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In the late 2000s human society entered a new urban epoch in which the majority of human beings live in cities. Whilst the city has historically been viewed as the foundation of democracy and citizenship, the geo-political spaces of modern cities are widely misunderstood despite their key role in shaping contemporary global society. How and why have cities become the(...)
Rise of cities: Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and other cities
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In the late 2000s human society entered a new urban epoch in which the majority of human beings live in cities. Whilst the city has historically been viewed as the foundation of democracy and citizenship, the geo-political spaces of modern cities are widely misunderstood despite their key role in shaping contemporary global society. How and why have cities become the command centres of the world economy? Does globalization menace cities as we know them? Are cities able to exercise democratic control and strategic choice when multinational corporate competition increasingly limits the importance of place? The Rise of Cities offers intriguing responses to these questions by analyzing how cities coalesce, develop and thrive, and how they can remake themselves for better for worse. Examining key issues such as the parasitic relationships cities have with Nature, the webs of trade and immigration they rely on to survive, and the spatial structure of the contemporary metropolis, the contributors develop a startling outline of cities in crisis and demonstrate why the State has failed, and must fail, to end the urban crisis. These themes are explored through a variety of concrete, real-world examples of the challenges of urban politics: metropolitan governance, urban redevelopment policy, housing problems, grass roots activism and urban planning. In the background looms the spectre of neo-liberal globalization, with the development of influential world cities related to the emergence of modern telecommunications, the growth of multinational corporations and the generation of a world economy with an increased movement of cultural symbols and artifacts across national borders.
Architecture du Canada
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Is architecture art? This vexed question has been posed since the 1700s, when—breaking from earlier centuries in which there were no divisions between visual artist, architect, and engineer—architects and laypeople alike began to see these vocations as distinct. Exploring how this separation of roles occurred, and how in the twentieth century arts and architecture started(...)
The judicious eye: architecture against the other arts
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Is architecture art? This vexed question has been posed since the 1700s, when—breaking from earlier centuries in which there were no divisions between visual artist, architect, and engineer—architects and laypeople alike began to see these vocations as distinct. Exploring how this separation of roles occurred, and how in the twentieth century arts and architecture started to come together again, The Judicious Eye is the definitive history of the relationships between painting, sculpture, and architecture as they have shifted over the past three centuries. Joseph Rykwert locates the first major shift during the Enlightenment, when key philosophers drew implied and explicit distinctions between the visual arts and architecture. As time progressed, architects came to see themselves as part of an established profession, while visual artists increasingly moved toward society’s margins, deepening the chasm between them. Detailing the eventual attempts to heal this breach, Rykwert concludes in the mid-twentieth century, when the artistic avant-garde turned to architects in its battle against a stagnant society. The Judicious Eye, then, provides a necessary foundation for understanding architecture and visual art in the twenty-first century, as they continue to break new ground by growing closer to their intertwined roots.
Théorie de l’architecture
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How do today's brightest and best designers see the future of design? What are the defining elements of form, function, and aesthetics at the turn of the millennium? In response to these questions, the editors put together the definitive book on cutting-edge product design, furniture, ceramics, glassware, and textiles.
Designing the 21st century / Le design du 21ième siècle
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How do today's brightest and best designers see the future of design? What are the defining elements of form, function, and aesthetics at the turn of the millennium? In response to these questions, the editors put together the definitive book on cutting-edge product design, furniture, ceramics, glassware, and textiles.
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Design d’intérieur
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Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories- over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies and unexamined routines- dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.
Architecture écologique
janvier 1900, Sausalito
Building the green economy success stories from the grass roots
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Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories- over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies and unexamined routines- dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.
Architecture écologique
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This book describes for the first time how American federal agencies such as the Commerce Department and the U.S. Information Agency teamed up with corportations like IBM, Walt Disney Company, and General Mills during the 1950s to ensure that American displays at foreign trade shows presented compelling images of material abundance.
Pavillions of plenty : exhibiting American culture abroad in the 1950s
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This book describes for the first time how American federal agencies such as the Commerce Department and the U.S. Information Agency teamed up with corportations like IBM, Walt Disney Company, and General Mills during the 1950s to ensure that American displays at foreign trade shows presented compelling images of material abundance.
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mai 1997, Washington, D.C.
Théorie de l’architecture
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How can dynamic factors and dynamic phenomena outside of metropolitan cores be displayed for debates of territorial futures? 'Dynamics of Periphery' showcases emerging creative and resilient habitat futures to develop concepts for metropolitan, urban, and rural networks — with a perspective not on urban margins, but on new centres for community.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
mars 2018
Dynamics of periphery: atlas for emerging creative resilient habitats
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How can dynamic factors and dynamic phenomena outside of metropolitan cores be displayed for debates of territorial futures? 'Dynamics of Periphery' showcases emerging creative and resilient habitat futures to develop concepts for metropolitan, urban, and rural networks — with a perspective not on urban margins, but on new centres for community.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
World and system
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This publication takes A.R. Penck's System Pictures series (inspired by the idea of images as a global language) as a springboard to examine how contemporary artists such as Mark Dion, Charles and Ray Eames, Öyvind Fahlström, Mark Lombardi, Frank Nitsche, Jorinde Voigt and others devise complex systems of their own.
World and system
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This publication takes A.R. Penck's System Pictures series (inspired by the idea of images as a global language) as a springboard to examine how contemporary artists such as Mark Dion, Charles and Ray Eames, Öyvind Fahlström, Mark Lombardi, Frank Nitsche, Jorinde Voigt and others devise complex systems of their own.
Théorie de l’art
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With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This book examines the relationship between the visual language of film and the onscreen perception of space and architectural design, revealing how film's visual vocabulary influenced architecture in the twentieth century and continues to influence it today.
The architecture of the screen
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With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This book examines the relationship between the visual language of film and the onscreen perception of space and architectural design, revealing how film's visual vocabulary influenced architecture in the twentieth century and continues to influence it today.
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Featuring 40 essays by U.S. and European historians, designers, cultural critics, geographers and social scientists, illustrated with over 250 color images in extensive visual "gazetteers" — including specially-commissioned portfolios by artists and designers — "Else/where mapping" investigates : how new technologies of navigation and location are emerging to chart(...)
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Else/where : mapping new cartographies of networks and territories
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Featuring 40 essays by U.S. and European historians, designers, cultural critics, geographers and social scientists, illustrated with over 250 color images in extensive visual "gazetteers" — including specially-commissioned portfolios by artists and designers — "Else/where mapping" investigates : how new technologies of navigation and location are emerging to chart "virtual" terrain such as social networks and online conversations; how these new mapping strategies borrow and reinvent metaphors adapted from the cartography of physical terrain, considered at various scales — urban, regional, continental, global ; how new modes of representation of spatial data are evolving to explore the potential for collective "bottom-up" (rather than "top-down") mapping ; how cities, communities and social networks are being re-envisioned, as artists and designers use technologies such as GPS, GIS and digital interface design to devise alternative mappings of social and spatial relationships. Authors : Janet Abrams, Ole Bouman, Andrea Codrington, Denis Cosgrove, Steve Dietz, Paul Elliman, Yuri Engelhardt, Peter Hall, Brian Holmes, J.J. King, Cathy Lang Ho, Andrea Moed, David Pescovitz, Rebecca Ross, Ben Schouten, Alex Terzich, Alice Twemlow, Dirk van Weelden, Tom Vanderbilt, Peter Walsh and Stephen Zacks. Featured artists and designers included : Antenna Design New York, Julian Bleecker, Bureau d'Etudes, Sulki Choi, Layla Curtis, Judith Donath, Entropy8Zuper!, Michael Frumin, Ben Fry, De Geuzen, govcom.org, Marti Guixe, Mark Hansen, Robert Horn, Natalie Jeremijenko, Lisa Jevbratt, Nina Katchadourian, Valdis Krebs, Laura Kurgan, Mark Lombardi, The London Particular, Lumeta.org, Barrett Lyon, Brian McGrath, Julie Mehretu, Paul Mijksenaar, Sigi Moeslinger, MUST Architects, MVRDV, Josh On, W. Bradford Paley, Scott Paterson, Esther Polak, Richard Rogers, Ben Rubin, Warren Sack, Mike Silver, Marco Susani, Terraswarm, UN Studio, Urban Tapestries, Waag Society for Old and New Media, Ronald Wall, Kimberlee Whaley, Jeremy Wood and Marina Zurkow. Book design : Deborah Littlejohn.
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Chow offers an alternate vision to the conventional suburban housing that characterizes much of our domestic landscape. Her integrated, original approach to design sees the residential setting as a fabric of interrelated spaces that supports cultural diversity and change, promotes sharing in a setting, and sustains a more intense use of land. With its concise, informative(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
octobre 2002, Berkeley and Los Angeles
Suburban space : the fabric of dwelling
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Chow offers an alternate vision to the conventional suburban housing that characterizes much of our domestic landscape. Her integrated, original approach to design sees the residential setting as a fabric of interrelated spaces that supports cultural diversity and change, promotes sharing in a setting, and sustains a more intense use of land. With its concise, informative text and illustrations--including photographs and Chow's drawings--"Suburban space" challenges architects, landscape architects, developers, and planners to reconceptualize suburban housing. Chow has made comparative studies of neighborhoods in Boston, Charleston, San Francisco, Levittown, Radburn, and housing by Rudolf Schindler and Irving Gill, as well as other residential settings. Her argument for a fabric of dwelling is founded not on generalizations about how people live but on documented observations of the particular ways in which people organize their daily lives. This book demonstrates how one of the most disparaged yet common types of housing in the United States can become more environmentally and culturally viable.
Théorie de l’urbanisme