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Author : Thomas Bender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Toward an Urban Vision written by Thomas Bender and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cherri House
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1607055414
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Urban Views written by Cherri House and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features modern solid fabric quilt designs with a universal appeal. This title offers a collection of 12 projects that helps readers learn how to quilt with triangles as well as master a variety of innovative techniques.
Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Author : Amos Rapoport
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483182169
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Human Aspects of Urban Form written by Amos Rapoport and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Aspects of Urban Form: Towards a Man—Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design discusses the man—environment interaction in urban setting. The book is comprised six chapters that provide a broad conceptual framework using a range of disciplines. The text first tackles urban design as the organization of space, time, meaning, and communication. The second chapter talks about environmental quality, while the third chapter deals with environmental cognition. Next, the book tackles the importance and nature of environmental perception. Chapter 5 discusses the city in terms of social, cultural, and territorial variables. Chapter 6 details the distinction between associational and perceptual worlds. The book will be of great interest to urban planners and government policymakers. Researchers and practitioners of sociological and behavioral science will also benefit from the book.
Author : Ben Green
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262352257
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Smart Enough City written by Ben Green and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity. Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. He proposes instead that cities strive to be “smart enough”: to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change—but not to value technology as an end in itself. In a technology-centric smart city, self-driving cars have the run of downtown and force out pedestrians, civic engagement is limited to requesting services through an app, police use algorithms to justify and perpetuate racist practices, and governments and private companies surveil public space to control behavior. Green describes smart city efforts gone wrong but also smart enough alternatives, attainable with the help of technology but not reducible to technology: a livable city, a democratic city, a just city, a responsible city, and an innovative city. By recognizing the complexity of urban life rather than merely seeing the city as something to optimize, these Smart Enough Cities successfully incorporate technology into a holistic vision of justice and equity.
Author : Peter Madsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113456774X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Urban Lifeworld written by Peter Madsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of scholarly essays, the results of detailed research, contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering a new approach to the analysis of urban experience.
Author : Kate Orff
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934366
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Toward an Urban Ecology written by Kate Orff and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Orff, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes. Part monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology. In purely practical terms, SCAPE has already generated numerous tools and techniques that designers, policy makers, and communities can use to address some of the most pressing issues of our time, including the loss of biodiversity, the loss of social cohesion, and ecological degradation. Toward an Urban Ecology features numerous projects and select research from SCAPE, and conveys a range of strategies to engender a more resilient and inclusive built environment.
Author : Barbara E. Lacey
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 0874139619
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book From Sacred to Secular written by Barbara E. Lacey and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of illustrations in early American books, pamphlets, magazines, almanacs, and broadsides provides a new perspective on the social, cultural, and political environment of the late colonial period and the early republic. American printers and engravers drew upon a rich tradition of Christian visual imagery. Used first to inculcate Protestant doctrines, regional symbolism later served to promote reverence for the new republic. The chapters are devoted to momento mori imagery, children's readers, visionary literature, and illustrated Bibles. One chapter shows the demonization of the Indians even as the Indian was being adopted as a symbol of America. Other chapters deal with propaganda for the American Revolution, canonization of leaders, secularized roles for women, and socialization of sites in the new nation.Throughout, analysis of image and text shows how the religious and the secular contrasted, coexisted, and intermingled in eighteenth-century American illustrated imprints. Barbara E. Lacey is a Professor of history at St. Joseph College. It includes more than 110 illustrations.
Author : John William Reps
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826204163
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Views and Viewmakers of Urban America written by John William Reps and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
Author : Christoph Lindner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195375149
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Imagining New York City written by Christoph Lindner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces-such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway-have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition. In so doing, Christoph Lindner also considers the ways in which cultural developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set the stage for more recent responses to a variety of urban challenges facing the city, such as post-disaster recovery, the renewal of urban infrastructure, and the remaking of public space.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Marcus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040293573
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Visualizing the City written by Alan Marcus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies. Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the City’s diverse essays explore visual representations of urbanism and modernity reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999575
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Art and the Empire City written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in conjunction with the September 2000 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this volume presents the complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period. Thirteen essays by noted specialists bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects that offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. The 300-plus works in the exhibition and comparative material are extensively illustrated in color and bandw. Oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zornitsa Dimitrova
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149854438X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Literary Worlds and Deleuze written by Zornitsa Dimitrova and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Worlds and Deleuze contributes to debates on mimesis by offering an ‘expressionist’ take on the matter of the generation of literary worlds in drama. In examining postdramatic plays by Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Caryl Churchill, and Laura Wade, the book outlines a dynamic ontology of mimesis. Rather than pertaining to a static ontology of ‘being’, expressionist mimesis is generative and renews itself constantly without arriving at an entelechial end. In exploring the fluxional field of forces and relations that underlie the order of representation, expressionist mimesis is well suited to account for the ontologically uncertain realities of postdramatic theatre. The concepts of ‘expression’ and ‘the event of sense’ (Gilles Deleuze) become part of a generative model that incorporates pre-linguistic and supra-conceptual constituents within the genesis of representation.
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas F. Mayer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812244737
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Roman Inquisition written by Thomas F. Mayer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the Roman Inquisition's own records, diplomatic correspondence, local documents, newsletters, and other sources, Thomas F. Mayer provides an intricately detailed account of the ways the Inquisition operated to serve the papacy's long-standing political aims in Naples, Venice, and Florence between 1590 and 1640.
