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Toshiko Mori Architect

Author : Landon Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783966800044
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toshiko Mori Architect written by Landon Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toshiko Mori is a New York based architect and Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for many years. As a long-time member of the World Economic Forum?s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities, Mori led research and inquiry into sustainable architecture, enhancing cities? livability, and creating efficient urban services. Mori is also on the board of Dassault Systems, a company connecting technology to environment and life science. And she has founded the platform VisionArc, a think tank dedicated to exploring the role of design within complex social and environmental issues.0This book will focus on TMA?s projects based on research, and the impact of socially valuable projects to society. The book will illustrate how the observation of the architect operates as opposed to how the imagination of the architect manifest itself. Different chapters in the book are describing various ways of approaching the task of observation. Seven chapters are divided into specific projects and provide a look at the hidden thought processes that can take place behind the ideas, solutions, and physical manifestations or architecture.

The End of the Christian Life

Author : J. Todd Billings
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493427547
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The End of the Christian Life written by J. Todd Billings and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're all going to die. Yet in our medically advanced, technological age, many of us see death as a distant reality--something that happens only at the end of a long life or to other people. In The End of the Christian Life, Todd Billings urges Christians to resist that view. Instead, he calls us to embrace our mortality in our daily life and faith. This is the journey of genuine discipleship, Billings says: following the crucified and resurrected Lord in a world of distraction and false hopes. Drawing on his experience as a professor and father living with incurable cancer, Billings offers a personal yet deeply theological account of the gospel's expansive hope for small, mortal creatures. Artfully weaving rich theology with powerful narrative, Billings writes for church leaders and laypeople alike. Whether we are young or old, reeling from loss or clinging to our own prosperity, this book challenges us to walk a strange but wondrous path: in the midst of joy and lament, to receive mortal limits as a gift, an opportunity to give ourselves over to the Lord of life.

MORI Building

Author : Minoru Mori
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 071819697X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book MORI Building written by Minoru Mori and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From building office blocks in the charred ruins of post-war Tokyo to creating Japan's largest ever urban development, Mori Building Co. has revolutionized how cities are made. In the late 1960s, after the success of its early 'number buildings', the company changed its focus from individual sites to whole neighbourhoods as Japan's economic miracle fuelled a building boom. By the 1980s Mori had completed the groundbreaking redevelopment at Ark Hills, home to the country's first 'intelligent building' which became Tokyo's international finance hub. This was the forerunner to the Roppongi Hills project - a cultural quarter which has attracted 40 million visitors a year since it was completed in 2003 and is Japan's biggest private development to date. In this book, Minoru Mori tells the story of the remarkable growth and pioneering vision that made Mori Building Co. Japan's leading developer. He traces the entire history of the company and shows how the unconventional thinking championed by Mori will be vital as Japan faces the challenges of recovering from a devastating tsunami while dealing with a shrinking population and a turbulent global economy.

The Dream of Water

Author : Kyoko Mori
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466876727
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Dream of Water written by Kyoko Mori and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There--looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water, and retracing childhood train trips to her grandparents' farm--she relived the memories and uncovered the secrets that unlocked her past. In The Dream of Water, a series of chapters that are themselves "small perfections," she leads us to the "larger happiness" of an autobiography that is also a work of art. Japan is the land Mori fled as a teenager, seeking to escape from her cold, abusive father and her manipulative stepmother. It is the country she spend her adult life putting behind her, but it is also her homeland. As she searches through familiar neighborhoods and on distant islands, she is constantly aware of the culture she abandoned and the one she has adopted. Pushed by the sights and sounds of contemporary Japan into her interior world of memory and dreams, she also looks out toward the daylight land of America. A personal journey of discovery that is also an exploration of national difference, The Dream of Water explores intimate emotions that reveal profound cultural truths.

Memento Mori

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219372
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Memento Mori written by Muriel Spark and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.

The Political Thought of Mori Arinori

Author : Alistair Swale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134250908
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Political Thought of Mori Arinori written by Alistair Swale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of the Meiji Government's controversial Education Minister and thinker, Mori Arinori, seeks to complement Ivan P. Hall's excellent earlier biography (1973) by providing an alternative interpretation of the man and his mission, namely that he is 'overwhelmingly closer to the social evolutionist's view of social change', with a considerable debt to the writings of Spencer rather than the Utalitarian philosophy of J. S. Mill. In other words, Mori was able to develop a workable philosophy of government and administration in line with the pragmatic needs of Japanese society. The book, therefore, will contribute to a radical rethink of Japanese perceptions of the Meiji reforms seen in their own terms.

Historical Dictionary of Tokyo

Author : Roman Cybriwsky
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087489X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Tokyo written by Roman Cybriwsky and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokyo is Japan's largest city and its capital. It is also one of the largest cities in the world and a major center of global economic influence. The origins of human settlement in what is today Tokyo are lost in prehistory. The city started out quite modestly as a small castle town of Edo in 1457, then the center of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603-1868, the rapidly modernizing and Westernizing capital of the nation during the Meiji Period (1868-1912), and the capital of a prosperous nation and growing empire thereafter. Tokyo was utterly devastated during World War II, but this was not the first time Tokyo had to start seemingly from new. Due to many fires and earthquakes, the city has constantly rebuilt itself and today it outdoes all its previous emanations by far. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Tokyo is a much-needed reference source on the city. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on people, places, events, and other terminology about the city of Tokyo. This book is a must for anyone interested in Japan and Tokyo.

The Safe City

Author : Leo van den Berg
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754647232
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Safe City written by Leo van den Berg and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceived safety is a major factor in a city's attractiveness and fear of crime can have a large impact on location decisions, with ensuing economic consequences. This book examines the role of security in urban development and its local policy implications. Comparing eleven European cities, it analyses how actual and perceived security is evolving, and what the economic, social and spatial consequences are of a changing perceived security.

Reverence

Author : Duralle S. Hare
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Reverence written by Duralle S. Hare and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Reverence: Reawakening follows a young, fallen angel who must endure a series of trials in order to maintain her position in the heavens. Throughout this story, she struggles to process an overflow of information, emotions, and revelations she was not prepared for. Duralle S. Hare hopes this story encourages people to remain strong and press on, even when life gets confusing and difficult to keep up with. About the Author Growing up, Duralle S. Hare watched a lot of cartoons and anime, and spent a majority of the time reading fiction. As Hare got older, he decided to write stories of his own, so he could entertain people and make them think about the challenges we face in life. Hare attended a Baptist church for the majority of his life, leading to a great understanding of the faith he practices. Though he would never claim to know everything, he has learned a lot from meeting and interacting with people from several different walks of life.

Polite Lies

Author : Kyoko Mori
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429934778
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Polite Lies written by Kyoko Mori and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new. In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second nature to Americans. In the sensitive hands of this compelling writer, one woman's life becomes the mirror of two profoundly different societies.

Faith in the Public Realm

Author : Dinham, Adam
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 184742029X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Faith in the Public Realm written by Dinham, Adam and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-01-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith and religion is a hot topic at the moment, and this text explores key issues for faith and religious groups. Understanding the role of faith in the policy world is of increasing importance, and chapters are arranged around themes, which helps students understand the concepts.

The Emerging Asian City

Author : Vinayak Bharne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136208518
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Emerging Asian City written by Vinayak Bharne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet’s inhabitants and more than half of its slum population living in some of its oldest and densest cities. It encompasses some of the world’s oldest civilizations and colonizations, and today contains some of the world’s fastest growing cities and economies. As such Asian cities create concomitant imagery – polarizations of poverty and wealth, blurred lines between formality and informality, and stark juxtapositions of ancient historic places with shimmering new skylines. This book embraces the complexity and ambiguity of the Asian urban landscape, and surveys its bewildering array of multifarious urbanities and urbanisms. Twenty-four essays offer scholarly reflections and positions on the complex forces and issues shaping Asian cities today, looking at why Asian cities are different from the West and whether they are treading a different path to their futures. Their combined narrative – spanning from Turkey to Japan and Mongolia to Indonesia - is framed around three sections: Traditions reflects on indigenous urbanisms and historic places, Tensions reflects on the legacies of Asia’s East–West dialectic through both colonialism and modernism and Transformations examines Asia’s new emerging utopias and urban aspirations. The book claims that the histories and destinies of cities across various parts of Asia are far too enmeshed to unpack or oversimplify. Avoiding the categorization of Asian cities exclusively by geographic location (south-east, Middle East), or the convenient tagging of the term Asian on selective regional parts of the continent, it takes a broad intellectual view of the Asian urban landscape as a 'both...and' phenomenon; as a series of diverse confluences – geographic, historic and political – extending from the deserts of the Persian Gulf region to the Pearl River Delta. Arguing for Asian cities to be taken seriously on their own terms, this book represents Asia – as a fount of extraordinary knowledge that can challenge our fundamental preconceptions of what cities are and ought to be.

Vita Sexualis

Author : Ogai Mori
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462902219
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Vita Sexualis written by Ogai Mori and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic and controversial work of Japanese literature presents a rare look at Meiji-ara Japanese sexuality. Though banned three weeks after its publication in 1909, Vita Sexualis is far more than a prurient erotic novel. The narrator, a professor of philosophy, wrestles with issues of sexual desire, sex education, and the proper place of sensuality. He tells the story of his own journey into sexual awareness, spanning fifteen years, from his first exposure to erotic woodcuts at the age of six, to his first physical response to a woman, and his eventual encounter with a professional courtesan. Beyond being a poignant account of one boy's coming of age, Vita Sexualis is also an important record of Japan's moral struggles during the cultural upheaval of the last years of the Meiji era. In response to the publication of Vita Sexualis, Ogai Mori was reprimanded by Japan's vice-minister of war.

Official Gazette

Author : Philippines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Official Gazette written by Philippines and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Futures

Author : Malcolm Miles
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415266949
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Urban Futures written by Malcolm Miles and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together commentaries from a wide range of contributors who draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate on the shaping of the city, and speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century.

Commerce Today

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Commerce Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama

Author : Ayaka Yoshimizu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100047111X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama written by Ayaka Yoshimizu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama reflects on the politics, poetics, and ethics of remembering the lives of transnational migrant sex workers in postcolonial Japan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the port city of Yokohama, the book focuses on the “water trade” in the Koganecho neighbourhood where exploitative and stigmatised labour took place, involving sexual services performed by migrant women. In recent years the city has sought to rebrand Koganecho, evicting transnational migrant sex workers who had been integral to postindustrial development and erasing their past presence. The author explores Yokohama’s memoryscapes in the aftermath of displacement through embodied knowledge, engaging her senses and ethics as a colonizer-researcher as she navigates the elusive past through traces that remain in the present. She examines the city’s built environment, official historical narratives, films, and photographic works. With few brothels and workers remaining, Yoshimizu fills the gap with her own interactions, encounters, and imaginings. Yoshimizu also writes through the imagery of water in ways that are informed by the local usage and imaginations—the ocean, flowing rivers, swamps, humidity, alcohol, the fluidity of relationships, and transient lives. The water also offers a way to sense the “ghost”, or the displaced lives and the effects of displacement, that, like humid air, stick to those who occupy or inhabit the site of displacement today. This interdisciplinary work makes a valuable contribution to sensory studies, memory studies, migration studies, and Asian studies.