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Whose Land Is Our Land?The Use and Abuse of Britain's Forgotten Acres
Food security and housing a nation with an expanding population should be key priorities for a small island like Britain. Yet both are being thwarted by record land prices. In the last 10 years, farm land has risen by almost 200% - with feeding the nation a secondary consideration to speculators buying up thousands of acres annually to avoid tax. If planning permission is given for new housing,…
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The Property LobbyThe Hidden Reality behind the Housing Crisis
In this accessible and passionately argued book, Bob Colenutt goes to the roots of the long-term crisis in housing and planning in the UK. Providing a much needed, in depth critique of the nexus of power of landowners, house builders, financial backers and politicians that makes up the property lobby, this radical book reveals how this complex, self-serving and intimidating network perpetuate…
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The Self-Build ExperienceInstitutionalisation, Place-Making and City Building
Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-building for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas. Although social, economic and urban prosperity differs across these contexts, there exists a recurring, cross-continental, tension between formal governance and self-regulation. …
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Urban FuturesPlanning for City Foresight and City Visions
Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futures. This book explores the history and evolution of city visions, placing them in the wider context of art, culture, science, foresight and urban theory. It highlights and critically reviews examples of city visions from around the world, contra…
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African Modernism and Its Afterlives
This edited collection of essays and image-driven pieces by anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, and historians examines the legacies of African architecture from around the time of independence through examples from different countries. Drawing on ethnography, archival research, and careful observation of buildings, remains, and people, the case studies seek to connect the colonial and…
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Architects, Sustainability and the Climate EmergencyA Political Ecology
The promises, dreams and hopes of architects for future cities are now inextricably linked to climate change. Architects, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology chronicles how architects have shaped their ideas of the city—and sustainability—as knowledge of the climate emergency has unfolded. Have architects responded to the climate crisis too slowly? Describing a po…
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500 Small Houses of the Twenties
Spurred by a rapidly expanding economy and abundant resources of land, building materials and skilled labor, the dream of building and owning one's own home became a reality in America in the 1920s. With the beginning market for small- to medium-sized one-family dwellings came a succession of innovative home designs that transformed American domestic architecture. This outstanding book presents…
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Breve historia de la mitología sumeriaMitos 1
Breve Historia de la Mitología Sumeria invita al lector a adentrarse en el mundo mesopotámico a través de los mitos que dieron lugar a una de las culturas más impresionantes del mundo oriental y que puso las bases de las diferentes civilizaciones. Esta obra recoge cómo la sociedad sumeria y en su defecto, la mesopotámica, basaba sus comportamientos en los mitos, ya que en su origen, los d…
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Machine HallucinationsArchitecture and Artificial Intelligence
AI is already part of our lives even though we might not realise it. It is in our phones, filtering spam, identifying Facebook friends, and classifying our images on Instagram. It is in our homes in the form of Siri, Alexa and other AI assistants. It is in our cars and our planes. AI is literally everywhere. Artworks generated by AI have won international prizes, and have been sold at auction. …
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Die Einsiedelei Longeborgne
Versteckt am Fuße der schwindelerregenden Klippen, die der Fluss Borgne geformt hat, liegt die Einsiedelein von Longeborgne. Ein spektakulärer und malerischer Ort, der von einer lebendigen Spiritualität geprägt ist. Die Anfänge der Einsiedelei sind nicht mehr nachvollziehbar, doch ein Dokument aus dem Jahr 1522 belegt die Anwesenheit einer kleinen Franziskanergemeinschaft, die hier über d…
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