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  • Visions of Utopia

    by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, Martin Marty ...
    Series series New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities
    From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Hearts of the City

    by Herbert Muschamp ...
    From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their time and timeless. He often wrote about how the right architecture could be ... Read more

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    Rambles Around New Orleans

    by Roy Blount Jr. ...
    “Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.”So ... Read more

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  • Castles in Context

    Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500

    by Robert Liddiard ...
    Castle studies have been transformed in recent years with a movement away from the traditional interpretation of castles as static military structures towards a wider view of castles as aesthetic symbols of power, with a more complicated relationship with the landscape. Supported by numerous colour photographs of the most `tangible' remains of the Middle Ages, this clearly written and very ... Read more

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  • Smart City

    Human Capital in the Smart City. A Tale of Two Cities in Italy

    by Davide Diamantini, Nunzia Borrelli ...
    Series Book 8 - Quaderni
    La Carta di Milano, l'eredità immateriale di Expo Milano 2015, ci impegna a pensare e a dare forma a una diversa idea di convivenza urbana. Una città del futuro che comincia dal nostro presente. Negli ultimi anni si è assistito a un vero e proprio proliferare dell’uso del termine smart city e human smart city. L’uso – e talvolta l’abuso – di questo termine ha riguardato esperti, specialisti di ... Read more

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  • Writing the Modern City

    Literature, Architecture, Modernity

    Edited by Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley ...
    Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Designs

    Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

    by Philip Steadman ...
    This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th ... Read more

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  • Fit

    An Architect's Manifesto

    by Robert Geddes ...
    Why architecture matters—and how to make it matter moreFit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Distinguished architect and urbanist Robert Geddes argues that buildings, landscapes, and cities should be designed to fit: fit the purpose, fit the place, fit future possibilities. Fit replaces old ... Read more

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  • Common Space

    The City as Commons

    by Associate Professor Stavros Stavrides ...
    Series series In Common
    Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons – first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open ... Read more

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  • Victorian Gothic House Styles

    by Trevor Yorke ...
    Gothic is a potent word. For many people it conjures up images of dark, atmospheric castles, ruined abbeys, and horror stories set in misty graveyards. All this could not be further from the truth. Some 150 years ago Victorian Gothic architecture was a colourful, innovative and exciting departure from the foreign Classical styles that had been dominant for so long. It heralded a fresh, vibrant era ... Read more

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  • Back to the Future

    New Urbanism and the Rise of Neotraditionalism in Urban Planning

    by Karl Besel, Viviana Andreescu ...
    Back to the Future explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy trends such as regional governance and the role of nonprofits. The purpose of this book is to provide students and professionals alike with a context for examining the beginnings of new urbanism, as well as to illustrate how this movement has become a nationwide trend in response to changing ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico

    Edited by Edward R. Burian ...
    Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned ... Read more

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