Metropole: Reflexionen

Metropole: Reflexionen
Author: Oliver G. Hamm
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

"This volume offers a rich spectrum of reflections on complex facets of the metropolis phenomenon: cultural identity, globalisation, demographic change and migration. They are complemented by a comprehensive retrospective of the history of international building exhibitions including observations made in hindsight and experience transfer."--BOOK JACKET.

Urban Visions

Urban Visions
Author: Carmen Díez Medina
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2018-06-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319590472

This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism. It explains how the contemporary city and landscape have been shaped by certain twentieth century visions that have carried over into the twenty-first century. Aimed at both students and professionals, this collection of essays on diverse subjects and cases does not attempt to establish universal interpretations; it rather highlights some outstanding episodes that help us understand why the planning culture has given way to other forms of urbanism, from urban design to strategic urbanism or landscape urbanism. Compared with global interpretations of urbanism based on socioeconomic history or architectural historiography, Urban Visions. From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism, aims to present the discipline couched in international contemporary debate and adopt a historic and comparative perspective. The book’s contents pertain equally to other related disciplines, such as architecture, urban history, urban design, landscape architecture and geography. Foreword by Rafael Moneo.

2009

2009
Author:
Publisher: K.G. Saur Verlag
Total Pages: 910
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9783598694530

Reviews are an important aspect of scholarly discussion because they help filter out which works are relevant in the yearly flood of publications and are thus influential in determining how a work is received. The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, it is a unique source of bibliographical information. The database contains entries on over 1.2 million book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,820, mainly European scholarly journals. Reviews of more than 560,000 scholarly works are listed. The database increases every year by 60,000 entries. Every entry contains the following information: On the work reviewed: author, title On the review: reviewer, periodical (year, edition, page, ISSN), language, subject area (in German, English, Italian) Publisher, address of journal

Religions, Mumbai Style

Religions, Mumbai Style
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 0192889370

A collection of ethnographic essays on the city of Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay), the volume questions the city's claim of a 'self-projected' cosmopolitanism by exploring its relationship with religion.

Urban Cultures in (post)colonial Central Europe

Urban Cultures in (post)colonial Central Europe
Author: Agata Anna Lisiak
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1557535736

"Agata Anna Lisiak shows in her book Urban Cultures in (Post)colonial Central Europe how the postcolonial idea, developed recently to study Central and East European culture, can help us see the transformations of cities in the region. Lisiak argues that Berlin, Budapest Warsaw, and Prague are incubated cultures whose deepest forces were shadowy and ironic."-Marshall Berman, City University of New York.

Medium Metropole

Medium Metropole
Author: Friedrich Knilli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1986
Genre: Cities and towns in literature
ISBN:

Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge

Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge
Author: Axel Sowa
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3775748539

Die zwölfte Ausgabe von Candide widmet sich dem Thema Visual Urbanism – ein vollkommen neues Forschungsfeld. Fotograf*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen experimentierten mit anthropologischen, kulturwissenschaftlichen, soziologischen und geografischen Methoden, für eine Reflexion über die meist unkritische Nutzung von Bildern des öffentlichen Raums. Candide 12 sucht Möglichkeiten, diese Ergebnisse in Architektur und Stadtplanung zu integriert. Dabei beantworten Autor*innen drängende Fragen, wie nach der Nutzbarmachung fotografischer Bilder für die Architektur und vice versa.