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Following a detailed history, Christopher M. Davidson presents an in-depth study of Dubai's post-oil development strategies and their implementation during a period of near-complete political stability. Davidson addresses the probability of future problems as the need for sustained foreign direct investment encourages far-reaching socioeconomic reforms, many of which may(...)
Dubai: The vulnerability of success
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Following a detailed history, Christopher M. Davidson presents an in-depth study of Dubai's post-oil development strategies and their implementation during a period of near-complete political stability. Davidson addresses the probability of future problems as the need for sustained foreign direct investment encourages far-reaching socioeconomic reforms, many of which may affect the ideological, religious, and cultural legitimacy of the traditional monarchy. He also analyzes Dubai's awkward relationship with its federal partners in the United Arab Emirates and highlights some of the pitfalls of being the region's most successful free port-its attractiveness to international criminal fraternities, the economy of the global black market, and terrorist networks.
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New Labour came to power in 1997 amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, urban environments became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: of finance, property speculation, and the service industry. Now, with New Labour capsized, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage —(...)
A guide to the new ruins of Great Britain
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New Labour came to power in 1997 amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, urban environments became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: of finance, property speculation, and the service industry. Now, with New Labour capsized, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage — the architecture that epitomized an age of greed and selfish aspiration. From riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive “centers” to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s, an emphatic expression of a failed politics.
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Can real architecture grow in our own backyard? Can architects grow by working there? In Deventer, the Netherlands, a routine real estate deal and demolition became the site of innovation and new intelligence in urban design. Not all of the endings were happy ones. This is the story of how architecture dissolves into the blurry middle ground between individual art(...)
Deventer
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Can real architecture grow in our own backyard? Can architects grow by working there? In Deventer, the Netherlands, a routine real estate deal and demolition became the site of innovation and new intelligence in urban design. Not all of the endings were happy ones. This is the story of how architecture dissolves into the blurry middle ground between individual art practice and urban planning, and how the profession’s discourse falls apart.
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With it's polders, dikes and waterways, the Netherlands boasts a unique tradition of architecture on/in proximity to water. Climate change and urban expansion have intensified the relevance of amphibious architecture for our times. This volume examines both structures and entire amphibious districts.
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Amphibious housing in the Netherlands
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With it's polders, dikes and waterways, the Netherlands boasts a unique tradition of architecture on/in proximity to water. Climate change and urban expansion have intensified the relevance of amphibious architecture for our times. This volume examines both structures and entire amphibious districts.
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David Kipen’s lively introduction revisits the city’s literary heritage—from Bret Harte to Kenneth Rexroth, Jade Snow Wong, and Allen Ginsberg—as well as its most famous landmarks and historic buildings. This rich and evocative volume, resonant with portraits of neighborhoods and districts, allows us a unique opportunity to travel back in time and savor the City by the(...)
San Francisco in the 1930s: The WPA guide to the city by the bay
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David Kipen’s lively introduction revisits the city’s literary heritage—from Bret Harte to Kenneth Rexroth, Jade Snow Wong, and Allen Ginsberg—as well as its most famous landmarks and historic buildings. This rich and evocative volume, resonant with portraits of neighborhoods and districts, allows us a unique opportunity to travel back in time and savor the City by the Bay as it used to be.
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Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations—and the mystique—for which the City of Angels is still known. Los Angeles in the 1930s revisits the Spanish(...)
Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA guide to the city of angels
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Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations—and the mystique—for which the City of Angels is still known. Los Angeles in the 1930s revisits the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty.
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Cet ouvrage dévoile pour la première fois l’extraordinaire production des années 50, qui avec de 2 500 immeubles de logements construits à Paris en 10 ans, ont largement contribué à moderniser et dessiner le Paris d’aujourd’hui. Au fil des pages, le lecteur est invité à découvrir l’immeuble des années 50 à travers quarante-quatre notions illustrées par de nombreux(...)
Paris 1950: un âge d'or de l'immeuble
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Cet ouvrage dévoile pour la première fois l’extraordinaire production des années 50, qui avec de 2 500 immeubles de logements construits à Paris en 10 ans, ont largement contribué à moderniser et dessiner le Paris d’aujourd’hui. Au fil des pages, le lecteur est invité à découvrir l’immeuble des années 50 à travers quarante-quatre notions illustrées par de nombreux documents originaux, et développées sous la forme d’un abécédaire – une méthode qui permet d’examiner les principales caractéristiques de l’immeuble, tout en faisant ressortir les conditions de sa production et en valorisant ces acteurs, architectes ou maîtres d’ouvrage. Un repérage de 300 bâtiments remarquables pour leur qualité architecturale ou leurs spécificités complètent ce corpus. Ce livre s’appuie sur de nombreuses recherches documentaires et en particulier sur un relevé systématique des permis de construire, ainsi que de nombreuses enquêtes de terrain indispensables pour cette décennie meconnue et à certains égards peu documentée. « Paris 1950 : un âge d’or de l’immeuble» revient ainsi sur ces architectures inventives conçues par des maitres d’ouvrage et des architectes qui n’ont cessé d’explorer et mettre en pratique les préceptes de l’immeuble contemporain.
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A New Golden Age Nordic Architecture and Design focuses on the importance of light and on the relation to traditions in Nordic architecture. It is based on Marianne Ibler''s interviews with 29 leading Nordic architectural and design offices. Includes critical essays written by Kenneth Frampton, Steven holl and Vesa Honkonen.
A new golden age : nordic architecture & design
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A New Golden Age Nordic Architecture and Design focuses on the importance of light and on the relation to traditions in Nordic architecture. It is based on Marianne Ibler''s interviews with 29 leading Nordic architectural and design offices. Includes critical essays written by Kenneth Frampton, Steven holl and Vesa Honkonen.
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This illustrated publication reaches back five centuries to document the evolution and ingenuity of house design in the British Isles. The architecture of Britain’s houses displays a dizzying variety of styles and details. Brimming with 600 full-color photographs, this book annotates hundreds of examples from every conceivable angle : from gables and pediments to(...)
House : British domestic architecture
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This illustrated publication reaches back five centuries to document the evolution and ingenuity of house design in the British Isles. The architecture of Britain’s houses displays a dizzying variety of styles and details. Brimming with 600 full-color photographs, this book annotates hundreds of examples from every conceivable angle : from gables and pediments to chimneys and roofs; from bow windows and casements to fanlights and door furniture. Armed with a career’s worth of experience and research, Philippa Lewis takes readers up and down the country to feature examples of typically British building, including cottages, manor houses, castles, bungalows, and flats. She also looks at houses built from a wide variety of materials, including stone, glass, wood, brick, and even corrugated iron, in different settings such as rural, suburban, seaside, and urban. Lively texts help identify specific details and place them in their historical context, as well as offering compelling examples of how innovative conversions of structures such as watermills, gatehouses, and churches reflect and sustain their environment.
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Over the last twenty years Barcelona has reached the apex of its public appeal, and the time has come for a critical evaluation of its recent past. Barcelona is an example of how a European and Mediterranean city can be radically transformed. Starting from the 1980s, through investment in contemporary architecture, tourism, and advanced services, the city abandoned its(...)
Barcelona: city, architecture and society 1975-2015
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Over the last twenty years Barcelona has reached the apex of its public appeal, and the time has come for a critical evaluation of its recent past. Barcelona is an example of how a European and Mediterranean city can be radically transformed. Starting from the 1980s, through investment in contemporary architecture, tourism, and advanced services, the city abandoned its traditional identity as an industrial center. After 1992, following the Olympics and the international success the city enjoyed as a result, Barcelona became a "model" city, renowned for its architecture, urban projects, attention to urban morphology, and context. In this book, the author gives a critical account of the various "stages" in Barcelona’s recent history, putting them into historical context and drawing parallels with local and international currents.