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Product Description: As the tide of globalization grows in sway and influence, are the built environments of the world's cities at risk of homogenization? Here, leading scholars evaluate the challenges of architecture and urban planning in Muslim societies, investigating the signs of the homogenizing processes within urban spaces...read more
By Modjtaba Sadria (editor)

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9781848856257 | Tauris Academic Studies, December 24, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: As the tide of globalization grows in sway and influence, are the built environments of the world's cities at risk of homogenization?

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9780691115207 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 3, 2006, cover price $35.00

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9780691138473 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 6, 2008, cover price $36.95

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By Bryan Bell (editor), Thomas Fisher (foreword by) and Katie Wakeford (editor)

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9781933045788 | Metropolis Books, October 1, 2008, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: In this illustrated talk (the text of the 2007 Raoul Wallenberg lecture), the author, architect and urban designer Daniel Solomon discusses the fragility of public space and the uses of architecture in relation to "community design," proposing the model of a "cosmopolis" in which the needs of society are fostered and met...read more

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9781891197444 | Univ of Michigan College of, June 30, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this illustrated talk (the text of the 2007 Raoul Wallenberg lecture), the author, architect and urban designer Daniel Solomon discusses the fragility of public space and the uses of architecture in relation to "community design," proposing the model of a "cosmopolis" in which the needs of society are fostered and met.

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Product Description: First we shape things, then they shape us , was Churchill s view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The author s answers to these questions are a surprise. Through war and proximity to stress...read more

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9783211779699 | Springer Verlag, May 1, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: First we shape things, then they shape us , was Churchill s view.

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9780262050791 | Mit Pr, November 1, 2005, cover price $24.95

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9780262550659 | Mit Pr, October 31, 2007, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their solutions are often criticized for being overly prescriptive, opposed to growth, or nostalgic...read more

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9781568986838 | Princeton Architectural Pr, October 4, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns.

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Product Description: Benannt nach den fünf Farbstufen des aktuellen Terrorwarnsystems der USA reflektiert 5 Codes das Verhältnis von Angst und Architektur.
By Igmade (editor)

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9783764375973 | Birkhauser Architecture, December 30, 2006, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Benannt nach den fünf Farbstufen des aktuellen Terrorwarnsystems der USA reflektiert 5 Codes das Verhältnis von Angst und Architektur.

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Product Description: SNOOZE n. 1. The nicest moment of the day, between dreaming and waking, in a slumbering state of being. 2. Just one more push on the snooze button. 3. An exuberant exploration that couples the hallmarks of successful mass culture to the urban condition...read more
By Lars Lerup (introduced by), Jaakko van t Spijker (editor) and Studio Sputnik

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9789056623135 | Nai Uitgevers Pub, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: SNOOZE n.

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Product Description: The popular view of architecture focuses on individual creative geniuses, those who have designed the most "significant" works. According to Garry Stevens, however, successful architects owe their success not so much to genius as to social background and a host of other factors that have very little to do with native talent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780262194082, titled "The Favored Circle: The Social Foundations of Architectural Distinction" | Mit Pr, January 8, 1999, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The popular view of architecture focuses on individual creative geniuses, those who have designed the most "significant" works.

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9780262692786 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, March 7, 2002), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The popular view of architecture focuses on individual creative geniuses, those who have designed the most "significant" works.

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Product Description: The contributors to this work provide social interpretations of a wide range of buildings, including Augustinian monasteries in Scotland, Tudor and medieval London houses, an 18th century formal garden, the Iroquian long-house and Carolingian palaces.
By Martin Locock (editor)

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9781856287081 | Avebury, February 1, 1994, cover price $134.95 | About this edition: The contributors to this work provide social interpretations of a wide range of buildings, including Augustinian monasteries in Scotland, Tudor and medieval London houses, an 18th century formal garden, the Iroquian long-house and Carolingian palaces.

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