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Author : Bruce Brugmann
Publisher : San Francisco : San Francisco Bay Guardian
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ultimate Highrise written by Bruce Brugmann and published by San Francisco : San Francisco Bay Guardian. This book was released on 1971 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404737
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book High-Rise: A Novel written by J. G. Ballard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
Author : Mick Sinclair
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902669656
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (696 download)
Download or read book San Francisco written by Mick Sinclair and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the Cities of the Imagination Series, this book presents an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide to San Francisco, a beautiful city renowned for its artists, eccentrics, visionaries, and activism.
Author : James Brook
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872863354
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming San Francisco written by James Brook and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control." The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other, unofficial, San Francisco stories, often shrouded in myth and in danger of being forgotten, and they are told here: stories of immigrants and minorities, sailors and waterfront workers, and poets, artists, and neighborhood activists-along with the stories of speculators, land-grabbers, and the land itself that need to be told differently. Contributors include historians, geographers, poets, novelists, artists, art historians, photographers, journalists, citizen activists, an architect, and an anthropologist. Passionate about the city, they want San Francisco to be more itself and less like the city of office towers, chain stores, theme parks, and privatized public services and property that appears to be its immediate fate. San Francisco is not alone in being transformed according to the dictates of the global economy. But San Franciscans are unusual in their readiness to confront the corporate agenda for their city.
Author : George H. Douglas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786420308
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Skyscrapers written by George H. Douglas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of skyscrapers examines how these tall buildings affected the cityscape and the people who worked in, lived in, and visited them. Much of the focus is rightly on the architects who had the vision to design and build America's skyscrapers, but attention is also given to the steelworkers who built them, the financiers who put up the money, and the daredevils who attempt to "conquer" them in some inexplicable pursuit of fame. The impact of the skyscraper on popular culture, particularly film and literature, is also explored.
Author : Gianpaola Spirito
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788863120035
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book New Urban Giants written by Gianpaola Spirito and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic survey of the world's most innovative contemporary skyscrapers. Jam-packed with hundreds of specially commissioned photographs accompanied by a lively, authoritative text by internationally renowned architectural experts, this essential resource on the world's most important new structures traces the evolution of these lofty behemoths. Whisking readers around the world, New Urban Giants tells the story of the design and building of 31 remarkable structures, from corporate headquarters to residential towers to state-of-the-art luxury hotels. The text places each in its historical context, revealing the technological advances that made each building possible, and the social and economic climate that made each necessary. Hundreds of close-up photographs, panoramic shots, and architects' plans demonstrate the innovations that make each of these structures a pivotal element of their city's skyline and in the ever-evolving history of the skyscraper. Readers tour the HSB Turning Tower in Malmö, Sweden, the design of which is based on a sculpture by Santiago Calatrava. Photographs reveal the unique incremental angles that occur from the ground floor to the top floor, resulting in the top floor twisting 90 degrees from the ground floor. Other ground-breaking structures highlighted include the sleek New York Times Tower in Manhattan, Highcliff--a 75-story residential tower in Hong Kong, and Aurora Place in Sydney, Australia with its unusual geometric shape wherein no panel is parallel to any grid. Taking readers from Dubai to Tokyo to Vienna, this is an architectural tour not to be missed by professional architects and design enthusiasts alike.
Author : Meish Goldish
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617723037
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Spectacular Skyscrapers written by Meish Goldish and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies the most spectacular skyscrapers in the world and explains their incredible features through size comparisons and photos.
Author : Alison Isenberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691264546
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Designing San Francisco written by Alison Isenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. Previous accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs—put simply, development versus preservation—and have followed New York City models. Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful, pioneering, and contentious San Francisco, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square, Golden Gateway, and the Transamerica Pyramid. When large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, builders, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, alternative press writers, and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city, regional, and national planning and shaped novel projects across urban, suburban, and rural borders. San Francisco’s rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal era—especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism’s impact in the 1970s. An evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.
Author : Jerry Tracy
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
ISBN 13 : 1593705808
Total Pages : 953 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book High-Rise Buildings written by Jerry Tracy and published by Fire Engineering Books. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Jerry Tracy, Jack J. Murphy and James J. Murtagh invite fire chiefs, fire officers, firefighters, fire protection engineers, building management and the greater fire community to explore High-Rise Buildings: Understanding the Vertical Challenges as a foundation for coordination and control of high-rise building operations. Features: - Learn about cognitive command from many invaluable high-rise fire case histories - Manage and respond to all-hazards events within the high-rise environment for generations to come - A guideline and reference for fire professionals, building owners and system engineers, the building construction community, property managers What others are saying: "High-Rise Buildings: Understanding the Vertical Challenges is literally a "bible" for high-rise buildings, protection from fire, and the challenges they present to firefighters." --Paul Grimwood, Kent (UK) Fire and Rescue Service, Ph.D., Principal, Fire Protection Engineer "High-Rise Buildings: Understanding the Vertical Challenges fills an important void in high-rise firefighting and is an important asset to fire officers." --Glenn P. Corbett, Fire Engineering Magazine, Technical Editor
Author : David M. McGrail
Publisher : PennWell Books
ISBN 13 : 1593700547
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Firefighting Operations in High-Rise and Standpipe-Equipped Buildings written by David M. McGrail and published by PennWell Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes a proper firefighting mindset and promotes maintaining preparedness for the extreme physical and mental demands of firefighting operations in high-rise and standpipe-equipped buildings ... Among the many valuable topics covered in this book are: standpipe system pressure regulating devices, pressure restricting devices and pressure reducing valves; cautious and disciplined elevator use during high-rise operations; elevator rescue operations; proper engine company suppression selection, including techniques to operate more powerful firefighting weapons with limited manpower; air support operations during high-rise emergencies, with or without an internal resource.
Author : Lawrence Wai-chung Lai
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622095054
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Planning Buildings for a High-Rise Environment in Hong Kong written by Lawrence Wai-chung Lai and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first systematic attempt to document statutory building control in Hong Kong. It examines 40 cases decided by the Building Appeal Board with reference to the overlapping jurisdictions of the Buildings, Lands and Planning authorities in controlling building development. The cases are categorized under nine major themes, namely 'procedures and principles', 'immediate neighbourhood', 'widths of streets', 'lanes', 'access and parking', 'stepped streets', 'means of escape', 'illegal structures and enforcement orders' and 'demolition'. Each case is examined in detail, cross-referenced and illustrated by drawings and photographs where appropriate. For each category, a list of relevant law cases and a summary of the decision criteria identified are also provided. This work should be of great value to Authorized Persons, surveyors, lawyers and town planners who practise in Hong Kong, as well as those who are interested in the policies and issues concerning building control in a high-rise and high density living environment. It should also help professional practitioners prepare for the relevant APC examinations for the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors and other professional organizations.
Author : H.R. Viswanath
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482272040
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Multi-purpose High-rise Towers and Tall Buildings written by H.R. Viswanath and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest continues to develop in the design and construction of high-rise towers and tall buildings, structures with heights ranging from 75m to 500m and even more. This volume presents the papers from the third in a series of international conferences on the subject, organised by the International Federation of High-rise Structures. The papers hav
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631492829
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book High-Rise: A Novel (Movie Tie-in Editions) written by J. G. Ballard and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel of luxury and depravity, now a major motion picture. From the author of the celebrated dystopian classics Kingdom Come, The Drowned World, and The Drought, High Rise is a prescient story of class warfare. The film adaptation by acclaimed director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, Kill List) features Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons; BAFTA Award nominees Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller; Luke Evans and Golden Globe Award® winner Elisabeth Moss. When explosive loyalties form inside a luxurious apartment block isolated from the rest of society, modern elevators become fierce battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this chilling tale, humanity slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
Author : Lynn S. Beedle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book On Hazards of the High-rise written by Lynn S. Beedle and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoff Craighead
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 0080877850
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety written by Geoff Craighead and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, 3e, is a comprehensive reference for managing security and fire life safety operations within high-rise buildings. It spells out the unique characteristics of skyscrapers from a security and fire life safety perspective, details the type of security and life safety systems commonly found in them, outlines how to conduct risk assessments, and explains security policies and procedures designed to protect life and property. Craighead also provides guidelines for managing security and life safety functions, including the development of response plans for building emergencies. This latest edition clearly separates out the different types of skyscrapers, from office buildings to hotels to condominiums to mixed-use buildings, and explains how different patterns of use and types of tenancy impact building security and life safety. - Differentiates security and fire life safety issues specific to: Office towers; Hotels; Residential and apartment buildings; Mixed-use buildings - Updated fire and life safety standards and guidelines - Includes a CD-ROM with electronic versions of sample survey checklists, a sample building emergency management plan, and other security and fire life safety resources
Author : United States. Federal Energy Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Project Independence Blueprint written by United States. Federal Energy Administration and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Project Independence? The sources and uses of energy in the United States have changed dramatically in the last several decades. As a result, in just one generation, we have shifted from a position of domestic energy abundance to a substantial and continually growing reliance on foreign energy sources. Project Independence is a wide-ranging program to evaluate this growing dependence on foreign sources of energy, and to develop positive programs to reduce our vulnerability to future oil cut-offs and price increases.
Author : United States. Federal Energy Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Project Independence written by United States. Federal Energy Administration and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
