Highwaying
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When cars emerged in the last century, people began connecting their cities through roadways. In the course of time, a narrow grid of roads originated. But what permits great mobility is, in the urban context, a barrier to urban relations and movement flows beyond the use of cars. The urban potential lying in these residual spaces is explored by the experimental design(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
October 2010
Highwaying
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When cars emerged in the last century, people began connecting their cities through roadways. In the course of time, a narrow grid of roads originated. But what permits great mobility is, in the urban context, a barrier to urban relations and movement flows beyond the use of cars. The urban potential lying in these residual spaces is explored by the experimental design studio of professor Lafranchi at Burgdorf University for Applied Sciences, Switzerland. Documented in this book, the project of a research center and a world of experience “Fascination of automobile and traffic” by Lukas Ingold and Fabio Tammaro is based, in its constructive design, on concepts of automotive engineering as well as the parameters of the loop-shaped dynamics of a highway hub with its streets, ramps, bridges, and residual surfaces.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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Créée par la Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, l'exposition Terre Natale, Ailleurs commence ici propose un dialogue entre le cinéaste Raymond Depardon et le philosophe Paul Virilio sur le rapport au natal, à l'enracinement et au déracinement, à une époque où les flux migratoires humains ont atteint une échelle sans précédent. Dans son film Donner la parole,(...)
October 2009
Terre natale, ailleurs commence ici
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Créée par la Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, l'exposition Terre Natale, Ailleurs commence ici propose un dialogue entre le cinéaste Raymond Depardon et le philosophe Paul Virilio sur le rapport au natal, à l'enracinement et au déracinement, à une époque où les flux migratoires humains ont atteint une échelle sans précédent. Dans son film Donner la parole, réalisé avec Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon laisse s'exprimer ceux qui, menacés de devoir partir, veulent demeurer sur leur terre. Les artistes et architectes Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan et Ben Rubin donnent forme aux concepts de Paul Virilio avec la création d'une cartographie dynamique qui rend compte des migrations environnementales, politiques et économiques. Publiés pour la première fois dans le catalogue Terre Natale (prix Nomad's 2009), les textes présentés ici permettent d'explorer les problématiques soulevées dans l'exposition. Accompagnés de vues d'exposition, ils constituent un véritable outil de réflexion sur les notions de nomadisme et de sédentarité, ainsi que sur les questions identitaires qui leur sont attachées.
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This latest book in the Historical Atlas series outlines the development of the railway system from its very beginnings around 1830 through to today’s freight railroads and government passenger services. It features an unprecedented 400-plus contemporary and historical railroad maps, and 150 photographs, archival documents and railroadiana.
Historical atlas of the North American railroad
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This latest book in the Historical Atlas series outlines the development of the railway system from its very beginnings around 1830 through to today’s freight railroads and government passenger services. It features an unprecedented 400-plus contemporary and historical railroad maps, and 150 photographs, archival documents and railroadiana.
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King Nosmo is Kasper Stromman and Tomas de Rita, two Helsinki-based artists/graphic designers. Over the years they have acquired an extensive collection of pictures from three continents. This book covesr the years 2000-2005 and is a guide book to cities around the world.
November 2010
Around the world with King Nosmo
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King Nosmo is Kasper Stromman and Tomas de Rita, two Helsinki-based artists/graphic designers. Over the years they have acquired an extensive collection of pictures from three continents. This book covesr the years 2000-2005 and is a guide book to cities around the world.
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This book examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective framework for understanding both the intensity of U.S. motorization and the difficulties the(...)
Mass Motorization + Mass Transit: An American history and policy analysis
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This book examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective framework for understanding both the intensity of U.S. motorization and the difficulties the country will face in moderating its demands on the world's oil supply and reducing the CO2 emissions generated by motor vehicles.
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Une semaine à l'aéroport
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Si on devait expliquer à un Martien toute la complexité du monde moderne (confiance en la technologie, destruction de la nature, conception romantique des voyages) il faudrait sans aucun doute lui faire visiter un aéroport. Car les aéroports constituent, dans toute leur effervescence, leur intérêt et leur beauté, le centre symbolique de notre civilisation.
January 2011
Une semaine à l'aéroport
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Si on devait expliquer à un Martien toute la complexité du monde moderne (confiance en la technologie, destruction de la nature, conception romantique des voyages) il faudrait sans aucun doute lui faire visiter un aéroport. Car les aéroports constituent, dans toute leur effervescence, leur intérêt et leur beauté, le centre symbolique de notre civilisation.
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This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier’s adventure in automobile design. Le Corbusier (with Pierre Jeanneret) entered an automobile design competition, submitting plans for "a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality," the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier’s energetic promotion of his design to several important automakers, the(...)
March 2011
Voiture minimum: Le Corbusier and the automobile
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This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier’s adventure in automobile design. Le Corbusier (with Pierre Jeanneret) entered an automobile design competition, submitting plans for "a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality," the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier’s energetic promotion of his design to several important automakers, the Voiture Minimum was never mass-produced. Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail, linking it to Le Corbusier’s architectural work, to Modernist utopian urban visions, and to the automobile design projects of other architects including Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change. To accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where(...)
March 2011
Fighting traffic : the dawn of the motor age in the American city
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Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change. To accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution.
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This book is a tribute to the artists' State of Sabotage, founded off Finland by the Austrian artist Robert Jelinek in 2003. The book includes a cultural topography by Irina Ulrike Anderl and writings on the phenomenon state and art, and the art of state.
Offshore census: Citizens of the state of sabotage
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This book is a tribute to the artists' State of Sabotage, founded off Finland by the Austrian artist Robert Jelinek in 2003. The book includes a cultural topography by Irina Ulrike Anderl and writings on the phenomenon state and art, and the art of state.
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The road to Oxiana
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In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana serves as a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers, and a nostalgic(...)
The road to Oxiana
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In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana serves as a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers, and a nostalgic look back at a more innocent time.
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