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6 produkter
Seeking Savannah
Häftad, 2018
210 kr
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A disparate but exuberant group of scholars are brought together in Savannah by an eminent professor to explore and debate the history and characteristics of the city and its implications for a twenty-first century urbanism. This narrative represents a forceful and humorous interplay between formal …
Enterprising Path to Barrio Chino
A Story of Barcelona
Häftad, 2020
321 kr
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In 1925 a journalist on the Barcelona newspaper El Escándalo used the term Barrio Chino in a somewhat derogatory way to describe part of the older city. While the area in question represented a dystopian underbelly of the city, known for its impoverished living and working conditions together with …
After Dante
Divine, Design, and the Cosmos
Häftad, 2021
288 kr
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This book focuses on the philosophical, artistic, and scientific forces that impacted on the humanist of the late Medieval and Renaissance period, profuse in the exchange of ideas and discovery, behind much of which was the impact of Dante’s Divine Comedy with a message which continues to …
Shaping Canton
The Mountains are High and the Emperor Far Away
Häftad, 2023
278 kr
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The book takes as its starting point the city of Canton, at the heart of the most populous built-up metropolitan area in Mainland China, and a city that has for several centuries held a central position with regard to economic, social, and physical change in the country. Included are hundreds of …
Writings on the Asian City
Framing an Inclusive Approach to Urban Design
Häftad, 2023
368 kr
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The book examines the contemporary Asian city through the prism of urban design in assimilating new and established drivers of growth. This includes intensified forms of residential development, specialised commercial centres and technology parks, that drive the momentum of the contemporary city, …
Urban Design of Intervention
Imposed and Adaptive Places in Asian Cities
Häftad, 2015
610 kr
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