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Urban Visions presumes that understanding our urban experience is a prerequisite for envisioning what it could be; radically, they might be the same. This book accepts that visions—more articulate currently in disciplines and media other than architecture and planning—need not always be heroic or grand. But our experience of the city does occur in something that is(...)
Urban visions : experiencing and envisioning the city
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Urban Visions presumes that understanding our urban experience is a prerequisite for envisioning what it could be; radically, they might be the same. This book accepts that visions—more articulate currently in disciplines and media other than architecture and planning—need not always be heroic or grand. But our experience of the city does occur in something that is designed—be it by architects, planners, or more often and anonymously by larger societal or cultural forces. It is an intricate construction in which physical, cultural, commercial, historical, ideological, and personal presences can coincide. In assembling work by distinguished authors from different disciplines and countries, Urban Visions puts forth a patient examination of what urban experience is and of the city’s necessity, with explicit and implicit propositions about what it could be.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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The illustrated biography of Georges-Eugène Haussmann.
The Man Who Made Paris: The Illustrated Biography of Georges-Eugene Haussmann
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The illustrated biography of Georges-Eugène Haussmann.
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janvier 1900, London
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A polemical look at how architectural knowledge is produced, disseminated, and received. The essays collected in this groundbreaking volume address the current state of architecture as an academic and professional discipline. Often critical of the current paradigm, these essays offer a provocative challenge to accepted assumptions about the production, dissemination,(...)
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janvier 2001, Minneapolis
The discipline of architecture
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A polemical look at how architectural knowledge is produced, disseminated, and received. The essays collected in this groundbreaking volume address the current state of architecture as an academic and professional discipline. Often critical of the current paradigm, these essays offer a provocative challenge to accepted assumptions about the production, dissemination, and reception of architectural knowledge. Contributors: Sherry Ahrentzen, Stanford Anderson, Carol Burns, W. Russell Ellis, Thomas Fisher, Linda N. Groat, Kay Bea Jones, David Leatherbarrow, A. G. Krishna Menon, Garth Rockcastle, Michael Stanton, Sharon Egretta Sutton, David J. T. Vanderburgh, and Donald Watson.
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janvier 2001, Minneapolis
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Le Corbusier’s Modulor – a fundamental work in the history of architecture – now available in a beautiful facsimile edition. In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier (...)
Le Corbusier : the Modulor, Modulor 2
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Le Corbusier’s Modulor – a fundamental work in the history of architecture – now available in a beautiful facsimile edition. In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor". Based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, Modulor is a sequence of measurements which Le Corbusier used to achieve harmony in his architectural compositions. Le Modulor was published in 1950 and after meeting with success, Le Corbusier went on to publish Modulor 2 in 1955. In many of Le Corbusier’s most notable buildings, including the Chapel at Ronchamp and the Unité d’habitation, evidence of his Modulor system can be seen. These two volumes form an important and integral part of Le Corbusier’s theoretical writings.
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janvier 2000, Basel
Théorie de l’architecture
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This critique of towns and cities draws on examples form across Western Europe, South Africa, and the U.S.A. to examine both public and private sector development practices, controls, and policies.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
janvier 1900, London
Planning for urban quality : urban design in towns and cities
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This critique of towns and cities draws on examples form across Western Europe, South Africa, and the U.S.A. to examine both public and private sector development practices, controls, and policies.
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janvier 1900, London
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"Inclusive Design" is a documentation of the attitudes, values, and practices of property professionals, including developers, surveyors and architects, in responding to the building needs of disabled people. It looks at the way in which pressure for accessible building design is influencing the policies and practices of property companies and professionals, with a(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
juin 2001, London / New York
Inclusive design : designing and developing accessible environments
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"Inclusive Design" is a documentation of the attitudes, values, and practices of property professionals, including developers, surveyors and architects, in responding to the building needs of disabled people. It looks at the way in which pressure for accessible building design is influencing the policies and practices of property companies and professionals, with a primary focus on commercial developments in the UK. The book also provides comments on, and references to, other countries, particularly the USA, Sweden, and New Zealand.
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This book uses film to rassess post-war architecture and urbanism in London, Paris, and New York by examining such films as "Alfie", "Passport to Pimlico", "Mary Poppins", "Repulsion", and Rosemary's Baby".
Walls have feelings : architecture, film and the city
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This book uses film to rassess post-war architecture and urbanism in London, Paris, and New York by examining such films as "Alfie", "Passport to Pimlico", "Mary Poppins", "Repulsion", and Rosemary's Baby".
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janvier 2001, London
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Dead cities and other tales
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In his most syncretic writing yet, radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, a ceaseless battle waged both within cities and against nature. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today—white flight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and(...)
Dead cities and other tales
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In his most syncretic writing yet, radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, a ceaseless battle waged both within cities and against nature. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today—white flight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, and federal policy—and looks at areas he calls "national sacrifice zones," military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable. Davis begins our apocalyptically inflected tour with a trip to New York’s Ground Zero. He then takes us to "German Village," a Utah wasteland that was once a test site for Allied science advisors to rehearse the perfect plan for destroying Berlin, and to the diabolic miracle of Las Vegas, where environmental terrorism is practiced in the name of urban development. Davis also hits Los Angeles, the frontline of the "Second Civil War" sparked by American apartheid, and which lies waiting to be ignited in cities across the country.
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This collection offers contributions from eminent theorists across visual culture, architecture, sociology, art, philosophy, and American studies--including Andrew Benjamin, Barry Curtis, Neil Leach, Steven Pile, and David Frisby. Part One covers reading the city as a visual text; Part Two discusses treating the city as a space to be experienced. The enticing range of(...)
The hierloglyphics of space : reading and experiencing the modern metropolis
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This collection offers contributions from eminent theorists across visual culture, architecture, sociology, art, philosophy, and American studies--including Andrew Benjamin, Barry Curtis, Neil Leach, Steven Pile, and David Frisby. Part One covers reading the city as a visual text; Part Two discusses treating the city as a space to be experienced. The enticing range of topic and city focus will attract readers worldwide: Venice, Vienna, London, Rome, New York, Berlin, Bucharest, Tokyo, Paris and other cities are treated to a new analysis, viewing the city as a new text through which to read its cultural life.
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novembre 2001, London
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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"Why Architecture Matters" collects the best of Kamin's columns, incuding his acclaimed series advocating the intelligent development of Chicago's lakefront. The columns are organized thematically, providing an accessible and thought-provoking view of architecture in the 1990s, from soaring skyscrapers to vibrant immigrant neighborhoods, troubled public housing projects,(...)
Why architecture matters : lessons from Chicago
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"Why Architecture Matters" collects the best of Kamin's columns, incuding his acclaimed series advocating the intelligent development of Chicago's lakefront. The columns are organized thematically, providing an accessible and thought-provoking view of architecture in the 1990s, from soaring skyscrapers to vibrant immigrant neighborhoods, troubled public housing projects, and sprawling suburbs. Because Chicago serves as a barometer of national design trends, these writings shed new light on American architecture and urbanism during a decade that Kamin labels "The Nervous Nineties"--a period of unparalleled affluence and underlying anxiety, of soothing retro buildings and provocative new ones that express the frenzied state of modern life.
Théorie de l’architecture