Small Scale, Big Change

Small Scale, Big Change PDF Author: Andres Lepik
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870707841
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 28 Sept. 2010-3 Jan. 2011.

Small Scale, Big Change

Small Scale, Big Change PDF Author: Andres Lepik
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870707841
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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Book Description
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 28 Sept. 2010-3 Jan. 2011.

Recast Your City

Recast Your City PDF Author: Ilana Preuss
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831921
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Book Description
Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.

BIG little house

BIG little house PDF Author: Donna Kacmar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317688961
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Book Description
What are the challenges architects face when designing dwelling spaces of a limited size? And what can these projects tell us about architecture – and architectural principles – in general? In BIG little house, award-winning architect Donna Kacmar introduces twenty real-life examples of small houses. Each project is under 1,000 square feet (100 square meters) in size and, brought together, the designs reveal an attitude towards materiality, light, enclosure and accommodation which is unique to minimal dwellings. While part of a trend to address growing concerns about minimising consumption and lack of affordable housing, the book demonstrates that small dwellings are not always simply the result of budget constraints but constitute a deliberate design strategy in their own right. Highly illustrated and in full-colour throughout, each example is based on interviews with the original architect and accompanied by detailed floor plans. This ground-breaking, beautifully designed text offers practical guidance to any professional architect or homeowner interested in small scale projects.

Nanotecture

Nanotecture PDF Author: Rebecca Roke
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714870601
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The most wide-ranging, comprehensive and inclusive book on small-scale architecture ever published An inspiring, surprising and fun collection of 300 works of small-scale architecture including demountable, portable, transportable and inflatable structures as well as pavilions, installations, sheds, cabins, pods, capsules and tree houses.

No Local

No Local PDF Author: Greg Sharzer
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780993323
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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Book Description
Can making things smaller make the world a better place? No Local takes a critical look at localism, an ideology that says small businesses, ethical shopping and community initiatives like gardens and farmers’ markets can stop corporate globalization. These small acts might make life better for some, but they don’t challenge the drive for profit that’s damaging our communities and the earth. No Local shows how localism’s fixation on small comes from an outdated economic model. Growth is built into capitalism. Small firms must play by the same rules as large ones, cutting costs, exploiting workers and damaging the environment. Localism doesn’t ask who controls production, allowing it to be co-opted by governments offloading social services onto the poor. At worst, localism becomes a strategy for neoliberal politics, not an alternative to it. No Local draws on political theory, history, philosophy and empirical evidence to argue that small isn’t always beautiful. Building a better world means creating local social movements that grow to challenge, not avoid, market priorities.

Design for Good

Design for Good PDF Author: John Cary
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610917936
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Book Description
The book reveals a new understanding of the ways that design shapes our lives and gives professionals and interested citizens the tools to seek out and demand designs that dignify.

Cities for People

Cities for People PDF Author: Jan Gehl
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597269840
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Book Description
For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast- growing cities of developing countries. A “Toolbox,” presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl’s work around the globe.

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream PDF Author:
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870708589
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Pocket Neighborhoods

Pocket Neighborhoods PDF Author: Ross Chapin
Publisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 160085107X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Book Description
Architect and author Chapin describes existing pocket neighborhoods and co-housing communities while providing inspiration for creating new ones.

Expanding Architecture

Expanding Architecture PDF Author: Bryan Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933045788
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al.