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  • Railway

    by George Revill ...
    Series series Objekt
    Since the 19th century the railway has been a widely acknowledged symbol of progress and confidence in technological modernity. In the 21st century the looming prospect of traffic gridlock and human-induced climate change has once again transformed the railway into a emblem of hope that provides the possibility of an environmentally sustainable future. Ambitious cities invest in rail transit, ... Read more

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  • Flowscapes

    Designing infrastructure as landscape

    Edited by Van Der Hoeven Frank, Steffen Nijhuis, Jauslin Daniel ...
    Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that ... Read more

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  • How Modernity Forgets

    by Paul Connerton ...
    Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes ideas from Francis Yates classic work, The Art of Memory, which viewed memory as being dependent on stability, and argues that today's world is full of change, making 'forgetting' characteristic of ... Read more

    $21.41 USD

  • On Craftsmanship

    Towards a New Bauhaus

    by Christopher Frayling ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    'Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.'The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by – among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense ... Read more

    $11.51 USD

  • Dream Cities

    Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

    by Wade Graham ...
    "An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces and the behaviors they engender." — Wall Street JournalFrom the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities.Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make ... Read more

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  • The New Museology

    Edited by Peter Vergo ...
    Series series Critical Views
    Traditionally, museums have concerned themselves with foremost with conservation and classification. But what is conserved, and why? How is it classified? And who does this benefit? Are exhibitions really designed with the visitor in mind? And what qualities of experience are being offered? These are just some of the pressing questions which the authors - museum professionals, historians and ... Read more

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  • The Birth of the Museum

    History, Theory, Politics

    by Tony Bennett ...
    Series series Culture: Policy and Politics
    In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Shivers Down Your Spine

    Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View

    by Alison Griffiths ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender new modes of seeing, listening, and thinking. What unites and defines many of these wondrous spaces ... Read more

    $29.15 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre

    Edited by Jenny Hughes, Helen Nicholson ...
    As the twenty-first century moves towards its third decade, applied theatre is being shaped by contemporary economic and environmental concerns and is contributing to new conceptual paradigms that influence the ways in which socially engaged art is produced and understood. This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre. With contributions ... Read more

    $25.82 USD

  • City Design

    Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives

    by Jonathan Barnett ...
    City Design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the Modernist city of towers and highways that, beginning in the 1920s, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, scorned by the modernists, but being revived ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • The Politics of Performance

    Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention

    by Baz Kershaw ...
    The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction, cultural intervention and community action, which is used to illuminate the potential social and political effects of radical performance practice. ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Design First

    by David Walters, Linda Brown ...
    Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of ... Read more

    $76.49 USD