Routes, Roads and Landscapes

Author: Brita Brenna
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351902385
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487

Book Description
Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from cultural history, geography, philosophy, and a host of other disciplines, this collection examines the complex entanglement between routes and landscapes. It traces the changing conceptions of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present day, looking at how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented and how such movement, in turn, has conditioned understandings of the landscape. A particular focus is on the modern transportation landscape as it came into being with the canal, the railway, and the automobile. These modes of transport have had a profound impact on the perception and conceptualization of the modern landscape, a relationship investigated in detail by authors such as Gernot Böhme, Sarah Bonnemaison, Tim Cresswell, Finola O'Kane, Charlotte Klonk, Peter Merriman, Christine Macy, David Nye, Vittoria Di Palma, Charles Withers, and Thomas Zeller.

Dwell

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.

Vertical

Author: Stephen Graham
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781689962
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545

Book Description
A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above and below. Starting at the edge of earth’s atmosphere and, in a series of riveting studies, descending through each layer, Graham explores the world of drones, the city from the viewpoint of an aerial bomber, the design of sidewalks and the hidden depths of underground bunkers. He asks: why was Dubai built to be seen from Google Earth? How do the super-rich in São Paulo live in their penthouses far above the street? Why do London billionaires build vast subterranean basements? And how do the technology of elevators and subversive urban explorers shape life on the surface and subsurface of the earth? Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world.

Out There: Installations

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architects as artists
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description

"Bergmann's Team"

Author: George G. Pinneo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1414022832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Bergmann's Team continues Guy and Nita's effort to acquire a Human Team to assist Banderat and Striver engineers in diverting the comets threatening Earth. The core of their team: Guy, Nita and the Twins, demonstrate they can go EVA and perform well in space outside the Striver starship Dawn Star, surprising both Strivers and Banderat. They recruit NASA trained astronauts to join them; the Team moves up to "Terra House" aboard the starship for the interim, training before the comets reach Mars. Guy and the Twins rescue four young Banderat juveniles and put down a Banderat mutiny, freeing a captured Striver trooper, demonstrating Humans possess altruism and will fight when compelled. They augment their team and begin preparing Earth's governments for the oncoming comet storm. They make plans for post-comet business and plan for space tourism as one way to pay for routine access to orbital life and business.

Y08

Author: Luca Molinari
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
A quintessential Skira Architecture publication which presents Skira's point of view on world architecture.

Skycar City

Author: MVRDV (Firm)
Publisher: MVRDV
ISBN: 9788496540583
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the 2006 Marcus Prize Studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Winy Maas of MVDRV presents the work of 12 students who explored the relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form, as they hypothesized the use of air-born vehicles in a metropolitan setting.

Calibrations 3

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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Covers architecture courses, student work, student prizes, elective studios, degrees presented, faculty, etc., for the year.

Hyperlink City

Author: Seo-Hong Min
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description

Distribia

Author: Ali Cheaib
Publisher: Ali Cheaib
ISBN: 0692077413
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441

Book Description
Humanity's primary defining feature is our ability to design systems, but at the same time, such hallmark is our downfall because our systems have the potential for enslaving and destroying the human race. A system is a good servant but an evil master. Not realizing the dangers that lurk within systems, we foolishly enslaved humanity under ghoulish concepts. In this book, we tell the story of a cruel and oppressive system called tribalism. A master-slave social order, which endorsed two classes in society; one endured by abusing and enslaving the other for thousands of years, until the inevitable rise of distribia. Travel with us on a journey in time to a world free of tribalism. To a society free of representation, delegation, intermediation, centralization, and zoning to discover the beautiful way of life of distribia’s fascinating peer-to-peer society.