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Architectural Body
ISBN: 9780817311698 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another. This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of work--museum installations, landscape and park commissions, home and office designs, avant-garde films, poetry collections--that challenges traditional notions... This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain ... |
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The Essential William H. Whyte
ISBN: 9780823220267 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements, The Last Landscape, The Social Life of Urban Spaces, and City: Rediscovering the Center, as well as many of Whyte's articles from Fortune Magazine.
The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organizati...
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Squares: A Public Place Design Guide for Urbanists
ISBN: 9780826330048 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vital public placessquares, post office steps, playgrounds, street cornersare centers of joyful celebration, heartbroken communion, civic discussion, or for simply hanging out. Squares is intended to help designers, planners, public officials, students, developers, and community leaders understand the history and theories of public commons, elicit community dialogue and desires, respond to the natural and built environment, and design compelling places.
Mark C. Childs contends that places built to support conviviality are critical components of a good town. He includes theory, brief case... Vital public placessquares, post office steps, playgrounds, street cornersare centers of joyful celebration, heartbroken communion, civic discussion, ...
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Planning Academic.Buildings
ISBN: 9780838907474 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New technology has put an increasing burden on library planners to develop flexible buildings. This text, for librarians, planners, architects, designers, consultants and academic administrators, serves as a complete planning tool to accommodate the library of the future.
New technology has put an increasing burden on library planners to develop flexible buildings. This text, for librarians, planners, architects, design...
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Land Development
ISBN: 9780867186093 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With land becoming an ever more precious resource in the midst of unprecedented population growth, the reliable information in this tenth edition gives readers the edge that seasoned professionals use to acquire the most desirable tracts of land. Includes full-color photographs of the nations leading developments.
With land becoming an ever more precious resource in the midst of unprecedented population growth, the reliable information in this tenth edition give...
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In What Style Should We Build?: The German Debate on Architectural Style
ISBN: 9780892361984 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.
This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Hubsch's arg...
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Garden Cities of To-Morrow
ISBN: 9780894990625 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Local Places: In the Age of the Global City
ISBN: 9781551640464 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ugly grey heap of cement and asphalt that makes up much of the urban sprawl is something most of us wish would just go away. And yet, more than half the world's population will live in urban centres by the turn of the millennium and most will be exposed to degraded urban environments. The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution. This volume brings together clear and critical analyses and practical...
The ugly grey heap of cement and asphalt that makes up much of the urban sprawl is something most of us wish would just go away. And yet, more than ha...
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Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes
ISBN: 9781559636865 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the movement toward creating more sustainable communities has been growing for decades, few examples exist of successful and time-tested sustainable communities. Village Homes outside of Davis, California, is one such example. Built between 1975 and 1981 on 60 acres of land, it offers unique features including extensive common areas, community gardens, narrow streets, pedestrian and bike paths, solar homes, and an innovative ecological drainage system.
In Designing Sustainable Communities, Judy and Michael Corbett offer an inside look at the development of the project from start to... While the movement toward creating more sustainable communities has been growing for decades, few examples exist of successful and time-tested sustain...
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If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: A Project by Martha Rosier
ISBN: 9781565844988 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With contributions by: Christine Benglia Bevington Marie Annick Brown Andrew Byard Cenen The Chinatown History Project Clinton Coalition of Concern Rosalyn Deutsche Dan Graham and Robin Hurst Alexander Kluge The Mad Housers Tony Masso The Nation Richard Plunz William Price Yvonne Rainer Mel Rosenthal Allan Sekula Camilo Jose Vergara Dan Wiley Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The... With contributions by: Christine Benglia Bevington Marie Annick Brown Andrew Byard Cenen The Chinatown History Project Clinton Coalition of Concern... |
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66,40 |
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The Urban Planning of Chinese Ancient Cities
ISBN: 9781585002641 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Small Change: About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities
ISBN: 9781844070053 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by the guru of urban participatory development, this book brings over three decades of experience and knowledge to bear on the question of 'what is practice'? Through an easy-to-read narrative style and using examples from the North and South, the author answers this question and others, looking at what knowledge, competencies and ways of thinking are fundamental to skilful practice in urban development. This is...
This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, sma...
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Small Change: About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities
ISBN: 9781844070060 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by the guru of urban participatory development, this book brings over three decades of experience and knowledge to bear on the question of 'what is practice'? Through an easy-to-read narrative style and using examples from the North and South, the author answers this question and others, looking at what knowledge, competencies and ways of thinking are fundamental to skilful practice in urban development. This is...
This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, sma...
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Natural Ventilation in the Urban Environment: Assessment and Design [With CD]
ISBN: 9781844071296 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * Provides building professionals with knowledge, tools and information on the efficient use of natural ventilation in urban buildings
* Key design principles are explained, enabling readers to decide on the best solution for building ventilation, taking into account climate and building context * Includes free CD-ROM with software for assessing the potential for natural ventilation of a given site by comparison with base sites. The methodologies and tools are tested, self-contained and user friendly Natural ventilation reduces the... * Provides building professionals with knowledge, tools and information on the efficient use of natural ventilation in urban buildings
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Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back
ISBN: 9781844073238 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Think globally, act locally" emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, and shows how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental justice and good governance--whether in the context of the sanitary risks of
slum living, the pollution of uncontrolled industrialization and motorization, or the enormous ecological footprints of affluent urban lifestyles. The volume reviews the urban... "Think globally, act locally" emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new...
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The Intercultural City : Planning for Diversity Advantage
ISBN: 9781844074372 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world where individuals are increasingly mobile, how people originating from different cultures live together is one of the key issues of the 21st century. There is a growing need for new thinking on how diverse communities can live together in productive harmony and not in parallel and separate lives. Policy is often dominated by mitigating the perceived negative effects of diversity (complexity, loss of cohesion, exploitation and racism) but little thought has been given to how a diversity dividend or increased innovative capacity might be achieved.
The... In a world where individuals are increasingly mobile, how people originating from different cultures live together is one of the key issues of the 21s...
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Sustainable Communities : The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods
ISBN: 9781853835124 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the practicality of re-inventing neighbourhoods. It presents the findings of a worldwide review of eco-villages and sustainable neighbourhoods, demonstrating what is possible. The main thrust of the book is on the ordinary localities in which people live. It includes case studies from the UK, Denmark, Germany and the USA, plus a detailed appendix listing eco-neighbourhoods and schemes.
An examination of the practicality of re-inventing neighbourhoods. It presents the findings of a worldwide review of eco-villages and sustainable neig...
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Sustainable Communities: The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods
ISBN: 9781853835131 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This book re-addresses the concepts of neighbourhood and community in a refreshing and challenging way. It will be of immense benefit, not only to town planners but also to al those professional and voluntary groups and politicians who seek to create the new communities of tomorrow' From the Foreword by Jed Griffiths, Past President of the Royal Town Planning Institute. There is widespread support for the principle of creating more sustainable communities, but much hazy, wishful-thinking about what this might mean in practice. In reality, we witness more the death of local neighbourhoods...
'This book re-addresses the concepts of neighbourhood and community in a refreshing and challenging way. It will be of immense benefit, not only to to...
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Signs: Lettering in the Environment
ISBN: 9781856693370 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Letterforms surround us. They may be inscriptions, names on buildings, directional signs for road networks or inside and around buildings. Providing a broad overview of signage, this book focuses on the letterforms and typography found in public places, designed to help us to navigate town and countryside, and which contribute to our sense of place. and execution of signage, focusing on the intentional rather than on the accidental or temporary. Visually led, the book contains some 700 colour images, thematically grouped, and described in extended captions, and the best current examples...
Letterforms surround us. They may be inscriptions, names on buildings, directional signs for road networks or inside and around buildings. Providing a...
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Planning at the Crossroads
ISBN: 9781857280258 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a detailed analysis of studies of the effects of planning, comparing low levels of urban containment in California with much higher levels in the UK. Some comparative insights are also drawn from the (pre-conflict) Yugoslavian planning system. The analysis shows that many of the serious criticisms of planning are valid and leads to the conclusion that some sacred cows - notably "green belts" - should be abandoned. This distinctive text is of use to students, researchers and professionals in planning, geography and urban studies. Through a detailed analysis of studies of the effects of planning, comparing low levels of urban containment in California with much higher levels ... |
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