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Book El ecoturismo y su conceptualizaci  n

Download or read book El ecoturismo y su conceptualizaci n written by Angélica del C. Martínez López and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heritage scape

Download or read book The Heritage scape written by Di Michael A. Giovine and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the mere designation of World Heritage sites can achieve UNESCO's goal of creating lasting worldwide peace. Drawing on ethnography, policy analysis, and a sophisticated fusion of anthropological theories, Di Giovine convincingly reveals the existence of a global heritage-scape and provides a detailed yet expansive look at the politics and processes, histories and structures, and the rituals and symbolisms of the interrelated phenomena of tourism, historic preservation, and UNESCO's World Heritage Convention.

Book A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture

Download or read book A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture written by Dr Elie G Haddad and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. The first section provides a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a geographic survey that covers a wide range of territories around the world. This book not only reflects the different perspectives of its various authors, but also charts a middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the more 'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussion of its formal aspects.

Book Tourism Marketing and Management Handbook

Download or read book Tourism Marketing and Management Handbook written by Stephen F. Witt and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a detailed guide to marketing and management in tourism in the 1990s. This second edition features 100 contributions from international authorities on the subject; new chapters reflecting the issues of increasing importance in tourism; greater emphasis on management and internationally applicable topics; and major revisions of all existing chapters. The contents have been reorganized by subject area for convenience. Designed to provide a user-friendly reference, the topics covered include cost-benefit analysis, hotel marketing, international tourism trends, financial analysis and planning, quality management and pricing and promotional strategy. This edition shows the application of marketing and mangement techniques within the tourism industry, and is appropriate for use in tourism businesses of any size.

Book Moderns Abroad

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mia Fuller
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2007-01-24
  • ISBN : 1134648308
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Moderns Abroad written by Mia Fuller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design theory, based on the assumptions made about the colonized, and also the application of modernist theory to both Italian architecture and that of its colonies. Moderns Abroad is the first book to present an overview of Italian colonial architecture and city planning. In chronicling Italian architects' attempts to define a distinctly Italian colonial architecture that would set Italy apart from Britain and France, it provides a uniquely comparative study of Italian colonialism and architecture that will be of interest to specialists in modern architecture, colonial studies, and Italian studies alike.

Book Marketing Tourism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Jefferson
  • Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780582033405
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Marketing Tourism written by Alan Jefferson and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook on Tourism Product Development

Download or read book Handbook on Tourism Product Development written by Peter MacNulty and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism products are the basis for a destination's tourism sector operation: This Handbookoutlines the essential elements in the process of tourism product development planning and implementation. It illustrates successful approaches and case studies and sets out best practice examples and benchmarks."

Book America Town

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark L. Gillem
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 1452912882
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book America Town written by Mark L. Gillem and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the land development and architectural policies and practices that the US military follows worldwide in planning, building, and expanding installations of untold extent in 140 countries.

Book The Gray Cloth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Scheerbart
  • Publisher : Mit Press
  • Release : 2003-08
  • ISBN : 9780262692960
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The Gray Cloth written by Paul Scheerbart and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian-era German cult novel, set in the mid-twentieth century, serves up a utopian vision of a future of glass architecture, as the protagonist, Swiss architect Edgar Krug, circumnavigates the globe by airship with his wife, constructing a wild variety of colored-glass buildings in various locales.

Book The Battle for Modernism

Download or read book The Battle for Modernism written by David Rifkind and published by Marsilio. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The other side of twentieth-century architectural history in Italy and Europe. The short-lived cultural journal Quadrante transformed the practice of architecture in fascist Italy. Over the course of three years (1933-36), the magazine agitated for an "architecture of the state" that would represent the values and aspirations of the fascist regime, and in so doing it changed the language with which architcts and their clientele addressed the built environment. Quadrante rallied supporters and organized the most prominent practitioners and benefactors of Italian rationalism into a coherent movement that advanced the cause of specific currents of modern architecture in interwar Italy. Through a detailed study of Quadrante and its circle of architects, critics, artists, and patrons, the book investigates the relationship between modern architecture and fascist political practices in Italy during Benito Mussolini's regime (1922-1943).

Book African Identity in Post Apartheid Public Architecture

Download or read book African Identity in Post Apartheid Public Architecture written by Jonathan Alfred Noble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporary public architecture that 'concretise' imaginative dialogues with African landscapes, craft and indigenous traditions. Referring to Frantz Fanon's classic study of colonised subjectivity, 'Black Skin, White Masks', Noble contends that Fanon's metaphors of mask and skin are suggestive for architectural criticism, in the context of post-Apartheid public design. Taking South Africa's first democratic election of 1994 as its starting point, the book focuses on projects that were won in architectural competitions. Such competitions are conceived within ideological debates and studying them allows for an examination of the interrelationships between architecture, politics and culture. The book offers insights into these debates through interviews with key parties concerned - architects, competition jurors, politicians, council and city officials, artists and crafters, as well as people who are involved in the day-to-day life of the buildings in question.

Book At Home with Apartheid

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Ginsburg
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2011-08-30
  • ISBN : 0813931649
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book At Home with Apartheid written by Rebecca Ginsburg and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their peaceful, bucolic appearance, the tree-lined streets of South African suburbia were no refuge from the racial tensions and indignities of apartheid’s most repressive years. In At Home with Apartheid, Rebecca Ginsburg provides an intimate examination of the cultural landscapes of Johannesburg’s middle- and upper-middle-class neighborhoods during the height of apartheid (c. 1960–1975) and incorporates recent scholarship on gender, the home, and family. More subtly but no less significantly than factory floors, squatter camps, prisons, and courtrooms, the homes of white South Africans were sites of important contests between white privilege and black aspiration. Subtle negotiations within the domestic sphere between white, mostly female, householders and their black domestic workers, also primarily women, played out over and around this space. These seemingly mundane, private conflicts were part of larger contemporary struggles between whites and blacks over territory and power. Ginsburg gives special attention to the distinct social and racial geographies produced by the workers’ detached living quarters, designed by builders and architects as landscape complements to the main houses. Ranch houses, Italianate villas, modernist cubes, and Victorian bungalows filled Johannesburg’s suburbs. What distinguished these neighborhoods from their precedents in the United States or the United Kingdom was the presence of the ubiquitous back rooms and of the African women who inhabited them in these otherwise exclusively white areas. The author conducted more than seventy-five personal interviews for this book, an approach that sets it apart from other architectural histories. In addition to these oral accounts, Ginsburg draws from plans, drawings, and onsite analysis of the physical properties themselves. While the issues addressed span the disciplines of South African and architectural history, feminist studies, material culture studies, and psychology, the book’s strong narrative, powerful oral histories, and compelling subject matter bring the neighborhoods and residents it examines vividly to life.

Book Experiments in Porosity

Download or read book Experiments in Porosity written by Brian Carter and published by Univ at Buffalo Architecture &. This book was released on 2005 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miami Modern Metropolis  Paradise and Paradox in Midcentury Architecture and Planning

Download or read book Miami Modern Metropolis Paradise and Paradox in Midcentury Architecture and Planning written by Allan T. Shulman and published by Balcony Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two decades that followed World War II were a period of extraordinary growth in Miami. During that time architectural modernism provided a framework for the city's new urban patterns, novel building types, evolving aesthetics, and emerging environmental consciousness. The city was a virtual laboratory of modern architecture, a semitropical hothouse where modernism was probed, challenged, adapted, and ultimately expanded. Miami Modern Metropolis explores the distinctive and illuminating premises embodied in the city's growth from 1945 to 1965. Covering a range of architectural topics including hotels, retail, aerospace, and residential, Miami Modern Metropolis is both a thoroughly researched and entertaining look at one of the country's most distinctive urban confections.

Book The New Deal in South Florida

Download or read book The New Deal in South Florida written by John A. Stuart and published by Florida History and Culture (H. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blurring the traditional disciplinary boundaries of design history and political science, the contributors to The New Deal in South Florida examine the impact of a wide variety of New Deal projects on the region. They examine letters and photographs-many never before published-public murals, housing, parks, and architecture. In so doing, this book offers historians a new perspective on how Coral Gables, Miami Beach, and other communities were impacted by the New Deal programs."--Back cover.

Book Architecture and Revolution

Download or read book Architecture and Revolution written by Neil Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists from both the East and the West. They explore the questions over the built environment that now face architects, planners and politicians in the region. They examine the problems of buildings inherited from the communist era: some are environmentally inadequate, many were designed to serve a now redundant social programme and others carry the stigma of association with previous regimes. Contributors include: Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, Laura Mulvey, Helene Cixous, Andrew Benjamin and Frederic Jameson.