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Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate “big” technologies such as railways and irrigation projects, Arnold examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles,(...)
Everyday technology: machines and the making of India's modernity
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Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate “big” technologies such as railways and irrigation projects, Arnold examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India, and follows their impact on the ways in which people worked and traveled, the clothes they wore, and the kind of food they ate.
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Ecologies of Urbanism in India explores how rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive urbanism affects everyday lived environments and the ecological processes that undergird them in Indian cities. Case studies on nature conservation in the city, urban housing and slum development, waste management, the history and practice of urban planning, and contestations over(...)
Ecologies of urbanism in India: metropolitain civility and sustainability
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Ecologies of Urbanism in India explores how rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive urbanism affects everyday lived environments and the ecological processes that undergird them in Indian cities. Case studies on nature conservation in the city, urban housing and slum development, waste management, the history and practice of urban planning, and contestations over the quality of air, water, and sanitation in the major cities of Delhi and Mumbai, illuminate the urban ecology perspective at different points across the twentieth century. The book therefore examines how struggles over the environment and quality of life in urban centers are increasingly framed in terms of their future place in a landscape of global sustainability, and the future relationship between cities and their changing hinterlands.
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February 2013
Arch Middle East
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Part of the Architectural Papers series, The Middle East explores the architecture of a nearly paradoxical region. Both the cradle of culture, where much remains of thousands of years of human society, the Middle East is also an area of great flux in contemporary history. This volume explores this dichotomy in three sections. The first, “Beyond the View,” investigates(...)
Middle East: landscape, city, architecture
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Part of the Architectural Papers series, The Middle East explores the architecture of a nearly paradoxical region. Both the cradle of culture, where much remains of thousands of years of human society, the Middle East is also an area of great flux in contemporary history. This volume explores this dichotomy in three sections. The first, “Beyond the View,” investigates notions of the Middle Eastern architecture through a comparative study of different parts of the Arab world. “Case Studies” focuses on three exceptionally different cities—Beirut, Amman, and Doha—through an investigation of recent and future building projects. The final chapter, “Limits” looks at the architectural practices of countries that constitute the geographic, cultural, and political limits of the region: Israel, Turkey, and Iran.
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with(...)
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Free city
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with their vested interests, each with new reasons for spinning fictions of their own.
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After decades on the periphery of Western architectural consciousness, Chile has recently come to be recognized as an important hub for innovation in architecture. Its construction boom can be partly credited to its stable economy and thriving academic culture. Assembled over a three-year period of intensive research, "White Mountain: Recent Architecture in Chile" looks(...)
White mountain : architecture in Chile
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After decades on the periphery of Western architectural consciousness, Chile has recently come to be recognized as an important hub for innovation in architecture. Its construction boom can be partly credited to its stable economy and thriving academic culture. Assembled over a three-year period of intensive research, "White Mountain: Recent Architecture in Chile" looks at more than 120 works by 60 architects and architectural firms spanning several generations, selected by the celebrated Catalan architect and director of the Arquine Group, Miquel Adria.
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Architecturally, Burma is both a melting pot and a museum. Boasting a wealth of influences from all of the countries that surround it--India, China, Laos, Thailand, Bhutan, Laos--Burma has also preserved many key examples of religious architectural styles no longer extant in their countries of origin, most famously in Pagan, the country’s capital in the ninth to twelfth(...)
Architecture in Burma: moments in time
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Architecturally, Burma is both a melting pot and a museum. Boasting a wealth of influences from all of the countries that surround it--India, China, Laos, Thailand, Bhutan, Laos--Burma has also preserved many key examples of religious architectural styles no longer extant in their countries of origin, most famously in Pagan, the country’s capital in the ninth to twelfth centuries. Authored by Lorie Karnath, President of the Explorer’s Club in New York, Architecture in Burma is an overview of the astounding architectural treasures of this long-isolated country.
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Beyond the dense urbanism of Mumbai (Bombay) or the IT centers of Bangalore and Hyderabad lies the Ganges River basin--today home to over one-quarter of India's billion-plus population--a space historically defined by a mythological constellation of terrestrial sites imbued with celestial significance. Not only is it one of the most densely populated river basins in the(...)
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Ganges water machine:designing New India's ancient river
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Beyond the dense urbanism of Mumbai (Bombay) or the IT centers of Bangalore and Hyderabad lies the Ganges River basin--today home to over one-quarter of India's billion-plus population--a space historically defined by a mythological constellation of terrestrial sites imbued with celestial significance. Not only is it one of the most densely populated river basins in the world, but it also undergoes dramatic physical changes with the onslaught of the wet monsoon, where over one-meter of rainfall occurs in the span of three months. This book focuses on the intersection of these two observations. It is an atlas of built and unbuilt projects designed to transform the river into a giant water machine.
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A line in the Andes
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A Line in the Andes a one year investigation developed at the Harvard Graduate school of design examines the transformative role of the first underground metro line currently being implemented in the city of Quito (Ecuador). Through archival material, original drawings, and text, this publication frames the metro project within the city's historic and current urban form,(...)
A line in the Andes
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A Line in the Andes a one year investigation developed at the Harvard Graduate school of design examines the transformative role of the first underground metro line currently being implemented in the city of Quito (Ecuador). Through archival material, original drawings, and text, this publication frames the metro project within the city's historic and current urban form, visualizing the urban potential of this contemporary valley-city. In doing so, the material documented in this book sets the stage for well-informed design deliberations regarding an urban future Quito deserves.
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Ce livre est avant tout un recueil d’images et d’impressions sur l’architecture et l’urbanisme de trois villes (Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Sao Paulo), mis en parallèle avec la réalité de la métropole lilloise. Trois auteurs principaux livreront leur ressenti : Aurélien MASUREL, architecte, Didier PARIS, professeur en aménagement et urbanisme à l’Université de Lille 1 et(...)
Brésil : expériences sensibles
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Ce livre est avant tout un recueil d’images et d’impressions sur l’architecture et l’urbanisme de trois villes (Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Sao Paulo), mis en parallèle avec la réalité de la métropole lilloise. Trois auteurs principaux livreront leur ressenti : Aurélien MASUREL, architecte, Didier PARIS, professeur en aménagement et urbanisme à l’Université de Lille 1 et Luc SAISON, architecte-urbaniste.
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Storm in Chandigarh
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‘India, once a uniform piece of territory to administer, was now a welter of separate, sensitive identities, resurrected after independence.’ As the quarrel over boundaries, water and electric power between Punjab and the newly created Haryana intensifies, Gyan Singh, the chief minister of Punjab, threatens to launch a crippling strike that will affect both states. With(...)
Storm in Chandigarh
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‘India, once a uniform piece of territory to administer, was now a welter of separate, sensitive identities, resurrected after independence.’ As the quarrel over boundaries, water and electric power between Punjab and the newly created Haryana intensifies, Gyan Singh, the chief minister of Punjab, threatens to launch a crippling strike that will affect both states. With the chief minister of Haryana, Harpal Singh, refusing to concede any advantages, the stage is set for a confrontation.
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