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The author provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth.(...)
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The author provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth.(...)
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novembre 2009
novembre 2009
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The environment and the people in American cities, 1600s-1900s: disorder, inequality, and social change
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The author provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use.
The environment and the people in American cities, 1600s-1900s: disorder, inequality, and social change
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The author provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use.
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novembre 2009
novembre 2009
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Restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book examines together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigating a series of(...)
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Restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book examines together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigating a series of(...)
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Securing the past: conservation in art, architecture and literature
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Restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book examines together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigating a series of recent crises in each of these areas, this publication shows how their underlying justifications relate closely to one another.
Securing the past: conservation in art, architecture and literature
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Restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book examines together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigating a series of recent crises in each of these areas, this publication shows how their underlying justifications relate closely to one another.
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mars 2010
mars 2010
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Théorie de l’architecture
Théorie de l’architecture
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The architecture of patterns
The architecture of patterns
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This book tracks the definitions and applications of patterns in a number of fields, and suggests how contemporary patterns might be used in design. Drawing on historical material and recent case studies, it gives shape to patterns’ emerging potential. The Architecture of Patterns provides an updated definition of patterns that is at once precise and expansive—one that(...)
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This book tracks the definitions and applications of patterns in a number of fields, and suggests how contemporary patterns might be used in design. Drawing on historical material and recent case studies, it gives shape to patterns’ emerging potential. The Architecture of Patterns provides an updated definition of patterns that is at once precise and expansive—one that(...)
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août 2010
août 2010
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The architecture of patterns
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This book tracks the definitions and applications of patterns in a number of fields, and suggests how contemporary patterns might be used in design. Drawing on historical material and recent case studies, it gives shape to patterns’ emerging potential. The Architecture of Patterns provides an updated definition of patterns that is at once precise and expansive—one that allows their sensory, ephemeral, and iterative traits to be taken as seriously as their functional, everlasting, and essential ones.
The architecture of patterns
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This book tracks the definitions and applications of patterns in a number of fields, and suggests how contemporary patterns might be used in design. Drawing on historical material and recent case studies, it gives shape to patterns’ emerging potential. The Architecture of Patterns provides an updated definition of patterns that is at once precise and expansive—one that allows their sensory, ephemeral, and iterative traits to be taken as seriously as their functional, everlasting, and essential ones.
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août 2010
août 2010
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Photography and flight
Photography and flight
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Photography and Flight reveals how the camera lens from far away continues to unearth telling details about the land and those who live upon it. While digital technology and remote sensing have changed the landscape of photography, this book argues that they have not diminished the significance of aerial photography in providing images of the earth. Rather, new(...)
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Photography and Flight reveals how the camera lens from far away continues to unearth telling details about the land and those who live upon it. While digital technology and remote sensing have changed the landscape of photography, this book argues that they have not diminished the significance of aerial photography in providing images of the earth. Rather, new(...)
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Photography and flight
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Photography and Flight reveals how the camera lens from far away continues to unearth telling details about the land and those who live upon it. While digital technology and remote sensing have changed the landscape of photography, this book argues that they have not diminished the significance of aerial photography in providing images of the earth. Rather, new technologies and resulting innovations such as Google Earth have enabled the mass democratization of access to such information.
Photography and flight
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Photography and Flight reveals how the camera lens from far away continues to unearth telling details about the land and those who live upon it. While digital technology and remote sensing have changed the landscape of photography, this book argues that they have not diminished the significance of aerial photography in providing images of the earth. Rather, new technologies and resulting innovations such as Google Earth have enabled the mass democratization of access to such information.
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décembre 2009
décembre 2009
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Théorie de la photographie
Théorie de la photographie
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Over the past 30 years, American-born Canadian artist Steve Higgins, has worked at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and the urban environment with large-scale temporary projects. Known for large exterior projects, this publication presents small-scale models and intaglio prints of invented urban locations that remind us how connected we are to the buildings and(...)
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Over the past 30 years, American-born Canadian artist Steve Higgins, has worked at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and the urban environment with large-scale temporary projects. Known for large exterior projects, this publication presents small-scale models and intaglio prints of invented urban locations that remind us how connected we are to the buildings and(...)
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Steve Higgins: all things considered - thoughts about cities and history, war and peace
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Over the past 30 years, American-born Canadian artist Steve Higgins, has worked at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and the urban environment with large-scale temporary projects. Known for large exterior projects, this publication presents small-scale models and intaglio prints of invented urban locations that remind us how connected we are to the buildings and infrastructures that surround us. Published to document a cross-country tour, this original monograph offers an original essay from each participating gallery.
Steve Higgins: all things considered - thoughts about cities and history, war and peace
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Over the past 30 years, American-born Canadian artist Steve Higgins, has worked at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and the urban environment with large-scale temporary projects. Known for large exterior projects, this publication presents small-scale models and intaglio prints of invented urban locations that remind us how connected we are to the buildings and infrastructures that surround us. Published to document a cross-country tour, this original monograph offers an original essay from each participating gallery.
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février 2011
février 2011
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Art canadien
Art canadien
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Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. With each essay given a new(...)
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Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. With each essay given a new(...)
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Insurgencies: Essays in planning theory
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Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. With each essay given a new introduction to establish its context and importance, this is an ideal text for the study of planning theory and history.
Insurgencies: Essays in planning theory
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Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. With each essay given a new introduction to establish its context and importance, this is an ideal text for the study of planning theory and history.
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mars 2011
mars 2011
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Théorie de l’urbanisme
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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The color black
The color black
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Is there such a thing as "pure black"? In this book, Katrin Trautwein shows us how many shades of gray and different pigments can go into creating this special color, to which countless meanings are attached both in Western culture and other parts of the world. By means of high-grade screen prints, the publication makes the wide range of blacks tangible to the reader,(...)
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Is there such a thing as "pure black"? In this book, Katrin Trautwein shows us how many shades of gray and different pigments can go into creating this special color, to which countless meanings are attached both in Western culture and other parts of the world. By means of high-grade screen prints, the publication makes the wide range of blacks tangible to the reader,(...)
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The color black
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Is there such a thing as "pure black"? In this book, Katrin Trautwein shows us how many shades of gray and different pigments can go into creating this special color, to which countless meanings are attached both in Western culture and other parts of the world. By means of high-grade screen prints, the publication makes the wide range of blacks tangible to the reader, belying the notion that black is the mere absence of light.
The color black
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Is there such a thing as "pure black"? In this book, Katrin Trautwein shows us how many shades of gray and different pigments can go into creating this special color, to which countless meanings are attached both in Western culture and other parts of the world. By means of high-grade screen prints, the publication makes the wide range of blacks tangible to the reader, belying the notion that black is the mere absence of light.
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octobre 2013
octobre 2013
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The fields of photography and architecture have long been closely linked : photography provides a powerful way for architecture to be appreciated from a distance, and the camera lens alters and enhances buildings so that they can be appreciated anew, even by those already intimately familiar with them. Concrete: Photography and Architecture explores this deep and often(...)
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The fields of photography and architecture have long been closely linked : photography provides a powerful way for architecture to be appreciated from a distance, and the camera lens alters and enhances buildings so that they can be appreciated anew, even by those already intimately familiar with them. Concrete: Photography and Architecture explores this deep and often(...)
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Photographie- collections
Photographie- collections
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septembre 2013
septembre 2013
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Concrete : photography and architecture
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The fields of photography and architecture have long been closely linked : photography provides a powerful way for architecture to be appreciated from a distance, and the camera lens alters and enhances buildings so that they can be appreciated anew, even by those already intimately familiar with them. Concrete: Photography and Architecture explores this deep and often complex relationship, with particular attention paid not only to how photography influences the perception of architecture but also the very design itself.
Concrete : photography and architecture
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The fields of photography and architecture have long been closely linked : photography provides a powerful way for architecture to be appreciated from a distance, and the camera lens alters and enhances buildings so that they can be appreciated anew, even by those already intimately familiar with them. Concrete: Photography and Architecture explores this deep and often complex relationship, with particular attention paid not only to how photography influences the perception of architecture but also the very design itself.
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septembre 2013
septembre 2013
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In Hungarian Cubes, German-Hungarian artist Katharina Roters explores the one aspect of the Magyar Kocka that could be individualized: the ornamental decorations on their facades. Roters strips the houses she photographs of all surplus details, clearing out fences, railings, antennas, road signs, power lines, and the like, which enables the viewer to focus on the(...)
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In Hungarian Cubes, German-Hungarian artist Katharina Roters explores the one aspect of the Magyar Kocka that could be individualized: the ornamental decorations on their facades. Roters strips the houses she photographs of all surplus details, clearing out fences, railings, antennas, road signs, power lines, and the like, which enables the viewer to focus on the(...)
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Hungarian cubes: subversive ornaments in socialism
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In Hungarian Cubes, German-Hungarian artist Katharina Roters explores the one aspect of the Magyar Kocka that could be individualized: the ornamental decorations on their facades. Roters strips the houses she photographs of all surplus details, clearing out fences, railings, antennas, road signs, power lines, and the like, which enables the viewer to focus on the ornaments—and to see how they offered a rare opportunity for individualism and even protest under the conformity of the communist system.
Hungarian cubes: subversive ornaments in socialism
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In Hungarian Cubes, German-Hungarian artist Katharina Roters explores the one aspect of the Magyar Kocka that could be individualized: the ornamental decorations on their facades. Roters strips the houses she photographs of all surplus details, clearing out fences, railings, antennas, road signs, power lines, and the like, which enables the viewer to focus on the ornaments—and to see how they offered a rare opportunity for individualism and even protest under the conformity of the communist system.
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août 2014
août 2014
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Monographies photo
Monographies photo
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Extrastatecraft charts the emergent new powers controlling this space and shows how they extend beyond the reach of government. Keller Easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world – examining everything from standards for the thinness of credit cards to the urbanism of mobile telephony, the world’s largest shared platform, to the(...)
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Extrastatecraft charts the emergent new powers controlling this space and shows how they extend beyond the reach of government. Keller Easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world – examining everything from standards for the thinness of credit cards to the urbanism of mobile telephony, the world’s largest shared platform, to the(...)
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Extrastatecraft: the power of infrastructure space
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Extrastatecraft charts the emergent new powers controlling this space and shows how they extend beyond the reach of government. Keller Easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world – examining everything from standards for the thinness of credit cards to the urbanism of mobile telephony, the world’s largest shared platform, to the “free zone,” the most virulent new world city paradigm. In conclusion, she proposes some unexpected techniques for resisting power in the modern world.
Extrastatecraft: the power of infrastructure space
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Extrastatecraft charts the emergent new powers controlling this space and shows how they extend beyond the reach of government. Keller Easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world – examining everything from standards for the thinness of credit cards to the urbanism of mobile telephony, the world’s largest shared platform, to the “free zone,” the most virulent new world city paradigm. In conclusion, she proposes some unexpected techniques for resisting power in the modern world.
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livres
Publication:
novembre 2014
novembre 2014
Sujet:
Théorie de l’architecture
Théorie de l’architecture
