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Detroit City is the place to be
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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… |
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The Bureaucracy of Beauty
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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… |
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Crime and planning
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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… |
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The human city
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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… |
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Power at ground zero
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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 … |
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Designing Our Way to a Better World
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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… |
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Surface architecture
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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… |
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Urban design
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Cliff Moughtin |
xii, 238 p. : 20 cm |
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A pattern language
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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… |
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Dynamics of Delight
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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… |
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