Building The World

Author : Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781469626833

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Building the British Atlantic World by Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman Pdf

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.

Author : Frank P. Davidson,Kathleen L. Brooke
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106018546470

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Building the World by Frank P. Davidson,Kathleen L. Brooke Pdf

Humans are builders--we make structures to span rivers, to connect points of land, to offer shelter. Indeed, throughout history, civilizations have created structures of such immense scale, requiring such tremendous resources, that they might have been thought impossible. From the Taj Mahal to the Suez Canal, from Solomon's Temple to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, these feats of macro-engineering are a testament to the creativity and foresight of engineers, architects, government officials, and diplomats. Who came up with the ideas for these projects? How did they see them through to completion? What obstacles--diplomatic, legal, logistical, and engineering--had to be overcome for these structures to be built? What impact did these engineering projects have on the economies and cultures of their societies? This encyclopedia answers all these questions, showing how central these great engineering projects are to the history of civilization. It includes the legal documents that launched them. Building the World comprises detailed entries on over forty of the most important engineering projects in world history, such as: Washington D.C., the Eiffel Tower, and the Channel Tunnel. The rich illustration program includes 66 photographs and 30 illustrations, maps, and drawings that document the most important structures ever built. Each entry includes a detailed history of the planning and construction of the project, and a discussion of its subsequent importance. A unique feature of the encyclopedia is an extensive primary source collection that illustrates how the decision to create such a structure came to be, demonstrating the importance of individuals in imagining, planning, and building some of the most famous engineering landmarks in the world.

Author : Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300248159

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Building a new New World by Jean-Louis Cohen Pdf

An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the 19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.

Author : A. G. Smith
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486482359

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The Tallest Building in the World Cut & Assemble by A. G. Smith Pdf

In 2010, Burj Khalifa achieved the title of Tallest Building in the World. The 2,717-foot structure, located in downtown Dubai, has 160 habitable floors and can accommodate more than 12,000 people. Its 54 elevators take only 60 seconds to reach the world's highest observation deck on the 124th floor. Suitable for ages 10 and up with adult supervision, this two-foot-high replica model of the ultramodern building appeals to hobbyists of all ages and makes a great family activity. Complete, easy-to-follow instructions include detailed diagrams for ease of assembly.

Author : Stephanie Ross,Errol Black,Larry Savage,Jim Silver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : 1552667871

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Building a Better World by Stephanie Ross,Errol Black,Larry Savage,Jim Silver Pdf

Revision of: Black, Errol. Building a better world.

Author : Jacques Baudot
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295998817

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Building a World Community by Jacques Baudot Pdf

Building a World Community: Globalisation and the Common Good

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNICEF
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Building a World Fit for Children by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Public opinion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112109959

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Building a World of Free Peoples by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : LOC:00139013645

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Building a World of Free Peoples by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements Pdf

Considers Soviet and U.S. economic and foreign aid policies and their role in creating Communist- and non-Communist-bloc alliances.

Author : S.K. Das
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199088270

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Building a World-Class Civil Service for Twenty-First Century India by S.K. Das Pdf

Today, India is one of the leading players on the global stage. It is competing with other countries not just in the marketplace but also in respect of its governance structures. This book underscores the need for creating a modern civil service, which epitomizes best practices overseas and in the private sector, and exemplifies contemporary management philosophy, and techniques. Using a comparative approach, S.K. Das identifies a range of initiatives that will serve to transform the civil service into a world-class organization, compatible with strategic, economic, and technological requirements of the twenty-first century. Based on the reform experiences of Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, and the UK, these initiatives have been carefully modulated to suit India's requirements. Underlining the challenges involved in reforming the bureaucracy, the author also discusses the legislative, administrative, and procedural changes necessary to build a high-performing civil service.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913484114

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Guinness World Records 2022 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Valerie Fraser
Publisher : Verso
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1859847870

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Building the New World by Valerie Fraser Pdf

Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro ... these are cities synonymous with some of the most innovative and progressive architecture of the twentieth century. The period between 1930 and 1960 in particular, when many Latin American economies expanded rapidly, was an era of incomparable inventiveness and creative production, as the various governments strove to shake off their colonial pasts and make public their modernising intentions. This book focuses on major state-funded architectural projects, featuring not only the high-profile prestigious building like the House of Representatives in Barsilia but also social architecture such as schools and los-cost housing developments. Architects like Pani, Costa, Reidy and Niemeyer, who undertook this work with considerable autonomy and significant financial resources, in effect became social planners, their avant-garde aesthetic and technical experimentation often being teamed with radical social agendas. By 1960, the year in which Brasilia was inaugurated, economic growth in the region was slowing and faith in the modernist project in general was faltering. The English-speaking world, which had previously endorsed and even envied Latin American architectural production, changed its opinion and largely dismissed it from the history of twentieth-century architecture. Building the New World redresses the balance. It provides an accessible introduction to the most important examples of state-funded modernism in Latin America during a period of almost unimaginable optimism, when politicians and architects saw architecture as, literally, a way of building themselves out of underdevelopment and into the new world of a culturally rich and socially inclusive future .

Author : David Cooperrider,Audrey Selian
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523093656

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The Business of Building a Better World by David Cooperrider,Audrey Selian Pdf

Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity. Through the exploration of robust cases and stories packed with deep insight and vital science, this extraordinary collection explores how we can adapt our notions of value, markets, and models of cooperation and collective action to create a world where economies and businesses excel, all people thrive, and nature flourishes. In part I, “The Business of Business Is Betterment,” the contributors show how enterprises today are further developing-and even taking a quantum leap beyond-the multistakeholder logic of “shared value creation.” Part II, “Net Positive = Innovation's New Frontier,” is focused on what companies can and are doing to move away from “doing no harm” to playing an active role in solving environmental, social, and economic problems. The final section, “Ultimate Advantage: A Leadership Revolution That Is Changing Everything,” looks at new leadership paradigms-characterized by unexpected qualities like virtue, love, compassion, and connection-that are crucial to creating engaged, empowered, innovative, and out-performing enterprises. This book is designed to galvanize change and unite a global community of inquiry and action. It establishes the conceptual cornerstones for a new kind of business practice that will lead the way to an equitable, sustainable, and flourishing future.

Author : Judith Dupré
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780316353595

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One World Trade Center by Judith Dupré Pdf

From the bestselling author of Skyscrapers, the behind-the-scenes story of the most extraordinary building in the world: One World Trade Center. The new World Trade Center represents one of the most complex collaborations in human history. Nearly every state in the nation, a dozen countries around the world, and more than 25,000 workers helped raise the tower, which consumed ninety million pounds of steel, one million square feet of glass, and enough concrete to pave a sidewalk from New York to Chicago. With more than seventy interviews with the people most intimately involved, and unprecedented access to the building site, suppliers, and archives, Duprè unfurls the definitive story of fourteen years of conflict and controversy-and its triumphant resolution. This fascinating, oversize book delivers new insight into the 1,776-foot-tall engineering marvel, from design and excavation through the final placement of its spire. It offers: Access to the minds of world-class architects, engineers, ironworkers, and other tradespeople Panoramas of New York from One World Observatory-1,268 feet above the earth Dramatic cutaways that show the building's advanced structural technologies A time-lapse montage showing the evolution of the sixteen-acre site Chronologies tracking design, construction, and financial milestones, with rare historic photographs It also features extensive tour of the entire Trade Center, including in-depth chapters on Two, Three, Four, and Seven World Trade Center; the National September 11 Memorial & Museum; Liberty Park; St. Nicholas National Shrine; and the soaring Transportation Hub. One World Trade Center is the only book authorized by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, and the one book necessary to understand the new World Trade Center in its totality. This is a must-have celebration of American resilience and ingenuity for all who are invested in the rebuilding of Ground Zero.

Author : Aliki Nicolaides,Ahreum Lim,Neal Herr,Trisha Barefield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003860150

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Reimagining Adult Education as World Building by Aliki Nicolaides,Ahreum Lim,Neal Herr,Trisha Barefield Pdf

Reimagining Adult Education as World Building offers a new way of thinking about adult education by re-envisaging how adult education works. It explores how the process of world building, or the invention of a new world or a set of concepts, can be translated into actual and feasible action when turning towards complex, real-life problems. Cultivating contexts where adult educators can become change agents, who recognize that the individual and community are intricately entangled, demands that educators grow new capacities, make new tools, develop thicker networks, and cultivate intentional links amongst each other to foster ecologies of transformation. This book shows how educators can create an ecology or environment for transformative thinking where students can learn to collaborate and use world building tools to create new responses to current issues. It begins by explaining the philosophical underpinnings of world building and the tools that translate pragmatic imagination into scaffolds for individual and collective capacity building. It also illustrates how the worldbuilding protocol makes a difference in adult learning and how this pedagogical tool introduces the ecological approach to adult education. Each chapter explores a practical case study, showing how learners have applied worldbuilding tools to complex challenges. Showing how to apply the world building protocol in a classroom setting, this edited collection will be valuable to Adult Education scholars, researchers, practitioners, and learning facilitators.