The regions of Europe have an architectural heritage that is a thousand years old; and it is a challenge to integrate this heritage into contemporary life in a sustainable way. This book presents examples to demonstrate a desire to be considered as "local" projects and to take their place in an evolutionary interpretation of history.
From musty medieval dungeons to modern concrete cellblocks, prison architecture reveals much about how a society sees fit to control and contain those who transgress its boundaries. Forms of Constraint is the first general volume to consider how prison design has evolved over the centuries, how it has taken shape in various corners of the globe, ......
This book offers a specifically feminist perspective on women's lives in contemporary cities; one which the editors hope will sustain and influence women's 'ways of being' in those cities. The contributors offer an array of knowledge about women's place and women's places in cities today. The book acknowledges women's positive as well as negative experiences in their roles as workers, mothers, housewives, shoppers and members of social networks. Women are not seen as passive victims of capitalism or of male violence, although the realities of exploitation and the fear of crime are recognized.
A study in visual abstraction, as well as a showcase of modern architecture. It takes us on a nation-wide tour of magnificent buildings, from Chicago to Dallas to Sarasota, Florida. It captures the striking beauty of American skyscrapers.
Exercises and GIS Data to Accompany Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition
This workbook is designed to guide the user through the formulation of the components of a future land use plan. It provides hands-on experience with the application of GIS technology for land analysis at various scales; guides the user through the process of working with factual land use, population and socio-economic data; as well as assessing ......
Architectural Designs for Washington, D.C., from the Library of Congress
The book features drawings for some of Washington's most important buildings, monuments, and memorialsthe United States Capitol, the White House, and the Vietnam Memorialas well as anonymous structures of everyday life and ambitious projects that were never built. Over the past ten years, the Library of Congress has cataloged more than forty ......
'History, after all, has a corporeal aspect -- every event occupies a physical dimension, and all actions are ultimately grounded, one way or another, in the landscape. Places, which possess their own geography, natural history, and embedded perceptions, not only ground the physicality of historical events -- they also can constitute both actor ......
Baltimore's Homewood was a wedding gift from Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, to his son Charles Jr. and his bride, Harriet Chew Carroll. Located on 130 acres of rolling meadow and forest, it afforded picturesque view to the harbor. The couple built a ''full and genteel establishment,'' a grand yet intimate summer ......
America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the ""rage for erecting villages is a perfect mania."" The development of Rochester and ......
