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  • Re-shaping Cities

    How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form

    Collections series Architext
    This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become mediated and adapted to local conditions. The book shows how types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums are imported, adapted and contested in different societies and how urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

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  • Addiction--What's Really Going on?

    Inside a Heroin Treatment Program

    Collections series Reflections of America
    Addiction: What's Really Going On? contains powerful true-life storieswoven together to form a tapestry filled with pain, joy, defeat, and success.The entire book is molded around Deborah McCloskey's heartfeltdesire for her clients to be free of drugs. Her counseling methods both endearedher as "the counselor to get" and locked her into a decade ofsearching for better ways to help those she felt ... En savoir plus

    $6.95 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • When a Heart Turns Rock Solid

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    par Timothy Black ...
    A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBased on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $11.99 CAD Maintenant $8.99 CAD

  • Writing the Modern City

    Literature, Architecture, Modernity

    Modifié par Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley ...
    Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, ... En savoir plus

    $105.80 CAD

  • Fit

    An Architect's Manifesto

    par Robert Geddes ...
    Why architecture matters—and how to make it matter moreFit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Distinguished architect and urbanist Robert Geddes argues that buildings, landscapes, and cities should be designed to fit: fit the purpose, fit the place, fit future possibilities. Fit replaces old ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Common Space

    The City as Commons

    Collections series In Common
    Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons – first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Back to the Future

    New Urbanism and the Rise of Neotraditionalism in Urban Planning

    Back to the Future explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy trends such as regional governance and the role of nonprofits. The purpose of this book is to provide students and professionals alike with a context for examining the beginnings of new urbanism, as well as to illustrate how this movement has become a nationwide trend in response to changing ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • Mediators

    Aesthetics, Politics, and the City

    par Reinhold Martin ...
    Collections series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix city and country, fictional ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Constructing Community

    Configurations of the Social in Contemporary Philosophy and Urbanism

    par Brian Elliott ...
    Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influential theories of community that have arisen within European philosophy over the last three decades, Brian Elliott investigates parallel approaches to community within urban theory and practice over ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

  • Urban Revolution Now

    Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture

    When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become reality, Lefebvre’s ideas on everyday life, production of space, rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are indispensable for the understanding of urbanization processes at every scale of social practice. This ... En savoir plus

    $105.99 CAD

  • Hearts of the City

    From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their time and timeless. He often wrote about how the right architecture could be ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $21.99 CAD Maintenant $16.99 CAD

  • Jakarta, Drawing the City Near

    Jakarta, a city rife with disparities like many cities in the Global South, is undergoing rapid change. Alongside its megastructures, high-rise residential buildings, and franchised convenience stores, Jakarta’s massive slums and off-hour street markets foster an unsettled urban population surviving in difficult conditions. But where does the vast middle of urban life fit into this dichotomy? In ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD