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Moscheen in BewegungInterdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf muslimische Kultstät…
Noch wird in der wissenschaftlichen und öffentlichen Beschäftigung mit dem Islam unterschieden zwischen unscheinbaren "Hinterhofmoscheen" und den sichtbaren "Moscheeneubauten". Gemeint sind damit die religiösen Kultstätten der seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert in Deutschland lebenden Muslime. Es wird Zeit, diese architektonische und sozial immer noch wirksame Unterscheidung von unsicht…
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Architektenschmiede ParisDie Karriere des Jakob Ignaz Hittorff
Es wird der unterschlagenen Frage nachgegangen, welche Rolle der Elitismus der französischen Architektenschaft für Frankreichs Wandel zu einem modernen Staatsgebilde spielte. Das Buch zeichnet die Eliteformation der Architekten an der Pariser Kunstschule im 19. Jahrhundert nach und erörtert die Karrierewege zwischen reglementierter Ämterlaufbahn und freiberuflichem Unternehmertum. Dargelegt…
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Neoliberalism on the GroundArchitecture and Transformation from the 1960s to …
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role o…
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Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany
Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany's built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany's colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies to abandon a centuries-long, highly ornamental architectural style in favor of structural technolo…
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A Mighty Capital under ThreatThe Environmental History of London, 1800-2000
Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere.…
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Building CharacterThe Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style
Winner, 2021 CAAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award | Winner, 2021 On the Brinck Book Award | Shortlist, 2020 MSA First Book Prize In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers …
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Race and Modern ArchitectureA Critical History from the Enlightenment to the …
Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of…
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Governing by DesignArchitecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves. In these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehic…
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L'Information foncière urbaine et la question de sa gouvernance en Côte d'I…
L'expansion galopante de la ville d'Abidjan a fait émerger un marché foncier urbain quasi-informel qui entretient un cercle vicieux autour de l'information foncière. Entre une politique foncière urbaine quasi-inexistante, un service public foncier mal organisé, et des opérateurs privés en quête de profit, la spéculation foncière a atteint son pic. Ce qui fait prendre conscience des en…
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De la ville non pensée à la ville panséeRéflexions et critiques géograph…
Les dernières décennies ont fait prendre conscience que la ville représente un enjeu majeur de développement à inscrire au coeur des actions publiques à conduire au cours du 21e siècle. Cet ouvrage vise à combler une lacune en ce qui concerne les travaux sur le Gabon, en approfondissant les connaissances sur la ville de Libreville. Structuré autour de six chapitres, il aborde avec des …
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