Suchergebnisse

The economization of museums and the 'truth' of space -- Landscapes of potential: the social and spatial underpinnings of museums -- Design for creative lives: new museum design cultures -- Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK -- Blue House, Wanchai, Hong Kong -- Boston Children's Museum, Boston, USA -- Derby Silk Mill Museum of Making, Derby, UK -- District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa -- Exile, Kingston Lacy, UK -- Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA -- Festival of Britain, London, UK -- Fun Palace, London, UK -- Galleries of Modern London, Museum of London, UK -- Guggenheim Helsinki, Finland -- Humankind, Calke Abbey, UK -- Jubilee Arts, The Bus Project, UK -- Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK -- Launchpad, Science Museum, London, UK -- Lost Childhoods, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, USA -- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark -- Museo Casa de la Memoria Medellin, Colombia -- Museo Taller Ferrowhite, Bahia Blanca, Argentina -- Museum at the Gateway Arch, St Louis, USA -- National Human Rights Museum, Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park, Taipei, Taiwan -- Parque Explora, Medellín, Colombia -- Pride and Prejudice, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK -- SESC Pompéia, Sao Paulo, Brazil -- Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, USA -- Talking About...Disability and Art, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK -- The Past is Now, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK -- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, USA.

"This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made. Through detailed analysis of public investment in infrastructure over the last few decades in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Finland, the author explores how the decision-making processes for major public works spending, many of them requiring quite rigorous and detailed computational methodologies, can result in plans that underserve large portions of the population, are inequitable, and fail to efficiently preserve public property. Beginning with some of the commonly offered explanations for the slow pace of investment and repair in a supposedly prosperous society facing serious environmental challenges, the book then explores media's role in shaping the public-at-large's understanding of the situation and the unimaginative solutions put forward by politicians. It continues with some case studies of infrastructure investment, or lack thereof, including an exploration of competing uses for government funds. It concludes with some suggestions. It is aimed at a large readership of professionals, students, and policy makers in political science, urban planning, and civil engineering"--

Introduction to community visioning -- The progression of urban change -- Research, development and results -- Measuring visual responses for place making -- Ten steps for a successful community visioning process -- A visioning session -- Prologue to the five vision focus areas -- Vision preferences for natural areas -- Vision preferences for rural areas -- Vision preferences for suburbia -- Vision preferences for small towns -- Vision preferences for urban cores of larger cities -- Communicating vision preferences : recommendations and realizations -- The future of planning and public engagement -- Why I am hopeful and sometimes not.

"This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health. Written by leading scholars and experts, the chapters aim to summarize the "state-of-the-art" and produce a reference book for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and researchers to study, design, and build high-density cities by integrating green spaces. The topics covered in the book include (but are not limited to) Urban Heat Island, Green Space and Carbon Sequestration, Green Space and Social Equity, Green Space and Public Health, Biophilic Cities, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Farms, Urban Farming Technologies, Nature and Biodiversity, Nature and Health, Biophilic Design, Green Infrastructure, Urban Revitalization, Post-Covid Cities, Smart and Resilient Cities, Tall Buildings, and Sustainable Vertical Cities"--

Introduction / Nicholas B. Rajkovich and Seth H. Holmes -- Resilient design modeling: where are we and where can we go? / Seth H. Holmes -- Planning for a changing climate without accurate predictions / Parag Rastogi and Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan -- Tools for community energy empowerment: a co-design approach / Bess Krietemeyer -- RHOnDA: an online tool to help homeowners and tenants increase resilience / Michelle Laboy and David Fannon -- Resilience hubs: shifting power to communities through action / Kristin Baja -- Climate change and health: connecting the dots, building a resilient future / Kim Knowlton and Yerina Mugica -- Increasing adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations through inclusive design / Jordana Maisel, Brittany Perez, and Krista Macy -- Passive survivability: keeping occupants safe in an age of disruptions / Alex Wilson -- Designing resilient coastal communities with living shorelines / Wendy Meguro and Karl Kim -- Adapting inland floodplain housing to a changing climate: disturbance, risk, and uncertainty as drivers for design / Jamie L. Vanucchi -- 4D! Resilient design in four dimensions / Illya Azaroff -- Understanding sustainability and resilience as applied: tracking the discourse in city policy / Martha Bohm -- Perspectives from practice / Jason Swift, Braden Kay, Terry Schwarz, Dana Kochnower, Kevin Bush, Jodi Smits Anderson, Allison Anderson, Matthew Elley, Erin Hatcher, Janice Barnes, and Rachel Minnery.

The Democratic Courthouse examines how changing understandings of the relationship between government and the governed came to be reflected in the buildings designed to house the modern legal system from the 1970s to the present day in England and Wales. The book explores the extent to which egalitarian ideals and the pursuit of new social and economic rights altered existing hierarchies and expectations about how people should interact with each other in the courthouse. Drawing on extensive public archives and private archives kept by the Ministry of Justice, but also using case studies from other jurisdictions, the book details how civil servants, judges, lawyers, architects, engineers and security experts have talked about courthouses and the people that populate them. In doing so, it uncovers a changing history of ideas about how the competing goals of transparency, majesty, participation, security, fairness and authority have been achieved, and the extent to which aspirations towards equality and participation have been realised in physical form. As this book demonstrates, the power of architecture to frame attitudes and expectations of the justice system is much more than an aesthetic or theoretical nicety. Legal subjects live in a world in which the configuration of space, the cues provided about behaviour by the built form and the way in which justice is symbolised play a crucial, but largely unacknowledged, role in creating meaning and constituting legal identities and rights to participate in the civic sphere. Key to understanding the modern-day courthouse, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in all fields of law, architecture, sociology, political science, psychology and criminology.

"This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II. The book's narrative builds upon a tripartite research design that chronologically traces the formation and development of the oil, steel, and copper industries, respectively favoured by Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States in this part of the world. By applying three sets of comparative studies, the book provides critical vantage points to three different ideological design paradigms: postcolonial regionalism, socialist universalism, and rationalist modern nation-building. From a global political context, the book contributes to the disclosure of new information about the geopolitical confrontation of these three nations in the Global South to increase their sphere of influence after the second World War. Furthermore, it demonstrates how post-war architectural modernism was adopted by each power and adapted to their ideological mind-frame to fulfil distinct social, cultural, political, and economic targets. This book examines multiple interconnections between architecture, politics, and industrial development by adopting a transdisciplinary approach based on comprehensive fieldwork, site surveys and the analysis of original multilingual documents. As such, it will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, history, international relations and Middle Eastern studies"--

Louis Sullivan's book Democracy: A Man-Search put forth the idea that "democratic form" is an organically unfolding process and an object of symbolic representation; and that it emerges from the collective imagination of a modern, progressive society and is an act of individual poetic genius. The books connections to architecture and the ideological claims by architects point not only to the difficulties of translating political concepts into three dimensions but also to the historical instability of the term democracy itself, which, despite its symbolic value, has frequently amounted to a hurrah word or a safe-conduct pass. The notion of democratic architecture in late-capitalist society has become at once more marketable and more elusive as the paradigm has shifted over the last half century from a culture of monuments to one of spectacles. Adapted from the source document.