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Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter(...)
Survival city: adventures among the ruins of atomic America
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Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten’s stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Chicago, Ill. : Art Institute of Chicago, ©1983., ©1983
An Open Land : photographs of the Midwest, 1852-1982 / Rhondal McKinney, curator ; Victoria Post Ranney, editor.
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The car has long been a central part of American life; whether we see it as a symbol of freedom or a symptom of sprawl, we define ourselves by what and how we drive. As Vanderbilt shows, driving is a provocatively revealing prism for examining how our minds work and the ways in which we interact with one another. Ultimately, Traffic is about more than driving: it’s about(...)
Traffic: Why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)
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The car has long been a central part of American life; whether we see it as a symbol of freedom or a symptom of sprawl, we define ourselves by what and how we drive. As Vanderbilt shows, driving is a provocatively revealing prism for examining how our minds work and the ways in which we interact with one another. Ultimately, Traffic is about more than driving: it’s about human nature. This book will change the way we see ourselves and the world around us. And who knows? It may even make us better drivers.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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459 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm + 1 folded poster
New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, [2017], New York, NY : Distributed by Actar Distribution Inc., ©2017
The arsenal of exclusion & inclusion / Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, Georgeen Theodore ; written and edited with Riley Gold ; [with contributions by Baye Adofo-Wilson and seventy-four others].
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New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, [2017], New York, NY : Distributed by Actar Distribution Inc., ©2017
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As Vanderbilt shows, driving is a provocatively revealing prism for examining how our minds work and the ways in which we interact with one another. Tom Vanderbilt writes about design, technology, science, and culture, for "Wired", "Slate", "Artforum", and "The New York Times", and was a research fellow at the CCA in fall 2008.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
August 2008, New York
Traffic: why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)
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As Vanderbilt shows, driving is a provocatively revealing prism for examining how our minds work and the ways in which we interact with one another. Tom Vanderbilt writes about design, technology, science, and culture, for "Wired", "Slate", "Artforum", and "The New York Times", and was a research fellow at the CCA in fall 2008.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018], ©2018
Culture is not always popular : fifteen years of Design Observer / edited by Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand, with Jarrett Fuller.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018], ©2018
Cabinet 38: Islands
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Including: Maggie Nelson, Anthony Grafton, Annika Ström, George Pendle, Tom Vanderbilt, Mary Mattingly, and more.
Cabinet 38: Islands
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Including: Maggie Nelson, Anthony Grafton, Annika Ström, George Pendle, Tom Vanderbilt, Mary Mattingly, and more.
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This book proposes to memorialize the design elements and planning principles that made it the most successful town-center development in America. An important aim was to promote this type of sustainable community development reflectes the primary message that Reston Town Center, while newly built, is a timeless urban place, a downtown in the suburbs. Contributing authors(...)
Reston town center : a downtown for the 21st century
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This book proposes to memorialize the design elements and planning principles that made it the most successful town-center development in America. An important aim was to promote this type of sustainable community development reflectes the primary message that Reston Town Center, while newly built, is a timeless urban place, a downtown in the suburbs. Contributing authors included individuals who worked on Reston Town Center—Robert E. Simon, Thomas A. D’Alesandro, Robert C. Kettler, Robert A.M. Stern—and noted urbanists Charles C. Bohl, Tom Vanderbilt, Philip Langdon.
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Electricity manifests itself in every facet of our lives--from the tiny shock received by touching a doorknob to the explosive power of a lightning strike, from the modest Hoover dustbuster to the industrial grandeur of the Hoover Dam. As a force that has given human beings seemingly unlimited power over nature and refashioned our understanding of day and night, and as a(...)
Cabinet 21 : electricity
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Electricity manifests itself in every facet of our lives--from the tiny shock received by touching a doorknob to the explosive power of a lightning strike, from the modest Hoover dustbuster to the industrial grandeur of the Hoover Dam. As a force that has given human beings seemingly unlimited power over nature and refashioned our understanding of day and night, and as a metaphor for the social currents flowing among individuals and communities, electricity has been our invisible yet ubiquitous ally in the creation of a contemporary "technological sublime." Cabinet No. 21 includes an interview with Sharon Beder on electricity and modernity in America; Margaret Wertheim on Lichtenberg figures, frozen lightning captured in acrylic blocks; Michael Sanchez on Francisco Salva's shocking proposal for an eighteenth-century human telegraphy system; an interview with Marcello Pera on how a frog triggered a decisive scientific debate between Enlightenment "electricians" Galvani and Volta; an essay on Benjamin Franklin's promotion of Ebenezer Kinnersley's electrified "magical picture"; and a firsthand account by a survivor of multiple lightning strikes. Also Tom Vanderbilt on Stasi scent samples; an interview with Sam Chwat, the foremost accent elimination coach in the United States; and artist projects by Andrea Geyer and Rachel Watson.
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Featuring 40 essays by U.S. and European historians, designers, cultural critics, geographers and social scientists, illustrated with over 250 color images in extensive visual "gazetteers" — including specially-commissioned portfolios by artists and designers — "Else/where mapping" investigates : how new technologies of navigation and location are emerging to chart(...)
Architectural Plans and Cartography
October 2005, Minneapolis
Else/where : mapping new cartographies of networks and territories
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Featuring 40 essays by U.S. and European historians, designers, cultural critics, geographers and social scientists, illustrated with over 250 color images in extensive visual "gazetteers" — including specially-commissioned portfolios by artists and designers — "Else/where mapping" investigates : how new technologies of navigation and location are emerging to chart "virtual" terrain such as social networks and online conversations; how these new mapping strategies borrow and reinvent metaphors adapted from the cartography of physical terrain, considered at various scales — urban, regional, continental, global ; how new modes of representation of spatial data are evolving to explore the potential for collective "bottom-up" (rather than "top-down") mapping ; how cities, communities and social networks are being re-envisioned, as artists and designers use technologies such as GPS, GIS and digital interface design to devise alternative mappings of social and spatial relationships. Authors : Janet Abrams, Ole Bouman, Andrea Codrington, Denis Cosgrove, Steve Dietz, Paul Elliman, Yuri Engelhardt, Peter Hall, Brian Holmes, J.J. King, Cathy Lang Ho, Andrea Moed, David Pescovitz, Rebecca Ross, Ben Schouten, Alex Terzich, Alice Twemlow, Dirk van Weelden, Tom Vanderbilt, Peter Walsh and Stephen Zacks. Featured artists and designers included : Antenna Design New York, Julian Bleecker, Bureau d'Etudes, Sulki Choi, Layla Curtis, Judith Donath, Entropy8Zuper!, Michael Frumin, Ben Fry, De Geuzen, govcom.org, Marti Guixe, Mark Hansen, Robert Horn, Natalie Jeremijenko, Lisa Jevbratt, Nina Katchadourian, Valdis Krebs, Laura Kurgan, Mark Lombardi, The London Particular, Lumeta.org, Barrett Lyon, Brian McGrath, Julie Mehretu, Paul Mijksenaar, Sigi Moeslinger, MUST Architects, MVRDV, Josh On, W. Bradford Paley, Scott Paterson, Esther Polak, Richard Rogers, Ben Rubin, Warren Sack, Mike Silver, Marco Susani, Terraswarm, UN Studio, Urban Tapestries, Waag Society for Old and New Media, Ronald Wall, Kimberlee Whaley, Jeremy Wood and Marina Zurkow. Book design : Deborah Littlejohn.
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