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A Quadrant Book Serie de eBooks

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  • Seizing Jerusalem

    The Architectures of Unilateral Unification

    de Alona Nitzan-Shiftan ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    After seizing Jerusalem’s eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world’s most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem.Seizing Jerusalem chronicles ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

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  • Jawbreaker

    The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander

    de Gary Berntsen, Ralph Pezzullo ...
    In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized within the agency for his aggressiveness, Berntsen, when ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Negotiation and Design for the Self-Organizing City

    Gaming as a method for Urban Design

    de Ekim Tan ...
    This book is dedicated to building an open negotiation and design method for cities as self-organizing systems that bridges the gap between collaborative planning and collaborative design methods. Gaming as a tool for knowledge creation and negotiation serves as an interface between the more abstract decision-making and material city-making. Rarely involved in the creation of our environment, it ... Leer más

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  • My Journey into the Heart of Terror

    Ten Days in the Islamic State

    de Jürgen Todenhöfer ...
    An alarming and enlightening first-hand account of what’s really going on behind the borders of the Islamic State.ISIS, IS, the Islamic State. The name is chilling. The images are horrific. This is a group that beheads journalists-and yet one, the German Jürgen Todenhöfer, went out of his way to get an invitation to visit ISIS fighters in Mosul in 2014 to ask them to explain their beliefs. This ... Leer más

    $13.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • All Over the Map

    Writing on Buildings and Cities

    de Michael Sorkin ...
    Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.” ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Junkspace with Running Room

    de Rem Koolhaas, Hal Foster ...
    Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Planning Sustainable Cities

    An infrastructure-based approach

    de Spiro Pollalis ...
    Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems.The book approaches infrastructure as a series of systems that function in synergy and are directly linked with urban planning. This method streamlines and guides the planning process, while still highlighting ... Leer más

    Antes $51.99 USD Ahora $45.99 USD

  • The Folklore of the Freeway

    Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

    de Eric Avila ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleans’s French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Open Enclosed: Donald Judd

    de Gillermo Zuaznabar ...
    Taking "Specific Objects," the seminal text written by Judd in the mid-sixties, as the central theme, the author analyzes the artist's main concepts and his whole career from a new perspective: "what one seeks is an object that speaks of the world in which it is moving or of the world from which it is moving away. One searches for a boundary work, a frontier, that says, simultaneously, where it is ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Minoru Yamasaki

    Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World

    de Dale Allen Gyure ...
    The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America’s most significant architectsBorn to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern materials and functional ... Leer más

    $53.29 USD

  • The Evolving European City - Introduction

    de Giuseppe Marinoni, Giovanni Chiaramonte ...
    Series Libro 29 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    In The Evolving European City, renowned urban planner and architect Giuseppe Marinoni and eminent photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte assemble a breathtaking presentation of cities that have undergone profound change in order to combat congestion, pollution, and the unsightliness of industrial wastelands. Marinoni conveys a profound belief that unified urban plans under the direction of one creative ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Historic Capital

    Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.

    de Cameron Logan ...
    Washington, D.C. has long been known as a frustrating and sometimes confusing city for its residents to call home. The monumental core of federal office buildings, museums, and the National Mall dominates the city’s surrounding neighborhoods and urban fabric. For much of the postwar era, Washingtonians battled to make the city their own, fighting the federal government over the basic question of ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD