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  • A Proof Reader’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Not your typical Sherlock Holmes adventures…Nick Dunn-Meynell’s new collection, A Proof Reader’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, contains twelve sequels - of sorts - to each of the original stories in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, which first appeared in The Strand from 1891 to 1892. Within this book, you’ll find a series of conversations between Holmes and Watson, each immediately taking place ... Read more

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  • Dark Futures

    When the Lights Go Down

    by Nick Dunn ...
    Dark Futures provides a new way of thinking about the world. Light is everywhere, often uninvited as a by-product of our contemporary lives. Darkness meanwhile appears unwanted, yet is essential to our wellbeing, other species, and our planet. When we consider what futures are possible, they tend to direct us to visions of either a shiny, frictionless world which is light and bright, or at the ... Read more

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  • Dark Matters

    A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City

    by Nick Dunn ...
    Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night offers much to be enjoyed beyond vice. Night by definition contrasts day, summoning notions of ... Read more

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  • Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing

    Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing draws on original research that brings together dimensions of cities we know have a bearing on our health and wellbeing – including transportation, housing, energy, and foodways – and illustrates the role of design in delivering cities in the future that can enhance our health and wellbeing. It aims to demonstrate that cities are a complex interplay of these ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Darkness

    Cultures, Histories, Practices

    Edited by Nick Dunn, Tim Edensor ...
    Series series Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
    This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised.Humans have fundamental relationships with light and dark that shape their regular social patterns and ... Read more

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  • Future Cities

    A Visual Guide

    What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It provides a visual history of ... Read more

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  • Digital Fabrication in Architecture

    by Nick Dunn ...
    With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advanced modelling software and hardware has enabled architects and students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional methods.The use of CAD technologies in ... Read more

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  • Architectural Modelmaking Second Edition

    by Nick Dunn ...
    The physical model is an important communication tool for architects. Although the proliferation of CAD programs has enabled the creation of increasingly complex computer models and virtual environments, there is also a growing need to address the three-dimensional qualities of architecture that may be lost when using such media.This book focuses on the inspiring possibilities for modelling the ... Read more

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  • Urban Maps

    Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City

    This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems, artifacts, interventions and evidences that can inform our understanding of urban territories; on surfaces, in the margins or within voids. The diverse media of arts practices as well ... Read more

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  • Dark Skies

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    Edited by Nick Dunn, Tim Edensor ...
    Dark Skies addresses a significant gap in knowledge in relation to perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In providing a new multi- and interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this book brings together engagements with dark skies from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, empirical studies, and theoretical orientations.Throughout history, the relationship with dark skies has ... Read more

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  • Flourish by Design

    Flourish by Design brings together a range of established and emerging voices in design research for a collection that provides original provocations on topics of global significance. It is an insightful guide to original theory and practice concerning how we can design for a better tomorrow.Featuring contributors from a diverse array of backgrounds and professions, this edited book explores the ... Read more

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    Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom

    by Tim Edensor ...
    Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness ... Read more

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