Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru, Hardcover - Helen Gyger

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Demographic transition, along with the economic and geopolitical re-emergence of Asia, are two of the largest forces shaping the twenty-first centu...

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You hear a lot these days about "innovation and entrepreneurship" and about how "good jobs" in tech will save our cities. Yet these common tropes h...

Material Innovation is an ambitious new series identifying and examining the new and innovative materials that are transforming art, design and tec...

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How can companies survive and prosper in the new economic age of the 4th Industrial Revolution? This book collects a variety of cases and quality m...

An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women's studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field's...

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The first book by Russian photographer and Instagram sensation Arseniy Kotov. The images showcase surviving Soviet Modernist architecture from acro...

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Today s design professionals are faced with challenges on all fronts. They need not only to keep in step with rapid technological changes and the c...

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Smart-lighting design is a rapidly growing area of interactive and cross-disciplinary design that is defining new practices in the profession. This...

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The elimination of racial and ethnic inequities--differences that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unfair--has been one of the overarching health-re...