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  • Modern City Revisited

    Edición de Thomas Deckker ...
    The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile ... Leer más

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  • Concise Townscape

    de Gordon Cullen ...
    This book pioneered the concept of townscape. 'Townscape' is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that make up the urban environment. It has been a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like. ... Leer más

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  • Grounds For Hope

    Ways to Live Legally on Cheap Land in the UK

    From the introduction...I don't suppose I'm the only person who has always dreamed of owning a piece of land on which I can build myself an affordable eco-house and grow my own food and fuel. In my fantasy the land is big enough to support several households, inhabited by all my favourite people, so we can share the joys and the chores in our own little eco-community.The reason this is difficult ... Leer más

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  • The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing

    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Describes the changing life of the city and its inhabitants during the final decades of the twentieth century and examines the complex forces at play in the search for modernity. The author presents us with four case studies of how the city is marketing and selling itself (including its refurbishment for the 2008 Olympic bid) and concludes that Beijing's urban image construction may provide an ... Leer más

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  • Place Identity, Participation and Planning

    Edición de Cliff Hague, Paul Jenkins ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    The central concern of this book is place identity, and its representation and manipulation through planning. Place identity is of growing international concern, both in planning practice and in academic work. The issue is important to practitioners because of the impact of globalisation on notions of place. This book includes comparisons between Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Scotland, ... Leer más

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  • Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

    Australia and Beyond

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the ... Leer más

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  • Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice

    Concise Professional Advice

    Starting your own architecture or engineering firm may seem a bit daunting. In Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice, author Walter J. Smith presents a handbook to help you navigate that process in order to be successful in the long term.Based on information gleaned from creating and running his own firm, Smith details what it takes to plan, organize, staff, direct, and control ... Leer más

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  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

    de Lawrence Vale ...
    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Leer más

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  • Housing and Social Policy

    Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

    Series series Housing and Society Series
    This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or ... Leer más

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  • Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events

    Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America

    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces ... Leer más

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  • Streets and Patterns

    There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to ‘placemaking’ and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of guidance for main road networks and for local streetgrids. What is ... Leer más

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  • Governance Reform in Africa

    International and Domestic Pressures and Counter-Pressures

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    Poor governance is increasingly recognized as the greatest impediment to economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, some impressive governance reforms are underway in many countries. This includes cases such as Nigeria – formerly the most corrupt country in the world according to Transparency International. Yet other countries such as Chad are still in reform deadlock. To account for ... Leer más

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