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  • Please Touch Everything

    A History of the Ontario Science Centre

    de Joan Francuz ...
    The story of the revolutionary Ontario Science Centre, its iconic exhibits, and the people who made it all happen.A Centennial project announced by Premier John Robarts in 1964, the Ontario Science Centre upended the traditional museum instruction — Don’t Touch — and created a whole new category of visitor attraction. Its designers, scientists, and craftspeople developed a way to explain science ... Leer más

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  • How Big Things Get Done

    The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

    de Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner ...
    “Why do big projects go wrong so often, and are there any lessons you can use when renovating your kitchen? Bent Flyvbjerg is the ‘megaproject’ expert and Dan Gardner brings the storytelling skills to How Big Things Get Done, with examples ranging from a Jimi Hendrix studio to the Sydney Opera House.”—Financial Times“Entertaining . . . There are lessons here for managers of all stripes.”—The ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The 99% Invisible City

    A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

    de Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER“[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.”—The New York Times Book Review**“Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. Your city’s secret anatomy laid bare—a hundred things you look at but don’t ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Sideways

    The City Google Couldn't Buy

    de Josh O'Kane ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFrom the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of ... Leer más

    Antes $15.99 USD Ahora $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Pushing the Limits

    New Adventures in Engineering

    de Henry Petroski ...
    Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • How the Railways Will Fix the Future

    Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road

    de Gareth Dennis ...
    Railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world for us all.The world's railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation, so what right do they have to exist and how can they be harnessed for good? Railway engineer and writer Gareth Dennis builds a case not simply for railways as ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Unbuilt Toronto 2

    More of the City That Might Have Been

    de Mark Osbaldeston ...
    Series Libro 2 - The City That Might Have Been
    Quill & Quire cited Unbuilt Toronto as a book filled with "well-researched, often gripping tales of grand plans," while Canadian Architect said that it is "an impressively researched exploration of never-realized architectural and master-planning projects intended for the city." Now Unbuilt Toronto 2 provides an all-new, fascinating return to the "Toronto that might have been."Discover the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dream States

    Smart Cities and the Pursuit of Utopian Urbanism

    de John Lorinc ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARDIs the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for?The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart cit... ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Design of Childhood

    How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays

    de Ms. Alexandra Lange ...
    **From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**"[Lange] might be the most influential design critic writing now." -The Los Angeles Review of BooksFrom building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of the ways children's playthings and surroundings affect their development-now featuring the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning essays.Parent... ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Toronto Book of Everything

    de Nate Hendley, Karen Lloyd ...
    Series series Book of Everything
    From Hogtown to capital city and Leafs Nation, from cold wet winters to desperately humid summers, from Blackberry-addicted Bay Street financiers to profiles of Ed Mirvish, Glenn Gould, David Cronenberg and Rush, no book is more comprehensive than the Toronto Book of Everything. No book is more fun!Well-known Torontonians weigh in on what they love about their city. Linda Leatherdale reveals her ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Unbuilt Calgary

    A History of the City That Might Have Been

    de Stephanie White ...
    Series Libro 4 - The City That Might Have Been
    Calgary is a typical boom-and-bust town that was first based on ranching and farming, then oil and gas, and now energy. And energy is what its citizens have, whether for skiing, work, or construction. It is a city that leaps ahead eagerly to new futures and rarely looks back., but Calgary can also be an unsentimental city, discarding its ideas, plans, and buildings with ease.Unbuilt Calgary is a ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Smart Cities, Smart Mobility

    Transforming the Way We Live and Work

    de Lukas Neckermann ...
    No discussion on mobility can exclude the broader context – the cities, the countryside, the local and national economic, political and social environments, as well as, of course, the technological progress that is being made in industries that are associated with this revolution. The urban environments which we call home and that are part of our identities will evolve. Through the air quality we ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD