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Paris-Amsterdam underground

Author : Christoph Lindner
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048518202
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Paris-Amsterdam underground written by Christoph Lindner and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the underground as both a material and metaphorical space. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book interrogates the countercultural histories of Paris and Amsterdam in the mid to late-twentieth century. Shuttling between Paris and Amsterdam, as well as between postwar avant-gardism and twenty-first century global urbanism, this interdisciplinary book seeks to create a mirroring effect over the notion of the underground as a driving force in the making of the contemporary European city.

Cities Interrupted

Author : Shirley Jordan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474224431
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Cities Interrupted written by Shirley Jordan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces. Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, the book brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of 'interruption' in global cities enables new understanding of the forms of space, experience, and community that are emerging in today's rapidly transforming urban environments. The idea of 'interruption' addressed in this book refers to deliberate interventions in the spaces and communities of contemporary cities – interventions that seek to disrupt or destabilize the experience of everyday urban life through creative practice. Interruption is used as an analytic and conceptual tool to challenge – and explore alternatives to – the narratives of speed, hyper-mobility, rapid growth, and incessant exchange and flow that have dominated critical thinking on global cities. Bringing art and creative practice into the centre of discussions about the future of cities, alongside discussions of development, design, justice, health, sustainability, technology, and citizenship, this book is essential reading for anyone working at the intersections of a range of urban, cultural and visual fields, including urban studies, urban design and architecture, visual studies, cultural studies, media studies, art history, and social and cultural geography.

Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground

Author : Klaas Jan Bakker
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0415889669
Total Pages : 971 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground written by Klaas Jan Bakker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable source of reference on the current practices of analysis, design and construction of tunnels and underground structures in soft ground. This collection of reviewed papers covers a wide range of tunnelling practice, from deep excavations in Singapore to the construction of a new metro line in Barcelona. The international scope of the cont

Regarding the real

Author : Des O'Rawe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996076
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Regarding the real written by Des O'Rawe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarding the real develops an original approach to documentary film, focusing on its aesthetic relations to visual arts such as animation, assemblage, photography, painting and architecture. Throughout, the book considers the work of figures whose preferred film language is associative and fragmentary, and for whom the documentary is an endlessly open form; an unstable expressive phenomenon that cannot help but interrogate its own narratives and intentions. Combining close analysis with cultural history, the book re-assesses the influence of the modern arts in subverting structures of realism typically associated with the documentary. In the course of its discussion, it charts a fascinating path that leads from Len Lye to Hiroshi Teshigahara, and includes along the way figures such as Joseph Cornell, Johan van der Keuken, William Klein, Jean-Luc Godard, Jonas Mekas and Raymond Depardon.

Metro-art in the Metro-polis

Author : Marianne Ström
Publisher : www.acr-edition.com
ISBN 13 : 9782867700682
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Metro-art in the Metro-polis written by Marianne Ström and published by www.acr-edition.com. This book was released on 1994 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature

Author : Liesbeth François
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030694569
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature written by Liesbeth François and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground spaces such as the subway, the sewage system, tunnels, crypts, and the subsoil itself relate to the whole of the city in a body of works published after 1985, the year of the deadliest earthquake in the capital’s history. The texts belong to the most important genres in urban literature (the novel, the short story, and the crónica) and demonstrate the crucial role played by the underground in contemporary imaginings of the megalopolis, as it condenses and confronts the tensions that run through them. This central idea is developed through four analytical chapters focusing on the political, ecological, historical, and aesthetic dimension of subterranean imaginaries.

Underground Urbanism

Author : Elizabeth Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315523310
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Underground Urbanism written by Elizabeth Reynolds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the streets of your city? Do you picture, in isolation, a series of train tunnels and pipes? Or perhaps the foundations of tall buildings that lie scattered, like icebergs, beneath the surface? As our cities grow up, out, and down, it is time we better understood how the different layers of these complex urban environments relate to one another. Underground Urbanism seeks to provide a new perspective on our cities, and consider how this might be used to engage more positively with them. So, tip your cities upside down to have a closer look, and let us rethink them from (below) the ground, up.

Seoul

Author : Rafael Luna
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040097545
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Seoul written by Rafael Luna and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl. In a broader sense, the book discusses the dichotomy between city and urbanization: “city” being an architectural problem of bounded forms, while “urbanism” is an infrastructural project of expansion. It is an uncontested reality that urbanization is a continuous global process that has produced nebulous conurbations labeled as megacities. These expand beyond the virtual administrative boundary of any said “city,” producing a discrepancy between an area of administrative control and the real physical condition of human settlement. If there were a better formal understanding of megacities through their typological architectural conditions, then there could be a better assessment of the qualitative state of urbanization. Avant-garde groups from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s such as Team X, the Situationist, the Structuralist, and the Metabolist worked with ideas of megaforms and megastructures to address this issue. Although most of these proposals remained as paper architecture, this book reevaluates some of these ideas for the 21st-century megacity, using Seoul as a case study due to its clear typological formations produced over its diff erent periods of governance. The aim is to present the concept for an infra-architectural hybrid model of typological islands and subterranean megastructure that organizes Seoul as a fl exible multi-linear city. This book will be of interest to academics and students of architecture, urban geography, and Asian studies.

Heads Together 1972-2014

Author : T.G. McEwan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 132643201X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Heads Together 1972-2014 written by T.G. McEwan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art, Space and the City

Author : Malcolm Miles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134771010
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Art, Space and the City written by Malcolm Miles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public art - the making, management and mediation of art outside its conventional location in museums and galleries, and the livable city - a concept involving user-centred strategies for urban planning and design, are both socially produced but have emerged from different fields and tend to be discussed in isolation. This book applies a range of critical perspectives which have emerged from different disciplines - art criticism, urban design, urban sociology, geography and critical theory - to examine the practice of art for urban public spaces, seeing public art from positions outside those of the art world to ask how it might contribute to possible urban futures. Exploring the diversity of urban politics, the functions of public space and its relation to the structures of power, the roles of professionals and users in the construction of the city, the gendering of space and the ways in which space and citizen are represented, the book explains how these issues are as relevant to architecture, urban design and urban planning as they are to public art. Drawing on a wealth of images from across the UK and Europe and the USA, in particular, the author questions the effectiveness of public art in achieving more convivial urban environments, whilst retaining the idea that imagining possible futures is as much part of a democratic society as using public space.

Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present

Author : Esther Peeren
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323058
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present written by Esther Peeren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peripheral Visions sheds new light on how today’s peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized. Focusing on space, mobility and aesthetics, it argues that peripheries require more visibility, and are invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present.

Serialization in Popular Culture

Author : Rob Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134492057
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Serialization in Popular Culture written by Rob Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers, viewers, and gamers. In this volume, contributors—literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in comics, graphic novels, and digital culture—examine the economic, narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go from here.

Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art

Author : Jeffrey Ian Ross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317645863
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art written by Jeffrey Ian Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Thirty-seven original contributions are organized around four sections: History, Types, and Writers/Artists of Graffiti and Street Art; Theoretical Explanations of Graffiti and Street Art/Causes of Graffiti and Street Art; Regional/Municipal Variations/Differences of Graffiti and Street Art; and, Effects of Graffiti and Street Art. Chapters are written by experts from different countries throughout the world and their expertise spans the fields of American Studies, Art Theory, Criminology, Criminal justice, Ethnography, Photography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual Communication. The Handbook will be of interest to researchers, instructors, advanced students, libraries, and art gallery and museum curators. This book is also accessible to practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminal justice, law enforcement, art history, museum studies, tourism studies, and urban studies as well as members of the news media. The Handbook includes 70 images, a glossary, a chronology, and the electronic edition will be widely hyperlinked.

Inert Cities

Author : Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736124
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Inert Cities written by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities - the flow of capital, people, labor and information - freeze, or decelerate? How can we assess the value of interruption in a city? What does valuing stillness mean in regards to the forward march of globalization? When does inertia presage decay - and when does it promise immanence and rebirth? Bringing together original contributions by international specialists from the fields of architecture, photography, film, sociology and cultural analysis, this cutting-edge book considers the poetics and politics of inertia in cities ranging from Amsterdam, Berlin, Beirut and Paris, to Beijing, New York, Sydney and Tokyo. Chapters explore what happens when photography, film, mixed media works, architecture and design intervene in public spaces and urban communities to disrupt speed and growth, both intellectually and/or practically; and question the degree to which mobility is aspirational or imaginary, absolute or transient. Together, they encourage a re-assessment of what it means to be urban in an unevenly globalizing world, to live in cities built around mythologies of perpetual progress.

Exploring Nightlife

Author : Jordi Nofre Mateo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786603306
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Nightlife written by Jordi Nofre Mateo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising original contemporary research, this collection brings together case studies from across the globe that explore topics including nightlife and urban development, race, gender and youth culture, alcohol and drug use, and urban renewal.

Touring Consumption

Author : Stephan Sonnenburg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658100192
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Touring Consumption written by Stephan Sonnenburg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to confront spatial, performative and cultural interrelations between tourism and social economic behavior by providing a critical platform for the articulation of touring consumption in our contemporary world. Tourism has become a significant area of scholarship especially given the industry’s product development opportunities on a global scale. However, the emphasis placed on such research has largely been from a supply-side perspective. What needs to be explored is the shift towards the agencies of the tourist or traveler as consumer and consumption as being embodied as a moment of practice in continuous states of touring.

Vertical

Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781689954
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Vertical written by Stephen Graham and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above and below. Starting at the edge of earth's atmosphere and, in a series of riveting studies, descending through each layer, Graham explores the world of drones, the city from the viewpoint of an aerial bomber, the design of sidewalks and the hidden depths of underground bunkers.