Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai, Hardcover - Todd Reisz

Reducere. Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous--this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, expe...

DescriptionMoving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of traditio...

Publisher: ListLabAuthor(s): Maddalena FerrettiIllustration(s): DFull color illustrationsNumber of pages: 236Collection: Babel InternationalPublica...

The fast-track guide for the smart traveller

No city in the United States is a synonymous with unbridled growth and land speculation as the sprawling Texas city of Houston. The book offers a v...

DescriptionA change is taking place all across the country and especially on the West Coast, a shift led by the younger generations. People who in ...

Reducere. Award-winning journalist Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from its earliest days, considers the influence of the family who has ruled it since...

Reducere. 'A City Within a City' is a case study of the civil rights era as it happened in smaller cities, focusing specifically on the struggles involving s...

I See a City: Todd Webb's New York focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed t...

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

A characteristically colourful and quirky exploration of the weird and wonderful world of Dubai from acclaimed author, Joe Bennett

Reducere. DescriptionA compelling survey of Texas houses that draw both on the heritage of pioneer ranches and on the twentieth-century design principles of ...

Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and ...

Reducere. As Technical Director, Rockwell worked alongside the legendary Admiral Rickover for the first 15 years, creating the nuclear navy, then the world s...

At once ancient and contemporary, How a Mountain Was Made is equally at home in modern letters as the ancient story cycle. Sarris infuses his stori...

A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary cityMichael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural ...

Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urba...

Contributor(s): Editor: MonocleWe push past the colourful chaos and Frida Kahlo merchandise to find the city's tastiest tacos and the retailers bre...

Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local.Resilience now matters most, and most resil...

DescriptionArchitecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. ​Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be ...

Reducere. Inspired by Frances Schultz's popular House Beautiful magazine series on the makeover of her East Hampton house, Bee Cottage, what began as a decor...

Reducere. Culegerea de eseuri ale lui Robert D. Reisz, despre universitati si despre alte teme - importante, dar si sensibile - care sunt discutate in spatiu...

Publisher: Hoxton Mini PressAuthor(s): Taran WilkhuNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 262 x 26Cover type: Paperback / soft...

DescriptionNew York City Brick by Brick is the ultimate exploration of the architecture and history of New York City through the creative medium of...

Reducere. Chicago's architecture has been called the most important in the United States by the American Institute of Architects, and perhaps no other type o...

Contributor(s): Author: Rem KoolhaasAuthor: Denise Scott BrownAuthor: Yoshiharu TsukamotoSince the beginning of the century, the field of architect...

DescriptionThe objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material--they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies ...

Reducere. Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many. A...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Founded in the late 1960s on Chile's Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge...

DescriptionA stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to Civil Rights to the Climate Change Movement We Are Power brings to ...

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive through increasing diversity in the profession and enhanced c...

Reducere. Universitatile au devenit in anii din urma organizatiile fundamentale ale modernitatii. Cartea de fata explica felul cum s-a dezvoltat universitate...

Reducere. I Don't See Color by G.Todd Taylor is an intriguing Children's book that dares readers to challenge the status quo and appreciate each others' diff...

Reducere. When Zoe has to start a new school after the summer holidays, she is naturally apprehensive. Making friends at a new school was hard enough but wit...

Nicolas Darvas was a world famous dancer and a self taught investor. He had never considered investing in the stock market until he was paid in sto...

An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities Since citie...

Reducere. You may think you know how this book was made, but you don't. Sure, the author wrote many drafts, and the illustrator took a long time creating the...

Reducere. In Just 18 Months, Nicolas Darvas Turned $25, 000 into Over $2 Million... This is How He Did It... ...and How You Can Do it Too With just fifty pou...

Contributor(s): Author: Jan GehlAuthor: Birgitte SvarreHow do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, an...

Reducere. A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwa...

Published in conjunction with the third iteration of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, ...and other such stories extends the exhibition's core que...

Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction--acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a ...

DescriptionFrom one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakes...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how bridges don't fall down? Or how really old buildings stay standing up? In the How Do series, readers are welcome to gues...

What does a forty-two-year-old, small-town pastor do when he wins one of the most popular singing competitions in the world? Todd Tilghman and his ...

Reducere. Buffalo is literally a walkable encyclopedia of amazing --architecture, told through the works of internationally renowned masters such as Frank Ll...