Unbuilding

Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987-10-26
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547348414

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Unbuilding by David Macaulay Pdf

“In this wonderfully urbane fantasy” the Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator imagines the process of dismantling the Empire State Building (Publishers Weekly). The acclaimed author of City and Pyramid now applies his inquisitive mind and stunningly detailed artwork to one of New York’s most iconic buildings. When the Empire State Building is purchased by an eccentric prince who wants to move it to the Arabian Desert, the intricate process of unbuilding begins. Along the way, Macaulay takes young readers on a tour of the skyscraper’s history and architecture and explains the many feats of engineering that went into its construction. His straightforward, informative text is illustrated with “perhaps the finest series of visually expansive, black-and-white perspective drawings, incisive renderings of the skyscraper and its celebrated ‘views’” (The Washington Post).

Author : Anique Hommels
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262582827

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Unbuilding Cities by Anique Hommels Pdf

City planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considered to be dynamic and flexible spaces—never finished but always under construction—it is very difficult to change existing urban structures; they become fixed, obdurate, securely anchored in their own histories as well as in the histories of their surroundings. In Unbuilding Cities, Anique Hommels looks at the tension between the malleability of urban space and its obduracy, focusing on sites and structures that have been subjected to "unbuilding"—redesign or reconfiguration. She brings the concepts of science and technology studies (STS) to bear on the study of cities. Viewing the city as a large sociotechnological artifact, she demonstrates the usefulness of STS tools that were developed to analyze other technological artifacts and explores in detail the role of obduracy in sociotechnical change. Her analysis distinguishes three concepts of obduracy: interactionist, in which actors with diverging views are constrained by fixed ways of thinking and interacting; relational, in which change is difficult because of technology's embeddedness in sociotechnical networks; and enduring, in which persistent traditions influence the development of technology over time. Hommels examines the tensions between obduracy and change in three urban redesign projects in the Netherlands: a renovated city center that fell into drabness and disrepair; a highway system that runs through a densely populated urban area; and a high-rise housing project, designed according to modernist precepts and built for middle-class families, that became a haven for unemployment and crime. Unbuilding Cities contributes to a productive fusion of STS and urban studies.

Author : Steven Goldsmith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801499992

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Unbuilding Jerusalem by Steven Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Robert H. Falk,Brad Guy
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015064954749

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Unbuilding by Robert H. Falk,Brad Guy Pdf

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Author : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Jennifer Deger,Alder Keleman Saxena,Feifei Zhou
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503638662

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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Jennifer Deger,Alder Keleman Saxena,Feifei Zhou Pdf

Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help. Human action has transformed our planet and ushered in a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene. The effects are global in scope, but take shape within distinct social and ecological "patches," discontinuous regions within which the key actors may not be human, but the plants, animals, fungi, viruses, plastics, and chemicals creating our new world. Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene takes stock of our current planetary crisis, leading readers through a series of sites, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to nurture a revitalized natural history. Field guides teach us how to notice, name, and so better appreciate more-than-human worlds. They hone our powers of observation and teach us to see the world anew. Field-based observations and place-based knowledge cultivation—getting up-close and personal with patchy dynamics—are vital to truly grapple with the ecological challenges and the historical conjunctures that are bringing us to multiple catastrophic tipping points. How has commercial agriculture runoff given rise to comb jellies in the Black Sea? What role did the Atlantic slave trade play in the worldwide spread of virus-carrying mosquitoes? How did the green revolution transform the brown planthopper into a superpredator in Philippine rice fields? Questions like these open up new ways of understanding, and ways of living through, the epoch that human activity has ushered in. This Field Guide shifts attention away from knowledge extractive practices of globalization to encourage skilled observers of many stripes to pursue their commitments to place, social justice, and multispecies community. It is through attention to the beings, places, ecologies, and histories of the Anthropocene that we can reignite curiosity, wonder, and care for our damaged planet.

Author : Mark Wigley
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262731142

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The Architecture of Deconstruction by Mark Wigley Pdf

By locatingthe architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architectureand deconstruction.

Author : United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : MINN:30000010571689

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Children and the UN, Building for Tomorrow by United States. Children's Bureau Pdf

Author : Pol Vandevelde,Sebastian Luft
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441138903

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Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics by Pol Vandevelde,Sebastian Luft Pdf

Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of Husserl's Corpus presents fifteen original essays by an international team of expert contributors that together represent a cross-section of Husserl Studies today. The collection manifests the extent to which single themes in Husserl's corpus cannot be isolated, but must be considered in relation to their overlap with each other. Many of the accepted views of Husserl's philosophy are currently in a state of flux, with positions that once seemed incontestable now finding themselves relegated to the status of one particular school of thought among several. Among all the new trends and approaches, this volume offers a representative sample of how Husserlian research should be conducted given the current state of the corpus. The book is divided into four parts, each dedicated to an area of Husserl Studies that is currently gaining prominence: Husserlian epistemology; his views on intentionality; the archaeology of constitution; and ethics, a relatively recent field of study in phenomenology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786066970136

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Space, Time, and Other by Anonim Pdf

This book by the late Fred Kersten—known to many as the translator of Edmund Husserl’s Ideas I—takes up the challenge of Husserl’s phenomenology as the “will to return to the matters themselves,” providing extensive methodological reflections before proceeding to a series of painstaking phenomenological analyses based on a number of evocative examples such as the indeterminate mass of the hillside that looms up before me as I walk toward it in the dark.

Author : Estelle Murail,Sara Thornton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319350868

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Dickens and the Virtual City by Estelle Murail,Sara Thornton Pdf

This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters show the scapes and writings which influenced him and the way he transformed them, packaged them and passed them on for future use. The city is shown to be an imagined or virtual world but with a serious aim for a serious game: Dickens sets up a workshop for the simulation of real societies and cities. This urban building with is transferable to other literatures and medial forms. The book offers vital understanding of how writing and image work in particular ways to recreate and re-enchant society and the built environment. It will be of interest to scholars of literature, media, film, urban studies, politics and economics.

Author : Sandra J. Sucher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134146062

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The Moral Leader by Sandra J. Sucher Pdf

Successful leaders at any level and in any arena are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in moral analysis and judgment, and to come to terms with their own definition of moral lea

Author : Richard Dellamora
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0812215583

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Postmodern Apocalypse by Richard Dellamora Pdf

From accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth, to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, the sense of apocalypse is very much with us. In Postmodern Apocalypse, Richard Dellamora and his contributors examine apocalypse in works by late twentieth-century writers, filmmakers, and critics.

Author : William Langewiesche
Publisher : Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Construction and demolition debris
ISBN : 0743239547

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American Ground by William Langewiesche Pdf

Within days after 9/11, Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site. "American Ground" is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and the story of those who improvised the recovery effort day by day.

Author : Daryl J. Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190061593

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Law for Leviathan by Daryl J. Levinson Pdf

The state makes law. But the state is also subject to law in two realms: international law and constitutional law. But how in the international realm can law be enforced against powerful states in the absence of a super-state standing above them? How far can moral and legal frameworks developed around ordinary persons be extended to apply to personified Leviathans? The book argues that these kinds of questions are equally applicable to the second major regime of law for states, constitutional law. By assimilating constitutional and international law as parallel projects of imposing law upon the state, this book brings focus to the concept of "law for Leviathan" as a distinctive legal form.

Author : Jacob Deva Racusin
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781550926293

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Essential Building Science by Jacob Deva Racusin Pdf

Down and dirty – a complete step-by-step guide to making, installing and living with beautiful, all-natural earthen floors Poor heat and moisture management are the enemies of durable, comfortable, and efficient housing, and good building design and construction starts with a solid understanding of good building science. Essential Building Science provides a highly visual and accessible introduction to the fundamentals of building science for residential construction. Part one covers the rationale behind high-performance design and the fundamentals of building physics, including thermal dynamics, moisture transfer, and hygro-thermal dynamics such as vapor drive and condensation. Part two teaches the vital critical thinking skills needed to consider buildings as whole systems and to develop thermal and moisture control strategies regardless of the specifics of the design. Case studies and examples from across North American climatic zones illuminate real-life problems and offer builders, designers, and DIYers the insights and tools required for creating better new buildings and dramatically improving old ones. Good science plus critical thinking equals high performance buildings.