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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) (W)Ego: Tailor-Made Housing
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Spacematrix. Revised Edition! Space, Density and
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) How to Build an Indian House
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Nai010 Publishers The Global Turn
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Participate! Portraits Of Cities And Citizens In
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Imagination And Participation - Next Step In
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Serious Fun: Architecture & Games
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Patchwork Iba Parkstad
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Power of Landscape: Novel Narratives to Engage
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) City Without Fear of Heights: The Development of
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Distributed Art Pub Play
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Leuven University Press States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and
Book SynopsisMore than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from battle. The collection places an emphasis on the various states of emergency as experienced by combatants and civilians across five continents--from refugee camps to military installations, villages to capital cities--thus uncovering the role architecture played in mitigating and exacerbating the everyday tragedy of war. Contributors: Aubrey Knox (The Graduate Center of The City University of New York), Deborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney), Emma Thomas (Boston University), Da Hyung Jeong (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), Julie Willis (The University of Melbourne), Katti Williams (The University of Melbourne), David Caralt (Universidad San Sebastian, Concepcion, Chile), Etien Santiago (Indiana University Bloomington), Theodossis Issaias (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh), Min Kyung Lee (Bryn Mawr College), Massimiliano Savorra (Universita degli studi di Pavia), Antje Senarclens de Grancy (Graz University of Technology)Table of ContentsIntroduction Erin Eckhold Sassin and Sophie Hochhäusl PART ONEInstitutions Repurposed The Regulated Body: The Grand Palais as Military Hospital in World War I Aubrey Knox Lessons of War: Architecture of the East Prussian Reconstruction Effort, 1914–1925 Deborah Ascher Barnstone PART TWOCivilians Reeducated Learning to Play the Great Game: American Children and the First “World” War Emma Paige Thomas The First World War and Nationalist Primitivism in Russian Architecture Da Hyung Jeong International Engagement, International Opportunity: Enlisted Australian Architects and World War I Julie Willis and Katti Williams PART THREERefugees and Citizens ResistWartime Nightscapes Zeppelin Night Bombings as Mass Spectacles, 1914–1929 David Caralt Huts, Houses, and the Industrial Militarization of France, 1914–1917 Etien Santiago Humanitarian Relief and Confinement: The American Red Cross Refugee City in Italy during the First World War Theodossis Issaias PART FOURLandscapes Remade World War I, Aerial Photography and the Emergence of Urbanism in France Min Kyung Lee The “Landscapes” of the Great War: The Role of Italian Engineers and Architects Massimiliano Savorra Camps or Cities: The Urbanism of World War I Refugee Camps in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Antje Senarclens de Grancy About the Editors List of Contributors Index of Names, Locations, and Keywords
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Amsterdam University Press River Cities in Asia: Waterways in Urban
Book SynopsisRiver Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities and the social sciences. As rivers have shaped human settlement patterns, economies, culture and rituals, so too have humans impacted the flow and health of rivers. In Asia, the sheer scale of urbanization increases the urgency of addressing challenges facing urban rivers, leading to the importance of historically, socially, and culturally relevant solutions. However, cities are also uneven landscapes of power, affecting chances to achieve holistic ecological approaches. The central premise of River Cities in Asia is that a “river city” is one where proximity between a river and a city exists across time and space, natural and social dimensions. Recognition of these deep connections can help to better contextualize policy solutions aimed at rivers and their ecologies, including human life.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Captions Acknowledgments Chapter 1. River Cities in Asia: Waterways in Urban Development and History (Rita Padawangi, Paul Rabé, and Adrian Perkasa) Chapter 2. Water World to Inundation: River Cities in Southeast Asia, from Old to New Millenium (Howard Dick) Chapter 3. From the City to the Sea: Riverside Temple Networks in South India (Emma Natalya Stein) Chapter 4. The Political Economy of Banjarmasin’s River Landscape during the Sultanate Period (1526–1860) (Vera D. Damayanti) Chapter 5. Through the Passage and Across the Worlds: The Bridge-and-Temple Complex in the Popular Processions in a ‘Rurban’ Town in Jiangnan Region (Xiaomei Zhao) Chapter 6. Challenges to an Iconic River-City: Contesting Communities, Threatened Heritage and Endangered Ecology in Varanasi (Pralay Kanungo) Chapter 7. River-Edge Relationships: A Comparison of Riversides in Indonesian Cities (Michaela F. Prescott) Chapter 8. Recovering the Stream: River Access as a Catalyst for Political Mobilization in Suwon City, South Korea (Youngah Guahk) Chapter 9. Water’s Edge Urbanisms along the Buckingham Canal in Chennai (Karen Coelho) Chapter 10. The Social Downside of Flood Control: The Case of a Marginalized Community in Taipei (Kuei-Hsien Liao) Chapter 11. Hybrid Riverscapes: Governing River Cities beyond Land and Water Dichotomies—the Yamuna in Delhi, India (Alexander Follmann) Index
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Amsterdam University Press Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces
Book SynopsisGentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification, super-gentrification, and planetary gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities in response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven discourses of the creative city, smart city, millennial city, and sustainable city. In this context, how do contemporary creative practices in art, architecture, and related fields help to produce or resist gentrification? What does gentrification look and feel like in specific sites and communities around the globe, and how is that appearance or feeling implicated in promoting stylized renewal to a privileged public? In what ways do the aesthetics of gentrification express contested conditions of migration and mobility? Addressing these questions, this book examines the relationship between aesthetics and gentrification in contemporary cities from multiple, comparative, global, and transnational perspectives.Trade Review"Aesthetics concerns in urban design often belong to one of two camps. In the first camp, urban aesthetics is reduced to an endorsement of traditional architectural styles and human-scale urban types. [...] In the second camp, urban aesthetics is regarded as a superficial concern, based on opposition between aesthetics and function, between surface and structure. [...] Aesthetics of Gentrification, edited by Christoph Lindner and Gerald F. Sandoval, is a vital source of urban designers who do not belong in either of the two camps and recognize that both approaches end up solidifying existing socio-economic arrangements and racialized imbalances of power. [...] Aesthetics of Gentrification contributes to a different, to a radical understanding of urban aesthetics. In thirteen substantive chapters, a range of superb scholars examine relationships between aesthetics and gentrification from global and transnational perspectives."- Günter Gassner, Journal of Urban Design (2022) "The book brilliantly demonstrates that a focus on aesthetics should be at the core of our understanding of gentrification and displacement forces."- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA "In this powerful collection of essays, editors Christoph Lindner and Gerard Sandoval identify the seduction of gentrification's aesthetics, its power to exclude, and the activism that can change its course."- Karen Chapple, Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley "From the visual politics of street art in Paris, through the location and design of office parks in California, to the gendered spaces created by CCTV cameras in India, this fascinating collection of essays travels through some of the newest spaces and practices of gentrification."- Alison Young, Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology, University of Melbourne "The Aesthetics of Gentrification offers genuinely fresh thinking on a pervasive urban phenomenon, bringing together a diverse and distinctive collection of scholarly voices that push us to think differently about the representation, politics, strategies, and silences of contemporary urban change."- David Madden, Co-Director of the Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: Aesthetics of Gentrification (Christoph Lindner and Gerard F. Sandoval) Part 1: Spaces of Consumption 2. The Forces of Decline and Regeneration: A Discussion of Jane Jacobs and Gentrification (Samuel Zipp, Jennifer Hock, and Nate Storring) 3. Silicon Wafers and Office Park Dreams: Cross-Cultural Designs, Aesthetics, and Art in and around California's Santa Clara Valley (Jenny Lin) 4. Selling Authenticity: The Aesthetics of Design Boutiques in Montreal (Guillaume Sirois) 5. The Import of a Narrative: The Role of Aesthetics and Discursive Elements in Fabricating Change in the Centre of São Paulo (Beatriz Kalichman and Beatriz Rufino) Part 2: Anxiety and Visibility 6. Race, Authenticity, and the Gentrified Aesthetics of Belonging in Washington, D.C. (Brandi Thompson Summers) 7. Art and the Aesthetics of Cultural Gentrification: The Cases of Boyle Heights and Little Tokyo in Los Angeles (Jonathan Jae-an Crisman) 8. In Residence: Witnessing and Gentrification in Susan Silton's Los Angeles (Susanna Newbury) 9. Satellite dishes, a Creative Incubator, and the Displacement of Aesthetics in Amsterdam (Daan Wesselman) Part 3: Agency, Voices, and Activism 10. Boulevard Transition, Hipster Aesthetics, and Anti-Gentrification Struggles in Los Angeles (Jan Lin) 11. Speculative Spaces in Grand Paris: Reading JR in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil (Gillian Jein) 12. On Empty Spaces, Silence, and the Pause (Rebecca Amato) 13. The "Smart Safe City": Gendered Time, Violence, and Displacement in India's Digital Urban Age (Ayona Datta) Index
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Amsterdam University Press Rebuilding Cities and Citizens: Mass Housing in
Book SynopsisIn Vienna after WWI and Berlin after WWII, the provision of mass housing not only was a response to a dire social need but also served as a key lever for building variants of socialism and liberalism. Zooming into the interplay between political ideologies and the production of space, this book shows that ideologies, understood as political beliefs that underpin everyday life, are never simply ‘written’ into space but that their meaning is made and re-made, negotiated and contested, and sometimes cunningly subverted in and through space. How people live was – and continues to be – a profoundly political question that involves negotiations of, and decisions on, norms and ideals of citizenship, freedom, equality, property, democracy, gender, and family life – negotiations and decisions that come with legacies that shape the present.Trade Review"Margaret Haderer's book is a political archeology of housing utopias and impressively shows that there are alternatives to capitalist market logic. Her critical examination of ideologies reminds us that housing is not only determined by 'housing policies', but can be instrumentalized as 'politics of dwelling'." - Dr. Andrej Holm, Housing Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin "A work both of urban history and housing theory, Rebuilding Cities and Citizens explores the making of urban and residential space as a political project. It will become a touchstone for scholars of housing in Vienna and Berlin as well as anyone interested in the relationship between politics, ideology and the city." - David Madden, Associate Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of Contents1 Introduction: The Making and Remaking of Ideologies through Space 2 Municipal Socialism and Housing in Red Vienna (1919–1934) 2.1 Whose City? Appropriating the City, Creating Proletarian Spaces 2.2 For a ‘Slow Revolution’: Austro-Marxist Theory and Housing Policies 2.3 Building for ‘New Men’: Two Approaches to Social Emancipation 2.4 The Lures of the Past in the New Socialist Dwelling Culture 2.5 Red Vienna turning Black 2.6 References 3 Short-Lived Great Berlin: Tabula Rasa and the Reinvention of Nature (1945–1949) 3.1 The Bombing of Cities as ‘History’s Auto-Correction’ 3.2 The Metropolis, a Moloch 3.3 Great Berlin: A New Beginning through Greening the City 3.4 References 4 Divided City I: East Berlin and the Construction of Socialism (1949–1970) 4.1 Back to the Future: ‘Socialism in One Country’ and the ‘Beautiful German City’ 4.2 Constructing Socialism with Taylor, Defending it with Tanks 4.3 ‘Living Better, Dwelling More Beautifully’: Toward a Socialist Dwelling Culture? 4.4 From the Workers’ Palace back to the Dwelling Machine 4.5 Creative Destruction: The Double Legacy of the Platte 4.6 The Allotment Garden as the Platte's Antidote? 4.7 References 5 Divided City II: West Berlin and the Reconstruction of Liberalism (1949–1970) 5.1 Interbau ’57: Proclaiming the City of Tomorrow, Exhibiting the City of Yesterday 5.2 ‘Economic Policies are the Best Social Policies’: West German Ordo-Liberalism 5.3 Standardized Dwelling, Normalized Living 5.4 Spanners in the Works of Dwelling Machines: Two Experiments in Counter-Culture 5.4.1 The Märkische Viertel: Contesting Abstract Space 5.4.2 Kommune 1: From Minimum to Maximum Existence 5.5 References 6 Conclusion and Postcards from the Past 6.1 References 7 References 8 List of Images 9 Index
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Amsterdam University Press Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples
Book SynopsisConstructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples traces the emergence of the South Indian city of Kanchi as a major royal capital and multireligious pilgrimage destination during the era of the Pallava and Chola dynasties (ca. seventh through thirteenth centuries). The book presents the first-ever comprehensive picture of historical Kanchi, locating the city and its more than 100 spectacular Hindu temples at the heart of commercial and artistic exchange that spanned India, Southeast Asia, and China. The author demonstrates that Kanchi was structured with a hidden urban plan, which determined the placement and orientation of temples around a central thoroughfare that was also a burgeoning pilgrimage route. Moving outwards from the city, she shows how the transportation networks, river systems, residential enclaves, and agrarian estates all contributed to the vibrancy of Kanchi’s temple life. The construction and ongoing renovation of temples in and around the city, she concludes, has enabled Kanchi to thrive continuously from at least the eighth century, through the colonial period, and up until the present.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Illustrations Introduction: All Streets Lead to Temples An Ancient City Layers of Time Kanchi Known and Unknown 1 Sandstone and the City: Building Pallava-Kanchi (ca. seventh through ninth century) From Brick to Stone (the Seventh Century) Sandstone Temples in the City (the Eighth Century) The Temples of Pallava-Kanchi Everywhere but Kanchi (the Ninth Century) Conclusion: Foundations Laid 2 Realignment: Kanchi in the Chola Era (ca. tenth through thirteenth century) Orienting the Gods Pilgrimage and Processions From Ancient Village to Temple Town Local Style Conclusion: Urban Logic 3 The City and its Ports Part 1: K.ETRA The River Networks Over the Hills The Coast Part II: K.ATRA Kanchi in a Buddhist World The City and its Mirrors Conclusion: From Kanchi to the Sea 4 Kanchi Under Colonialism: What Happened in Kanchi while those Towering Gateways Arose? Embattled Territory William Daniell’s Most Considerable Temple James Wathen’s Soaring View Henrietta Clive’s 'Hindoo Gods and Monsters' Colonel Colin Mackenzie’s Search for the Jains Surgeon George Russell Dartnell James Fergusson's Downward Spiral Prince Alexis Soltykoff's 'City of Infinite Temples' Conclusion: Plastered Pasts Epilogue: The Living Temple Encounter Expansion Continuation Bibliography Index
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Onomatopee City Archived
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Valiz Binational Urbanism: On the Road to Paradise
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Valiz Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions: Design
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Valiz Flourishing Foodscapes: Design for City-Region
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Valiz Make Your City: The City as a Shell: Ndsm
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Valiz Neighbourhoods for the Future: A Plea for a
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Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Setting the Stage: North Korea
Book SynopsisIn Setting the Stage: North Korea photographer Eddo Hartmann shows the North Korean regime's ambitions to build the ultimate socialist city and to mould the people living in that city to their ideals. Hartmann is one of very few Western photographers who has been allowed almost full access to the country. This publication is the result of many years of research and four visits to Pyongyang. After the total destruction of Pyongyang during the Korean War (1950-53), the government took its chance to rebuild the capital from scratch and to turn it into the perfect setting for their propaganda. Pyongyang was to become the city in which every North Korean could experience true modern socialism. The buildings were to be the utopian background against which the inhabitants could live their daily lives. Pyongyang was to immortalise the socialist revolution. Eddo Hartmann had the exceptional opportunity to photograph this architecture of artificiality. In a series of evocative images, he captures the forced and almost surreal character of North Korean ambition. In a very personal and original style, Hartmann focuses on the individual.
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Onomatopee Consumer Culture Landscapes in Socialist
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Onomatopee Co-Machines: Mobile Disruptive Architecture
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Valiz The City as a System: Metabolic Design for New
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Kapon Editions The Athenian Walk and the Historic Site of Athens
Book SynopsisThis book is a chronicle of visits made to the Acropolis by Greeks and foreigners in the 19th and 20th centuries. It investigates various subjects: How did successive generations of Greek and foreign visitors experience the shrine of the Acropolis? What course did they follow on their way to the monuments? And how far did they respect the ancient access routes? How was the new "Athenian Walk" created, fulfilling an urban-design vision born at the same time as modern Athens in 1833? The book is written in an elegant yet readily understood style, embellished with rare drawings and photographs, reminding us that in life, as in art, the "journey is the end". English language edition. 218 colour illustrations.Table of ContentsC O N T E N T S PREFACE PREAMBLE THE HISTORIC SITE OF ATHENS THE CULTURAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREA OF ATHENS THE CENTRAL AREA AROUND THE ACROPOLIS IN THE 19th CENTURY DESTINIES OF THE HISTORIC LANDSCAPE MODERN BUILDING ACTIVITIES THOMAS MAWSON’S PLAN (1914-1919 CONSTANTIN BIRIS’ PLAN (1946) AGORA EXCAVATIONS AND LANDSCAPING THE “PLAKA” DISTRICT. ATHENS OLD TOWN THE PHOTIADIS’ GROUP PROPOSALS (1979) THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE HISTORIC AREA FUTURE PERSPECTIVES. THE CREATION OF THE CULTURAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK AN OUTLINE OF THE SECTORS OF THE CULTURAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREA THE ACROPOLIS APPROACH. A HISTORIC RETROSPECT A VIRTUAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE ACROPOLIS AND THE CITY THE APPROACH TO THE ACROPOLIS FROM THE CITY. A BRIEF HISTORY THE APPROACH TO THE MONUMENTS FROM NEARBY. THE WORK OF DIMITRIS PIKIONIS (1954-1957) THE ATHENIAN WALK A “LASTING POSSESSION” OF THE CITY NEW MONUMENTAL ACCESS TO THE ACROPOLIS THE ATHENIAN WALK. MAIN ISSUES THE ATHENIAN WALK. AN ITINERARY THE ATHENIAN WALK. PLANNING, EXECUTION, GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: An exploratory discussion THE HISTORIC SPACE EXPERIENCE THE VISIT TO ATHENS AND THE ACROPOLIS IN THE PAST THE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE IN THE HISTORIC SETTING OF ATHENS TODAY BEHAVIOURAL PATTERNS IN THE HISTORIC AREA THE ACROPOLIS EXPERIENCE. MEANING AND MODALITIES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Kapon Editions Astikés Geographíes: Topía kai Kathemerinés
Book SynopsisThis book explores the social construction of relationship between commuting (everyday mobility) and urban landscape, from ecological, social and psychological perspectives. It combines different concepts like: "urban eco-landscape", "soundscape" (urban geography, social anthropology, cultural studies, landscape and soundscape ecology, remote sensing) and "identity of mobility" (sociology, environmental and social psychology). The research took place in different cities and peripheries in Greece, France, Mexico and India. The book offers a methodology for landscape research and not another theory about landscape studies. It is aimed at a wide readership and especially for students and researchers in the social sciences (geography, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies), in architecture and in urban and regional planning. In a world which proclaims the protection of landscape, it required us to ponder the question: what is it we wish to protect: the history, the memory, the culture, the ecosystem, the landscape as common or as commodity? In a world which also declares the idea of increasing commuting as a characteristic of social improvement another question arises: how was this idea constructed, whom does it really benefit? How were the places of exclusion constructed by means of isolation from auto-mobility and through the construction of a controversial model of equating a slow pace of movement with so-called 'underdevelopment'? Finally, the definitions of the landscape (whether they come from a common everyday use of the term or from a model derived from the social or natural sciences, which are perceived as objective representations) demonstrate on a daily basis a reconstruction related to socially and culturally constructed positions and perceptions one already has about several concepts in everyday life. 112 illus, 100+ colour. Text in Greek
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Kapon Editions Athina - Ena Orama tou Classicismou
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Kapon Editions Poleodomikh exelixis ton athinon
Book SynopsisThe life's work of the architect John Travlos, first published in 1960, is the standard work on the urban development of Athens from ancient times to the modern day. Still an indispensable handbook for those studying Athens. Greek language text. 189 b&w illustrations, 12 plates. Greek language text.
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The American University in Cairo Press Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide
Book SynopsisThe city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete expressionism, and modernist design. Yet while much has been published on Cairo’s ancient, medieval, and early-modern architectural heritage, the city’s modern architecture has to date not received the attention it deserves. Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide is the first comprehensive architectural guide to the constructions that have shaped and continue to shape the Egyptian capital since the early twentieth century. From the sleek apartment tower for Inji Zada in Ghamra designed by Antoine Selim Nahas in 1937, to the city’s many examples of experimental church architecture, and visible landmarks such as the Mugamma and Arab League buildings, Cairo is home to a rich store of modernist building styles. Arranged by geographical area, the guide includes entries for 150 buildings of note, each entry consisting of concise, explanatory text describing the building and its significance accompanied by photographs, drawings, and maps. This pocket-sized volume is an ideal companion for the city’s visitors and residents as well as an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Cairo’s architecture and urban history.Trade Review[A] call to arms, a rallying cry to take another look at the everyday fabric of this richly layered city. * The Guardian *Table of ContentsAcknowlegments How to Use This Guide Foreword Introduction Maps Historic Cairo Downtown Bulaq Sayyida Zaynab and Abdin Garden City Manial Giza and Haram Dokki and Aguza Mohandiseen Imbaba Zamalek Abbasiya Nasr City Heliopolis Maadi Periphery Notes Bibliography Index of Architects
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Community-Based Urban Development: Evolving Urban
Book SynopsisThe book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its impact on the built environment and communal life. Singapore and Seoul are known for their rapid economic growth and urbanisation under a strong control of developmental state in the past. However, these cities are at a critical crossroads of societal transformation, where participatory and community-based urban development is gaining importance. This new approach can be seen as a result of a changing relationship between the state and civil society, where an emerging partnership between both aims to overcome the limitations of earlier urban development. The book draws attention to the possibilities and challenges that these cities face while moving towards a more inclusive and socially sustainable post-developmental urbanisation. By applying a comparative perspective to understand the evolving urban paradigms in Singapore and Seoul, this unique and timely book offers insights for scholars, professionals and students interested in contemporary Asian urbanisation and its future trajectories.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- City and the developmental state.- Neoliberalization and neo-developmental city.- Emerging community-based urban development.- Conclusion: Towards community-driven urban development (what we learned).
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Resistant City: Histories, Maps And The
Book SynopsisThis vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization. It is about islands as territories of resistance. It is about dense places where multitudes dwell in perennial contestations with the city on every front. It is about the histories, tactics and spaces of everyday survival within the hegemonic sway of global capital and unstoppable development. It is preoccupied with making visible the culture of resistance and architecture's entanglement with it. It is about urban resilience. It is about Hong Kong, where uncertainty is status quo.This interdisciplinary volume explores real and invented places and identities that are created in tandem with Hong Kong's urban development. Mapping contested spaces in the territory, it visualizes the energies and tenacity of the people as manifest in their daily life, social and professional networks and the urban spaces in which they inhabit. Embodying the multifaceted nature of the Asian metropolis, the book utilizes a combination of archival materials, public data sources, field observations and documentation, analytical drawings, models, and maps.Related Link(s)
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Managing Infrastructure Projects
Book SynopsisThis book is about managing the infrastructure development cycle from project initiation to the end of the operation and maintenance phase. It focuses on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contract and, from this perspective, private and public sector procurement are variations.Designed for students from different backgrounds such as information technology, business, architecture, quantity surveying, urban planning, project management, engineering, construction, facilities management, transport, finance, economics, and law, the book provides a structured guide to these diverse students as well as researchers, public officials, project sponsors, lenders, developers, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, investors, infrastructure fund managers, insurers, facilities managers, non-government organizations, and consultants such as designers, engineers, environmental specialists, legal advisors, and brokers.The book presents general principles that are applicable in different countries, particularly in the developing world where markets and other institutions are less developed and uses examples to clarify ideas.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Managing Infrastructure Projects
Book SynopsisThis book is about managing the infrastructure development cycle from project initiation to the end of the operation and maintenance phase. It focuses on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contract and, from this perspective, private and public sector procurement are variations.Designed for students from different backgrounds such as information technology, business, architecture, quantity surveying, urban planning, project management, engineering, construction, facilities management, transport, finance, economics, and law, the book provides a structured guide to these diverse students as well as researchers, public officials, project sponsors, lenders, developers, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, investors, infrastructure fund managers, insurers, facilities managers, non-government organizations, and consultants such as designers, engineers, environmental specialists, legal advisors, and brokers.The book presents general principles that are applicable in different countries, particularly in the developing world where markets and other institutions are less developed and uses examples to clarify ideas.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Urban Greening Techniques: An Introduction
Book SynopsisWhat is the best way to design with greenery? What are the benefits of selecting one species of tree over another, and placing it at Point A instead of Point B? Will it cost more than the benefits it provides? If you have ever asked these questions, this book is for you.Greenery is an integral part of the sustainable planning and design ethos. Besides beautifying the environment, it can also help alleviate adverse impacts of urbanisation such as the Urban Heat Island effect. This book provides an introduction to the various technologies and techniques that facilitate the urban greening process. Each chapter introduces the concept of urban greenery at different scales (city, precinct and plant), as well as relevant methods and considerations for implementation. Assessment frameworks are provided to maximise the benefits of greenery, whilst minimising disservices associated with poor planning, execution or maintenance of greenery or greenery systems. Simple exercises and online resources are provided to illustrate how concepts from this book can be applied in practice.This textbook is essential reading for anyone interested in urban greenery and how it can make a tangible positive impact on our built environment: from students in the architecture, landscape architecture and building construction disciplines, to urban planners, building owners, designers and facility managers who wish to make more informed choices when incorporating greenery into the urban environment during the planning, design, construction and maintenance stages.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Urban Greening Techniques: An Introduction
Book SynopsisWhat is the best way to design with greenery? What are the benefits of selecting one species of tree over another, and placing it at Point A instead of Point B? Will it cost more than the benefits it provides? If you have ever asked these questions, this book is for you.Greenery is an integral part of the sustainable planning and design ethos. Besides beautifying the environment, it can also help alleviate adverse impacts of urbanisation such as the Urban Heat Island effect. This book provides an introduction to the various technologies and techniques that facilitate the urban greening process. Each chapter introduces the concept of urban greenery at different scales (city, precinct and plant), as well as relevant methods and considerations for implementation. Assessment frameworks are provided to maximise the benefits of greenery, whilst minimising disservices associated with poor planning, execution or maintenance of greenery or greenery systems. Simple exercises and online resources are provided to illustrate how concepts from this book can be applied in practice.This textbook is essential reading for anyone interested in urban greenery and how it can make a tangible positive impact on our built environment: from students in the architecture, landscape architecture and building construction disciplines, to urban planners, building owners, designers and facility managers who wish to make more informed choices when incorporating greenery into the urban environment during the planning, design, construction and maintenance stages.
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World Scientific Publishing Company Tokyo Urbanism From Hinterland to Kaiwai
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Designing the Global City: Design Excellence,
Book SynopsisThis text explores how architectural and urban design values have been co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness by creating a superior built environment that is not just aesthetically memorable but more productive and sustainable. It focuses on the experience of central Sydney through its policy commitment to ‘design excellence’ and more particularly to mandatory competitive design processes for major private development. Framed within broader contexts that link it to comparable urban policy and design issues in the Asia-Pacific region and globally, it provides a scholarly but accessible volume that provides a balanced and critical overview of a policy that has changed the design culture, development expectations, public realm and skyline of central Sydney, raising issues surrounding the uneven distribution of benefits and costs, professional practice, representative democracy, and implications of globalization.Trade Review“The book is informative and well written. … Well illustrated and amply stocked with diagrams and tables supplementing the narratives, this book is an essential contribution to the comparative literature on urban design. It is certainly an authoritative source for urban designers and public officials interested in improving their cities’ appearance and design. It is also an important argument for the role of public policy and design governance in obtaining excellence in the quality of the built environment … .” (Tridib Banerjee, Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 87 (4), 2021)Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Property Development, Governance and Design Excellence3 Global Sydney: Economy, Planning and Environment4 A Pre-history of Design Excellence in Sydney5 The City of Sydney’s Competitive Design Policy: Context, Genesis and Operation6 Competitive Projects and Their Design Outcomes7 Competitions and Excellence: Three Case Studies8 The Benefits and Drawbacks of Mandatory Design Competitions9 Design Competitions as Public Policy10 Conclusion
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Springer Verlag, Singapore An Urban History of China
Book SynopsisThis book considers urban development in China, highlighting links between China’s history and civilization and the rapid evolution of its urban forms. It explores the early days of urban dwelling in China, progressing to an analysis of residential environments in the industrial age. It also examines China’s modern and postmodern architecture, considered as derivative or lacking spiritual meaning or personality, and showcases how China's traditional culture underpins the emergence of China’s modern cities. Focusing on the notion of “courtyard spirit” in China, it offers a study of the urban public squares central to Chinese society, and examines the disruption of the traditional Square model and the rise and growth of new architectural models.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION.- PART ONE HISTORY OF URBAN HABITATION.- The Commencement of Urban Habitation.- The Urban Habitation of the Slavery Society.- The Urban Habitation in the Early Feudal Society.- The Urban Habitation in the Middle Stage of the Feudal Society.- Urban Habitation in Late Feudal Society.- The Features of the Modern Urban Dwelling Areas.- The Features of Spatial Structure of the Urban Residential Areas After 1949.- The New Workers’ Villages and Residential Environment of Industrial Cities in 1950s.- The “Villages in the City”: A Phenomenon of On-the-Spot Urbanization.- PART TWO HISTORY OF CHINESE URBAN PUBLIC SQUARES.- Urban Public Squares and Social Public Life.- Chinese Traditional Squares: the Most Longevous Square Systems.- The Disruption of Traditional Squares and the Rise of New-Type Squares.- An Exploration of the Vigorous Growth of Urban Squares.- A Cultural Comparison between Chinese and Western Squares.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Practising Cultural Geographies: Essays in Honour
Book SynopsisThis festschrift honours Prof. Rana P.B. Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia. It is a rich collection of 23 essays on the themes apprised by him, covering landscapes, religion, heritage, pilgrimage and tourism, and human settlements.Table of ContentsSection 1: IntroductionChapter 1: Introduction: Essays in Honour of Rana P.B. SinghRavi S. Singh, Arun K. Singh, Bharat Dahiya and Padma C. PoudelChapter 2: Practising Cultural Geographies: The Academic Contribution of Rana P.B. SinghRavi S. Singh and Bharat DahiyaSection 2: LandscapesChapter 3: Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape PerceptionPrem Chhetri and Anjali ChhetriChapter 4: Ayurveda in the Rural Landscape: Poomully Mana in Kerala, IndiaBharat DahiyaChapter 5: Char Landscapes of the Brahmaputra Riverine Tract, Assam: Elements of Evolutionand Cultural EcologyA.K. Bhagabati and N. DekaChapter 6: Satellite Based Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Landscape Dynamics and Land SurfaceTemperature Patterns in Hanoi, VietnamNguyen Vu Giang, Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Pham Viet Hoa, Hoang Thi Hang, and Atiqur RahmanSection 3: ReligionChapter 7: The Priesthood of the temple of Viṭhobā in Pandharpur, MaharashtraErik Reenberg SandChapter 8: Geographical Spread of Hindu Religion and Culture into the WestMartin J. HaighChapter 9: Cultural heritage in the north-eastern borderland of India: A case study ofindigenous religious belief systemsRavi S. SinghSection 4: HeritageChapter 10: Kautilya’s Political Geography-Concepts and Ideas: An Example of Ancient IndianGeographical ThinkingSudeepto AdhikariChapter 11: The Two Faces of BodhgayaNikhil JoshiChapter 12: Instilling Local Knowledge Education: Promoting Vernacular Landscape Identity,Heritage and Sustainability of School Youth in Dongshan Town, Suzhou, ChinaJuncheng Dai, Ruihong Zhang, Shangyi Zhou, and Shunying TangChapter 13: Cultural Approaches to Animal Geographies: Cattle and Urban-Rural Intersectionsin Delhi, IndiaPratyusha BasuChapter 14: The Misings of Assam in the Midst of Tradition and Modernity: A ComparativeStudy Of Selected Rural And Urban AreasPahari Doley and Bimal Kumar KarSection 5: Pilgrimage and TourismChapter 15: Lumbini, Nepal: The Birth Place of Buddha and the Powerful Place of Pilgrimage inthe WorldPadma Chandra PoudelChapter 16: Pañcakroshi Yatra: SymbolicManifestation of the Spatial to the SpiritualVandana SehgalChapter 17: Cultural Tourism based Regional Development in Rajasthan, IndiaR.B. Singh and Ajay KumarChapter 18: Baul-Sufi interface and Cultural Tourism: A study in Northern Rarh of West Bengal,IndiaPremangshu Chakrabarty and Tushar MandalSection 6: SettlementsChapter 19: Cultural Images of Kolkata: A Contemporary PerspectiveL. N. SatpatiChapter 20: Urban Sanitation in Indian cities: Reflections from VaranasiArun K. SinghChapter 21: Perspective on Agricultural Land Use Trajectory in the Peri-Urban Interface of aDeveloping Economy. A Case StudyNasrin Banu and Shahab FazalChapter 22: Urban Renewal and Redevelopment of Public Space: An Approach towardsCommunity Resource Optimization in VaranasiSarbeswar PraharajSection 7: EpilogueChapter 23: Emerging PerspectivesBharat Dahiya and Ravi S. Singh
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National University of Singapore Press Of Haunted Spaces: Cinema, Heterotopias, and China's Hyperurbanization
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Smart Cities in Asia: Regulations, Problems, and
Book SynopsisThis open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The book consists of two main parts. The first part includes general chapters that conceptualize smart cities and provide an overview of these cities’ problems such as privacy and data protection concern. The general chapters also discuss the role of public and private sectors in developing and governing smart cities. The second part encompasses country-specific chapters that examine the concepts addressed in the general chapters in practice by analyzing several specific smart city projects.This book provides researchers and practitioners with some knowledge of a smart city and its implication in the Asia context. The book is designed with some general chapters updating the literature on smart cities for readers who are interested in an overview of this concept. Audiences who are curious about how smart cities are perceived and implemented in some Asian jurisdictions are benefited from country-specific chapters. The book is also helpful to general audiences whose interests lay at the intersection of law, governance, and technology.Trade Review“This concise open access book follows in a line of comparative investigations of how laws impact the development of smart cities. … this insightful book suggests that a future clash between international expectations and proposed use of smart wristbands and other surveillance technology in Phuket may necessitate legal provisions to cope with the disconnect from foreign laws protecting private data. Updating legislation to meet contemporary needs would be Welcome for protecting personal data and privacy in Thailand’s smart Cities.” (Benjamin Ivry, Thai Legal Studies, Vol. 3 (2), 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Conceptualizing Smart Cities: An Overview of Technology and Governance.- Data Privacy Challenges in Smart Cities.- Hong Kong: Does a Smart City Need a Coherent Policy for External Data Flows to Really be Smart?.- The Promise and Challenges of Privacy in Smart City: The Case of Phuket.- Smart City and Privacy Concerns During COVID-19:Lessons from Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.- The Legal Framework of Smart Cities in Vietnam.- Smart Cities in Vietnam: From the Perspective of the Banking Industry.- Developing Smart City Infrastructure Inside a Historical City – A Case from Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam.
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NUS Press Jakarta: City of a Thousand Dimensions
Book SynopsisA study of the forces that shaped Jakarta into the city it is today. Indonesian writer Seno Gumira Ajidarma has called Jakarta a city of a thousand dimensions. A megacity of 30 million under threat from rising sea levels and temperatures, Jakarta and its resilient residents improvise and thrive. This book teases out some of the dimensions that have given shape to contemporary Jakarta, including the city’s expanded flexibility in accommodating capital and labor, and the consistent lack of planning that can be understood as a result of both politics and the poetics of governing in the region. Jakarta is essential reading for those seeking to understand one of Asia's most dynamic cities.Table of ContentsDedicationList of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: A City with a Thousand Dimensions: Theory, Practice, Subjectivity1. Middling Urbanism2. The Rule of Many Orders 3. Roads, Rhizomes and Regimes4. Where will the Water Go?5. A New Assemblage City6. Urban Politics7. Islamist Urbanism8. Escape from Jakarta: The Future Redux9. Jakarta: A Conversation10. Our Streets: Reflections on a Pandemic CityAfterword: On "Multitude" and the Urban Question: A Reading in a Time of PandemicsBibliographyIndex
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NUS Press Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and
Book SynopsisLas Vegas is famous for its glitter and greed, but it rarely gets the recognition it deserves for another specialty: inventing a globalized corporate model of institutional control. For decades, the gambling mecca has perfected the concept of the casino-hotel, which has been exported to countries around the world, including Singapore with the opening of the Marina Bay Sands. When this luxury resort opened in 2010, it was the convergence of two cities' very different histories of gambling.Las Vegas in Singapore looks at moments in Singapore's and Las Vegas' pasts when the moral and legal status of gambling changed significantly, and examines how modern states and corporations capitalized on it. The book begins in colonial Singapore in the 1880s, when British administrators revised the law in response to the political threat posed by Chinese-run gambling syndicates. It then looks at the 1960s when the newly independent city-state created a national lottery while at the same time criminalizing both organized and petty gambling. From there the focus moves to corporate Las Vegas in the 1950s. The book reveals how the Las Vegas model of casino development evolved into a highly rationalized template designed to maximize profits. It all comes together when the Vegas model is architecturally re-fashioned into Singapore's Marina Bay Sands.Ultimately, Lee Kah-Wee argues that the historical project of the control of vice is also about the control of space and capital. The result is an uneven landscape where the legal and moral status of gambling is contingent on where it is located. As the current wave of casino expansion spreads across Asia, he warns that these developments should not be seen as liberalization but instead as a monopolization by modern states and corporations.
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Aspha Ediciones Matanzas desde los mapas y planos
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MCCM Creations Instant Culture
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Hong Kong University Press Land Administration and Practice in Hong Kong
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