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  • Across Space and Time

    Architecture and the Politics of Modernity

    Modernity tends to be considered a mostly Western, chronologically recent concept. Looking at locations in Brazil, Java, India, Georgia, and Yugoslavia, among others, Across Space and Time provides architectural and cultural evidence that modernity has had an impact across the globe and for much longer than previously conceived. This volume moves through space and time to illustrate the way global ... Leer más

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  • A History of Architecture and Trade

    Edición de Patrick Haughey ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative. The book uses an alternative holistic lens through which to view the development of architecture ... Leer más

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    Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

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    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order. The eight cities which form the core of ... Leer más

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  • Unbuilt Toronto

    A History of the City That Might Have Been

    Series Libro 1 - The City That Might Have Been
    Unbuilt Toronto explores never-realized building projects in and around Toronto, from the citys founding to the twenty-first century. Delving into unfulfilled and largely forgotten visions for grand public buildings, landmark skyscrapers, highways, subways, and arts and recreation venues, it outlines such ambitious schemes as St. Alban's Cathedral, the Queen subway line and early city plans that ... Leer más

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  • "This Disastrous and Inhuman Structure": The Reconstruction of Euston Station, 1959-1977

    Between 1959 and 1977, London's Euston station was completely rebuilt as part of the modernisation of the West Coast Main Line. Much loved Victorian buildings, including the famous Doric Arch and Great Hall, were swept away and replaced by a Modernist building described by John Betjeman as a "disastrous and inhuman structure".Although the new station is widely derided, no one has yet made a ... Leer más

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  • Behind Bars

    Inside Ontario's Heritage Gaols

    de Ron Brown ...
    Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario's nearly 50 heritage jails. Built before the modern era of the OPP, they range in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments such as the Kingston Pen and the Don Jail. Although Spartan inside, many are architectural wonders on the outside and have been declared heritage buildings. A few have been converted to museums and show the harsh ... Leer más

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  • Ptsd and Me

    The Story of My Struggle with Myself After Iraq

    When Dennis James Williams returned home after fighting in Iraq, he had a hard time fitting back into society. He was under financial stress and could not communicate with his wife. Much of his time was spent trying to find a place to work so he could provide for his family. But what turned out to be his worst problem was something he didnt want to admit he hadpost-traumatic stress disorder.In ... Leer más

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  • The Architecture of San Juan de Puerto Rico

    Five centuries of urban and architectural experimentation

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken place over the last five centuries, transforming the site from a small Caribbean enclave to a sprawling modern capital.As the oldest European settlement in the United States and second oldest in the Western Hemisphere, San Juan is an example of the ... Leer más

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  • Women Architects in India

    Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi

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  • Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics

    A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture alongside the new possibilities made available through digital technologies.The book examines how the body and its ordering has served as a central site of architectural discourse in recent decades, ... Leer más

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  • Palermo, City of Kings

    The Heart of Sicily

    Palermo – the capital of Sicily – is a destination with a difference. The city is a treasure trove of original monuments and works of art, combined with architecture of grand proportions. Yet it also has a grittier side, shown by the continuing influence of the mafia. Jeremy Dummett here provides a concise overview of Palermo's long history, together with a survey of its most important monuments ... Leer más

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  • The Architecture of Neoliberalism

    How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

    The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik ... Leer más

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