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  • Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities' Identity through Architecture and Arts (CITAA 2017), May 11-13, 2017, Cairo, Egypt

    Edición de Anna Catalani, Zeinab Nour, Antonella Versaci, Dean Hawkes, Hocine Bougdah, Adolf Sotoca, Mahmoud Ghoneem, Ferdinando Trapani ...
    Every city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed through its physical and visual form, it is seen through the eyes of its residents and users. The city develops over time, and its identity evolves with it. Reflecting the rapid and constant changes the city is subjected to, Architecture and Arts, is the embodiment of the cultural, historical, and economical characteristics ... Leer más

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  • Hassan Fathy and Continuity in Islamic Arts and Architecture

    The Birth of a New Modern

    de Ahmad Hamid ...
    Hassan Fathy, the Egyptian architect known for his recognition of the potential of vernacular forms as a vital force in contemporary architectural design, sought to integrate the traditions of Islamic art with his modern visions for living. Guided by Fathy's principles, Ahmad Hamid, an architect who collaborated with Hassan Fathy in the Institute for Appropriate Technology, identifies questions ... Leer más

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  • Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

    de Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development.With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai’s ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Designing Urban Transformation

    de Aseem Inam ...
    While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Urban Design Thinking

    A Conceptual Toolkit

    de Kim Dovey ...
    Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis.Relating abstract ideas to real-world examples, and taking assemblage thinking as its critical framework, the book ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Skycourt and Skygarden

    Greening the urban habitat

    de Jason Pomeroy ...
    Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner-city migration have transformed the traditional city of spaces into the modern city of objects. This has necessitated alternative spatial and technological solutions to replenish those environments that were once so intrinsic to society’s day-to-day interactions and communal activities.This book considers skycourts ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Critical Craft

    Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism

    Edición de Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber, Alicia Ory DeNicola ...
    From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and makes 'craft' in a wide variety of practices from around the world.Challenging the conventional understanding of craft as a survival, a revival, or something that resists capitalism, the book turns instead to the designers, DIY enthusiasts, traditional ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Tourism in the Middle East

    Continuity, Change and Transformation

    Edición de Dr. Rami Farouk Daher ...
    Series Libro 9 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This edited volume on tourism in the Middle East embodies a multi-discursive approach to the study of tourism in the region offering not only different perspectives but qualifying local knowledge and realities. The book re-examines the discourse of tourism within geopolitical contemporary regional realities. The book re-conceptualizes tourism as a discourse linked to heritage and identity ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Understanding Islamic Architecture

    Edición de Attilo Petruccioli, Khalil K. Pirani ...
    The ongoing debate among practitioners and in academia about the meaning and understanding of Islamic architecture will be energized by this book. It contains essays by architects and academics from various parts of the world which clarify how the carious disciplines of the design profession can be employed to build in the spirit of Islam.Divided into three sections the book covers:*meaning from ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Imaginative Communities

    Admired cities, regions and countries

    de Robert Govers ...
    Americans are loud. Amsterdam equals sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Mexicans are lazy and Germans are boring, but punctual. Paris is romantic, Wuhan infectious, Ukrainians heroic, and New Zealand untouched.This is the way people around the world think about cities, regions and countries and the communities that live there; through cliches and stereotypes. It can be frustrating and hindering trade, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • A Measure of Community

    Public Open Space and Sustainable Development Goal 11.7

    de Sridevi Rao, Ph.D ...
    Where does sustainable public open space figure in the evolution of a city? This book presents empirical data through the case of Hyderabad (1591-1998) to answer this question, where the efficacy of public open space is explained as a measure of community. The book questions the generalised interpretation of the open space type and its distribution that is presently conceived by planners. The ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Urban Design in the Arab World

    Reconceptualizing Boundaries

    de Robert Saliba ...
    Series series Design and the Built Environment
    The Arab World is perceived to be a region rampant with constructed and ambiguous national identities, overwhelming wealth and poverty, religious diversity, and recently the Arab uprisings, a bottom-up revolution shaking the foundations of pre-established, long-standing hierarchies. It is also a region that has witnessed a remarkable level of transformation and development due to the accelerated ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD