UrbanLab: bowling
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As populations steadily increase in cities, the world's natural resources are consumed at ever-faster rates. The majority of the world's populations live in countries where clean water supplies are dwindling, and these water shortages are also quickly translating into food shortages. What can designers do to avert looming water-related realities? "UrbanLab: Bowling" views(...)
UrbanLab: bowling
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As populations steadily increase in cities, the world's natural resources are consumed at ever-faster rates. The majority of the world's populations live in countries where clean water supplies are dwindling, and these water shortages are also quickly translating into food shortages. What can designers do to avert looming water-related realities? "UrbanLab: Bowling" views potential water crises as opportunities to speculate on future urban design possibilities, especially in cities. Several projects are presented that take an ecological approach to re-thinking received urban design methodologies of addressing the design of water-related infrastructures in existing and new cities.
Architecture, monographies
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Liz Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change. She also adresses northern communities' historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures.
Industrial transformation of subarctic Canada
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Liz Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change. She also adresses northern communities' historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures.
Architecture du Canada
The truth about stories
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Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The(...)
The truth about stories
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Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
Architecture du Canada
Green grass, running water
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Welcome to the town of Blossom—part myth, part hilariously off-kilter reality.''Green Grass, Running Water'' is the story of five Blackfoot Indians whose existences connect in ways that are at once coincidental, comical and cosmic. This is a rich tale, weaving magical humour, revisionist history, nostalgia and myth into one bright whole.
Green grass, running water
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Welcome to the town of Blossom—part myth, part hilariously off-kilter reality.''Green Grass, Running Water'' is the story of five Blackfoot Indians whose existences connect in ways that are at once coincidental, comical and cosmic. This is a rich tale, weaving magical humour, revisionist history, nostalgia and myth into one bright whole.
Architecture du Canada
Carnets de Montréal
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"Carnets de Montréal", c’est la ville vue par ses créateurs les plus réputés. L’auteure française et amoureuse du Québec Catherine Pont-Humbert s’est entretenue avec 24 personnalités de la scène culturelle montréalaise afin de recueillir le témoignage de chacune sur «son» Montréal. Dany Laferrière, Michel Dallaire, Phyllis Lambert, Michel Marc Bouchard, Geneviève Cadieux,(...)
Carnets de Montréal
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"Carnets de Montréal", c’est la ville vue par ses créateurs les plus réputés. L’auteure française et amoureuse du Québec Catherine Pont-Humbert s’est entretenue avec 24 personnalités de la scène culturelle montréalaise afin de recueillir le témoignage de chacune sur «son» Montréal. Dany Laferrière, Michel Dallaire, Phyllis Lambert, Michel Marc Bouchard, Geneviève Cadieux, Michel de Broin, Michel Goulet, Denis Marleau, Evelyne de la Chenelière, Kim Thuy, Louise Forestier, Ariane Moffatt, Carole Laure, Nassib El-Husseini, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Denis Côté, Catherine Mavrikakis, Nathalie Bondil, Nicolas Reeves, Quatuor Molinari, Marie Chouinard, Denise Desautels, David Homel et Françoise Sullivan : chacun donne à voir avec générosité un quartier qu’il affectionne particulièrement, nous livre ses bonnes adresses et ses lieux de prédilection. Ce livre ludique offre des instantanés de Montréal et de ses artistes au fil des quatre saisons, à travers les photographies de la ville d’Alex Tran et les portraits réalisés par Richard-Max Tremblay. Un voyage au fil des quartiers et des lieux emblématiques de la ville, reconnus mais aussi plus confidentiels, un hommage vibrant à notre métropole et à sa créativité, un portrait kaléidoscopique de Montréal vu de l’intérieur!
Architecture de Montréal
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North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion,(...)
The once and future Great Lakes country: an ecological history
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North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that transformed it forever. ''The Once and Future Great Lakes Country'' is a history of environmental change in the Great Lakes region, looking as far back as the last ice age, and also reflecting on modern trajectories of change, many of them positive.
Architecture du Canada
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'Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956' examines the visual, material, and spatial presence of radio as it reshaped Canadian society in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Through an analysis of radio sets and advertisements, the authors explain how marketing and design were crucial to convincing Canadians to adopt this modern technology. They(...)
Seeing, selling and situating radio in Canada, 1922-1956
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'Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956' examines the visual, material, and spatial presence of radio as it reshaped Canadian society in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Through an analysis of radio sets and advertisements, the authors explain how marketing and design were crucial to convincing Canadians to adopt this modern technology. They also discuss how new kinds of spaces were produced by radio, by tracing its intersecting networks of communication and commercialism, public and private places, material and imagined sites. Contains a series foreword by Michelangelo Sabatino and an introduction by Christine Macy.
Architecture du Canada
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Built in 1976 as an early exploration in weaving together the sun, wind, biology and architecture for the benefit of humanity, the Ark bio-shelter integrated ecological design features to provide autonomous life support for a family. Published to accompany the exhibition celebrating the Ark?s 40th anniversary, this publication examines the project?s role in inspiring(...)
"Living lightly on the earth": Building an ark for Prince Edward Island, 1974-1976
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Built in 1976 as an early exploration in weaving together the sun, wind, biology and architecture for the benefit of humanity, the Ark bio-shelter integrated ecological design features to provide autonomous life support for a family. Published to accompany the exhibition celebrating the Ark?s 40th anniversary, this publication examines the project?s role in inspiring change in ecological and architectural expectations and appetites. The three years in the life of the Ark forms the core for a set of explorations into early green architecture in Canada and elsewhere; the intermediate/alternative technology movement; collaborations between youth counterculture and official culture; the public and professional reception; and the Ark legacy in architecture, alternative technology, government policy and actions, and public imagination. Illustrated with original drawings, period photographs, and related ephemera.
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Architecture du Canada
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Pour sortir de la seule critique des élites au pouvoir, l’IRIS a décidé de brasser la cage. Quelles seraient les politiques qu’un gouvernement au service du bien commun pourrait mettre en branle dans un premier mandat?? Dans cet exercice de politique fiction, les chercheur.e.s passent de la réaction à la proposition à travers cinq chantiers prioritaires?: la réduction du(...)
Cinq chantiers pour changer le Québec
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Pour sortir de la seule critique des élites au pouvoir, l’IRIS a décidé de brasser la cage. Quelles seraient les politiques qu’un gouvernement au service du bien commun pourrait mettre en branle dans un premier mandat?? Dans cet exercice de politique fiction, les chercheur.e.s passent de la réaction à la proposition à travers cinq chantiers prioritaires?: la réduction du temps de travail, la démocratisation de l’économie et des lieux de travail, la solidarité sociale, l’occupation du territoire et la transition écologique. Il en ressort un éventail d’alternatives concrètes et audacieuses pour changer le Québec, à l’opposé des politiques d’austérité. Loin de vouloir imposer un plan déjà défini, l’idée est de lancer des débats. Avec le désir d’inspirer, au bout du compte, un certain goût pour l’audace et l’ambition collective. Vous embarquez??
Architecture du Québec
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Fort McMurray, dans le nord de l’Alberta, est une ville-champignon au milieu d’un enfer écologique, où des travailleurs affluent de partout, attirés par les promesses de boom économique. L’or qu’ils convoitent : les gisements de sables bitumineux, le pétrole le plus sale qui existe, paroxysme du délire extractiviste. "Brut" réunit les voix de celles et ceux qui ont vu de(...)
Brut : la ruée vers l'horreur
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Fort McMurray, dans le nord de l’Alberta, est une ville-champignon au milieu d’un enfer écologique, où des travailleurs affluent de partout, attirés par les promesses de boom économique. L’or qu’ils convoitent : les gisements de sables bitumineux, le pétrole le plus sale qui existe, paroxysme du délire extractiviste. "Brut" réunit les voix de celles et ceux qui ont vu de près cette catastrophe : Melina Laboucan-Massimo, militante amérindienne, décrit la terre où elle est née et le jour où le pétrole s’y est répandu ; David Dufresne brosse le portrait des personnages de ce nouveau Klondike; Nancy Huston raconte un effrayant séjour dans son Alberta natale, puis discute avec Naomi Klein de la misère culturelle liée à ce ravage écologique. En guise de coda littéraire, une nouvelle prémonitoire du romancier canadien Rudy Wiebe, inscrit Fort Mac dans l’atlas des lieux du désastre.
Architecture écologique