "Binational urbanists" come from all strata of society, from the working class to the highly educated and cosmopolitan creative classes. For this volume, German architect Bernd Upmeyer interviewed people of Turkish origin living in Germany who commute regularly between cities in Germany and Turkey. From these interviews the author develops a theory of binational urbanism, concluding that it has the potential to become one of the most interesting forms of life in the 21st century.
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
juillet 2015
juillet 2015
Sujet:
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Classification:
livres
livres
Titre:
Alphabet city 10 : suspects
Alphabet city 10 : suspects
Actions:
Prix:
$18.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetual detention, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and the legal apparatus of the USA Patriot Act target suspects accurately or generate suspicion indiscriminately? "Suspect", the latest in a series from Alphabet City and the first in its new format of topical book-length magazines, gathers hard evidence(...)
$18.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetual detention, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and the legal apparatus of the USA Patriot Act target suspects accurately or generate suspicion indiscriminately? "Suspect", the latest in a series from Alphabet City and the first in its new format of topical book-length magazines, gathers hard evidence(...)
Titre:
Alphabet city 10 : suspects
Actions:
Prix:
$18.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetual detention, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and the legal apparatus of the USA Patriot Act target suspects accurately or generate suspicion indiscriminately? "Suspect", the latest in a series from Alphabet City and the first in its new format of topical book-length magazines, gathers hard evidence about the fate of the suspect in a culture of suspicion with contributions from writers, artists, and filmmakers. Their testimony takes a multiplicity of forms and formats. Among them:a 24-page color comic by graphic novelist Joey Dubuc asks the reader to make narrative choices in a web of surveillance, suspicion, and fear. Harper's contributor Mark Kingwell observes that while suspicion tries to isolate the suspect, in fact we are all the suspect. Slavoj Zizek reflects on the new cultural status of the suspect after Abu Ghraib. Philosopher George Bragues argues that even as the United Nations looks for ways to discipline "suspect nations," it simply cannot succeed under current international conditions. Alphabet City editor John Knechtel interviews Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, about the legal and political strategies of the Bush administration. Sylwia Chrostowska describes what happens, in the the 1970 Italian film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, when a corrupt official investigates himself. Screenwriter Timothy Stock and illustrator Warren Heise create a documentary in comic form about Critical Ensemble artist Steve Kurtz, charged under the bioterrorism provisions of the Patriot Act. Novelist Camilla Gibb portrays, in "Things Collapse," the terrifying effects of a "separating sickness" of unknown origin, which perhaps exists only in the fears of the population it strikes. And novelist Diana Fitzgerald Bryden follows her character Rafa Ahmed, a PFLP hijacker from the 1970s, as, many years later, she is to appear at a peace conference. Filmmaker Patricia Rozema, director of Mansfield Park and other films, contributes a 16-page film-in-a-book, "Suspect." Suspect is a non-partisan handbook on the mechanisms and machinations of suspicion for the twenty-first century national security state.
Alphabet city 10 : suspects
Actions:
Prix:
$18.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetual detention, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and the legal apparatus of the USA Patriot Act target suspects accurately or generate suspicion indiscriminately? "Suspect", the latest in a series from Alphabet City and the first in its new format of topical book-length magazines, gathers hard evidence about the fate of the suspect in a culture of suspicion with contributions from writers, artists, and filmmakers. Their testimony takes a multiplicity of forms and formats. Among them:a 24-page color comic by graphic novelist Joey Dubuc asks the reader to make narrative choices in a web of surveillance, suspicion, and fear. Harper's contributor Mark Kingwell observes that while suspicion tries to isolate the suspect, in fact we are all the suspect. Slavoj Zizek reflects on the new cultural status of the suspect after Abu Ghraib. Philosopher George Bragues argues that even as the United Nations looks for ways to discipline "suspect nations," it simply cannot succeed under current international conditions. Alphabet City editor John Knechtel interviews Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, about the legal and political strategies of the Bush administration. Sylwia Chrostowska describes what happens, in the the 1970 Italian film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, when a corrupt official investigates himself. Screenwriter Timothy Stock and illustrator Warren Heise create a documentary in comic form about Critical Ensemble artist Steve Kurtz, charged under the bioterrorism provisions of the Patriot Act. Novelist Camilla Gibb portrays, in "Things Collapse," the terrifying effects of a "separating sickness" of unknown origin, which perhaps exists only in the fears of the population it strikes. And novelist Diana Fitzgerald Bryden follows her character Rafa Ahmed, a PFLP hijacker from the 1970s, as, many years later, she is to appear at a peace conference. Filmmaker Patricia Rozema, director of Mansfield Park and other films, contributes a 16-page film-in-a-book, "Suspect." Suspect is a non-partisan handbook on the mechanisms and machinations of suspicion for the twenty-first century national security state.
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
octobre 2005, Cambridge, London
octobre 2005, Cambridge, London
Sujet:
petits formats
petits formats
Classification:
livres
livres
Actions:
Prix:
$75.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
The history of climate change and the history of architecture are connected in many ways. Through a multilayered chronology, "It’s About Time" showcases historical and contemporary building projects such as solar houses, autonomous structures and earth buildings, alongside more than 45 key moments in environmental justice history: among them the first Earth Day, the(...)
$75.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
The history of climate change and the history of architecture are connected in many ways. Through a multilayered chronology, "It’s About Time" showcases historical and contemporary building projects such as solar houses, autonomous structures and earth buildings, alongside more than 45 key moments in environmental justice history: among them the first Earth Day, the(...)
Titre:
It's about time: The architecture of climate change
Actions:
Prix:
$75.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
The history of climate change and the history of architecture are connected in many ways. Through a multilayered chronology, "It’s About Time" showcases historical and contemporary building projects such as solar houses, autonomous structures and earth buildings, alongside more than 45 key moments in environmental justice history: among them the first Earth Day, the United Nations conference in Stockholm, the Chernobyl disaster, the Paris Climate Agreements and the European Green Deal. It explores architectural experimentation in the past, depicts the present moment of transition and offers hopeful glimpses of the future. Serving as both a reference and a source of inspiration, this publication is intended for architects, educators, students, scientists or anyone looking to play their part in shaping a more sustainable world. It emphasizes that while the time for change has now arrived, the field of architecture can play a key role in the transitions ahead.
It's about time: The architecture of climate change
Actions:
Prix:
$75.00
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
The history of climate change and the history of architecture are connected in many ways. Through a multilayered chronology, "It’s About Time" showcases historical and contemporary building projects such as solar houses, autonomous structures and earth buildings, alongside more than 45 key moments in environmental justice history: among them the first Earth Day, the United Nations conference in Stockholm, the Chernobyl disaster, the Paris Climate Agreements and the European Green Deal. It explores architectural experimentation in the past, depicts the present moment of transition and offers hopeful glimpses of the future. Serving as both a reference and a source of inspiration, this publication is intended for architects, educators, students, scientists or anyone looking to play their part in shaping a more sustainable world. It emphasizes that while the time for change has now arrived, the field of architecture can play a key role in the transitions ahead.
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
février 2025
février 2025
Sujet:
Biennale
Biennale
Classification:
livres
livres
Actions:
Prix:
$27.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
"Megaprojects and Risk" provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an(...)
$27.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
"Megaprojects and Risk" provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an(...)
Sujet:
Théorie de l’architecture
Théorie de l’architecture
Publication:
janvier 2003, Cambridge
janvier 2003, Cambridge
Titre:
Megaprojects and risk: an anatomy of ambition
Actions:
Prix:
$27.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
"Megaprojects and Risk" provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an unhealthy cocktail of underestimated costs, overestimated revenues, undervalued environmental impacts and overvalued economic development effects. This results in projects that are extremely risky, but where the risk is concealed from MPs, taxpayers and investors. The authors not only explore the problems but also suggest practical solutions drawing on theory, experience and hard, scientific evidence from the several hundred projects in twenty nations and five continents that illustrate the book. Accessibly written, it will be the standard reference for students, scholars, planners, economists, auditors, politicians and interested citizens for many years to come.
Megaprojects and risk: an anatomy of ambition
Actions:
Prix:
$27.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
"Megaprojects and Risk" provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built. It shows, in unusual depth, how the formula for approval is an unhealthy cocktail of underestimated costs, overestimated revenues, undervalued environmental impacts and overvalued economic development effects. This results in projects that are extremely risky, but where the risk is concealed from MPs, taxpayers and investors. The authors not only explore the problems but also suggest practical solutions drawing on theory, experience and hard, scientific evidence from the several hundred projects in twenty nations and five continents that illustrate the book. Accessibly written, it will be the standard reference for students, scholars, planners, economists, auditors, politicians and interested citizens for many years to come.
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
janvier 2003, Cambridge
janvier 2003, Cambridge
Sujet:
Théorie de l’architecture
Théorie de l’architecture
