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- Defect-Free Buildings
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ELIMINATE CONSTRUCTION MISTAKES AND MINIMIZE YOUR EXPOSURE TO EXPENSE AND LITIGATIONNothing packs a more costly punch and ruins a project than a construction defect dispute. And nothing stops a project dead in its tracks faster than conflicts between builders and owners. But with McGraw-Hill's Defec...
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- XS: Small Structures, Green Architecture
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A follow-up to the highly successful XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings, this book features contemporary solutions to two of today's most challenging problems-how to conserve space and help save the environment. The design goals of the 40 houses included here are to build as small as possible, to harmon...
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- Contemporary Indian Architecture
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The first book of its kind in India, The Anthology of Contemporary Indian Architecture showcases emerging and established talent in the field of Indian architecture during the last two decades.While the original masters of classic modern architecture in modern India do feature in this book, The Anth...
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- Urban Design Reader
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Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of acad...
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- Coney Island: Parachute Pavilion Competition
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For almost 100 years, Coney Island was the most popular seaside destination in the United States. Each year, millions escaped the heat of New York City to savor the thrills of the Cyclone roller coaster and Wonder Wheel at the Astroland amusement park. They came to sample an original Nathan's Famous...
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- Indefensible Space
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Indefensible Space explores is the increasing envelopment of public space and life by an architecture of security/paranoia. From the most literal level, barriers in front of buildings, to more abstract levels, enhanced surveillance of public spaces.
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- Construction Contractor's Duty to Warn
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This reprint of a 1996 book addresses the legal issues and examines the case law surrounding a contractor's duty to warn in a construction setting. The book begins with a detailed summary of the law followed by a discussion of the case law with substantial legal citations. This book contains legal i...
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- Archaeology of Modernism
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In the process of renovating Walter Gropius's seminal 1926 Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany, which was added to UNESCO's World Heritage list in 1996, architectural plans were unearthed among sheaves of long-forgotten paperwork, door handles discovered in the basement and original windows found in...
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- The Other Cities
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Los Angeles and New York are ever more crammed with domestic and international migrants; Hartford, St. Louis, Gary, Baltimore and Flint are ever lonelier. This pattern of growth in urban supercenters and flight from midland cities is not just an American phenomenon. The pioneering German project IBA...
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- New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape
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This classic work in historical geography, first published in 1976 and then issued by the Center for American Places as a Second Edition in 2003, recounts the evolution of New Orleans from its founding as a European city in the early seventeenth century up to the present time, including in this edit...
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- New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape
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This classic work in historical geography, first published in 1976 and then issued by the Center for American Places as a second edition in 2003, recounts the evolution of New Orleans from its founding as a European city in the early seventeenth century up to the present time, including in this edit...
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- Managing the City
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Authored by academics and practitioners this exciting new book takes a problem based approach to regeneration management. The challenges facing those involved with regeneration are many and varied, this book provides the tools and techniques, using a mixture of rigorous academic theory and practical...
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- Concrete Architecture
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No longer the material of choice for just factories and industrial buildings, concrete is now fashionable and chic, adorning shops, restaurants, homes, and landscapes with its desirable, tactile surfaces. This reversal of fortune can be attributed to its use in luxurious homes and the discovery that...
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- New Shops & Boutiques
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With the increasingly important cultural role being placed upon shops and boutiques in today's competitive retail environment, the need to provide new and innovative shopping experiences has brought about a redefinition of simple consumerism. Fashion spaces have taken on the role of the museum, pres...
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- Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom
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Wilkes's photographs of the 'dark side' of Ellis Island are extraordinary… this book will be a major event. --David McCullough For five years (1998-2003) New York photographer Stephen Wilkes explored the hospital complex that comprised the south side of Ellis Island. Neglected for almost fifty ...
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- Life
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One of photography's watershed moments occurred in 1965, when the cover of Life magazine featured Nilsson's photograph of a living human embryo. Now, in this major work, Nilsson's extraordinary images encompass a full human lifespan.
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