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Masterplanning Futures
Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award! In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist planning model zoned space for home and work. At a time of urban growth, these models are now being replaced by more adaptable, mixed use plans dealing holistically with the physical, social and economic revival of districts, cities and regions. Through today’s public participative approaches and using technologically enabled tools, contemporary masterplanning instruments embody fresh principles, gi...
Fringed With Mud and Pearls
Scotland has its rugged Hebrides; Ireland its cliff-girt Arans; Wales its Island of Twenty Thousand Saints. And what has England got? The isles of Canvey, Sheppey, Wight and Dogs, Mersea, Brownsea, Foulness and Rat. But there are also wilder, rockier places – Lundy, the Scillies, the Farnes. These islands and their inhabitants not only cast varied lights on the mainland, they also possess their own peculiar stories, from the Barbary slavers who once occupied Lundy, to the ex-major who seized a wartime fort in the North Sea and declared himself Prince of Sealand. Ian Crofton embarks on a personal odyssey to a number of the islands encircling England, exploring how some were places of refuge or holiness, while others have been turned into personal fiefdoms by their owners, or become locations for prisons, rubbish dumps and military installations. He also describes the varied ways in which England's islands have been formed, and how they are constantly changing, so making a mockery of human claims to sovereignty.
Social Housing
This is a growing sector undergoing a huge period of change - with local authorities able to build their own housing for the first time in decades. Social Housing: Definitions and Design Exemplars explores how social/affordable housing has been delivered and designed with success throughout the UK in the last 10 years. Weaving together exemplar case studies, essays and interviews with social housing pioneers and clients, this book demonstrates real-life best practice responses to the challenges associated with housing provision, with a focus on design ideas.
Public Housing Works
In response to a severe housing shortages and high prices making homes unaffordable to many, architects are once again re-engaging with the public housing sector. Today local authorities are taking back control, and with residents, prioritising high quality design to deliver some of the best new homes in the UK. Public Housing Works presents a ......
Popular and Visual Culture
Popular and Visual Culture: Design, Circulation and Consumption is a transnational project that fosters a dialogue with multiple origins, both in geographical and academic terms. From the onset, this book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, terms which are currently applied both to describe scientific fields, as operative concepts in theoretical discourse, and to characterize specific cultural contexts. The book’s analysis and categorization of visual and popular culture pursues discourses and practices which mark different historical eras and shape social orders. Because popular iconic and written productions are the outcome of a network of political, economic, ideologic...
Shadow Sands
THE UNMISSABLE THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GIRL IN THE ICE AND NINE ELMS ROBERT BRYNDZA DON'T MISS THE NEW NAIL-BITING KATE MARSHALL THRILLER, DARKNESS FALLS, OUT NOW __________ 'You can't help turning the pages hungrily to see what happens next' THE TIMES 'Taut, atmospheric and spooky, Shadow Sands is truly chilling' JP DELANEY When Kate Marshall finds the body of a young man floating in the Shadow Sands reservoir, the authorities label it a tragic accident. But the details don't add up: why was he there in the middle of the night? If he was such a strong swimmer, how did he drown? As Kate and her assistant Tristan Harper follow the evidence, they make a far ...
Architecture and Retrenchment
"Scholars in architectural and urban history have, over the last decade, been trying to come to terms with architecture's 'neoliberal turn' and its various impacts - from municipal policy to the artistic imagination. However most scholarship has focussed on generalizations, with very little work to date focussing on specific cases. Architecture and Retrenchment brings one such case to the fore - investigating the relation between architecture and the Swedish Model of the welfare state. It tracks the response of architecture to the gradual retrenchment and ultimate dismantling of the Swedish welfare state - which was, in its heyday, world-famous for its integration of architecture and the bui...
Temné piesky
Hmlový fantóm, ktorý vraždí ľudí, je vraj len miestny mýtus. Jedno dievča sa však presvedčí o opaku. Profesorku kriminológie Kate Marshallovú čaká počas potápačskej výpravy so synom šokujúci objav: v hlbinách priehrady Temné piesky nájdu zachytenú mŕtvolu mladého chlapca. Polícia príliš rýchlo usúdi, že sa utopil bez cudzieho zavinenia. Kate má iný názor a sleduje stopy, ktoré ju zavedú k zlovestnému odhaleniu. Je to ďalšie v rade záhadných úmrtí a zmiznutí, ktoré súvisia s okolitými slatinami a s mýtickým fantómom, čo vraj striehne v hustej hmle. Keď zmizne profesorka, ktorá skúma pôvod miestnych legiend, Kate a jej spolupracovník Tristan Harper musia bleskovo konať. Záhadný sériový vrah, po ktorom Kate a Tristan pátrajú, však nie je jediný, kto má pred nimi náskok. Aj niekomu ďalšiemu veľmi záleží na tom, aby sa tajomstvá Temných pieskov nikdy nevynorili z hlbín zabudnutia.
Bajo aguas oscuras
Tú no lo ves..., pero él a ti sí Cuando la detective Kate Marshall encuentra el cuerpo sin vida de un joven en el embalse de Shadow Sands, las autoridades califican el suceso como un «trágico accidente». Sin embargo, algo no cuadra. ¿Qué hacía allí en mitad de la noche? ¿Y cómo pudo ahogarse si era campeón de natación? Pronto, las pruebas llevarán a Kate y a su socio, Tristan Harper, hasta un descubrimiento mucho más oscuro: la víctima de Shadow Sands es solo la última de una serie de misteriosas muertes que se remontan décadas atrás y que guardan relación con un asesino legendario que se oculta entre la niebla del embalse. Poco después, otra mujer desaparece, y Kate sabe que solo es cuestión de tiempo que el asesino vuelva a matar, por lo que deberá actuar rápido para evitarlo. Lo que Kate desconoce es que el escurridizo asesino en serie al que persigue no es el único que va un paso por delante de ella: alguien más intenta asegurarse de que los secretos de Shadow Sands permanezcan ocultos bajos sus aguas oscuras. El fenómeno del thriller internacional que lleva más de tres millones de ejemplares vendidos
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