Cycle infrastructure
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As cycling continues to enjoy a worldwide revival, experiments in new cycling facilities are underway everywhere. Cycle Infrastructure includes international examples, interviews with the makers of prominent cycling routes and a glimpse at future innovations. Its goal is to activate the full potential of cycling for the urban landscape and to consider cycling(...)
Cycle infrastructure
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As cycling continues to enjoy a worldwide revival, experiments in new cycling facilities are underway everywhere. Cycle Infrastructure includes international examples, interviews with the makers of prominent cycling routes and a glimpse at future innovations. Its goal is to activate the full potential of cycling for the urban landscape and to consider cycling infrastructure as an integral design challenge, rather than purely an issue of traffic engineering.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality(...)
Architecture du Canada
juin 2009
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality of urban neighbourhoods with the requirements of suburban traffic.
Architecture du Canada
Tati note
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Lodged in the middle of this pocket-sized blank note book are a collection of images based around one of cinema’s more iconic figures, Jacques Tati. Appearing are stills taken from classic films as Mon Oncle, Traffic and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, along with lesser known journal entries, sketches and on-scene photographs. The blank pages allow room for anything from notes,(...)
Tati note
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Lodged in the middle of this pocket-sized blank note book are a collection of images based around one of cinema’s more iconic figures, Jacques Tati. Appearing are stills taken from classic films as Mon Oncle, Traffic and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, along with lesser known journal entries, sketches and on-scene photographs. The blank pages allow room for anything from notes, sketches and drawings to thoughts and reflections.
The pedestrian and the city
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The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key issues addressed include the struggle of pedestrianization in town centers, the attempts to create independent pedestrian(...)
The pedestrian and the city
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The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key issues addressed include the struggle of pedestrianization in town centers, the attempts to create independent pedestrian footpaths and the popularity of traffic calming as a powerful policy for reducing pedestrian accidents.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Behind the stately canal facades of Amsterdam lies a green and silent world largely invisible to traffic and pedestrians. The designers of the 17th century ring of canals stipulated that the plots that came with the houses should be filled with green, not with brick a specification that is still observed up until today. Here, the history and beauty of these gardens are(...)
Behind the facades : gardens of canal houses in Amsterdam
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Behind the stately canal facades of Amsterdam lies a green and silent world largely invisible to traffic and pedestrians. The designers of the 17th century ring of canals stipulated that the plots that came with the houses should be filled with green, not with brick a specification that is still observed up until today. Here, the history and beauty of these gardens are comprehensively documented in an accessible way through text and photographs
Jardins
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Karin Bijsterveld examines the persistence of noise on the public agenda, looking at four episodes of noise and the public response to it in Europe and the United States between 1875 and 1975: industrial noise, traffic noise, noise from neighborhood radios and gramophones, and aircraft noise. She also looks at a twentieth-century counterpoint to complaints about noise:(...)
Mechanical sound, technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century
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Karin Bijsterveld examines the persistence of noise on the public agenda, looking at four episodes of noise and the public response to it in Europe and the United States between 1875 and 1975: industrial noise, traffic noise, noise from neighborhood radios and gramophones, and aircraft noise. She also looks at a twentieth-century counterpoint to complaints about noise: the celebration of mechanical sound in avant-garde music composed between the two world wars.
Acoustique
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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men(...)
Dirty old London: the victorian fight against filth
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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them.
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"Volume 3 shows the details of some of the most complex RR terminals in the USA, such as Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, etc. In recent years, all of those layouts have been greatly reduced, due to mergers and changes in types of traffic. So the 1946 Atlas will be a suitable 'monument to what once was' -- at the peak of railroad passenger and local(...)
A railroad of the United States in 1946, vol 3, Indiana, Lower Michigan & Ohio
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"Volume 3 shows the details of some of the most complex RR terminals in the USA, such as Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, etc. In recent years, all of those layouts have been greatly reduced, due to mergers and changes in types of traffic. So the 1946 Atlas will be a suitable 'monument to what once was' -- at the peak of railroad passenger and local freight activity!" -- Richard B. Hasselman, Senior Vice President of Operations, CONRAIL
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Focus way of life : Baden-Württemberg international design award 2002 and Mia Seeger prize 2002
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For the first time, the "Focus" title has been extented to include both the Baden-Württemberg international design award for professional designers and manufacturers and the Mia Seeger prize for up-and-coming talent. "Focus way of life" is this year topic. In this context, the competition singles out forward-looking, outstanding design work from the following fields :(...)
Focus way of life : Baden-Württemberg international design award 2002 and Mia Seeger prize 2002
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For the first time, the "Focus" title has been extented to include both the Baden-Württemberg international design award for professional designers and manufacturers and the Mia Seeger prize for up-and-coming talent. "Focus way of life" is this year topic. In this context, the competition singles out forward-looking, outstanding design work from the following fields : living, kithchen, bathroom, houdehold. outdoor, sport, games, wellness, leisure, equipment for offices and business premisses, accessories. lighting, transport, traffic, communication, information, photography, and optical instruments.
Design d’intérieur
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The Great Neighborhood Book explains how most struggling communities can be revived, not by vast infusions of cash, not by government, but by the people who live there. The author addresses such challenges as traffic control, crime, comfort and safety, and developing economic vitality. Using a technique called “placemaking”—the process of transforming public space—this(...)
mai 2007
The great neighborhood book: a do-it yourself guide to placemaking
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The Great Neighborhood Book explains how most struggling communities can be revived, not by vast infusions of cash, not by government, but by the people who live there. The author addresses such challenges as traffic control, crime, comfort and safety, and developing economic vitality. Using a technique called “placemaking”—the process of transforming public space—this exciting guide offers inspiring real-life examples that show the magic that happens when individuals take small steps and motivate others to make change.
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mai 2007