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Book SynopsisDevelopment of brownfield land can address shortfalls in the availability of land for housing and other buildings, but these sites present a range of problems that must be overcome in any successful development.Table of ContentsAuthor Biography x Preface to First Edition xi Preface to Second Edition xiv Part One Planning and Development 1 1 The Development Process 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 The phases of redevelopment 6 Preparation 6 1.2.1 Phase 1 – Project inception 6 1.2.2 Phase 2 – Feasibility assessment 7 1.2.3 Phase 3 – Site assessment 8 Options 9 1.2.4 Phase 4 – Options assessment 9 1.2.5 Phase 5 – Working design of the preferred option 10 Design 12 1.2.6 Phase 6 – Detailed design 12 1.2.7 Phase 7 – Regulatory and planning 13 1.2.8 Phase 8 – Legal, property and funding 14 Delivery 15 1.2.9 Phase 9 – Financial appraisal 15 1.2.10 Phase 10 – Works procurement and execution 18 1.2.11 Phase 11 – Sales and marketing 19 1.3 The 2008–9 ‘credit crunch’ and its impact on property markets 20 1.4 Summary 21 2 Planning Policies and Development 23 2.1 Introduction 23 2.2 Planning policy statements and guidance notes 24 2.3 The Urban task force and the urban white paper 27 2.4 Urban land-use policies and the national brownfield strategy for England 30 2.5 The housing green paper and land for housing 39 2.6 The london brownfield sites review 41 2.7 Summary 43 2.8 Checklist 44 3 Project Inception, Developers and Feasibility 45 3.1 Introduction 45 3.2 Recession and property values 46 3.3 Land for development 49 3.3.1 Residential development 51 3.3.2 Commercial development 52 3.4 Assessing the market potential 54 3.4.1 Market research 56 3.4.2 Using the tools to assess market potential 59 3.5 Forecasting rents and prices 63 3.6 Summary 64 3.7 Checklist 65 Part Two Land 73 4 Site Assembly, Investigation and Assessment 75 4.1 Introduction 75 4.2 Site assembly 78 4.3 The historical study 79 4.3.1 A practical example 82 4.3.2 Maps, scales and other sources of information 93 4.3.3 Reporting the historical study 95 4.4 Walk-over survey 96 4.5 Intrusive and other forms of site investigation 101 4.5.1 Sampling strategies 103 4.5.2 Laboratory analysis 107 4.6 The final report 108 4.7 Summary 111 4.8 Checklist 111 5 Environment and Ecological Considerations 112 5.1 Introduction 112 5.2 Natural colonisation of brownfield land 112 5.3 Environmental assessment 115 5.4 The importance of landscape 117 5.5 Soils and substrates: the platform for development 118 5.6 Biodiversity of previously developed land 121 5.7 Policy and legislative framework for biodiversity conservation 123 5.8 Ecological surveys and the formation of new habitats 125 5.9 Land and development in a changing climate 129 5.10 The response to climate change 131 5.11 Summary 135 5.12 Checklist 135 6 Heritage and Archaeology 137 6.1 Introduction 137 6.2 Conservation policies and guidance 137 6.3 Planning and the historic environment 141 6.4 Archaeology and redevelopment 143 6.5 Summary 144 6.6 Checklist 144 7 Community Involvement in Tackling Blight and Dereliction 146 7.1 Introduction 146 7.2 Economic and visual blight 146 7.3 The benefits of removing blight 149 7.4 Skills 158 7.5 Summary 160 7.6 Checklist 160 8 Contaminated Soil and Remediation Methods 162 8.1 Introduction 162 8.2 European Directives and UK legislation 163 8.3 Removal and containment 167 8.4 In situ and ex situ treatments 169 8.5 The costs of dealing with contamination and dereliction 173 8.6 Tackling small sites 175 8.7 Land with no development value 177 8.8 Summary 179 8.9 Checklist 179 Part Three Development 181 9 Valuation of Damaged and Restored Land 183 9.1 Introduction 183 9.2 Valuation approaches 184 9.3 ‘Stigma’ or taking account of ‘intangibles’ 188 9.4 Applying valuation theories in practice 195 9.5 Reporting contamination and other damage to land 199 9.6 Summary 200 9.7 Checklist 201 10 Urban Extensions, Infrastructure and Eco-towns 202 10.1 Introduction 202 10.2 Sustainable urban extensions 204 10.3 Infrastructure 205 10.4 Eco-towns 209 10.5 Summary 214 10.6 Checklist 214 11 Development Finance 215 11.1 Introduction 215 11.2 Financial appraisals 216 11.2.1 Institutional leases and investment yields 217 11.2.2 Viability of the project 218 11.3 Financing a new development 219 11.3.1 Creditworthiness 219 11.3.2 Costs of finance 220 11.4 Types of finance 221 11.4.1 Debt financing 221 11.4.2 Equity financing 223 11.4.3 Mezzanine finance 223 11.5 Joint ventures and Special Purpose Vehicles 224 11.6 Forward sales and rental guarantees 225 11.7 Public-sector finance 226 11.8 Summary 228 11.9 Checklist 229 Part Four Design 231 12 Public Realm and Managing Land for Public Benefit 233 12.1 Introduction 233 12.2 Planning for quality public spaces 234 12.2.1 Design and upkeep of buildings and spaces 237 12.2.2 Green space and green infrastructure 237 12.2.3 Treatment of historic buildings and places 238 12.2.4 World-class Places – Action Plan 239 12.3 Urban and rural waterfronts as public spaces 242 12.4 The economic value of urban design 244 12.5 Summary 251 12.6 Checklist 251 13 Designing out Crime 252 13.1 Introduction 252 13.2 The basis for crime preventative design 252 13.3 The role of the local authority in promoting design-based approaches to reducing crime 253 13.4 Advice on crime preventative design: an outline of UK guidance 255 13.5 Case studies in crime preventative design 257 13.5.1 Wharf Close, Manchester 258 13.5.2 Residential development and car park, Sale 262 13.5.3 Comparisons between the case studies 266 13.6 New developments and crime 267 13.7 Summary 269 13.8 Checklist 269 14 Design Standards for Residential and Commercial Developments 271 14.1 Introduction 271 14.2 Urban design, smart growth and new urbanism 271 14.3 Design codes 275 14.4 Modern methods of construction (MMC) and zero-carbon homes 280 14.4.1 Modern methods of construction 280 14.4.2 Zero-carbon homes 281 14.5 Development densities and the Code for Sustainable Homes 282 14.5.1 Development densities 282 14.5.2 Code for Sustainable Homes 284 14.5.3 Lifetime homes 287 14.6 Achieving quality in commercial development 290 14.6.1 BRE Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) 290 14.6.2 Design Quality Indicator (DQI) 290 14.7 Summary 291 14.8 Checklist 291 15 Planning for the Future 293 15.1 Introduction 293 15.2 Planning and development 295 15.3 Land 296 15.4 Development 297 15.5 Design 299 15.6 Conclusion 300 References 302 Further Reading 317 Web Links 319 Index 321

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Book SynopsisThis exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital. Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds show the sweep of Southern history on an epic scale, from the earliest English encounters with the Powhatan at the falls of the James River through slavery, the Civil War, and the long reckoning that followed. And while the region's deathways and burial practices have developed in surprising directions over these centuries, one element has remained stubbornly the same: the color line. But something different is happening now. The latest phase of this history points to a quiet revolution taking place in Virginia and beyond. Where white leaders long bolstered their heritage and authority with a disregard for the graves of theTrade ReviewUndoubtedly, Death and Rebirth in a Southern City is an invaluable resource for understanding deathways in Richmond and the region more broadly. At a time when the city's memorial practices are coming under increasing scrutiny, Smith's powerful text provides residents with a primer that might help us construct a more inclusive practice of memory.—Erin Krutko Devlin, University of Mary Washington., Virginia MagazineDeeply researched and focused as much on the voices of those in the past and present who have used and engaged with these cemeteries as on the physical landscapes themselves, Death and Rebirth in a Southern City offers an important new framework for engaging with burial sites as part of the constantly evolving dynamics of race, class, and religion in American society.—Joy M. Giguere, Penn State, York, author of Characteristically American: Memorial Architecture, National Identity, & the Egyptian Revival, Journal of the Early RepublicDeath and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries engages audiences on the relevance of public history as studied through the preservation of white and Black burying grounds in a city that was once the capital of the Confederacy.—Eleanor Breen, The Public HistorianThis is a timely and compelling book that combines the strands of history, archaeology, ethnography, and preservation. Most importantly, it provides credibility for the voices of descendants and other community members who care deeply about these sacred and historic sites. The author has done a masterful job of providing the historic context for centuries of burials and helping the reader understand why these sites still matter today.—Lynn Rainville, Washington and Lee University, author of HiddenHistory: African American Cemeteries in CentralVirginia, and Invisible Founders: HowTwo Centuries of African American FamiliesTransformed a Plantation into a College, Buildings and LandscapesTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Southern Dead and the Present MomentChapter 1. The ChurchyardChapter 2. The African Burial GroundChapter 3. The New Burying Ground Chapter 4. Grounds for the Free People of Color and the EnslavedChapter 5. The Hebrew CemeteriesChapter 6. The Confederate CemeteriesChapter 7. The National CemeteriesChapter 8. The Post-Emancipation Uplift CemeteriesEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisPreserving the Vanishing Cityconsiders the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland’s historic preservation community during the 1970s and 1980s. While pro-preservationists argued for the economic and revitalization benefits stemming from saving and repurposing older buildings, population loss and economic contraction prompted decades ofdeterioration, underinvestment, vacancy, and abandonment. Stephanie Ryberg-Webster uncovers the motivations, strategies, and constraints driving Cleveland’s historic preservation sector, led by the public-sector Cleveland Landmarks Commission, nonprofit Cleveland Restoration Society, and a cadre of advocates. She sheds light on the ways in which preservationists confronted severe, escalating, and sustained urban decline, which plagued Cleveland, a prototypical rust-belt industrial city.Preserving the Vanishing Citychronicles the rise of the historic preservation profession in CleTrade Review“Ryberg-Webster offers a cogent examination of Cleveland’s historic preservation movement within the context of the city’s decline in both population and economic power. Preserving the Vanishing City chronicles the way preservationists, developers, planners, and residents balanced community priorities and determined what to save. Activists leveraged strategic coalitions, enacted policy changes, and designed innovative programs to preserve the places that tell the city’s story. Their struggles and successes, as recounted by the author, can inform the tactics and priorities of today’s preservationists—especially those working in legacy cities.”—Sara C. Bronin, Professor in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University, and coauthor of Historic Preservation Law“Preserving the Vanishing City offers fresh strategies for shrinking cities by focusing on what preservation contributed to Cleveland’s revitalization efforts since the 1970s. Most preservation research has emphasized the profession’s origin cities, like New Orleans, Charleston, Boston, and Philadelphia, or centered cities facing overdevelopment and gentrification. More typical places like Cleveland have what Ryberg-Webster calls a ‘staggering oversupply of built things’ and a different set of challenges. Twentieth-century Cleveland led the nation in many trends, from 1930s public housing to 1960s community development. This history of preservation in cities experiencing deindustrialization and depopulation will be enormously useful to policy stakeholders and historians.”—Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay“Ryberg-Webster breaks new ground, offering a rare, fine-grained analysis of preservation practices that allows readers to appreciate how enduring policies and approaches emerged at the intersection of professional paradigms, political imperatives, and grassroots activism. She suggests a new way of envisioning historic preservation as something more versatile than that which is pursued by preservation professionals and more complicated than its portrayal in much scholarly literature as an agent of gentrification. Preserving the Vanishing City offers both a sober analysis of preservation’s limitations as well as its potential for revitalizing cities.”—Andrew Hurley, Professor of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and author of Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities (Temple)

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Book SynopsisPreserving the Vanishing Cityconsiders the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland’s historic preservation community during the 1970s and 1980s. While pro-preservationists argued for the economic and revitalization benefits stemming from saving and repurposing older buildings, population loss and economic contraction prompted decades ofdeterioration, underinvestment, vacancy, and abandonment. Stephanie Ryberg-Webster uncovers the motivations, strategies, and constraints driving Cleveland’s historic preservation sector, led by the public-sector Cleveland Landmarks Commission, nonprofit Cleveland Restoration Society, and a cadre of advocates. She sheds light on the ways in which preservationists confronted severe, escalating, and sustained urban decline, which plagued Cleveland, a prototypical rust-belt industrial city.Preserving the Vanishing Citychronicles the rise of the historic preservation profession in CleTrade Review“Ryberg-Webster offers a cogent examination of Cleveland’s historic preservation movement within the context of the city’s decline in both population and economic power. Preserving the Vanishing City chronicles the way preservationists, developers, planners, and residents balanced community priorities and determined what to save. Activists leveraged strategic coalitions, enacted policy changes, and designed innovative programs to preserve the places that tell the city’s story. Their struggles and successes, as recounted by the author, can inform the tactics and priorities of today’s preservationists—especially those working in legacy cities.”—Sara C. Bronin, Professor in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University, and coauthor of Historic Preservation Law“Preserving the Vanishing City offers fresh strategies for shrinking cities by focusing on what preservation contributed to Cleveland’s revitalization efforts since the 1970s. Most preservation research has emphasized the profession’s origin cities, like New Orleans, Charleston, Boston, and Philadelphia, or centered cities facing overdevelopment and gentrification. More typical places like Cleveland have what Ryberg-Webster calls a ‘staggering oversupply of built things’ and a different set of challenges. Twentieth-century Cleveland led the nation in many trends, from 1930s public housing to 1960s community development. This history of preservation in cities experiencing deindustrialization and depopulation will be enormously useful to policy stakeholders and historians.”—Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay“Ryberg-Webster breaks new ground, offering a rare, fine-grained analysis of preservation practices that allows readers to appreciate how enduring policies and approaches emerged at the intersection of professional paradigms, political imperatives, and grassroots activism. She suggests a new way of envisioning historic preservation as something more versatile than that which is pursued by preservation professionals and more complicated than its portrayal in much scholarly literature as an agent of gentrification. Preserving the Vanishing City offers both a sober analysis of preservation’s limitations as well as its potential for revitalizing cities.”—Andrew Hurley, Professor of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and author of Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities (Temple)

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Book SynopsisTheatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre. The authors present many new instances of the interaction between the arts, providing a theoretical and historiographical context for these interactions.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. 1. The Visual Arts and the Theatre in Early Modern Europe (Caroline Van Eck and Stijn Bussels). 2. 8216;Theatricality’ in Tapestries and Mystery Plays and its Afterlife in Painting (Laura Weigert). 3. Making the Most of Theatre and Painting: The Power of Tableaux Vivants in Joyous Entries from the Southern Netherlands (1458–1635) (Stijn Bussels). 4. Parrhasios and the Stage Curtain: Theatre, Metapainting and the Idea of Representation in the Seventeenth Century (Emmanuelle Hénin). 5. In Front of the Work of Art: The Question of Pictorial Theatricality in Italian Art, 1400–1700 (Marc Bayard). 6. Staging Bianca Capello: Painting and Theatricality in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Elsje van Kessel). 7. The Performing Venue: The Visual Play of Italian Courtly Theatres in the Sixteenth Century (Lex Hermans). 8. Dancing Statues and the Myth of Venice: Ancient Sculpture on the Opera Stage (Wendy Heller). 9. How to Become a Picture: Theatricality as Strategy in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portraits (Hanneke Grootenboer). 10. Staging Ruins: Paestum and Theatricality (Sigrid de Jong). 11. Oprar sempre come in teatro: The Rome of Alexander VII as the Theatre of Papal Self-Representation (Maarten Delbeke). 12. Ut pictura hortus/ut theatrum hortus: Theatricality and French Picturesque Garden Theory (1771–95) (Bram Van Oostveldt). 13. ‘What do I See?’ The Order of Looking in Lessing's Emilia Galotti (Kati Röttger). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of writings and speeches by Texas's most renowned architect positions him among the leading midcentury modernist architects, including William Wurster, Louis Kahn, and I. M. Pei, who were his collaborators and intellectual peers.Trade ReviewDating back to 1928, the collection traces Ford's evolution not only as an architect, but also an early proponent of preserving landscape and the environment, today called sustainable development. * San Antonio Express-News *[O'Neil Ford on Architecture is] an excellent argument for architects to take the time and effort in crafting their words in print and in talks, and for schools of architecture to teach writing as well was design. * A Daily Dose of Architecture *This tight little volume collects within one binding the significant writings and lectures of the daddy of Texas architecture…[Ford] had strong convictions and expressed them with a bold directness that contrasts sharply with the shrinking and diplomatic public faces that most architects, wary of offending clients by voicing views that might prove controversial, usually affect. * Texas Architect *These essays and lectures...enhance our appreciation for Ford's lifetime achievements and secure his place as an esteemed design professional...[O'Neil Ford on Architecture] makes clear the reasons many contemporary architects and designers, preservationists, conservationists, and those who love Texas architecture are still inspired by Ford and learn from him….To read Ford's words here is to see how his eclectic approach encourages our innate human capacity to observe and study our environment, a process that he was driven to teach others to pursue. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Table of Contents Introduction: The Language of O’Neil Ford, by Kathryn E. O’Rourke Part I. The Making of a Modern Architect 1927. Architecture of Early Texas (with David R. Williams), Part 1 1927. Architecture of Early Texas (with David R. Williams), Part 2 1928. Architecture of Early Texas (with David R. Williams), Part 3 1932. Organic Building Part II. Growth and Synthesis 1940. Review of Williamsburg—Today and Yesterday 1951. O’Neil Ford Lectures on Slab Lifting 1953. Statement on Behalf of the San Antonio Conservation Society 1955. Imagineering 1959. History and Development of La Villita Assembly Hall 1960. Response to J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Institute of Architects Annual Convention Part III. In and Against the World 1964. Texas Idyll 1964. The Condition of Architecture 1965. History and Development of the Spanish Missions in San Antonio 1966. Mr. O’Neil Ford’s Speech at the Sculpture and Environment Symposium 1967. The End of a Beginning 1968. Culture—Who Needs It? 1968. Physical Planning versus or for the Individual Part IV. Looking Back, Looking Forward 1978. Foreword to Lynn Ford: Texas Architect and Craftsman 1981. Lessons in Looking 1981. Eulogy for Tom Stell 1982. Foreword to David R. Williams, Pioneer Architect Acknowledgments Image Credits Index

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Book SynopsisCoinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.Trade Review"Designing Pan-America is an important survey of the architectural culture generated by Washington geopolitics for building the idea of the Western Hemisphere between the global expansion of US empire around 1800 and its seeming regression around 1970. It impressively demonstrates the synergy between diplomatic designs and the design of diplomatic sites. The visual research is vast and striking, a capacious trove vibrantly rendered in color. Consequently, this good read provides a fresh perspective on both the history of international ideas in action and the idea of the Americas in (mainly) the United States." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Rigorously researched, imaginatively conceived, broadly situated, supported by a wealth of highly relevant illustrations, and replete with a stellar cast of architects. . . . Gonzalez cleverly decodes the dance between subject and object that accompanied the lengthy history of the Pan-American idea, and establishes the emerging centrality of modernism as a common ground for hemispheric identity, just as its most dramatic form of built expression threatens to be a militarized wall." * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *"González draws from considerable archival research to show how an array of built expressions engage and ossify the ideological formation of Pan-Americanism. This work offers much to scholarship exploring recent cultural and political shifts in North America agitating for the construction of intra-American walls and the policing of borders." * Western American Literature *"One of the gifts this book makes to the reader is the inclusion of a plethora of maps, photographs, posters, postcards, stamps, lithographs, and etchings. The visual contents of the book are thus as inviting as the critical analysis. We are able to literally see the development of an iconographic syntax and grammar of a visual language." * Revista Hispánica Moderna *Table of Contents Foreword by Robert W. Rydell Preface: Entre autopista y puente Acknowledgments Pan-American Architecture Chronology Introduction: Entering Pan-America Mapping the Sources of the Pan-American Idea The Pan-American Citizen Equal Representation for All Americans Chapter 1. The Birth of Pan-American Architecture: Hemispheric Fairs, 1884-1901 Logical Pan-Americanism at Two New Orleans Expositions Before the White City: Quadricentennial Visions for 1892 The Pan-American Exposition in an American Power City, 1895-1901 Chapter 2. A Rubber-Fig Tree for the Patio: America's Peace Temple, 1907-1913 The Competition After the Competition Transforming the "Latins" with Patio and Pool Nuestra Pan-América Chapter 3. In Search of Modern Pan-America: The Columbus Memorial Lighthouse Kelsey's Perfect Competition Pan-America's Heritage Is Explored in Stage One Kelsey Orchestrates the Second Stage Gleave's Transformative Cross Building the Unwelcomed Columbus Memorial Chapter 4. Gateway to the Americas: Dreaming Interama, HemisFair Living Interama and the Inter-American Subject HemisFair '68 and New Liaisons with Las Américas The Last Hemispheric Fairs Epilogue: Enter Here: The Great Pan-American Way Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the Indian Ocean port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, showing how the built environment was central to how its residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries.Trade Review“A landmark exploration of the built environment as a medium of social life, a register of history making, and a historical source. Set in a Malagasy city of migrants and stretching from the eighteenth century to the present, Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s Children of the Soil resets the agenda for writing about the politics of mobility and belonging.” -- David L. Schoenbrun, author of * The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 *“A lucid and engaging history of the materiality of placemaking and belonging. This book charts decisively new, exceptionally rich terrain for urban studies and ethnographically informed architectural history.” -- Laura Fair, author of * Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania *Table of ContentsNote on Toponyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Material Histories 1 I. Building Power 1. Casting the Land: Architectural Tactics and the Politics of Durability 27 2. Vibrant Matters: The Rova and More-Than-Human Forces 54 II. Anticipatory Landscapes 3. Storied Refusals: Labor and Laden Absences 87 4. Sedimentary Bonds: Treasured Mosques and Everyday Expertise 123 III. Residual Lives and Afterlives 5. Garnered Presences: Constructing and Belonging in the Zanatany City 161 6. Violent Remnants: Infrastructures of Possibility and Peril 195 Epilogue: Unfinished Histories 225 Notes 241 Bibliography 293 Index 339

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Book SynopsisIn Children of the Soil, Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, before, during, and after colonization. Drawing on archival and ethnographic evidence, she weaves together the lives and afterlives of built spaces to show how city residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries. From Mahajanga’s hilltop palace to the alluvial depths of its cesspools, the city’s spaces were domains for ideological debates between rulers and subjects, French colonizers and indigenous Malagasy peoples, and Comorian migrants and Indian traders. In these spaces, Mahajanga’s residents expressed competing moral theories about power over people and the land. The built world was also where varying populations reckoned with human, ancestral, and ecological pasts and laid present and future claims to urban belonging. Migrants from nearby Comoros harnessed built forms as anticipatory deTrade Review“A landmark exploration of the built environment as a medium of social life, a register of history making, and a historical source. Set in a Malagasy city of migrants and stretching from the eighteenth century to the present, Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s Children of the Soil resets the agenda for writing about the politics of mobility and belonging.” -- David L. Schoenbrun, author of * The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 *“A lucid and engaging history of the materiality of placemaking and belonging. This book charts decisively new, exceptionally rich terrain for urban studies and ethnographically informed architectural history.” -- Laura Fair, author of * Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania *Table of ContentsNote on Toponyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Material Histories 1 I. Building Power 1. Casting the Land: Architectural Tactics and the Politics of Durability 27 2. Vibrant Matters: The Rova and More-Than-Human Forces 54 II. Anticipatory Landscapes 3. Storied Refusals: Labor and Laden Absences 87 4. Sedimentary Bonds: Treasured Mosques and Everyday Expertise 123 III. Residual Lives and Afterlives 5. Garnered Presences: Constructing and Belonging in the Zanatany City 161 6. Violent Remnants: Infrastructures of Possibility and Peril 195 Epilogue: Unfinished Histories 225 Notes 241 Bibliography 293 Index 339

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Book SynopsisAs the definitive resource on the architectural history of New York City, The Landmarks of New York documents and illustrates the 1,352 individual landmarks and 135 historic districts that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission since its establishment in 1965. Arranged chronologically by date of construction, the book offers a sequential overview of the city's architectural history and richness, presenting a broad range of styles and building types: colonial farmhouses, Gilded Age mansions, churches, schools, libraries, museums, and the great twentieth-century skyscrapers that are recognized throughout the world. That so many of these structures have endured is due, in large measure, to the efforts of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and hundreds of private sector preservation organizations, large and small. Since the commission was established, New York City has become the leader of the preservation movement in the Trade Review"A spectacular book.Diamonstein-Spielvogel has proven that New York City cares deeply about its past and its connections to the present and future." * Gotham Magazine *"To read this book from cover to cover is to reread the past 400 years of New York history.Highly recommended." * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisAn important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single milieu.Ross uses the works of writers such as Federigo Tozzi, Aldo Palazzeschi, Vasco Pratolini, and Elena Gianini Belotti, to seek out alternative visions of Tuscan space and emphasizes that each author fashions the region in a manner which reflects their personal poetics, background, and experiences. Theories of cultural geography, space, travel, and narrative contribute to Ross's consideration of the dualisms commonly employed in writings about Tuscany, such as country/city, nature/culture, female/male, and self/other, all of which are in turn affected by her interrogatioTrade Review‘This book presents readers with a number of innovative representations of the region… A well written and interesting book that provides historical context and geographical specificity to a subject that has long engaged writers, directors, tourists, and literary theorists.’ -- Elisabetta Tesser * Studies in Travel Writing vol 16:02:2012 *Table of ContentsTable of Contents AcknowledgementsivList of Illustrations vIntroduction11. The Country and the City: Vertigo and Legendary Psychasthenia in Tozzi's Tuscany 312. Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: The Materassi Sisters at the Window783. Vasco Pratolini's Florentine Spaces of Exclusion1194. The Stendhal Syndrome, or The Horror of Being Foreign in Florence1625. 'Going Native': Tuscan Houses and Italian Others in Contemporary American Travel Writing 2196. The Tuscan Countryside: Nature and the (Non)Domestic in Elena Gianini Belotti 260Afterword: Further Tuscan Spaces of Alterity298Works Cited307

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Book SynopsisThis sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the twentieth century. A sui generis work of experimental scholarship or fictional philosophy, it analyzes an imaginary manuscript composed by a ghost. Part sprawling literary montage, part fragmentary theory of modernity, part implosive manifesto on the urban revolution, The Manhattan Project offers readers New York as a landscape built of sheer life. It initiates them into a world of secret affinities between photography and graffiti, pragmatism and minimalism, Andy Warhol and Robert Moses, Hannah Arendt and Jane Jacobs, the flâneur and the homeless person, the collector and the hoarder, the glass-covered arcade and the bare, concrete street. These and many other threads can all be spooled back into one realization: for far too long, we have busied ourselves with thinking about ways to change the city; it is about time we let the city change the way we think.Trade Review"[P]erhaps the most idiosyncratically ambitious book about Benjamin ever written...Kishik's Benjamin becomes a kind of Metatron, the biblical archangel whose task it is to record all the deeds of Israel."—Benjamin Wurgaft, Los Angeles Review of Books"[T]he portrait The Manhattan Project conjures of New York manages to be that rare combination of skeptical but not cynical; a combination often difficult to sustain in modern urban life... [A] feeling of living on borrowed time—a sense that eventually the daily experience of being overwhelmed by crowds and noise will catch up with you, to say nothing of the deeper displacement of migration—runs through Kishik's book, [and] this is its pay-off. "—Stephanie Boland, Los Angeles Review of Books"An extraordinary new book which I know Edward Soja would have read with the greatest interest. It's David Kishik's The Manhattan Project. But it's not about that Manhattan Project at all. Instead, it riffs on Benjamin's Arcades Project in the most astonishing of ways."—Derek Gregory, Geographical Imaginations". . . a thoroughly diverting read"—David B. Hobbes, The National Post"Kishik has written an imaginative, thoughtful, and engaging account of the intellectual afterlife, in the US, of German philosopher Walter Benjamin . . . This book will have significant appeal to those interested in critical geography, urban history, and 20th-century philosophy and cultural history more generally . . . Highly recommended."—M. Uebel, CHOICE"Finally. A book about Walter Benjamin that Walter Benjamin might consider reading" and "David Kishik's The Manhattan Project dares to playfully and productively demystify one of modernity's greatest demystifiers: Walter Benjamin. In liberating this most challenging and unorthodox thinker from the musty aura and provincial politics of the academy, Kishik's "Theory of a City" is, in fact, nothing less than a radically new form of creative and critical praxis. The result is a beautifully written and deeply self-aware book that enacts and expands upon Benjamin's own critical spirit—at a time when it is needed most."—Eric Jarosinski, NeinQuarterly"A curiously effervescent text that is simultaneously a work of imagined philology, an index of urban delirium, and a fascinating evocation of a city that became the de facto capital of the 20th century . . . It is therefore much to Kishik's credit that his slim volume, a drop in the vast ocean of literature on the city, packs such a considerable theoretical punch."—Dustin Illingworth, The Brooklyn Rail"A beguiling work of literary and social criticism that begins with a subverting counterfactual and moves into a deeply searching inquiry into the nature of an iconic island . . . [F]ans of Arendt, Howe, and Kazin will find Kishik's invention, and his playful seriousness in maintaining it, both a pleasure and a provocation."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review"[A] brilliantly realized thought experiment that's as full of wit and imagination as it is of serious thoughts about Benjamin."—Laurie Greer, Politics and Prose"Written with rare lightness and wit, this book is without equal, incomparable in the present landscape of literature written on New York."—Yehuda Emmanuel Safran, Columbia University"The Manhattan Project is a work of enchantment that disenchants the city. Kaleidoscopic in its effect, dazzling in its artistry and intensity, it is an astonishing accomplishment, a veritable intellectual and imaginative tour-de-force. Kishik playfully and perceptively allows Benjamin's idiosyncrasies and genius to shine through his book, just as he enables New York's pulses and rhythms to energize it."—Graeme Gilloch, Lancaster University"The Manhattan Project channels Walter Benjamin in a quest to understand twentieth-century New York. Deftly blending history and fiction in order to capture the city's delirious yet weighty reality, David Kishik offers astute observations of phenomena as diverse as photography, the character of the street, Andy Warhol, dance, and the New York Public Library. Turning the pages of this fascinating book is like turning a New York street corner only to find some new and unexpected pleasure."—Todd May, Clemson University"[A] playful and thought-provoking work that experiments with place-based, fictional philosophy in the urban context."— Zoé Hamstead, "90 Recommendations for the One Book About Cities That Everyone Should Read,"The Nature of Cities"Kishik's book is certainly no dry exegesis, but a creative and original interpretation of Benjamin's text...[Kishik] reveal[s] Benjamin's work in a very new light, moving it from the warm glow of the gas lanterns of 19th century Paris into the colder, bluer light of 20th century Manhattan. Amidst the large volume of recent writing on Benjamin, this makes an original and distinctive contribution"—Julian Brigstocke, Society + Space"Kishik positions himself as 'the ghostwriter of a ghostwriter of a ghostwriter', unpacking a 'book that was never written' by a Lazarus for a city too busy to write its own story. That's a whole mess of postmodern graveyard whimsy and Kishik's rendition of Benjamin's Manhattan remains consistently tantalizing."—Robert Anasi, Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisUrbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today’s city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime.Blending critical philosophy, political theory, and media theory, The Urban Apparatus explores how the aesthetics of cities and their political economies overlap. In a series of ten essays, with a detailed theoretical introduction, Martin explores questions related to urban life, drawn from a wide range of global topics—from the fiscal crisis in Detroit to speculative development in Mumbai to the landscape of Mars, from discussions of race and the environment to housing and economic inequality. Each essay proposes a particular “mediator” (or a material complex) that is shaped by imaginative practices, each answering the question “What is a city, today?” The Urban Apparatus serves as an “urban” bookend to the architectural questions explored by Martin in his earlier book Utopia’s Ghost, and ultimately offers readers a way to think politically about urbanization.Trade Review"Reinhold Martin's work productively connects debates on architectural culture to fundamental questions related to the political economy of city-building, urbanism, and urbanization. His ideas are at once philosophically grounded, historically nuanced, spatially attuned, and political."—Neil Brenner, Harvard University"The Urban Apparatus offers a brilliant meditation on the new realities and experiences of the city in a fluid and rapidly changing global situation. Reinhold Martin explores an extraordinarily diverse set of objects in ways that are illuminating, original, and often deeply moving—all of which take on special urgency in our current national and geo-political climates."—Phillip E. Wegner, University of FloridaTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Urban Apparatus 1. City, Country, World 2. Financial Imaginaries 3. The Thing About Cities 4. Public and Common(s) 5. Horizons of Thought 6. Polis = Oikos 7. Notes of the Housing Question 8. Broken Windows 9. Beijing in Detroit 10. Infrastructure and Mediapolitics Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhen the Pioneer Press Building opened its doors in 1889, it was news. The twelve-story skyscraper, the tallest at the time in the heart of St. Paul—featuring the first glass elevator in the country—merited a forty-page special edition of the Pioneer Press, whose editors modestly proclaimed it “the greatest newspaper building mother earth carries.” A year later, another architectural monument, the Endicott Complex—which wraps around the Pioneer Building—opened its doors. Designed by rising St. Paul architect Cass Gilbert, the Endicott included two office buildings linked by a one-story L-shaped shopping arcade crowned by a stained-glass ceiling. Journalist and architectural historian Larry Millett tells the story of these two icons of downtown St. Paul from conception through numerous alterations to their present incarnation as vibrant cultural and living spaces in the city’s center. He describes how the Pioneer came to be designed by noted Chicago architect Solon Beman, who in 1910 added four floors to create a sixteen-story light court that remains one of Minnesota’s great architectural spaces. Millett also describes Gilbert’s meticulous work in designing the Endicott complex, which was inspired by the Renaissance palaces of Florence. Gilbert would later go on to produce such masterpieces as the Minnesota State Capitol and the Woolworth Building in New York. As entertaining as it is edifying, Heart of St. Paul combines architectural history with the rich human story behind two buildings that have played a prominent role in the life of the city for over a century. The book includes an introduction by Kristin Makholm, Director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art, which has found a new home in the buildings. Trade Review"If a building’s famous for its height or style, someone may tell its tale. If a building’s lucky, it gets Larry Millett. The Pioneer Endicott at 4th and Roberts streets in St. Paul is lucky."—Star Tribune"Millett explores more than the history and architecture of this St.Paul landmark, telling the human stories behind the buildings, from the architects to the tenants to the elevator operators."—Midwest Home

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Book SynopsisShows how the intersection of biotech, art, and architecture are transforming the world we live in As living matter becomes more and more the domain of art and architecture, the life sciences are enabling a major cultural and aesthetic transformation. Vital Forms explores how the intersection of biology, art, and architecture has transformed these disciplines, offering heretofore unimagined possibilities.Using numerous case studies, Jennifer Johung explores how art and architecture are reimagining life on cellular and subcellular levels. In the process, she maps the constantly evolving dependencies that exist between objects, bodies, and environments. From Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr’s Tissue Culture and Art Project, which developed “semi-living worry dolls,” to Patricia Piccinini’s imagined Still Life with Stem Cells, each chapter pairs a branch of contemporary biological inquiry with the artists who are revolutionizing it.Examining cutting-edge developments in biotechnological research—including tissue-engineering, stem cell science, regenerative medicine, and more—Vital Forms brings biological art and architecture into critical dialogue. Distinguished by its broad range and Johung’s synthesizing talents, Vital Forms makes powerful observations about how the unfolding dependencies between all kinds of matter are becoming vital to life in our age of biotechnological manipulations.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the “savage mind”—a way of thinking they associated with a racialized subaltern. In Savage Mind to Savage Machine, Ginger Nolan uncovers an enduring relationship between “the savage” and the development of technology and its wide-ranging impact on society, including in the fields of architecture and urbanism, the industrial arts, and digital design.Nolan focuses on the relationship between the applied arts and the structuralist social sciences, proposing that the late-nineteenth-century rise of Freudian psychology, ethnology, and structuralist linguistics offered innovations and new opportunities in studying human cognition. She looks at institutions ranging from the Public Industrial Arts School of Philadelphia and the Weimar Bauhaus to the MIT Media Lab and the Centre Mondial Informatique, revealing a persistent theme of twentieth-century design: to supplant language with more subliminal, aesthetic modes of communication, thereby inculcating a deep intimacy between human habit and new technologies of production, communication, and consumption.This book’s ultimate critique is of the development of the ergonomics of the spirit—the design of the human cognitive apparatus in relation to new aesthetic technologies. Nolan sees these ergonomics as a means of depoliticizing societies through aesthetic technologies intended to seamlessly integrate humans into the programs of capitalist modernity. Revising key modernist design narratives, Savage Mind to Savage Machine provides a deep historical foundation for understanding our contemporary world.Trade Review"Savage Mind to Savage Machine is a breathtakingly ambitious discussion of ‘savage thought’ in modern architecture and design—ambitious methodologically, in its move from reductive versions of contextualization towards an epistemology of interdisciplinary aporias, displacements, and contradictions; ambitious historiographically, in its reconstruction of modern architecture as conceptual and political project; and, perhaps most compellingly of all, ambitious in its enmeshment of methodology and historiography towards an entirely new reading of the relation of modern architecture to its supposedly ‘savage’ counterparts."—Andrew Herscher, University of Michigan"Well-illustrated and persuasively argued, the book mixes historiography and complex theoretical analysis, detecting subtle interplays between design and governance over a long durée. "—Journal of Design History

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Book SynopsisAn examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the “savage mind”—a way of thinking they associated with a racialized subaltern. In Savage Mind to Savage Machine, Ginger Nolan uncovers an enduring relationship between “the savage” and the development of technology and its wide-ranging impact on society, including in the fields of architecture and urbanism, the industrial arts, and digital design.Nolan focuses on the relationship between the applied arts and the structuralist social sciences, proposing that the late-nineteenth-century rise of Freudian psychology, ethnology, and structuralist linguistics offered innovations and new opportunities in studying human cognition. She looks at institutions ranging from the Public Industrial Arts School of Philadelphia and the Weimar Bauhaus to the MIT Media Lab and the Centre Mondial Informatique, revealing a persistent theme of twentieth-century design: to supplant language with more subliminal, aesthetic modes of communication, thereby inculcating a deep intimacy between human habit and new technologies of production, communication, and consumption.This book’s ultimate critique is of the development of the ergonomics of the spirit—the design of the human cognitive apparatus in relation to new aesthetic technologies. Nolan sees these ergonomics as a means of depoliticizing societies through aesthetic technologies intended to seamlessly integrate humans into the programs of capitalist modernity. Revising key modernist design narratives, Savage Mind to Savage Machine provides a deep historical foundation for understanding our contemporary world.Trade Review"Savage Mind to Savage Machine is a breathtakingly ambitious discussion of ‘savage thought’ in modern architecture and design—ambitious methodologically, in its move from reductive versions of contextualization towards an epistemology of interdisciplinary aporias, displacements, and contradictions; ambitious historiographically, in its reconstruction of modern architecture as conceptual and political project; and, perhaps most compellingly of all, ambitious in its enmeshment of methodology and historiography towards an entirely new reading of the relation of modern architecture to its supposedly ‘savage’ counterparts."—Andrew Herscher, University of Michigan"Well-illustrated and persuasively argued, the book mixes historiography and complex theoretical analysis, detecting subtle interplays between design and governance over a long durée. "—Journal of Design History

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Book SynopsisSeeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyondThe Common Camp underscores the role of the camp as a spatial instrument employed for reshaping, controlling, and struggling over specific territories and populations. Focusing on the geopolitical complexity of Israel–Palestine and the dramatic changes it has experienced during the past century, this book explores the region’s extensive networks of camps and their existence as both a tool of colonial power and a makeshift space of resistance. Examining various forms of camps devised by and for Zionist settlers, Palestinian refugees, asylum seekers, and other groups, Irit Katz demonstrates how the camp serves as a common thread in shaping lands and lives of subjects from across the political spectrum. Analyzing the architectural and political evolution of the camp as a modern instrument engaged by colonial and national powers (as well as those opposing them), Katz offers a unique perspective on the dynamics of Israel–Palestine, highlighting how spatial transience has become permanent in the ongoing story of this contested territory. The Common Camp presents a novel approach to the concept of the camp, detailing its varied history as an apparatus used for population containment and territorial expansion as well as a space of everyday life and subversive political action. Bringing together a broad range of historical and ethnographic materials within the context of this singular yet versatile entity, the book locates the camp at the core of modern societies and how they change and transform. Trade Review"The Common Camp is truly original and deeply researched. It is a brilliant study that is bound to become a classic read for anyone wishing to understand the camp in all its various manifestations and shifts in power relations between those entrapped and encamped and those external to its borders."—Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford"The Common Camp is a great book, both theoretically and historically, and likely to become a foundational reference. It provides a substantial advance on theorizations of the camp, developing from and critiquing Agamben’s work. The rich discussion of the history and politics of Israel–Palestine is an analysis through the camp as much as of the camp, which opens some valuable and much-needed perspective."—Stuart Elden, author of The Early FoucaultTable of ContentsGlossaryIntroduction: The Common Camp1. The Camp Reconfigured: Modernity’s Versatile Architecture of Power2. Facilitating Double Colonialism: British and Zionist Camps in Mandatory Palestine3. Gathering, Absorbing, and Reordering the Diaspora: Immigrant and Transit Camps of Israel’s Early Statehood4. Forced Pioneering: Settling Israel’s Frontiers5. Unrecognized Order: The Imposed Camp-ness of the Negev/Naqab Bedouin6. Camping, Decamping, Encamping: Palestinian Refugee and Protest Camps and Israeli Settler Camps in the Occupied Territories 7. In the Desert Penal Colony: Holot Detention Camp for African Asylum SeekersConclusion, or Toward an Ever-Emerging Theory of the CampAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function Object-oriented ontology has become increasingly popular among architectural theorists and practitioners in recent years. Architecture and Objects, the first book on architecture by the founder of object-oriented ontology (OOO), deepens the exchange between architecture and philosophy, providing a new roadmap to OOO’s influence on the language and practice of contemporary architecture and offering new conceptions of the relationship between form and function. Graham Harman opens with a critique of Heidegger, Derrida, and Deleuze, the three philosophers whose ideas have left the deepest imprint on the field, highlighting the limits of their thinking for architecture. Instead, Harman contends, architecture can employ OOO to reconsider traditional notions of form and function that emphasize their relational characteristics—form with a building’s visual style, function with its stated purpose—and constrain architecture’s possibilities through literalism. Harman challenges these understandings by proposing de-relationalized versions of both (zero-form and zero-function) that together provide a convincing rejoinder to Immanuel Kant’s dismissal of architecture as “impure.”Through critical engagement with the writings of Peter Eisenman and fresh assessments of buildings by Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid, Architecture and Objects forwards a bold vision of architecture. Overcoming the difficult task of “zeroing” function, Harman concludes, would place architecture at the forefront of a necessary revitalization of exhausted aesthetic paradigms.Trade Review"Graham Harman’s Architecture and Objects could very well be a new philosophical blueprint for how to build our emerging twenty-first century world. By reconsidering the relationship between humanity, reality, and the built environment, he shows us, like a UV light at a crime scene, ways of understanding architecture that we’d never even considered but that are now, all of a sudden, glowing with brilliant potential."—Mark Foster Gage, Yale University, and principal of Mark Foster Gage ArchitectsTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Architects and Their Philosophers2. I Know Not What3. Object-Orientation4. The Aesthetic Centrality of Architecture5. The Architectural CellConcluding MaximsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may—or may not—be changing how we think about them. Antoine Picon argues that materiality is not only about matter and that the silence and inscrutability—the otherness—of raw materials work against humanity’s need to live in a meaningful world. He describes how people define who they are, in part, through their specific physical experience of architectural materials and spaces. Indeed, Picon asserts, the entire paradox of the architectural discipline consists in its desire to render matter expressive to human beings. Through a retrospective review of canonical moments in Western European architecture, Picon offers an original perspective on the ways materiality has varied throughout centuries, demonstrating how experiences of the physical world have changed in relation to the evolution of human subjectivity. Ultimately, Picon concludes that computer-based design methods are not an abrupt departure from previous architectural traditions but rather a new way for architects to control material resources. The result reinforces the fundamentally humanistic nature of architectural endeavor with an increasing sense of design freedom and a release from material constraint in the digital era.Trade Review"Thanks to his immense knowledge of building technologies, along with the acute observations of contemporary practice made over the years, Antoine Picon has carved a masterful synthesis on the very substance of architecture. From ancient vestiges to current designs, the meaning of materials in designs and buildings is dissected in this dense, inspired volume. A must-read for students, scholars, and professionals alike."—Jean-Louis Cohen, author of The Future of Architecture Since 1889: A Worldwide History"This rich and synthetic book rethinks four centuries of Western architectural discourse, arguing that materiality is not a raw essence, nor a state of being, but a branch of technological thinking. In six brisk chapters, Antoine Picon wonderfully combines lucid explanations of architects’ technical processes with insights on their cultural motives. The main takeaway—and it is a brilliant one—is that materials in architecture have ultimately served as a kind of linguistic referent. A needed corrective to recent claims of dematerialization, and a highly rewarding read."—Lucia Allais, author of Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century

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Book SynopsisExamines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization The current epoch is one of accumulation: not only of capital but also of raw, often unruly material, from plastic in the ocean and carbon in the atmosphere to people, buildings, and cities. Alongside this material growth, image-making practices embedded within the fields of art and architecture have proven to be fertile, mobile, and capacious. Images of accumulation help open up the climate to cultural inquiry and political mobilization and have formed a cultural infrastructure focused on the relationships between humans, other species, and their environments.The essays in Accumulation address this cultural infrastructure and the methodological challenges of its analysis. They offer a response to the relative invisibility of the climate now seen as material manifestations of social behavior. Contributors outline opportunities and ambitions of visual scholarship as a means to encounter the challenges emergent in the current moment: how can climate become visible, culturally and politically? Knowledge of climatic instability can change collective behavior and offer other trajectories, counteraccumulations that draw the present into a different, more livable, future.Contributors: Emily Apter, New York U; Hans Baumann; Amanda Boeztkes, U of Guelph; Dominic Boyer, Rice U; Lindsay Bremner, U of Westminster; Nerea Calvillo, U of Warwick; Beth Cullen, U of Westminster; T. J. Demos, U of California, Santa Cruz; Jeff Diamanti, U of Amsterdam; Jennifer Ferng, U of Sydney; Jennifer Gabrys, U of Cambridge; Ian Gray, U of California, Los Angeles; Gökçe Günel, Rice U; Orit Halpern, Concordia U; Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford U; Cymene Howe, Rice U; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser U; Robin Kelsey, Harvard U; Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, Paris; Hannah le Roux, U of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Stephanie LeMenager, U of Oregon; Nashin Mahtani; Kiel Moe, McGill U; Karen Pinkus, Cornell U; Stephanie Wakefield, Life U; McKenzie Wark, The New School; Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary U of London.

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Book SynopsisExamines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed Prompted by a growing number of refugees and other displaced people, intersections of design and humanitarianism are proliferating. From the IKEA Foundation’s Better Shelter to Airbnb’s Open Homes program, the consumer economy has engaged the global refugee crisis with seemingly new tactics that normalize an institutionally sanctioned politics of evasion. Exploring “the global shelter imaginary,” this book charts the ways shelter functions as a form of rightless relief that expels recognition of the rights of the displaced and advances political paradoxes of displacement itself.

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Book SynopsisA radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With its provocative proposal for “the construction of disability,” this book fundamentally reconsiders how we conceive of and experience disability in our world. Stressing the connection between architectural form and the capacities of the human body, David Gissen demonstrates how disability haunts the history and practice of architecture. Examining various historic sites, landscape designs, and urban spaces, he deconstructs the prevailing functionalist approach to accommodating disabled people in architecture and instead asserts that physical capacity is essential to the conception of all designed space. By recontextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, The Architecture of Disability presents a unique challenge to current modes of architectural practice, theory, and education. Envisioning an architectural design that fully integrates disabled persons into its production, it advocates for looking beyond traditional notions of accessibility and shows how certain incapacities can offer us the means to positively reimagine the roots of architecture.Trade Review "This book is an urgent and exhilarating manifesto that calls for nothing less than a complete rethinking of architecture. Rather than insisting that architectural forms need to be adjusted to accommodate a greater diversity of impairments, it uses diversities of physical, mental, social, and collective capacities to unlock new ways to conceive of architecture, model it, design it, describe it, represent it, theorize it, and write histories about it. The fictional singular, athletic, male, young, healthy, undamaged, untraumatized, white body at the center of normative architectural discourse finally gives way to a permanently complex philosophical and political agency reshaping the way buildings are thought."—Beatriz Colomina, author of X-Ray Architecture "The Architecture of Disability takes a historically rich, theoretically informed route beyond disability access as a functional problem in architecture (and one often poorly resolved). Reading familiar sites such as the Parthenon alongside lesser-known landscapes of walking, rolling, and embodied presence, David Gissen centers disabled perspectives—including his own—to reveal new theoretical avenues to and poetic journeys through the built world."—Bess Williamson, author of Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design "By placing disability at the heart of the built environment, Gissen provides a radical critique of architecture while conceiving of a new way of experiencing disability."—Metropolis "This book builds on Gissen’s transformative contributions to the discipline with a combination of erudition and accessibility."—Constructs, Yale Architecture "Part manifesto and part memoir, Gissen’s book upends centuries’ worth of dogmatic thinking in architecture by inserting ‘impaired’ and ‘disabled’ bodies into focus, an overdue act, as they have been excluded by the Western canon with very few exceptions to date."—The Architect’s Newspaper "Gissen brings a nuanced critique of the design professions."—The Globe and Mail "It is rare to read a book that relates as deeply to the way you have both lived and thought for the length of your life as this one does for me—and even rarer that it helps you imagine the future of your own thought, too. . . In The Architecture of Disability, author, designer, and educator David Gissen manages to dismantle and reconstruct the world through the combined strength of his own experience and a critical perspective on the material world and its many under acknowledged histories."—Jordan Whitewood-Neal, Winterthur Portfolio "The Architecture of Disability is a poignant call to arms to address the omnipresence of ableism across a broad spectrum of environments."—Architectural Record "The Architecture of Disability uses the lens of disability to reevaluate received architectural histories and speculate on a more inclusive architectural environment, one divested from the inherited biases around function and form."—The New York Review of Architecture "Designers at all scales can take in this slim volume as a set of concepts for reinvigorating their work by productive defamiliarization. For practitioners, Gissen offers ways to see differently, to think differently, and therefore to practice differently."—Landscape Architecture Magazine "Gissen’s thoughtful engagement with theory and history alike clearly demonstrates deficits in the field, outlining how ableism bleeds into just about every practice and principle."—H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisChronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations, one in Buffalo, the other in Detroit. These once-noble sites have since fallen from their towering grace. As local elected leaders did everything they could to destroy what was left of these places, citizens saw beauty and utility in these industrial ruins and felt compelled to act. Postindustrial DIY tells their stories. The culmination of more than a dozen years of on-the-ground investigation, ethnography, and historical analysis, author and urbanist Daniel Campo immerses the reader in this postindustrial landscape, weaving the perspectives of dozens of DIY protagonists as well as architects, planners, and preservationists. Working without capital, expertise, and sometimes permission in a milieu dominated by powerful political and economic interests, these do-it-yourself actors are driven by passion and a sense of civic duty rather than by profit or political expediency. They have craftily remade these sites into collective preservation projects and democratic grounds for arts and culture, environmental engagement, regional celebrations, itinerant play, and in-the-moment constructions. Their projects are generating excitement about the prospect of Rust Belt life, even as they often remain invisible to the uninformed passerby and fall short of professional preservation or environmental reclamation standards. Demonstrating that there is no such thing as a site that is “too far gone” to save or reuse, Postindustrial DIY is rich with case studies that demonstrate how great architecture is not simply for the elites or the wealthy. The citizen preservationists and urbanists described in this book offer looser, more playful, and often more publicly satisfying alternatives to the development practices that have transformed iconic sites into expensive real estate or a clean slate for the next profitable endeavor. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, historic preservation, city planning, and landscape architecture, Postindustrial DIY suggests new ways to engage, adapt, and preserve architecturally compelling sites and bottom-up strategies for Rust Belt revival.Table of ContentsPrologue: A Postindustrial View from the Northeast Corridor | 3 1. Recovering Postindustrial Places | 25 2. Buffalo’s Central Terminal | 63 3. Silo City | 119 4. The Carrie Blast Furnaces | 177 5. The Packard Automotive Factory | 231 6. Michigan Central Station | 295 7. The Beginning or End of Postindustrial DIY? | 361 Acknowledgments | 383 Notes | 385 Index | 419

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Book SynopsisTurfgrass Soil Fertility and Chemical Problems is the best single-source, practical management tool that will help you overcome every fertility management challenge you face! Turfgrass Soil Fertility and Chemical problems will: * Help you pinpoint the effectiveness of fertilizer programs to ensure turfgrass quality, water quality, and environmental integrity * Help you understand a multitude of turfgrass species and cultivars and their complex nutrient responses or requirements * Explains site-specific fertilization, covering issues such as establishment on poor quality soils and the use of low-quality irrigation water * Show you how fertilization is important for environmental, traffic, and stress tolerance, as well as recovery * Show you how to apply the interpretation of soil, tissue, and water-quality test information in the development of fertilization regimesTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Soil and Soil Related Problems 3 2. Plant Nutrition 13 3. Enhancing Turfgrass Nutrient-Use Efficiency 33 Part II: Soil Chemical Properties and Problems 4. Cation Exchange Capacity 45 5. Soil pH Concepts and Acidity Problems 67 6. Alkaline Soil pH Problems 89 7. Basics of Salt-Affected Soils 103 8. Management of Salt-Affected Sites 131 9. Assessing Chemical/Nutrient Status 159 10. Nitrogen 177 11. Phosphorus 201 12. Potassium 211 13. Calcium, Magnesium, and Sulfur 227 14. Micronutrients and Other Elements 245 15. Biochemical Aspects and Amendments 269 16. Unique Soil Problems (Waterlogged, Pollutants, Organic) 285 Part III: Fertilizers and Fertilization 17. Turfgrass Fertilizers 197 18. Factors in Selecting a Fertilizer 325 19. Developing Fertilizer Programs 339 Appendixes Appendix A: Units of Measure 369 Appendix B: Common Fertilizer Calculations 373 Appendix C: Symbols and Atomic Weights of Selected Elements 379 Appendix D: Symbols and Valences of Selected Cations and Anions 381 Appendix E: Commonly Used Acronyms 383 Appendix F: Sieve Designation 385 Index 387

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Book SynopsisThis is an intelligent and superbly illustrated reevaluation of the seminal architectural manifesto Learning from Las Vegas. Learning from Las Vegas - published in 1972 by the American architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour - marks the turn in architectural theory from modern to postmodern. Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror explores the significance of this controversial publication by situating it in the artistic, architectural, and urbanist discourse of the 1960s and '70s, and by evaluating the book's enduring influence of visual studies and architectural research. Referencing cinematic visuals, Learning from Las Vegas documented a sprawling postwar city from a moving car. Stierli examines this methodology against a background of contemporary pop and conceptual art, allowing him to assess the impact of this architectural manifesto and why it remains relevant today.

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Book SynopsisIn the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities-Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima-as it examines sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture, photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from the Getty Research Institute's vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities' changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more. It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s, provided fertile ground for the emergence of today's Latin American megalapolis.Trade Review"The authors shed light on the transformations that modified the colonial model of Iberian cities in America, from Mexico to Argentina, displacing the axis of viceregal power toward a circuit of cities that were able to expand and gather international prestige during the republican period. The book includes an unusual repertoire of topics in the field of research of history at the early stages of modernity in Latin America."-Gabriela Rangel, artistic director, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); "The Metropolis in Latin America is an excellent survey featuring the city's key role in the conformation of the social and political order of the newly born republics, with enlightening essays that discuss a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches. A magnificent iconographic collection shows how Latin American urban development challenged Western architecture's aesthetic canons, became an accurate laboratory for the newly constituted discipline of urbanism, and shaped the structure of its own image and identity, as we can see today."-Horacio Torrent, professor of architecture, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de ChileTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Idurre Alonso, Maristella Casciato Chronology ALBUM_ Capital Cities 1-The Emergence of Latin American Capital Cities in the Nineteenth Century German Rodrigo Mejia Pavony 2-Exile and Return from Paradise in the City of the Future: Order, Nature, and Society in the Latin American Metropolis Jorge F. Rivas Perez ALBUM_ Colonial Cities and National Heroes 3-From Postcolonial Cities to the First Latin American Metropolises, 1850-1930 Arturo Almandoz 4-Dominated Nature in the Construction of the Latin American Urban Landscape Sonia Berjman ALBUM_ Avenues, Parks, Theaters, and Vacation 5-The Visible and the Invisible: The Photographic Image of the Latin American Metropolis (1840-1930) Idurre Alonso 6-Visions of Mobility: Early Cinema in the Latin American Metropolis David M. J. Wood ALBUM_ Infrastructures 7-Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires: Plans and Projects for the Formation of the Metropolis Maria Cristina da Silva Leme 8-The Resurgence of the Ancient Past: Mexico City in the Age of Modern Technologies Cristobal Jacome-Moreno 9-Americanizing the Metropolis. Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Reinterpretations in the Search for a New Art Rodrigo Gutierrez Vinuales ALBUM_ Expositions and Literature 10-Architects and Urban Planners, Voyages from Europe to Latin America Maristella Casciato ALBUM_ Toward Modernism Archival Sources Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA rich and playful resource for fostering creativity in the classroom The product of over three decades of teaching design studios and creativity seminars primarily at the University of Washington, Cultivating Creativity offers firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of encouraging creative expression in the classroom. In this lively book, course instructors will find a wealth of creativity-awakening exercises and strategies that can be adapted to suit a variety of disciplines. More than a practical guide, this book uses a combination of playful design, full-color illustrations, participant reflections, and pedagogical reflection to encourage innovation. Readers can turn to the “Who, What, Where, How, and Why” chapters for guidance on developing exercises of their own, or flip to any page for a dose of inspiration before their next creative project. Today’s world is filled with nations, businesses, venture capitalists, and institutions of higher education in hot pursuit of “innovation.” Cultivating Creativity offers up new strategies for finding it and invites each reader to continue their search in a way only they can.Trade Review"Cultivating Creativity takes us on a deep dive into the power of creative thinking (and making). Through a collection of provocative exercises, Iain Robertson presents what he calls a “why-to manual” that makes the case for risk-taking and thinking outside the box to unlock the inner abilities of students, designers, and citizens." -- Jeff Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington"In this generous book, Iain shares his conviction that the work of cultivating creativity lies in unearthing and nourishing it, rather than teaching it. He invites readers to close their eyes and spin around just once so when they open their eyes, they might again see the world as the vast and strange place it is." -- Tammy Tasker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Educational Studies Department, University of Michigan"For any educator concerned with the “life” education of their students, I highly recommend they read, emulate, and, as Iain had hoped, elaborate on the content of this book. Iain and his colleagues have achieved what they set out to do: inspire, encourage, and provide an approach for all educators to help their students uncover their creative potential." -- John Koepke, Professor of Design, University of Minnesota"Cultivating Creativity may show us where the crux lies with discovery learning. The hidden potential of discovery lies in opening up the mind; in cherishing the path, not the goal; and finally, in playing." -- Rolf Reber, Professor of Psychology, University of Oslo"Iain’s work offers an ecosystem to experience and explore, not a path to follow. This book will resonate with anyone interested in harnessing the human capacity to create and to do so reflectively, joyfully, and ethically with an eye toward human flourishing as the most important goal of education." -- Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, University of Michigan, Professor, Learning Sciences & Technology and Combined Program in Education & Psychology

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Book SynopsisAs Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date 1800 and illustrate Boston’s early history. This is the first book to survey Boston’s fifty oldest buildings and does so through an approachable narrative which will appeal to nonarchitects and those new to historic preservation. Beginning with a map of the buildings’ locations and an overview of the historic preservation movement in Boston, the book looks at the fifty buildings in order from oldest to most ­recent. Geographically, the majority of the buildings are located within the downtown area of Boston along the Freedom Trail and within easy walking distance from the core of the city. This makes the book an ideal guide for tourists, and residents of the city will also find it interesting as it includes numerous properties in the surrounding neighborhoods. The buildings span multiple uses from homes to churches and warehouses to restaurants. Each chapter features a building, a narrative focusing on its historical significance, and the efforts made to preserve it over time. Full ­color photos and historical drawings illustrate each building and area. Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them presents the ideals of historic preservation in an approachable and easy­-to-­read manner appropriate for the broadest audience. Perfect for history lovers, architectural enthusiasts, and tourists alike. Trade ReviewWon * Boston Preservation Alliance Preservation Achievement Award *"As Boston's city archaeologist, Joe Bagley knows more about the Olde Towne's historic structures than do most people. He shares that knowledge... This however, is not a book about architecture - as Bagley says in his introduction, 'it is about Bostonians... and what makes Boston, Boston.'" * AAA Explorer *"Bagley is wry and witty . . . demonstrating superior deductive skills and rousing the public to see the value of their past around them." * New Boston Post, for "A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts" *"City archaeologist Joseph Bagley has a special way of bringing Boston's evolution to life. In A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts Bagley delivers a tangible take on our past through a collection of stunning portraits of things that have been unearthed here." * Boston Magazine, for "A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts" *"The author's engaging writing style keeps the pages turning. Recommended." * Choice, for "A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts" *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments, Preface, 1. Blake House 1661, 2. Paul Revere House c.1680, 3. Pierce House 1683, 4. Lemuel Clap House c. 1710, 5. Pierce-Hichborn House c. 1711, 6. Ebenezer Clough House c. 1711, 7. Old State House 1713, 8. Boston Light Station 1716, 9. Union Oyster House c. 1716, 10. Ebenezer Smith House c. 1716, 11. Kimball-Cheever House c. 1716, 12. Old Corner Bookstore 1718, 13. Old North Church 1723, 14. Daniels-Goldsmith House c. 1725, 15. Andrew Cunningham House 1728, 16. Old South Meeting House 1729, 17. Grant House c. 1734, 18. Faneuil Hall 1742, 19. Shirley-Eustis House 1746, 20. Thomas Gardner House c. 1747, 21. King's Chapel 1750, 22. Dillaway-Thomas House 1752, 23. Linden Hall 1755, 24. Loring-Greenough House 1760, 25. Benjamin Faneuil Gatekeeper's House c. 1761, 26. Gardiner Building 1763, 27. Ebenezer Hancock House 1767, 28. Charles Tileston House c. 1770, 29. Joseph Royall House c. 1770, 30. Clapp-Field House c.1772, 31. Warren Tavern c. 1780, 32. Spooner-Lambert House 1782, 33. Bicknell House c. 1785, 34. Glapion-Middleton House c. 1786, 35. Fowler-Clark-Epstein Farm c. 1786, 36. Elijah Jones House c. 1786, 37. George Haynes House 1788, 38. Brighton First Church Parsonage c. 1790, 39. Bond-Glover House c. 1790, 40. Kilton-Beal House c. 1790, 41. Calvin Bird House c. 1790, 42. Caroline Capen House c. 1790, 43. Deacon John Larkin House c. 1790, 44. John Hurd House c. 1790, 45. Memorial Hall 1791, 46. Thompson House c. 1794, 47. Timothy Thompson House c. 1794, 48. William Wiley House c. 1794, 49. Daniel Carter House c. 1794, 50. Salem Turnpike Hotel c. 1794, Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to Salem’s architecture, now available in a new edition. Salem, Massachusetts is home to one of the largest extant collections of historical architecture in the entire nation. In this long-awaited new edition, noted architectural historian Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., presents an illustrated guide and walking tour covering more than three centuries of building styles and types. The book discusses over 350 buildings and complexes, with individual entries and photographs of nearly 230 structures. The material has been arranged according to eight tour districts, each accompanied by an introduction and a map. A joy for the avid walker and arm-chair enthusiast alike, this book is an essential guide to the architecture of Salem from the early seventeenth century through the Georgian, Federal, Victorian, modern, and contemporary periods. Updated with new maps; color illustrations; a preface by Lynda Roscoe Hartigen, executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum; and a foreword by Steven Mallory, manager of historic structures and landscapes at the Peabody Essex Museum.Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceMaps of Tour DistrictsIntroductionList of SymbolsA. Salem CommonB. Derby StreetC. City CenterD. Upper Federal and Upper Essex StreetsE. Chestnut and Broad StreetsF. South SalemG. North SalemH. Outlying BuildingsBibliographyAppendix I: Buildings Open to the PublicAppendix II: Buildings Listed by NameGeneral Index

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Book SynopsisVictorian churches were often of high quality, reflecting in physical terms the intense theological debates of the time. This highly-illustrated book by a leading authority describes many of the finest examples. Many churches were built in England during the reign of Queen Victoria: most were in various varieties of Gothic Revival. Often exquisitely furnished, they were visible expressions of the presence and importance of religion at the time. Their architectural qualities reflected aspirations of clergy, laity, and individual benefactors. The finest were the results of passionate commitment to an architecture soundly based on scholarly studies known as Ecclesiology. James Stevens Curl places English churches of the period in their complex social and denominational settings, giving comprehensive accounts of the religious atmosphere and controversies of the times. He charts the progress and development of the Gothic Revival, explains differences in the architecture of various denominations, outlines the influences of the chief protagonists involved, and describes the demands made on craftsmen and industry to produce the materials, furnishings, and fittings necessary in making some of the finest buildings ever created in England. He reveals something of the individuals and events that shaped the religious climate of the epoch, while specially commissioned illustrations reveal the rich variety found in Victorian churches.Trade ReviewBeautifully illustrated study that makes a valuable contribution to the recognition of Catholic churches. -- Elena Curti * THE TABLET *[The book] can be read as a work of scholarship; one that spans two distinct but related disciplines, namely Victorian church architecture and nineteenth-century ecclesiology. As an authoritative survey and critique of the finest examples of nineteenth-century English church building, it would be difficult to better. -- Graham Cunningham * Journal of Victorian Culture *A very full and eloquent guide ... The architectural theories are clearly set in the developing ideas-aesthetic and ecclesiastical-of the time. -- Selby Whittingham * THE JACKDAW *Illustrated with large numbers of excellent colour images, it sets churches of the period in historical context and crosses the denominational divides that so often obscure an overall understanding of what was going on. It is a timely reminder of the extraordinary riches of English church buildings. -- John Goodall * COUNTRY LIFE *We should be grateful that Professor Curl and John Hudson Publishing have produced such an attractive book between them. -- Michael Hodges * Catholic Herald *Curl has produced the best study to date of Victorian church architecture and has been well served by his publisher: the book is a model of clear and elegant design, well served by a high standard of production. -- Kenneth Powell * New Directions *Curl is as expert in dealing with the doctrinal traditions...... Curl's knowledge is breath-taking.... Curl has strong views and doesn't pull punches.... -- Bernard Richards * Oxford Magazine *This is an enriching read, replete with a full glossary (including pocket essays on "Gothic" and "Gothic Revival") and excellent illustrations. It's worth singling out the physical qualities of this book, too. In an age in which limp and drear print-on-demand books become ever more common, this carefully designed and well-made volume is a pleasure. -- Roger Bowdler * The Critic *the book is a magnificent sweep of the history of one of the great ages of church-building -- Jeremy Musson * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY *Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Foreword - Rev Barry A Orford 1 - An Introduction to Denominations and Victorian Churches 2 - Architecture, Antiquarianism, and Styles 3 - The Religious Atmosphere in the 1830s and 1840s 4 - Recusants, Goths, Converts, Ultramontanes, and Controversies 5 - The Anglican Revival 6 - The Search for an Ideal 7 - Church Architecture of the 1850s, 1860s, and early 1870s 8 - The Late-Victorian Anglican Church in Several Manifestations 9 - Non-Anglican Buildings for Religious Observance 10 - Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book explores, discusses, and considers new and innovative perspectives on the crossings, interactions, and transformations of non-formal, informal learning, and formal learning within or prior to FADS and Internship. The contributions provide a wider perspective on the alternating Final Architectural Design Studios and Internship programs as interfaces and interaction zones among different learning experiences that lead to professional and intellectual qualification.Table of ContentsIntroduction xiiiNur ÇAĞLAR and Irene G. CURULLI Editors and Contributors xxiii Part 1. Practices in the Formal Institutions that Cope with the Rapid Pace of Change 1 Chapter 1. Towards a New Interaction Between Educational Processes and Practices: Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome 3Anna Maria GIOVENALE, Spartaco PARIS and Roberto BIANCHI 1.1. Framework of reference: between crisis of the figure of the architect and the need for innovation 4 1.2. Newly integrated skills and knowledge for technical training in the field of architecture and of construction engineering 5 1.3. A new opportunity for training and the profession: managing the processes of building design and construction 6 1.4. The new training project and relationship with the professions 10 1.5. References 12 Chapter 2. Continuity in Architectural Education: A Driving Force or a Burden to Creativity? 13Deniz İNCEDAYI, Burcu Selcen COŞKUN and İkbal Ece POSTALCI 2.1. Introduction 13 2.2. A conventional education method: Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Department of Architecture 15 2.3. Towards a more inclusive approach 20 2.4. Conclusion 22 2.5. References 23 Chapter 3. From the Experiences in the Iberian Peninsula to California 25Pedro Ressano GARCIA 3.1. Introduction 25 3.2. The Iberian schools – Porto, Lisbon and Barcelona 26 3.3. Passing by the University of California 26 3.4. Early teaching 28 3.5. References 28 Chapter 4. Project Domain: A Formalist Exercise in the Education of Architects 31Krunoslav IVANIŠIN 4.1. The Crystal Palace 31 4.2. The practice and the education of architecture 36 4.3. The sequence 37 4.4. References 42 Chapter 5. Towards a New Studio Culture: Changing Minds, Transforming Education 45Ozan Önder ÖZENER and Mehmet Ümit METERELLIYÖZ 5.1. Introduction 45 5.2. Thoughts and views on studio culture 47 5.3. Influencers of studio culture 49 5.4. Studio culture and informal learning 50 5.5. Suggestions 53 5.6. Conclusion 54 5.7. References 54 Chapter 6. Climatic Heterotopias or the Obscure Element of Architectural Creation: Introducing a Tangible Alternative Pedagogy within a Global Climate Regime 57Lazaros MAVROMATIDIS 6.1. Architectural consciousness and pedagogy 57 6.2. Tarrying with multiple imaginaries 59 6.3. Climate change, normative abstract idealisms, constructal thermodynamics and sustainable spatiality 61 6.4. Climatic heterotopias 64 6.5. Once upon a sustainable architectural space 66 6.6. References 67 Chapter 7. A Threshold In-between Education and Profession: The Final Architectural Design Studio 69Işıl RUHİ SİPAHİOĞLU and Aslı ALANLI 7.1. Introduction 69 7.2. The survey of FADSs across European architecture schools 71 7.2.1. Methodology 72 7.2.2. Objectives of FADSs 76 7.2.3. The duration of FADSs 79 7.2.4. Supervision models 80 7.2.5. Enrollment criteria 81 7.2.6. The appointment of tutors 82 7.2.7. Topic/theme determination 83 7.2.8. Student position 85 7.2.9. Co-requisite courses along FADSs 85 7.2.10. Assessment methods 86 7.2.11. Appointment of jury members 90 7.3. Challenges in the final studio 92 7.3.1. Major challenges faced by students 92 7.3.2. Major challenges faced by teaching staff 93 7.3.3. Strong aspects of the FADS 94 7.4. Conclusion 96 7.5. Acknowledgements 97 7.6. References 97 Chapter 8. Final Diploma Project as a Key into the Architect’s Profession 99Zbigniew Władysław PASZKOWSKI and Anna PAZDUR-CZARNOWSKA 8.1. Architecture and urban planning in the Polish educational system 99 8.2. Integrating and disintegrating trends in the scientific discipline: “architecture and urban planning” 100 8.3. Architecture curriculum in Poland according to the Bologna System 101 8.4. First-degree studies (engineer studies) 102 8.4.1. General requirements 102 8.4.2. Content and effects of education 102 8.4.3. Other requirements 106 8.4.4. Graduate qualifications of first-degree studies (engineer studies) 106 8.5. Second-degree studies 107 8.5.1. General requirements 107 8.5.2. Content and educational effects of the courses 107 8.5.3. Other requirements 108 8.5.4. Graduate qualifications of the second-degree studies (Master studies) 108 8.6. Demands and expected outcomes of the Final Diploma Project (FDP) in architecture and urban planning in Poland 109 8.7. FDP as a key to professional work in architectural and urban planning studios 110 8.8. Discussion on the expectations of the job market and those of the young absolvents of architecture 112 8.9. Benchmarking system for international comparison of professional preparation of absolvents of architecture and urban planning 114 8.10. Conclusion 115 8.11. Appendix 1. The list of Polish state universities and private high education schools with Architecture and Urban Planning 116 8.12. References 117 Chapter 9. Designing a Relevant Answer to One’s Own Question: Assessing the Diploma Studio at the Zagreb Faculty of Architecture 119Mia ROTH-ČERINA 9.1. Introduction 120 9.2. Developing the Zagreb Faculty of Architecture’s curricular profile 120 9.3. Extracurricular workshops: exploring motives 121 9.3.1. Social agency: learning spaces in transition workshop 122 9.3.2. Empathy through immersion: mountaineers’ shelter workshop 122 9.3.3. Designing meaning: AF/SC workshop 123 9.4. Testing alertness: the diploma studio in Zagreb 124 9.5. Conclusion 126 9.6. References 127 Chapter 10. Designerly Ways of Understanding Research Capabilities of Architectural Design and Studio 129Zelal ÖZTOPRAK and Nur ÇAĞLAR 10.1. Architectural design studio as a research platform 129 10.2. Intricacy of intellectual and actual sources of design experience 131 10.3. Structured improvisation 133 10.4. Emergence of difference through repetition 134 10.5. For example, TOBB ETU Final Architectural Design Studio 135 10.5.1. Manifesto 140 10.5.2. Network strategy 142 10.5.3. Studio Book 142 10.6. Conclusion 143 10.7. Acknowledgements 143 10.8. References 143 Chapter 11. Theory and Practice of Bookmaking: An Experiment in Architectural Design Education 145Selda BANCI 11.1. Introduction 146 11.2. Book 147 11.3. Making 152 11.4. Conclusion 155 11.5. Acknowledgements 158 11.6. References 158 Chapter 12. Formal Supersedes Non-formal: Comparative Analyses of European and Japanese Architectural Design Education 161Larisa ČIŠIĆ 12.1. Introduction 162 12.2. Methods 162 12.3. Results 162 12.3.1. Final Architectural Design Studio (FADS) 162 12.3.2. Studio/preparation 163 12.3.3. Studio/conduct 164 12.3.4. Studio/assessment 164 12.3.5. Studio/general 165 12.4. Conclusion 165 12.5. References 166 Part 2. Non-formal and Informal Learning Environments 167 Chapter 13. A Tangible Approach to the Alternative Teaching Education 169Dimitra BABALIS 13.1. Introduction 169 13.2. A review of education and skills for a sustainable educational design. 170 13.3. Expansion in education interest in ecological and sustainable urban design 172 13.4. The Erasmus Intensive Programs (IPs) experience at the University of Florence 173 13.5. Intensive Programs (IPs)/Design Workshops (DWs) educational structure 174 13.6. The Florence IP/DW description 177 13.7. Conclusion 179 13.8. References 180 Chapter 14. Social Networks and Architecture: Possible Benefits for Design Education? 183Akin Tolga İLTER 14.1. Introduction 183 14.2. Using social media for design studio education 185 14.3. Case studies 186 14.3.1. Case study I: design blog 186 14.3.2. Case study II: social network 189 14.3.3. Case study III: “Insta Company” 191 14.4. Conclusion 194 14.5. References 195 Chapter 15. Architectural Education and the Politics of Architect–Client Relationships: A Case Study from Jordan 197Ahlam HARAHSHEH 15.1. Introduction 197 15.2. Current pedagogy in selected architectural departments in Jordan 199 15.3. Importance of communication skills in architectural education 201 15.4. Training after graduation 204 15.5. Conclusion 205 15.6. References 206 Chapter 16. Outer Studio: Learning from the Students 209Çağda TÜRKMEN 16.1. Architectural design education in Turkey 209 16.2. Initiatives of students: architecture, design and education 211 16.2.1. Baykuşlar Toplanıyor (Izmir, 2010–2013) 212 16.2.2. Yer_denyüksek (Istanbul, 2013–2015) 213 16.2.3. Bademlik Tasarım Festivali (Eskişehir, 2013–) 213 16.2.4. Ulusal Mimarlık Öğrencileri Buluşması (UMÖB) 215 16.3. This will not kill that 217 16.4. References 219 Chapter 17. An International Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Architectural Education Experience: Atelier Européen 221Elif MIHÇIOĞLU 17.1. Introduction 222 17.2. Flexibility in formal–informal integrated architectural education and interdisciplinary collaborations 222 17.3. The case of Atelier Européen 223 17.3.1. Structure, objectives, content and methods 224 17.3.2. Stages of the studio process 225 17.3.3. Previous studio projects 225 17.4. Evaluation 231 17.5. Conclusion 231 17.6. Acknowledgements 232 17.7. References 232 Chapter 18. A School of One’s Own: Reporting from the Students’ Front 235İkbal Ece POSTALCI, Burcu Selcen COŞKUN and Işıl RUHİ SİPAHİOĞLU 18.1. Introduction 235 18.2. The Flexible School 237 18.3. The Architect of the Future 238 18.4. Travelling School 240 18.5. BACKYARD 241 18.6. Own Kind of Architect 244 18.7. Conclusion 246 18.8. References 247 List of Authors 249 Index 253

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Book SynopsisNumber One Poultry, London EC2R 8EJ, was a commission awarded by Peter Palumbo to James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates in May 1985. Designed from July 1985 onwards, it was completed in 1998. In 2016 it was listed grade II* and it is currently the youngest ever listed building in England. This book records the conversations between One Poultry and those involved with it over its controversial lifetime: Peter Palumbo, developer and patron; Michael Wilford, Stirling’s lifetime working partner; Laurence Bain, Number One Poultry project architect; Peter Rees, the City of London Planning Officer at the time; and Charles Jencks, architectural historian and theoretician of Post-Modernism. The book includes original, unpublished sketches and drawings of the building from conception to realisation, documentation that explains the value of its architecture and a selection of letters sent by distinguished individuals to the City of London Planning Office to protest against threatened, heavy alterations that anticipated the listing. One Poultry Speaks, devised and edited by Marco Iuliano, is a collaboration between the University of Liverpool, whence James Stirling graduated in 1950, and the Royal Institute of British Architects, which awarded him its Royal Gold Medal in 1980.Trade ReviewReviews 'Contrary to what James Stirling would have wanted, One Poultry has become one of the most distinguished examples of post-modernist architecture anywhere in the world. The first part of this book is a series of interviews in which Iuliano plays the role of the building, and the principal actors speak ‘to’ it. That sounds odd, but draws a great deal out of them. Then come images of many fine drawings and models, and an account of the listing. Every postmodern enthusiast should have this.' Timothy Brittain-CatlinTable of Contentsprefaceconversationsalbumcorrespondencelistingcircling the square

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Book SynopsisUrban Mobility Systems in the World provides insight into the geographical organization of urban mobility systems around the world. These "systems" consist of infrastructure networks, existing transport services and people's travel practices. Adopting a comparative approach, the book highlights the geographical diversity of mobility systems, based on case studies from Africa, North and South America, Asia and Europe. This multi-disciplinary book is organized into twelve chapters, divided into four parts. The first part gives an overview of urban mobility, and then examines the factors that determine everyday mobility in cities, revealing different travel practices among populations (poor, elderly and children). Parts 2 and 3, respectively, focus on urban public transport (trains, metros, minibuses) and active modes of transport (walking, cycling), and the related infrastructure policies. The final section examines the circulation of urban mobility analysis tools and public policy models.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diversity and Evolution of Urban Mobility Systems xiii Gaële LESTEVEN Part 1 Urban Mobility and Socio-Economic Characteristics 1 Chapter 1 Getting Around the City: Overview of Urban Mobility Around the World 3 Gaële LESTEVEN 1.1 Describing urban mobility systems 3 1.1.1 Definitions 3 1.1.2 Population growth and urban transition 5 1.1.3 Mobility and urban forms 6 1.1.4 Social trends 8 1.2 Observing urban mobility 9 1.2.1 Household equipment and personal mobility 9 1.2.2 A diversity of modal share 10 1.3 Modes of transport: areas of relevance, urban planning and local policies 13 1.3.1 The predominance of private cars 13 1.3.2 High urban density and public transport 15 1.3.3 Active transport in the heart of the city 17 1.4 Conclusion 18 1.5 References 19 Chapter 2 Unevenly Distributed Mobility, Spotlight on Brazil 23 Benjamin MOTTE-BAUMVOL 2.1 Introduction 23 2.2 Income and access to the automobile, main determinants of low mobility 24 2.2.1 Decreasing inequalities of motorization 24 2.2.2 Decoupling of motorization and automotive mobility 25 2.2.3 Automobile dependency as a source of inequalities 26 2.3 Low mobility as a source of exclusion 27 2.4 The effects of accessibility and low densities 28 2.5 Room for maneuver with respect to transport poverty 29 2.6 In Brazil, increased inequality and transport poverty? 32 2.6.1 Low mobility, a question of measurement? 32 2.6.2 With motorization, inequalities in mobility increase 33 2.6.3 Slow public transport 34 2.6.4 Geographical confinement 35 2.6.5 Highly mobile poor neighborhoods 36 2.7 Conclusion 37 2.8 References 37 Chapter 3 Going Out Without Getting By? Mobility and Poverty in Dakar 45 Lourdes DIAZ OLVERA, Didier PLAT and Pascal POCHET 3.1 Field and tools 46 3.2 Who are the poor? 48 3.3 A specific mobility in situations of poverty 50 3.3.1 Essential mobility 50 3.3.2 Costly mobility 51 3.3.3 Local mobility 53 3.4 Going to study: degraded conditions of access to institutions 55 3.5 Shopping for food: a little further, a little less easy 57 3.6 Living in the outskirts, working in the neighborhood instead of downtown Dakar 59 3.7 Restricted access to the city 62 3.8 Conclusion 63 3.9 References 64 Chapter 4 Children’s Mobility: Comparative Perspectives Between France and Quebec 67 Sylvanie GODILLON 4.1 Introduction 67 4.2 Children as mainly passengers in individual motorized modes 68 4.2.1 School as structuring family organization 68 4.2.2 The predominance of motorized modes for getting to school 69 4.2.3 Walking and cycling, modes used less and less 71 4.3 Important health, safety and environmental issues 71 4.3.1 Physical inactivity impacts children’s health 71 4.3.2 Parental fears of accidents and assaults 72 4.3.3 A difficult but necessary change faced with climate issues 74 4.4 Actions to encourage modal change for daily mobility 74 4.4.1 Organizing accompaniment of children on foot 75 4.4.2 Pedestrianizing the streets around schools 76 4.4.3 Developing children’s cycling skills 77 4.5 Conclusion 78 4.6 References 78 Part 2 Urban Public Transport 83 Chapter 5 Mobility, Public Transportation and Super-Aging in Japan 85 Sophie BUHNIK 5.1 Introduction: Japan or the efficiency of urban transport faced with super-aging 85 5.2 Geographies of super-aging in Japan and their influence on public transport networks and daily mobilities 88 5.2.1 The deepening depopulation of Japan’s peripheries 88 5.2.2 An aging of suburban fringes reinforced by changes in residential preferences 90 5.3 The influence of passengers’ sociodemographic characteristics and location on transportation reconfigurations 93 5.3.1 Changes in rail traffic: key figures and explanations 93 5.3.2 Unpacking the factors behind the rise in motorization rates in aging and shrinking Japan 96 5.4 Seniors’ exposure to urban decline and the changing role of station neighborhoods in aging agglomerations 97 5.4.1 Attachment to station neighborhoods tested by the decline in rail traffic and commercial devitalization 97 5.4.2 Between automobile dependence and new places of sociability for senior suburban households 99 5.4.3 Questioning the present and future strategies of railway companies 101 5.5 Maintaining accessibility in aging cities and regions: transport policies at the crossroads of care and local autonomy 103 5.5.1 Integration of public and private actors in compact city policies 104 5.5.2 Institutionalization of volunteering to curb the shrinkage of transport 107 5.6 Conclusion 108 5.7 References 109 Chapter 6 From Calcutta to Delhi and Hyderabad: Genealogy of Indian Metros 113 Bérénice BON 6.1 Introduction 113 6.2 The first metro in Calcutta: jewel for rail engineers, burden for urban policies 114 6.2.1 The birth of the Calcutta metro: emerging urban transport policies across India 115 6.2.2 The Calcutta metro, jewel of railway engineers 118 6.3 Construction of a political and technical model around the Delhi metro 119 6.3.1 Delhi, capital of India and center of experimentation for major urban projects 120 6.3.2 National sectoral reforms, a favorable context for metros at local level 122 6.3.3 Building a metro but also a political and technical model 123 6.4 Private firms and regional states: counterweights to the Delhi metro model 126 6.4.1 The controversial arrangements of the Hyderabad metro 127 6.4.2 Mumbai’s hybrid model 129 6.5 Conclusion 131 6.6 References 132 Chapter 7 Non-Centralized Urban Transport: An Illustration Based on the Case of Jakarta 135 Rémi DESMOULIÈRE 7.1 Introduction 135 7.2 Words and things: terminological issues 137 7.2.1 Paratransit, a functional approach 137 7.2.2 Informal transport and artisanal transport: from the socioeconomic to the political 140 7.2.3 Centralization, decentralization and non-centralization 142 7.3 Operating and controlling non-centralized transport 143 7.3.1 Fragmented structures of operation 143 7.3.2 The ambivalent role of public authorities 145 7.3.3 Intermediary organizations: popular companies or cartels? 147 7.4 What place for non-centralized transport in contemporary metropolises? 149 7.4.1 “Gearboxes for metropolization?” Questions of flexibility and adaptability 149 7.4.2 Integration of non-centralized transport: experiences and sticking points 152 7.5 Conclusion 153 7.6 References 154 Part 3 Active Modes of Transport and Infrastructure Policies 157 Chapter 8 The Infrastructure of Walking: The Case of Mexico City Sidewalks 159 Ruth PÉREZ LÓPEZ, Jérôme MONNET and Guénola CAPRON 8.1 Introduction: sidewalks, a special element of urban pedestrian infrastructure 159 8.2 In Mexico City, the place of walking in the mobility system reflects social inequalities 161 8.3 The social and material production of sidewalks: methodology 165 8.4 The diversity of sidewalk functions 166 8.5 Competition and conflict between sidewalk uses 169 8.6 From uses to actors’ games: the production of a negotiated order 172 8.7 Conclusion: Towards inclusive and adaptive sidewalk layouts? 176 8.8 References 177 Chapter 9 Cycling Policies in Europe: The Case of Greater Lyon and Hamburg 181 Manon ESKENAZI 9.1 Introduction 181 9.2 Cycling infrastructure at the heart of cycling policies 183 9.3 Hamburg: cycling planning to support the development of practices 184 9.3.1 Integrating cycling into the urban strategy of the sustainable city: the carrot-without-the-stick approach 185 9.3.2 Cycling infrastructure at the heart of cycling strategy 187 9.3.3 Cycling services to build intermodality 189 9.4 Greater Lyon: relaunching practice through policies, a missed bet? 191 9.4.1 A cycling policy of plans 191 9.4.2 Infrastructure and services as the pillars of public cycling action 194 9.5 Conclusion 197 9.6 References 199 Part 4 Circulation of Urban Mobility Analysis Tools and Public Policy Models 203 Chapter 10 Categorical Pitfalls for Analyzing Urban Mobility 205 Hadrien COMMENGES and Florent LE NÉCHET 10.1 Introduction 205 10.2 Which type of data for analyzing urban mobility? 207 10.2.1 Typology of mobility data 207 10.2.2 From local surveys to attempts at international harmonization 211 10.3 Which objects describe mobility? 213 10.3.1 The trip 213 10.3.2 The mode of transport 215 10.3.3 The city 218 10.4 Categorical pitfalls: balancing diversity and comparability 223 10.4.1 The category of transport: modes and purposes for travel 224 10.4.2 Temporal categories: the typical working day 227 10.4.3 The spatial category: local urban systems 228 10.4.4 Categories reconstructed for harmonization: ad hoc mechanisms 231 10.5 Discussion 233 10.6 References 234 Chapter 11 Geographical Inequalities in the Analysis of Urban Mobility 243 Florent LE NÉCHET 11.1 Introduction 243 11.2 Analysis of the implementation of CEREMA-type surveys in France 245 11.3 Size effects and context effects explaining why an HTS is carried out 248 11.4 Bibliometric analysis of research on urban mobility 251 11.5 Global heterogeneity of urban mobility analysis 253 11.6 Thematic specializations revealing issues for local action on mobility 257 11.7 Discussion 259 11.8 References 260 Chapter 12 Circulation of Models in Africa: The Example of Bus Rapid Transit in Cape Town 265 Solène BAFFI 12.1 Introduction 265 12.2 The diffusion of BRT in Africa 266 12.2.1 Diffusion of an efficient transport model as a planning and urban planning tool 266 12.2.2 Stakeholders supporting this model 268 12.2.3 Limits of the circulation of the model in Africa 270 12.3 South Africa, laboratory for urban mobility projects 272 12.3.1 A long-awaited reform 272 12.3.2 BRT: symbol of post-apartheid South Africa 275 12.3.3 The Capetonian version of the BRT project: MyCiti 276 12.4 Between strong appropriation and poor adaptation, MyCiti’s mixed record 279 12.4.1 An international model reappropriated to assert local power 279 12.4.2 A project ill-suited to South African specificities 280 12.4.3 Feedback effects at different levels 282 12.5 Conclusion 284 12.6 References 285 List of Authors 291 Index 293

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Book SynopsisStates have long been active in commissioning architecture, which affords one way to embed political projects within socially meaningful cultural forms. Such state-led architecture is often designed not only to house the activities of government, but also to reflect political-economic shifts and to chime with a variety of ‘internal’ and ‘external’ publics as part of wider discourses of belonging. From the vantage point of sociology, this context necessitates critical engagement with the role of leading architects’ designs and discourses relative to politicized identity projects. Focusing on the mobilization of architecture in periods of social change, The Sociology of Architecture uses critical sociological frameworks to assess the distinctive force added to political projects by architects and their work. Through engagement with a range of illustrative examples from contested contemporary and historical architectural projects, Paul Jones analyses some of the ways in which architects have sought to position their architecture relative to state projects and wider publics. A central objective of the book is to situate major architectural projects as a research agenda for sociologists and others interested in the relationship between power, culture, and collective identities. Adopting a critical approach to such questions, The Sociology of Architecture frames architecture as a field of contestation over symbolic and material resources, which in turn provides an entry point for questioning the inextricably political ways in which collective identities are constructed, maintained and mobilized.Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Architecture, Power and Identities: Surveying the Field 2. The Public Discourse of Architecture: Sociolizing Identities 3. Architecture and the Nation: Building an 'Us' 4. Modernity and Mega-Events: Archhtecturing a Future 5. Architecture and Commemoration: The Construction of Memorialization 6. Iconic Architecture and Regeneration: The Forum is the Function 7. 'European' Architecture: Politics in Search of Form and Meaning 8. Conclusion: Sociology, Architecture and the Politics of Building Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor more than 200 years, and especially since the rediscovery of ancient Egypt by Europe in the 19th century, the exotic Egyptian style in architecture has been a sign of our fascination with a civilisation that has had a long-lasting and deep-seated influence on British culture. From its fashionable success in the Regency period to its varied uses in the 20th century, Egyptian-style architecture has much to say about what ancient Egypt represents to us. Egypt in England is the first detailed guide to the use of the Egyptian style in architecture and interiors in England, and to those that survive, most of which can be seen or visited by the public. Fully illustrated, it combines a series of topic essays giving the architectural and Egyptological background to the use of the style with a guide allowing sites to be located, and explaining what can still be seen. A variety of buildings and monuments – from cinema, supermarket, synagogue and factory, to folly, mill, Masonic temple and mausoleum – are highlighted in the book. For those who don't know their architrave from their entablature, or their Anubis from their Uraeus, there are also glossaries of architectural terms and ancient Egyptian deities. This engaging book is an accessible and practical guide for a general audience, but has enough depth to be useful to scholars in a range of subject areas. Trade Review'This user-friendly publication should please both curious newcomers who want to explore the quirkier aspects of their local history, and those more familiar with Egyptology who want a handy reference book to dip into.'Current Archaeology'an intriguing trot, gloriously illustrated, through two centuries of eccentric revivalist architecture.'The Times'This is a most interestingly comprehensive yet individualistic compendium-cum-guidebook on a prerennially fascinating subject.'Edward Chaney, The Victorian'This book meets well the needs of the non-specialist cultural tourist who wishes to learn something of the background to Egyptianising buildings while an enthusiast for the legacy of ancient Egypt would need to be a great specialist indeed not to find some fresh visits to pay, or fresh issues to consider.'John Tait, Egyptian Archaeology... it is a very good read and the colour photography is outstanding.Ancient Monuments Society NewsletterIn short, this ia an interesting and reliable volume which should prove a useful reference book for architectural or landscape historians but which also offers much of interest to other readers.Kate Spence, Landscape HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Section one: Understanding Egypt in England 1. Architecture: Imhotep in England 2. Cemeteries: Catacombs and cornices 3. Cinemas: The splendour of Luxor 4. Egyptiana: Silver gilt services to sewing machines 5. Egyptology: From antiquary to Egyptologist 6. Freemasonry: Wisdom from the east and the Pharaoh’s apron 7. Hieroglyphs: Writings of priests, words of the gods Section two: Finding Egypt in England 8. London 9. South East 10. South West 11. East of England 12. East Midlands 13. West Midlands 14. Yorkshire and The Humber 15. North West Architectural Glossary Glossary of Egyptian gods and goddesses

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Book SynopsisVictorian Turkish Baths is the first book to bring to light the hidden history of a fascinating institution – the 600-plus dry hot air baths that sprang up across Ireland, Britain and beyond, in the 19th century. Malcolm Shifrin traces the bath’s Irish-Roman antecedents, looking at how its origins were influenced by the combination of physician Richard Barter’s hydropathic expertise, and idiosyncratic diplomat David Urquhart’s passion for the hammams of the Middle East. The book reveals how working-class members of a network of political pressure groups built more than 30 of the first Turkish baths in England. It explores the architecture, technology and sociology of the Victorian Turkish bath, examining everything from business and advertising to sex–real and imagined. This book offers a wealth of wondrous detail – from the baths used to treat sick horses to those for first-class passengers on the Titanic. Victorian Turkish Baths will appeal to those interested in Victorian social history, architecture, social attitudes to leisure, early public health campaigns, pressure groups, gendered spaces and much else besides. The book is complemented by the author’s widely respected website victorianturkishbath.org, where readers can find a treasure trove of further information. Trade ReviewRetired librarian, Malcolm Shifrin has here produced a book that is unrivalled in most of its architectural insights and social understanding. It's a really good read ... * Newsletter, Winter-Spring 2016 (01/2016) *... Malcolm's coverage of the subject is comprehensive ... -- Graham Hudson * The Ephemerist 172, Spring 2016 *Malcolm Shifrin's Victorian Turkish Baths, an absorbing, scholarly and generously illustrated book, is also an elegy for an almost vanished piece of our social history and architectural heritage. -- Peter Parker * RIBA Friends of Architecture, April 2016 *... his book is so appealing to the eye and so full of fascinating information that those with a more general interest in the Victorian period, or even the simply curious, will also find it a pleasure to read. -- Jaqueline Banerjee * The Victorian Web, Cercles *Given his acknowledged expertise on the subject of Turkish Baths, ... it is no surprise that Malcolm Shifrin has produced an excellent text ... -- Dave Day * Social History *Malcolm Shifrin's magisterial and frequently surprising book charts the rise and fall of the Victorian Turkish bath movement ... Only a handful of Turkish baths survive in their original form and use. A whole world has been lost, but Malcolm Shifrin is to be commended for bringing it back to vivid life. -- Michael Scammell, South Downs National Park Authority * IHBC, Context 144: May 2016 *... a major act of historical recovery; it is also a true labour of love ... a sumptuous and delightful book, a tribute to Historic England who produced the volume ... Alas, very few Turkish baths remain today. Shifrin is the pre-eminent historian and archaeologist of this phenomenon. The Turkish bath endures at least through his pages. -- Rohan McWilliam * Journal of Victorian Culture *... the amount of information about the buildings and the processes within them is remarkable, the bibliography is extensive, and the glossary and four separate indices for people, places, users, and subjects are helpful. -- Timothy Brittain-Catlin * Landscape History, Vol 37, Issue 2, 2016 *Shifrin is very thorough in his examination of the economics and personalities of the Turkish Bath business, but it is in his appreciation of the architecture of these baths that he excels ... It is one of the many virtues of this study that so many delightful photographs are provided ... Shifrin leave no stone unturned in his examination of all available sources, literary and archival. -- Alistair J. Durie, University of Stirling * Industrial Archaeology Review, 38, 2, 146-147, November 2016 *Table of Contents1. Background to the Victorian Turkish bath 2. Early history of the Victorian Turkish bath 3. Problems and attitudes 4. Victorian Turkish baths for all 5. The world of the bather 6. Victorian Turkish baths in the 21st century

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Book SynopsisBritain’s tiny Jewish community (about 263,000 people) is the oldest non-Christian minority in the country. In 1656 Jews returned to England after an absence of nearly 400 years and the Jewish community has enjoyed a history of continuous settlement in England since 1656, a record unmatched anywhere else in Europe. Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland celebrates in full colour the undiscovered heritage of Anglo-Jewry. First published in 2006, it remains the only comprehensive guide to historic synagogues and sites in the British Isles, based on an authoritative survey carried out with the support of English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The guide is simple to use, covering more than 300 sites, organised on a region-by-region basis. Each section highlights major Jewish landmarks, ranging from Britain’s oldest synagogue, Bevis Marks Synagogue in the City of London, through the Georgian gems of the West Country to the splendid High Victorian “cathedral synagogues” of Birmingham, Brighton, Liverpool and Glasgow. Relics of Anglo-Jewry’s medieval past are explored in York, Lincoln and Norwich, and venerable burial grounds with Hebrew inscriptions are found in the unlikeliest of places. Curious oddities are not to be missed, including a 19th-century private penthouse synagogue in Brighton and an Egyptian-style Mikveh [ritual bath] in Canterbury. The new edition has been completely revised and features many new images including, for the first time, of sites in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The easy-to-follow heritage trails around former Jewish quarters in the major cities have been updated and full postcodes are now given for SatNav users. Trade Review... it packs in a surprising amount of material for its size. -- Julian Treuherz * Context 143, March 2016 *This updated and amended guidebook is essential reading for anyone wishing to visit Jewish sites in Britain and Ireland and is interested in the history and topography of the Jewish community. ... This updated guide creates a unique and important source of information on the heritage of the Jewish community. ... this revised guide should be on the book shelves of every Jewish home and all students of Jewish history in Britain and Ireland. -- Ken Marks * Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, Volume 60, March 16 *This new volume has extended, deepened and widened the original through new research and investigation, and what we have now is a comprehensive, extensively illustrated geographical survey by the UK's expert in the field. ... Densely packed yet portable, this volume certainly deserves a place among all your other architectural guides, on the shelf or in the car. -- Judith Leigh * SPAB, Suumer 2016 *Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition Donors’ Page for the First Edition Acknowledgements for the First Edition Introduction Notes for Visitors Maps LONDON The City and the East End East and North London Essex West London North-West London South London SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND Kent The Medway Surrey Hertfordshire THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND Sussex Dorset Hampshire The Channel Islands THE WEST COUNTRY Devon Cornwall Bristol and Somerset Gloucestershire LINCOLN AND EAST ANGLIA Lincoln `Jews’ Houses in East Anglia Post-Resettlement Jewish Sites in East Anglia THE MIDLANDS Birmingham and the West Midlands The East Midlands NORTH-WEST ENGLAND Liverpool Manchester The Rest of the North-West The Isle of Man YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE Bradford, Leeds and West Yorkshire South Yorkshire York Humberside NORTH-EAST ENGLAND Tyneside County Durham Teeside WALES South Wales The Welsh Valleys SCOTLAND Glasgow and Clydeside Edinburgh Dundee and Aberdeen The Highlands and Islands IRELAND Northern Ireland The Irish Republic Glossary Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940 was a key event of the Second World War and in the growth of public consciousness of the destructive power of warfare. The medieval city, already undergoing rapid change, was largely destroyed on that night. The destruction was seen as an opportunity by some including the then City Architect, Donald Gibson. The result was the first of the master plans for post-war redevelopment of Britain’s bombed city centres. The redevelopment of Coventry city centre to plans by Gibson and his successors provided an intensely urban and civilised centre, embodying new planning principles. Post-war Coventry was hugely influential and Gibson’s ideas helped to shape the rebuilding of other city centres, the post-war new towns and developments in Europe. Despite incremental change in the subsequent decades the planning and architecture of Gibson’s city centre are still clearly legible. The modern demands of a growing city on its centre are now very different from those of the post-war years. Coventry needs to grow and plan for its future and change will inevitably affect the city centre. This book aims to inform the public and decision makers of the significance of Coventry, and especially its centre, so that change can be managed in ways that will continue the life, use and enjoyment of the best of Coventry’s remarkable post-war heritage. Trade Review'The Goulds’ sensitive analysis of the city within this exemplary book aims to inform the public and decision makers of Coventry’s significance, so that the best of its remarkable post-war heritage can survive.' Context, the Journal of the Institute of Historic Building ConservationTable of Contents1. The City in the 1930s 2. Gibson and the first plans for the City 1939–41 3. Final plans and building the Upper Precinct 1941–55 4. Ling and the city centre 1955–64 5. Gregory and the completion of the Plan 1964–73 6. The suburbs 7. The status and influence of Coventry 8. Coventry after 1973

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Book SynopsisAhrends, Burton and Koralek (ABK) was established in London in 1961 by three young AA graduates, Peter Ahrends, Richard Burton and Paul Koralek. By the 1970s, ABK was known as one of the most creative and versatile of Britain’s younger practices, its workload ranging from college buildings in Oxford and Chichester to housing, public libraries, retail and industrial buildings. While influenced by High-tech, their buildings were characterised by a concern for strong form and materiality. Major projects of the 1980s included stations for the Docklands Light Railway and the pioneering St Mary’s Hospital on the Isle of Wight, as well as buildings at Hooke Park in Dorset designed in collaboration with Frei Otto. ABK’s victory in the prestigious 1982 competition for an extension to the National Gallery in London reflected the firm’s standing but the scheme was abandoned following a controversial intervention by the Prince of Wales. Written by eminent architectural author and critic, Kenneth Powell, and lavishly illustrated with images from the practice’s archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students, architectural historians and anyone who is interested in learning more about a key practice in British post-war architecture. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on Twentieth Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Origins and Influences 2. Learning and Libraries 3. Housing and some Houses 4. Designing for Commerce 5. The Civic Realm List of Works Bibliography Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisMcMorran & Whitby are a secret presence in post-war British architecture. Led from the late 1950s by Donald McMorran and George Whitby, the practice represented an unbroken development from the monumental inter-war classicism represented by figures such as Charles Holden and Sir Edwin Lutyens. In seeking an alternative path for modern architecture, McMorran & Whitby produced durable buildings with a respect for context, but avoided any accusation of unimaginatively reproducing the past. Theirs was a progressive classicism full of invention and beauty. Being out of fashion, they suffered neglect but their work has increasingly won admirers and many of the buildings are now listed. This book is the first major publication on McMorran & Whitby’s work, with an inspiring combination of contemporary photography and previously unpublished archival material. It is an essential read for architects, students, and historians, not least because it uncovers and celebrates buildings outside the mainstream that we need to understand and cherish. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on 20th Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society.Trade Review'a very readable, well written and instructive book . . . Attractively designed publication with a large number of illustrations.'Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Who Were McMorran & Whitby? 2. The Genesis of the Practice 3. Formative Years 4. Farquharson & McMorran and Post-war Britain 5. Passing the Flame 6. The Swinging Sixties 7. McMorran & Whitby’s Legacy List of Works Obituary: Donald McMorran Obituary: George Whitby Assistants at 14 North Audley Street McMorran & Whitby: Titles and positions held `A Friendship’ Bibliography Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisJohn Madin was the indisputable master of post-war architecture in Birmingham. The work of Madin and his associates had a profound influence on the reshaping of the city after the war, producing some of the most iconic buildings of that period, such as the Birmingham City Library, the Chamber of Commerce and the Post and Mail Building. Trained in the modernist style but too much of a craftsman to abandon decoration entirely, his work is characterised by attention to detail, a preference for natural materials and a desire for decoration and art in his buildings. Many have characterised Madin as a commercial architect, but as the author argues, there was another side to his work. His conservationist approach to the development plan for the Calthorpe Estate, his workman-like master-planning of Dawley, Telford and Corby new towns, his public service commissions, and his design and layout of housing schemes that are still lived-in and popular today, testify to his commitment to human values. Lavishly illustrated with images from Madin’s personal archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students, architectural historians and modernist enthusiasts interested in learning more about a key figure in British post-war architecture. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on Twentieth Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements 1. Madin and his work 2. The Calthorpe Plan 3. Commerce and industry 4. New places 5. Building for leisure 6. Civic pride Postscript List of Works Bibliography Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisLeonard Manasseh was an `architect’s architect’, greatly admired by his contemporaries both on a personal and professional level. He came to prominence at the Festival of Britain and went on to be one of the leading British architects of the 1960s, designing private houses and offices as well as major public commissions. Timothy Brittain-Catlin, architect and architectural historian at the University of Kent, describes how the work of Leonard Manasseh and Partners expresses one of the central themes of the 1950s and 1960s – the apparent conflict between the architect as creative artist on one hand, and as rational technologist and scientist on the other. Leonard Manasseh and his partner Ian Baker were lauded for producing modernist designs that were in keeping with their historical settings or landscapes. Examples include industrial buildings in rural settings, a study for King’s Lynn, undertaken with architect-planner Elizabeth Chesterton, and the project that is most commonly associated with the practice, the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Lavishly illustrated with images from Manasseh’s private archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students and enthusiasts for modernism wanting to learn more about a key practice in British post-war architecture. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on Twentieth Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and the Twentieth Century Society.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Foundations 2. Parterre 3. Piano Nobile 4. Loggia 5. Cornice 6. Skyline List of Works Bibliography Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisIn Extremis is a cartography of contemporary global architecture, focusing upon the close relationship between different building types and the landscapes in which they are situated, illuminating the resonances and contrasts, continuities and discontinuities between new work and the natural or urban environment. With essays by Alessio Assonitis, Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Palaasma, Dimitri Philippidis, Jeannette Plaut, Jilly Traganou.

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