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Innovation capacity and the city : the enabling role of design
Concilio, GraziaTosoni, Ilaria

This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call “User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation”. The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasible answers to …

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030001230
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ix, 101p. : ill.
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307.1216 INN i
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Adaptive strategies for water heritage : past, present and future
Hein, Carola

This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030002688
Collation
xix, 435p. : ill.
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Call Number
363.61 ADA a
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Cities full of symbols : a theory of urban space and culture
Nas, Peter J.M.

This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis’s Graceland in Memphis. Cities Full of Symbols develops urban symbolic ecology …

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ISBN/ISSN
9789087281250
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303 p.
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Call Number
307.76 NAS c
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Linguistic construction of ethnic borders
Rosenberg, PeterJungbluth, KonstanzeRhobodes, Dagna Zinkhahn

This volume focuses on the linguistic constructs involved in ethnic borders. Ethnic borders have proven themselves to be surprisingly long-lived: in nearly all European countries and beyond, border demarcation, exclusion of foreigners, and minority conflicts are some of the most persistent challenges for nations and societies. Which linguistic factors play a role in the formation of these borde…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783653982565
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264p. : ill. ; 22 cm
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Call Number
306.44089 LIN l
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