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A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English History Volume I: 1066â…
This two-volume book explores how the great buildings of England bear witness to a thousand years of the nation’s history. In every age, investment in iconic buildings reaches a climax when the prevailing mode of production is operating most effectively, surplus wealth is most plentiful, and the dominant class rules supreme. During such periods of stability and prosperity, the demand for new …
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- 978-1-137-31921-0
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- XXVI, 337
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- 330 BAR w
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5 Urban Geology, Sust…
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also open new ventures for underground city development. Engineering geology plays a major role in facing the increasing issues of the…
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- 978-3-319-09048-1
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- 132 b/w illustrations, 616 illustrations in colour
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Zones of Tradition - Places of Identity: Cities and Their Heritage
What is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which practices is it formed, handed down, appropriated? Gerhard Vinken takes the readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formations that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality of urban heritage, as these vivid an…
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- 9783839454466
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- 307.2 VIN z
Urban Resilience in a Global Context: Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities
Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to unlocking a more stable and secure urban future in times of extreme global insecurity; for others, it …
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- 9783839450185
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- 307.2 URB u
Shifts in Mapping: Maps as a Tool of Knowledge
Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume g…
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- 9783839460412
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- 307.2 SHI s
The Redundant City: A Multi-Site Enquiry into Urban Narratives of Conflict an…
Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis …
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- 9783839451144
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- 307.2 KLI r
Public Space in Transition: Co-production and Co-management of Privately Owne…
Teheran-ro in Seoul and Mediaspree area in Berlin are pristine examples for public spaces with a history of rapid change in the context of broader political and economic transitions. Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s …
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- 9783839462324
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- 307.2 LEE p
Maritime Poetics: From Coast to Hinterland
In the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. The increasing intensification of global networks and logistics, and the resulting pressure on human societies and earthly environments have been characteristic of the rise of a »planetary age«. This volume engages with contemporary artistic practices and cri…
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- 9783732850235
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- 307.2 MAR m
Nature Policies and Landscape Policies:Towards an Alliance
The book focuses on the relationship between nature conservation policies and landscape policies. This is a relevant subject due to the current need of reviving nature conservation policies, which are today affected by a general effectiveness deficiency. To this end, landscape policies can play a crucial role, bridging nature and culture, fostering more integrated approaches to nature conservat…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-05409-4
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- XXX, 497
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- Urban and Landscape Perspectives
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The Towers of New Capital
With mega townships as the tool, this book analyses the complexity, scale and the challenges associated with the development paradigm in India from various built environment lenses. The Towers of New Capital is an enquiry into how these 'global fixes' are leading to territorial reorganization.
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- 978-1-137-58626-1
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