Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Detroit City is the place to be Detroit City is the place to be Mark Binelli "The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greates… OL16627040W
The Bureaucracy of Beauty The Bureaucracy of Beauty Arindam Dutta Designing the Present is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Profess… OL1760509W
Crime and planning Crime and planning Derek J. Paulsen "Presenting the first comprehensive discussion of the interconnections between urban planning, criminal victimization, and crime prevention, this book aims to provide planners with the tools and know… OL17731471W
The human city The human city Joel Kotkin "Urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density strategies and instead advocates for "smart suburbs" that take advantage of new technologies, family-f… OL20032665W
Power at ground zero Power at ground zero Lynne B. Sagalyn "The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world. War has raged in the Middle East … OL20037741W
Designing Our Way to a Better World Designing Our Way to a Better World Thomas Fisher "Envisioning what we need, when it doesn't yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world--functioning schools, working infrastructure, thrivi… OL20241478W
Surface architecture Surface architecture Mohsen Mostafavi,David Leatherbarrow Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This text explores ways that design can take advantage of production methods s… OL28947552W
Urban design Urban design Cliff Moughtin xii, 238 p. : 20 cm OL3239915W
A pattern language A pattern language Christopher Alexander Alexander and his co-authors present us with over two hundred (roughly 250) "patterns" that they believe must be present in order for an environment to be pleasing, comfortable, or in their words, "a… OL3923600W
Dynamics of Delight Dynamics of Delight Peter F. Smith It is only worth examining the experience of aesthetic pleasure if there are grounds for believing that there are objective truths underpinning the subjective experience of beauty. This book explore… OL4818151W