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Self-build homes : social discourse, experiences and directions
Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recogniti…
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- 9781911576877
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- xiii, 332 p. ill;
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- 338.47690809411 SEL M
Re-centring the city : global mutations of socialist modernity
What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow? R…
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- 9781787354111
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- xix, 292 p. ill;
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- 307.116 REC J
Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sust…
This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches that, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. Supported by a wide-…
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- 9783030842482
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- xxxi, 559 p.
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- 338.927072 COC A
Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory
Text Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory Hansmann, Sabine - Personal Name; In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential …
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- 9783839455029
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- 245 p.
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- 720 MON S
The Berlin Reader; A Compendium On Urban Change And Activism
By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overview of the most central discussions on the tremendous changes Berlin experienced since the fall of th…
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- 9783839424780
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Sailing from polis to empire : ships in the Eastern Mediterranean during Hell…
This book represents a significant contribution to the fields of Hellenistic archaeology, Hellenistic economy, naval architecture and shipping in the eastern Mediterranean. It asks (and answers) questions that are often simply assumed and not systematically investigated. — Dr. Conor Trainor, University of Warwick What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to c…
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- 9781783746958
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- xvii, 127 p. ; ill.
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- 623.821 NAN s
Greening the greyfields
This open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at precinct scale.
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- 1st
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- 9789811662386
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- xxi, 192 p ; ill
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- 220.91 GRE g
Drawing futures
Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture. Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. There is a rich and long history of drawing tied to innovation…
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- edision 1
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- 972079086
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- :ill. ;147. p
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- 720.284 LAU
Monuments of merv : traditional buildings of the karakum
Archaeological research and ancient records have been combined in this work to provide a comprehensive account of the buildings of Merv, an oasis city in the middle of the Turkmenistani desert. Founded in the sixth century BC, Merv was a key staging post along the Central Asian trade routes linking Europe and India, and its buildings - palaces, pavilions, gardens and towers springing from the s…
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- 9780854312757
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- xiii. :ill. ; 260 p.
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- 913.42. GEO m
Cities made of boundaries : mapping social life in urban form
Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understan…
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- 9781787351059
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- 416p. ; ill.
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- 307.76 BEN c
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