Designing the modern city

Designing the Modern City

A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present

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Designing the Global City

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Designing Modern Japan

The first comprehensive history in English of modern Japanese design.

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for you...

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Knowledge and the Early Modern City

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge an

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The Modern Fairies

'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anais Nin - the book I really really needed' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex SerpentWhy don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a...

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London: A Modern City in Photographs

A stunning collection of images celebrating the new London, which capture the face of the modern, changing city.

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Bratislava City Guide

Anotace: Lost in Bratislava? Impossible with this City Guide! It´s clear to anyone who has spent time in Bratislava that the ancient city straddling the Danube possess many charms. The Slovak capital was once the coronation capital under the prosperous Habsburg Monarchy, a significant part of the city´s history celebrated every year during its popular Coronation Days. ...

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Designing World Language Curriculum for Intercultural Communicative Competence - Eddy Jennifer

Anotace: This book creatively redefines how teacher educators and faculty in secondary and post-secondary language education can become designers with intercultural education in mind. The author aligns theoretical frameworks with practical features for revising the modern language curriculum via themes and novel tasks that transfer language learning from classroom to com...

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Designing World Language Curriculum for Intercultural Communicative Competence - Jennifer Eddy

<p>This book creatively redefines how teacher educators and faculty in secondary and post-secondary language education can become designers with intercultural education in mind. The author aligns theoretical frameworks with practical features for revising the modern language curriculum via themes and novel tasks that transfer language learning from classroom to comm...

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Ideology and the Virtual City

An exploration of modern society and the critical value of popular culture.

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Dungeon Builder: The Demon King's Labyrinth is a Modern City! (Manga) Vol. 6

A demon lord decides to break from the evil mold when building his dungeon--and develops a pleasant city instead!

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Dungeon Builder: The Demon King's Labyrinth is a Modern City! (Manga) Vol. 4

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Dungeon Builder: The Demon King's Labyrinth is a Modern City! (Manga) Vol. 7

A NEW FUTURE TO SAVE AN OLD LOVE.

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Manchester City

Celebrates the illustrious history and modern dominance of one of English football's most storied teams.

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Sunni City

Exploring the contentious politics of Tripoli, Tine Gade examines the city's modern history, considering its fluid political identity and the relation

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Lonely City

A dazzling investigation into loneliness, art and the modern city - 'A fierce and essential work' Helen Macdonald

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Hungry City

Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries - old

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Early Modern Atlantic Cities

This Element, traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an

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Media City

In response to lecturer demand, this is a paperback edition of Scott McQuire's critically acclaimed exploration of the social spaces of modern cities.

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100 Modern Quilt Blocks

Make a beautiful, modern quilt of your own design with the 100 original quilt blocks or try one of the 5 city-themed sampler quilts designed by Tula.

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City Houses

<p>An expansive and shrewdly curated collection of the most cutting-edge, effective, and appealing breakthroughs in home architecture, perfect for aspiring professionals, ambitious design firms, and anyone interested in exploring the frontiers of residential living spaces. Featuring amazing photographs of some of the world’s most innovative homes, this book also c...

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Rise of the Modern Art Market in London

The first study of how the art market developed in London and made the city the capital of the international trade in art. -- .

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Cork City Reflections

A fascinating collection of merged historic and modern images that reflect the changes in the city of Cork through the decades.

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Sin City Gangsters

Sin City Gangsters is an exciting page-turner about how the mob created and controlled modern Las Vegas and then lost it to Corporate America.

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Jade City (0356510514)

Kniha - 544 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - 544 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná TWO CRIME FAMILIES, ONE SOURCE OF POWER: JADE. Jade is the lifeblood of the city of Janloon - a stone that enhances a warrior's natural strength and speed. Jade is mined, traded, stolen and killed for, controlled by the ruthless No Peak and Mountain families. Whe...

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Ceredigion Folk Tales

This is a captivating collection of traditional and modern stories, including the submerged city of Cantre’r Gwaelod, or the â€Welsh Atlantisâ

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Abraxas – Midnight City MP3

Z obalu původní exportní LP desky (1984): The record you are about to hear is the work of a foremost Czechoslovak rock band ABRAXAS. Not only is it a band capturing the modern rhythms of today, but the roots of this formation go back quite a few steps inhistory... However, life is change and things can never remain the same for long, in the world of rock'n'roll. ... How t...

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Abraxas – Midnight City FLAC

Z obalu původní exportní LP desky (1984): The record you are about to hear is the work of a foremost Czechoslovak rock band ABRAXAS. Not only is it a band capturing the modern rhythms of today, but the roots of this formation go back quite a few steps inhistory... However, life is change and things can never remain the same for long, in the world of rock'n'roll. ... How t...

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Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague

In the seventeenth century Prague was the setting for a complex and shifting spiritual world. By studying the city's material culture, this book prese

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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind - Tallis Frank

Anotace: Like Sarah Bakewell`s How to Live and Andrea Wulf`s Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideasSome cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine all their ri...

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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind - Frank Tallis

<p>Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideasSome cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine all their riv...

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Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India a

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Reflecting on the City Through Literature Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city – depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting – but the literary reflection of the city also offers a critical reflection on the city. How can spatial difference be conc...

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Durham City in 50 Buildings

Explore the rich history of the city of Durham in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

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Women in Convent Spaces and the Music Networks of Early Modern Barcelona

This book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. It explores how convent

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Trnava region Travel guide

The detailed 88-page, English-language tour guide on the Trnava Region contains landmarks, practical information, 3D animations, many articles and photographs. The practical pocket size is enriched with a folding map.Apart from touristic points, the Trnava region guide explores a wealth of topics in 23 travel feature stories. It presents not only profiles of castles, muse...

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Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Present - Novotný Lukáš

Anotace: Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Today takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the changing fortunes of New York City throughout the last hundred years, from the heights of the Roaring Twenties and Mad Men Fifties, to the depths of the Great Depression Thirties, through to Fear City in the Sev...

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Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Present - Lukáš Novotný

<p>Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Today takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the changing fortunes of New York City throughout the last hundred years, from the heights of the Roaring Twenties and Mad Men Fifties, to the depths of the Great Depression Thirties, through to Fear City in the Seve...

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The Spring Girls : A Modern-Day Retelling of Little Women - Anna Todd

<p>Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to life-the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women like only Anna Todd (After, Imagines) could do. The Spring Girls-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live. As different as they are, with their father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding som...

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ROCKBROS Black City II. PhoBag

[CZ] Výtečná kvalita dílenského provedení, líbivý atraktivní design, vysoká funkčnost a příznivé ceny - to jsou hlavní přednosti Rockbros. Rockbros nabízí vynikající kvalitu, moderní design a nadčasovou eleganci. Rockbros je zajímavé řešení pro každého, kdo miluje cykloturistiku a jízdu na kole. V dnešní době je kolo nejen dopravním prostředkem, ale také vášní, koníčkem a...

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Coe Jonathan

Anotace: `A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become` RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it`s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of t...

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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Fulton Bruce

Anotace: This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea`s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captu...

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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World - Gaskill Malcolm

Anotace: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*`A bona fide historical classic` Sunday Times`Simply one of the best history books I have ever read` BBC HistoryIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer f...

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Cairo since 1900

The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete expression

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Heat Wave - Lively Penelope

Anotace: Published in Penguin Modern Classics, Penelope Lively`s Heat Wave is a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined by adultery, and the lengths to which a mother will go to protect the ones she loves.Pauline is spending the summer at World`s End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughte...

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Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age - Berglund Bruce R.

Anotace: Prague in the early twentieth century was the city of cubists, surrealists, and the Good Soldier vejk. This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the city s cultural history. As Prague emerged as a modern city and the Czech nation gained independence, Catholics, Protestants, and those who imagined a non-secta...

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Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age - Bruce R. Berglund

<p>Prague in the early twentieth century was the city of cubists, surrealists, and the Good Soldier vejk. This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the city s cultural history. As Prague emerged as a modern city and the Czech nation gained independence, Catholics, Protestants, and those who imagined a non-sectar...

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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design - Mars Roman, Kohlstedt Kurt

Anotace: __________Out now: The most entertaining and fascinating book about architecture and design, from the wildly popular podcast 99% Invisible. __________A New York Times Bestseller`Full of surprises and quirky information . . . a fascinating journey through the over-familiar.` - Financial Times, Best Books of 2020`[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Inv...

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Plague between Prague and Vienna. Medicine and Infectious Diseases in Early Modern Central Europe - Karel Černý

Vienna’s prominent landmark, the Pestsäule (Plague Column), commemorates the devastating bubonic plague epidemic of 1679 that killed thousands of the city’s in- habitants.

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Trnava region Travel guide

Anotace: The detailed 88-page, English-language tour guide on the Trnava Region contains landmarks, practical information, 3D animations, many articles and photographs. The practical pocket size is enriched with a folding map. Apart from touristic points, the Trnava region guide explores a wealth of topics in 23 travel feature stories. It presents not only profiles of c...

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Trnava region Travel guide

<p>The detailed 88-page, English-language tour guide on the Trnava Region contains landmarks, practical information, 3D animations, many articles and photographs. The practical pocket size is enriched with a folding map. </p><p> Apart from touristic points, the Trnava region guide explores a wealth of topics in 23 travel feature stories. It presents not ...

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Batman: The Knight

The origin of Batman and his never-ending fight against crime in Gotham City is modern mythology, but what of the story in between?

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Sound Of The Jam

Tento titul obsahuje skladby v úpravě: melodická linka s textem, akordové značky a klavírní part. Obsah: Away From The Numbers Beat Surrender Boy About Town Carnation David Watts Down In The Tube Station At Midnight English Rose Ghosts Going Underground In The City It's Too Bad Liza Radley ...

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Midnight at the Pera Palace

Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.

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The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro

<p>"Almost certainly a masterpiece." (Anita Brookner). Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most ...

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The Fountainhead - Randová Ayn

Anotace: Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand`s The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull, conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition, power, gold and love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Architect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with. Def...

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The Furies - John Connolly

Anotace: NO ONE EVER FORGETS MEETING THE SISTERS STRANGE ... The Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Now, private investigator Charlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies in two linked stories. In The Sisters Strange, the return of the criminal Raum Buker to Portland, Maine brings wi...

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Women on the Margins

As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the 17th century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though very different, were not queens or noblewomen, their every move publicly noted. R...

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Prague at the Turn of the Century - Pavel Scheufler

Anotace: Towards the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Prague still possessed its venerable majesty, but now it was fast becoming a modern European metropolis. The old Jewish Quarter had been replaced with broad boulevards, modern bridges spanned the river, and the first steam trains from Vienna were arriving at the station. While only recently the Emperor and his guard...

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