Download or read book Reclaiming Backlanes written by Marcel Bruelisauer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today -- lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?Reclaiming Backlanes presents design visions for future development of shophouse neighbourhoods, reprogramming backlanes into viable and high-quality common spaces, while improving energy efficiency of shophouses by up to 50%. These visions mark the convergence of studies in energy efficiency, pedestrian movement, historic building stock analysis and urban diversity by a multidisciplinary team.
Download or read book Imminent Commons The Expanded City written by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the increasing disengagement between urban and rural areas, this book address the interdependency of cities with ecological and technological processes outside the purview of traditional urban planning. It compiles a huge amount of essays in regards to the most important topics that cities must address today, such as their connection with global data networks, ecological cycles of resources which supersede the traditional boundaries of urbanism. For this reason, it frames investigation of contemporary urbanism on nine imminent commons grouping the urban commons into resources and technologies lead us to the arcane classification of natural resources: air, water, fire, and earth, the four elements of ancient cosmologies; and five basic technological commons based on expanded human capacities: sensing, communicating, moving, making, and recycling.
Download or read book Forward Me Back to You written by Mitali Perkins and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of You Bring the Distant Near explores identity, homecoming, and the legacy of assault in this personal and ambitious new novel. Katina King is the reigning teen jujitsu champion of Northern California, but she’s having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is reluctant to take on his future. If he can’t find his roots, how can he possibly plan ahead? Robin and Kat meet in the most unlikely of places—a summer service trip to Kolkata to work with survivors of human trafficking. As bonds build between the travelmates, Robin and Kat discover that justice and healing are tangled, like the pain of their pasts and the hope for their futures. You can’t rewind life; sometimes you just have to push play. In turns heart wrenching, beautiful, and buoyant, Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You focuses its lens on the ripple effects of violence—across borders and generations—and how small acts of heroism can break the cycle. This title has Common Core connections.
Download or read book Design with Life written by Mitchell Joachim and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design with Life chronicles the breakthroughs and projects of a nonprofit that is defining resolute new directions in socio-ecological design and other deep-seated intersections of synthetic biology, architecture, and urban systems. In the challenging context of accelerating climate dynamics, the core discipline of architectural design is evolving and embracing new forms of action. New York-based nonprofit Terreform ONE has established a distinctive design tactic that investigates projects through the regenerative use of natural materials, science, and the emergent field of socio-ecological design. This kind of design approach uses actual living matter (not abstracted imitations of nature) to create new functional elements and spaces. These future-based actions are not only grounded in social justice, but are also far-reaching in their application of digital manufacturing and maker culture. Terreform ONE tackles urgent environmental and urban social concerns through the integrated use of living materials and organisms.
Download or read book Reclaiming the Old Testament written by Gordon Zerbe and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This festschrift honors one of the most important Old Testament scholars in the modern Mennonite tradition, and the essays produced by colleagues and former students reflect Janzen's influence and productivity as both a scholar and a teacher.” —Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, Loyola Marymount University
Download or read book Chamber s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Unsettling Canada written by Arthur Manuel and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Canadian bestseller and winner of the 2016 Canadian Historical Association Aboriginal History Book Prize, Unsettling Canada is a landmark text built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders. Arthur Manuel (1951–2017) was one of the most forceful advocates for Indigenous title and rights in Canada; Grand Chief Ron Derrickson, one of the most successful Indigenous businessmen in the country. Together, they bring a fresh perspective and bold new ideas to Canada’s most glaring piece of unfinished business: the place of Indigenous peoples within the country’s political and economic space. This vital second edition features a foreword by award-winning activist Naomi Klein and an all-new chapter co-authored by Law professor Nicole Schabus and Manuel’s daughter, Kanahus, honouring the multi-generational legacy of the Manuel family’s work.
Download or read book Street Reclaiming written by David Engwicht and published by Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the cultural and economic significance of "street life." Ever since ancient Athens and Greece, Engwicht argues, streets have been a major center of commerce, socialization, and cultural exchange. But the advent of automobiles and suburbanization in the 20th century eroded the richness of American streetlife. Streets and sidewalks, once filled with people and furniture, are now filled with automobiles carrying citizens to those indoor streets, malls. Using an abundance of drawings that detail urban traffic patterns, Engwicht prescribes a series of creative methods for returning vibrancy to the street--everything from reducing traffic with more one-way routes to making avenues more like living rooms with the addition of rugs, television sets, and bulletin boards.
Download or read book Chambers s Edinburgh journal conducted by W Chambers Continued as Chambers s Journal of popular literature science and arts written by Chambers's journal and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Gazette written by Straits Settlements and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travelling at Home written by Peter Please and published by Away Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fodor s London Companion written by Louise Nicholson and published by Fodor's. This book was released on 1993 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated and revised, this guide is an insider's in-depth companion to Fodor's standard gold guide, written in a personal, conversational style by life-long London resident Nicholson. Reveals hidden aspects of the city to even the most experienced traveler through extensive exploring tours, special insider information, and wonderful background details.
Download or read book Four Decades of Transformation written by Tai-Chee Wong and published by Marshall Cavendish Academic. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial modernization in Singapore is a shared outcome of modernism and developmentalism resulting from pursuits for economic survival in the post-independence era. Through state-led programs, land use transformation is seen by social and economic progress strongly associated with anti-traditional behaviors and social rationality, infused with political imperatives and convictions in improvements of material standards of living perceived as a symbol of good governance. Prevailing ideological thinking and economic priorities have influenced national leaders in plans of action and scope of change, reflected in the form of massive multinational investments, export-led market expansion, transfer of technology and workforce upgrading. In parallel, planning concepts available at the time have been responsible for the ways in which urban morphology changes. Areas investigated in spatial change are the central area, infrastructure, industries, housing and recreational space.
Download or read book Martin Laws A Story written by Martin LAWS and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Martin Laws written by Martin Laws (fict.name.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
