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Ordinary Landscapes, Special Places

Author : Adam Menuge
Publisher : Historic England
ISBN 13 : 1848023146
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Landscapes, Special Places written by Adam Menuge and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of England's larger towns and cities are ringed by extensive suburbs dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, ranging from the opulent, spacious and leafy villa suburbs of the prosperous middle class to the dense gridirons of working-class and lower middle-class housing. The product of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, these suburbs, once derided or disregarded, now face major change themselves. This book explores the development of one area of Liverpool's suburbs, examining the forces that shaped it and explaining the patterns that we see in the landscape today. The story that emerges will surprise many, and may prompt a re-evaluation of these 'ordinary' places.

The Making of Our Urban Landscape

Author : Geoffrey Tyack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192511238
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Our Urban Landscape written by Geoffrey Tyack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world that most of us inhabit and know best. But what do we actually know about our urban world - and how it was created? The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia, from Roman and Anglo-Saxon times, through the Norman Conquest and the later Middle Ages to the 'great rebuilding' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'polite townscapes' of the eighteenth, and the commercial and industrial towns and cities of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The final chapter then takes the story from the end of the Second World War to the present, from the New Towns of the immediate post-war era to the trendy converted warehouses of Shoreditch. This is a book that will make the world you live in come alive. If you are a town or a city-dweller, you are unlikely ever to look at the everyday world around you in quite the same way again.

Sport, History, and Heritage

Author : Jeff Hill
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843837889
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Sport, History, and Heritage written by Jeff Hill and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life, but although its importance has been recognised in academic history, in the growing and related fields of heritage and museum studies it has yet to be fully appreciated and brought into interaction More...with historical studies. Ideologically, sport and heritage both convey powerful messages, responsible for shaping our understanding of sport, history, and the past; although they have essentially operated as separate spheres, one important aspect of convergence between them is seen in the rise and popularity of sports museums, the collecting of sporting art and memorabilia, and popular concern over the demise of historic sports buildings and places. The essays in this volume look at sports history as manifested in academic enquiry, museum exhibition and heritage sites. They deal among other things with the public representation of sport and why it matters; its impact on public spheres; the direction of sports heritage studies and what they should be attempting to achieve; the role of museums in public history; and the place, memory and meaning in the historic sports landscape.

America's Historic Landscapes

Author : Ary J. Lamme
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870496141
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book America's Historic Landscapes written by Ary J. Lamme and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Designed Ecologies

Author : William S. Saunders
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3034611463
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Designed Ecologies written by William S. Saunders and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kongjian Yu and his office Turenscape are beyond doubt the foremost landscape architecture practice in China today. The vast scale of China and her apparently boundless growth have enabled Yu to test many ideas that are still largely theories in the Western world. His work – increasingly valued and appreciated in Europe and North America - has attained an extremely high and elegant level in both conception and execution. Kongjian Yu is known for his ecological stance, often against the resistance of local authorities. His guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embracing of nature, even in its potentially destructive aspects, such as floods. Among his most acclaimed projects are Houtan Park for Shanghai Expo, the Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao, and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan. This book explores Yu’s work in 11 essays by noted authors and documents 22 major projects extensively.

Landscape History Discoveries in the North West

Author : Sharon M. Varey
Publisher : University of Chester
ISBN 13 : 1908258004
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Landscape History Discoveries in the North West written by Sharon M. Varey and published by University of Chester. This book was released on 2012 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From optical remote-sensing technology (lidar) to more traditional forms of landscape analysis and documentary research, this volume brings together the work of both amateur and professional historians and archaeologists, united in their enthusiasm for the landscape of north-west England and north-east Wales.

Urban Regeneration and Neoliberalism

Author : Clare Kinsella
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000215954
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Urban Regeneration and Neoliberalism written by Clare Kinsella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of ‘home’ in Liverpool over phases of ‘regeneration’ following the Second World War. Using qualitative research in the oral history tradition, it explores what the author conceptualises as ‘forward-facing’ regeneration in the period up to the 1980s, and neoliberal regeneration interventions that ‘prioritise the past’ from the 1980s to the present. The author examines how the shift towards city centre-focused redevelopment and ‘event-led’ initiatives has implications for the way residents make sense of their conceptualisations of ‘home’, and demonstrates how the shift in regeneration focus, discourse, and practice, away from Liverpool’s neighbourhood districts and towards the city centre, has produced changes in the ways that residents identify with neighbourhoods and the city centre, with prominence being given to the latter. Employing Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field as mechanisms for understanding different senses of home and shifts from localised views to globalised views, this book will appeal to those with interests in urban sociology, regeneration, geography, sociology, home cultures, and cities.

Building a Better Society

Author : Colum Giles
Publisher : Historic England
ISBN 13 : 1848023111
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Building a Better Society written by Colum Giles and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liverpool's landscape, both in the city centre and throughout its historic suburbs, is studded with institutional buildings, some - like the great hospitals - very prominent, others - like Sunday Schools and chapels - punctuating ordinary street scenes. All, however, tell the story of how charity and public authorities responded to the desperate need of the poor and vulnerable in the 19th century. Attractively illustrated by photographs and drawings, this book emphasises the importance of institutional buildings to our understanding of Liverpool's character and demonstrates how new uses can be found to ensure that they continue to form part of the city's historic environment.

Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular

Author : Peter Guillery
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136943153
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular written by Peter Guillery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extending the concept of British vernacular architecture to embrace buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing, this book is of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history.

Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors

Author : Mike Royden
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844686760
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors written by Mike Royden and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors' gives a fascinating insight into everyday life in the Liverpool area over the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Mike Royden's highly readable guide introduces readers to the wealth of material available on the citys history and its people. In a series of short, information-packed chapters he describes, in vivid detail, the rise of Liverpool through shipping, manufacturing and trade from the original fishing village to the cosmopolitan metropolis of the present day. Throughout he concentrates on the lives of the local people on their experience as Liverpool developed around them. He looks at their living conditions, at poverty and the laboring poor, at health and the ravages of disease, at the influence of religion and migration, at education and the traumatic experience of war. He shows how the lives of Liverpudlians changed over the centuries and how this is reflected in the records that have survived. His useful book is a valuable tool for anyone researching the history of the city or the life of an individual ancestor.

Landscape Aesthetics

Author : Alberto L. Siani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231559968
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Aesthetics written by Alberto L. Siani and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. This book challenges the common understanding of these categories as disengaged and demonstrates how uniting landscape studies and philosophical aesthetics opens new ways of addressing both the environmental crisis and the crisis of the humanities. Alberto L. Siani argues that the concept of landscape helps us overcome deeply ingrained oppositions, such as nature and culture, spirit and flesh, or the environment and the human. Landscape represents the intersection of these categories and therefore provides a helpful vantage point on contemporary predicaments that cannot be understood within dualistic frameworks. An engaged aesthetics shows that landscapes are not simply ways of seeing the world but ways of being in the world, offering practical guidance for inhabiting places ethically. Landscape Aesthetics sheds new light on issues spanning art and its interpretation, environmentalism, temporality, lived spaces, justice, education, and interdisciplinarity. Bringing together a wide range of sources across philosophy and other disciplines as well as personal experience, Siani reveals the key role of landscape and aesthetics in responding to the pressing crises we face today.

Place Attachment

Author : Irwin Altman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468487531
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Place Attachment written by Irwin Altman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In step with the growing interest in place attachment, this volume examines the phenomena from the perspective of several disciplines-including anthropology, folklore, and psychology-and points towards promising directions of future research.

Doors

Author : Michael Tutton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317309391
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Doors written by Michael Tutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field. This book offers depth and range of detail from dating and archaeology right through to the surveying, recording, engineering and curation of the door, its furniture and the part of the building into which it is set. Doors vary from basic designs to exceptional and intricate masterpieces of craftmanship. Whether wood, stone, metal or glass, throughout history doors have been vital barriers against weather and intruders, providing those inside with protection, privacy and comfort. Split into three sections, this book covers history, development, identification and dating of doors, maintenance and engineering of doors and door openings, and materials of doors, their furniture openings and surrounds. Throughout the book the authors provide detailed photographs, drawings, techniques and methodologies and the latest research available. Doors is the first major reference work devoted to the understanding of doors and doorways and the issues surrounding their repair and conservation. This comprehensive, highly-illustrated, full-colour study will provide professionals, students and academics with a complete overview of door conservation that will inform both research and practice for years to come.

Authentic Reconstruction

Author : John Bold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474284043
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Authentic Reconstruction written by John Bold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of many questions about heritage and identity in the built environment. These questions are most pertinent when buildings have been destroyed in disaster or war, and the built fabric is being reconstructed to reinstate traditional or historic appearances in place of what was lost. Authentic Reconstruction examines this idea of reconstruction, using it as a prompt to examine a range of deeper issues on heritage and the built environment. From post-WWII reconstruction programmes through to the rebuilding of historic cultural landscapes lost in natural disasters, this collection of essays by heritage specialists provides a wide range of case-studies and discussions. Each presents responses to crises and lessons learned, in order to extrapolate general guidelines for future actions by politicians, architects and planners in reconstructing buildings. The book also looks beyond disaster and war, noting how authenticity bears on political intentions and image building, exploring how reconstruction is used to tell a political or historical story, so conditioning the ways in which the built environment is perceived and appreciated by its users. This is not just about the buildings as bricks and mortar, but about perceptions of identity and the social and historical values which buildings and spaces embody for a richly diverse population. This book will be valuable to all who are concerned with heritage as practitioners or consumers, particularly those concerned with reconstruction and the creation of authentic places and experiences: architects, architectural historians, town planners, preservationists, conservationists, and those involved in heritage management and material culture.

Lost?

Author : Anthony Carragher
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788036018
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Lost? written by Anthony Carragher and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Liverpool F.C. reach their 125th anniversary, amidst the celebrations, doubts persist. Are they still elite? Can their prolonged title drought be ended? Foreign owners say they came to win but the trophy cabinet lies bare. Where to next for the reds? Lost? explores the gloried past, the moneyed present and the uncertain future of both Liverpool F.C. and the English game at large. Have they lost their way? Liverpool F.C.’s most famous manager, Bill Shankly, declared that the club ‘exists to win trophies’ and for many years this maxim proved true, as Liverpool became one of the most successful clubs in European football and dominated the scene in England for over two decades. Yet recently, the victories have dried up and Liverpool have not won the league title in over a quarter of a century. Football is also in a state of flux as major TV deals have made the Premier league the wealthiest in the world, but the gap between the elite clubs and those striving to catch up widens. Has the game lost it’s soul? Who will rise and who will fall as a new uncharted era in football unfolds? Lost? captures exclusive interviews with key figures including former Liverpool managers, Brendan Rogers and Roy Evans, the Shankly family and a whole host of footballing legends, past and present. The book also includes reflective pieces on an array of Premier League clubs from both a sporting and cultural perspective, looking not just at the team in isolations, but also at the communities and landscapes that shape them

Rural Places and Planning

Author : Gkartzios, Menelaos
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447356373
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Rural Places and Planning written by Gkartzios, Menelaos and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a compact analysis for students and early-career practitioners of the critical connections between place capitals and the broader practices of planning, seeded within rural communities. It introduces the breadth of the discipline, presenting examples of what planning means and what it can achieve in different rural places.

Sport, Identity and Community

Author : Andy Harvey
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848884524
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Sport, Identity and Community written by Andy Harvey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Sport is multi-billion dollar business. Sport is a kick around in the park. Sport is high (and low) politics. Sport is said to shape admirable personal qualities. Sport is said to embed the worst of white male heterosexual able-bodied privilege. Sport is said to break down social barriers. Sport is said to entrench a narrow nationalism. The list of what sport is said to be can be extended almost ad infinitum. This e-book attempts to make sense of some of the multiplicity of the ‘things’ that sport can be, mean and do. The papers in this volume explore the diversity of sport, providing insights from a wealth of perspectives into this ubiquitous cultural practice. The e-book will appeal to students, practitioners and readers who want to gain a fuller understanding of the games we watch and play.