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The Council House

Author : Jack Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1914314166

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Council housing is as much a part of the capital as Big Ben or Buckingham Palace; so why is it so much harder to find books that capture these often architecturally beautiful estates? Over the last few decades, we've seen council houses fall into disrepair and defamation. This book, written and photographed by Jack Young - who has spent the last two years visiting every corner of London to find the city's most unique structures - features beautiful images, personal interviews and design insights that celebrate some of our most vital urban buildings. A photographic celebration of some of London's most important and innovative council housing.

Work from Shed

Author : Hoxton Mini Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Garden rooms
ISBN : 1914314123

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Work from Shed by Hoxton Mini Press Pdf

Remote working is here to stay. More people than ever before are finding it's not just possible to work from home but much more productive, affordable and - as this book will show you - inspiring. For of all the places to create a workspace in your home, the garden offers a unique opportunity for architects to innovate. From visually arresting structures that transform the experience of working to plant-covered studios built in harmony with nature, the exquisite photography and informative text will show you just what can be built in a backyard. Why commute to an office when you can Work from Shed?

Style Council

Author : Sarah Thompson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781473521230

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With a foreword by Wayne Hemingway MBE and an introduction by Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society, Style Council brings together an inspirational and eclectic selection of interiors from a generation of homeowners who are redefining the status of local-authority architecture. From covetable apartments in hip Brutalist high-rises to rural cottages with roses around the door, Style Council peeks behind the curtains of the often unappreciated former council home, into the lives of the creative and resourceful people who live there. The homes featured are unique, yet bound by an upcycling ethos, an innate sense of style and the triumph of dash over cash. Style Council is an essential sourcebook and a goody-bag of ideas for anyone wanting to do up their home – ex-council or not – in style. The book features 15 homes across the UK, with full-colour interior photography by Sarah Cuttle.

Scheming

Author : Seán Damer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1474440576

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Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city.

The Key to My Neighbor's House

Author : Elizabeth Neuffer
Publisher : Picador
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250082718

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The Key to My Neighbor's House by Elizabeth Neuffer Pdf

Interviewing war criminals and their victims, Neuffer explains, through the voices of people she follows over the course of a decade, how genocide erodes a nation's social and political environment. Her characters' stories and their competing notions of justice-from searching for the bodies of loved ones, to demanding war crime trials, to seeking bloody revenge-convinces readers that crimes against humanity cannot be resolved by simple talk of forgiveness,or through the more common recourse to forgetfulness.

Foreign Policy Begins at Home

Author : Richard N. Haass
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465038640

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Foreign Policy Begins at Home by Richard N. Haass Pdf

A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran, a turbulent Middle East, and a reckless North Korea all present serious challenges to America's national security. But it depends even more on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure, second class schools, and outdated immigration system. While there is currently no great rival power threatening America directly, how long this strategic respite lasts, according to Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass, will depend largely on whether the United States puts its own house in order. Haass lays out a compelling vision for restoring America's power, influence, and ability to lead the world and advocates for a new foreign policy of Restoration that would require the US to limit its involvement in both wars of choice, and humanitarian interventions. Offering essential insight into our world of continual unrest, this new edition addresses the major foreign and domestic debates since hardcover publication, including US intervention in Syria, the balance between individual privacy and collective security, and the continuing impact of the sequester.

Trent

Author : John W. O'Malley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674071483

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Winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize The Council of Trent (1545–1563), the Catholic Church’s attempt to put its house in order in response to the Protestant Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. Now, in this first full one-volume history in modern times, John W. O’Malley brings to life the volatile issues that pushed several Holy Roman emperors, kings and queens of France, and five popes—and all of Europe with them—repeatedly to the brink of disaster. During the council’s eighteen years, war and threat of war among the key players, as well as the Ottoman Turks’ onslaught against Christendom, turned the council into a perilous enterprise. Its leaders declined to make a pronouncement on war against infidels, but Trent’s most glaring and ironic silence was on the authority of the papacy itself. The popes, who reigned as Italian monarchs while serving as pastors, did everything in their power to keep papal reform out of the council’s hands—and their power was considerable. O’Malley shows how the council pursued its contentious parallel agenda of reforming the Church while simultaneously asserting Catholic doctrine. Like What Happened at Vatican II, O’Malley’s Trent: What Happened at the Council strips mythology from historical truth while providing a clear, concise, and fascinating account of a pivotal episode in Church history. In celebration of the 450th anniversary of the council’s closing, it sets the record straight about the much misunderstood failures and achievements of this critical moment in European history.

Governor's Message and Journals of the Council and House

Author : New Mexico. Legislative Assembly. Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : CHI:095668649

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Governor's Message and Journals of the Council and House by New Mexico. Legislative Assembly. Council Pdf

Vols. for 1880-1884 include the House journal and have collective title: Governor's message and journals of the Council and House.

Estates

Author : Lynsey Hanley
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847088024

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Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from Homes Fit for Heroes to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks, to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.

How To Leave London

Author : Alex Bagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 191431400X

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How To Leave London by Alex Bagner Pdf

Compelling stories from 25 couples, families and individuals who have left the city (and still kept their work, their inspiration and their social lives) prove there are many benefits to life outside the M25 beyond simply more space and better air. Full of stunning photography, good advice, beautiful interiors and inspiring tales from a wide variety of people - single young professionals, retired couples, freelancers, office workers, renters and home-owners - this book may just tempt you to escape the capital s gravitational pull...

Anthem

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Ayn Rand Institute Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996010139

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About this Edition This 2021-2022 Digital Student Edition of Ayn Rand's Anthem was created for teachers and students receiving free novels from the Ayn Rand Institute, and includes a historic Q&A with Ayn Rand that cannot be found in any other edition of Anthem. In this Q&A from 1979, Rand responds to questions about Anthem sent to her by a high school classroom. About Anthem Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in the world of Anthem; personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him — questions that ultimately lead him to uncover the mystery behind his society’s downfall and to find the key to a future of freedom and progress. Anthem anticipates the theme of Rand’s first best seller, The Fountainhead, which she stated as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul.”

The Fall and Rise of Social Housing

Author : Tunstall, Becky
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781447351368

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The Fall and Rise of Social Housing by Tunstall, Becky Pdf

Drawing on a unique archive spanning the lifetime of twenty council estate projects in the UK and using hundreds of resident voices, this book reveals the secrets of council housing’s failures and successes, and the reasons for them. Bringing to light the complex variety of the lived experiences of residents, it shows how estate pathways were predetermined by factors such as location, design and date, as well as by their local and national social, economic and political contexts. The book highlights what can be learned from some of the successes of less successful housing projects and provides lessons for building sustainable communities in the twenty-first century.

In Defense of Housing

Author : Peter Marcuse,David Madden
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784783563

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In Defense of Housing by Peter Marcuse,David Madden Pdf

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.

Ice and Water

Author : John English
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143190264

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As the Far North assumes an increasingly important role in international politics, so too does Canada’s role in its governance. In 1991, eight countries signed the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy: Canada, the United States, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland. This was the first step in the formation of the Arctic Council, which was formally established in 1996 to act as a high-level intergovernmental body to address social, political, and environmental issues in the Arctic. Indigenous peoples, who form a significant population in seven of the eight countries’ Arctic regions, are involved in the council as permanent participants if they represent a single indigenous people across borders. Acclaimed biographer John English explores the history and growing relevancy of the council as Canada becomes the chair of that body in 2013. English chronicles a remarkable shift in Canada’s stance. The Canadian embrace of co-operative multilateralism in the nineties and the jealous protection of sovereignty in 2010 reveal a difference in approach, interest, and values. Both approaches had antecedents in Canada’s past—there has been Liberal unilateralism and nationalist rhetoric too—but there are fundamental differences between Canadian policies in the 1990s and those adopted in the following decade. Ice and Water explores the origins, creation, and development of the Arctic Council as a means of understanding those differences.

The Estate Action Initiative

Author : Ricardo R. Pinto
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015028898636

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The Estate Action Initiative by Ricardo R. Pinto Pdf

In recent years, social housing has experienced a major shift of theoretical and practical concerns which the existing literature has yet to grasp in an integrated manner. An important element of this development has been the creation and growing influence of a central government intiative known as Estate Action. No research has been conducted or published on this recent policy initiative in the field of housing. Therefore, this book seeks to contribute to the literature on social housing by evaluating Estate Action and discussing the impact it has had on council house management, finance and central-local relations in Britain.