Social value in architecture

Social Value in Architecture

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Preservation and Social Inclusion

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive, through more diversity in the profession and enhanced community

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Social Value in Practice

This book connects social value to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and presents an insight into the many and different practical ways

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Architecture of Social Reform

Explores how housing design came to occupy the center of the modernist project in Germany. -- .

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Social Welfare and Social Value

Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying values

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Aeropolis – Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds

Aeropolis proposes that air is thought of as a city, to center its social, cultural, political, ecological entanglements.

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Architecture in Context

Contemporary design solutions based on environmental, social and cultural identities.

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Social (Re)Production of Architecture

A cutting-edge, critical text which rethinks both practice and theory in the light of recent crises, making it key reading for students, academics and

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Elizabethan Architecture

Discusses social structure and the way of life behind Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture, the ferment of excitement aroused in English patrons and

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Value in Due Diligence

Value in Due Diligence explores new applications for due diligence including areas such as corporate culture, social responsibility, and innovation. I

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Social Management Responsiveness in Business

Cesar Saenz presents the Social Management Model Canvas (SMMC) for describing, visualizing, assessing, and improving the social value proposition to g

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Architecture after Modernism

An examination of the architectural world and its theories since the late 1960s in the context of social and political issues. It looks at a broad sur

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The Architecture of Reciprocity

We should ask not only how architecture is, but primarily, what it causes. Such is the epigraph for the present work, discussion (not only) architecture in a way that addresses every one of us. The authors of the publication, who have spent much time investigating the mutual relations between human beings, their environment and architecture, demonstrate through concrete e...

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Metaphorical Practices in Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture’s social, cultural and political dimensions – past and present – and to productively challenge and intervene with established perspectives, debates and...

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Spatial Orders, Social Forms

A fascinating look at modernist urban planning and spatial theories in Brazilian 20th-century art and architecture

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Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia

This book takes a fresh perspective on the Viking Age, offering a social archaeology of the Viking home. A highly charged architectural element - the

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An Architecture of Care in South Africa Taylor & Francis Ltd

Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Movement established the moral ethos of ‘an architecture of care’ that not only remains embedded in current discourse and practice but that is being given a more vocal presence in our climate crisis and social justice world. Written...

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Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus

Originally published in 1940, this book by famous Plotinus scholar Arthur Hilary Armstrong assesses how the philosopher's hierarchy of reality fits into the wider universal order, and how the historical and philosophical tradition gave rise to Plotinus' own philosophies. Armstrong also supplies a bibliography broken down by topic for those who wish to pursue any aspect of...

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Geologics. Geography Information Architecture - Vicente Guallart

A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society.

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Geologics - Geography Information Architecture - Vicente Guallart

<p>A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society. He proposes, by means of his architecture, projects and writings, fresh ways for building in five distinct urban areas: the city, the periphery, the outskirt...

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Social Housing, Wellbeing and Welfare

Bridging housing studies and social policy, this book analyses competing interpretations of the role and value of social housing in the UK. The auth

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Foundations of Affective Social Learning

Written by experts in comparative, developmental, social, cognitive and cultural psychology, this book explains how we learn to value the different ob

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Foundations of Affective Social Learning

Written by experts in comparative, developmental, social, cognitive and cultural psychology, this book explains how we learn to value the different ob

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The Architecture of Reciprocity - Miroslav Cikán

<p>We should ask not only how architecture is, but primarily, what it causes. Such is the epigraph for the present work, discussion (not only) architecture in a way that addresses every one of us. The authors of the publication, who have spent much time investigating the mutual relations between human beings, their environment and architecture, demonstrate through c...

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Advances in SIoT (Social Internet of Things) Taylor & Francis Ltd

Social Internet of Things employs the theory of social networks into the different levels of the IoTs and has brought new possibilities for their development. Moreover, SIoT is a form of realization of technology, architecture, and application of the IoTs using social network research methods, and further promotes the integration between real world and the virtual cybersp...

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The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the 20th century in Central and Eastern Europe, as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for present and future generations. Due to the historical context in which it was created, such architecture remains ambiguous. With increasing awareness of the issue of preserving post-war arch...

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Literature, Social Wisdom, and Global Justice

In explaining the nature and importance of these thinking skills and the ability of literary study to develop them, this book will be of value to lite

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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book presents the making of Mexican modernist architecture through five power structures: academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and post-colonial, and through interviews with thirteen key Mexican architects. By acknowledging the manner in which architecture is framed to create both just and unjust spaces, it is possible to contest the validity of these...

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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book presents the making of Mexican modernist architecture through five power structures: academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and post-colonial, and through interviews with thirteen key Mexican architects. By acknowledging the manner in which architecture is framed to create both just and unjust spaces, it is possible to contest the validity of these...

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The Architecture of Reciprocity - Miroslav Cikán,Pavla Melková

Anotace: We should ask not only how architecture is, but primarily, what it causes. Such is the epigraph for the present work, discussion (not only) architecture in a way that addresses every one of us. The authors of the publication, who have spent much time investigating the mutual relations between human beings, their environment and architecture, demonstrate through ...

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Architecture for Spain´s Recovered Democracy Taylor & Francis Ltd

The study brings forth the architectural incarnation of that threefold program as it deployed in the Valencian Country, a Catalan-speaking region on Spain’s Mediterranean shores. There, social democratic authorities mobilized architects, planners, and graphic artists to devise a newly open public sphere and to recover a local identity that Franco’s dictatorship had repres...

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Design Materials and Making for Social Change Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volumespans the two interconnected worlds of the material and the social, at different scales and in different contexts, and explores the value of the knowledge, skills and methods that emerge when design researchers work directly with materials and hold making central to their practice. The contributors to this edited volume also encounter and interact with: homeles...

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Migration, Tourism and Social Sustainability Taylor & Francis Ltd

The distinctions between tourism and migration are increasingly blurred. Tourism often drives various forms of mobility, and an international workforce is essential to maintaining functioning tourism economies. This book explores intersections of tourism and migration, considering their relationships with and impacts on social sustainability. This book will be of great va...

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Critical Issues in Football

Showcasing some of the most important current research in football studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and sociology in helping

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Competing in the Age of AI

AI-centric organisations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.

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Managing in a VUCA World

This book examines volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) and addresses the need for broader knowledge and application of new concepts and frameworks to deal with unpredictable and rapid changing situations. The premises of VUCA can shape all aspects of an organization. To cover all areas, the book is divided into six sections. Section 1 acts as an intro...

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Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary South Asia

This book engages with the concept, true value and function of democracy in South Asia against the background of real social conditions for the promot

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Global Art in Local Art Worlds Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores the attribution and local negotiation of cultural valuations of artistic and art-institutional practices around the world, and considers the diverse ways in which these value attributions intersect with claims of universality and cosmopolitanism. Including reflections by a number of senior scholars, the chapters demonstrate that the question of valuatio...

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Modern Hospice Design

Rooted in the social history of the care of the elderly and terminally ill, Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative and Social Care take

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Wide Angle View

The companion exhibition catalogue to the RIBAÂ’s photography exhibition: Wide Angle View: Architecture as social space in the Manplan series 1969-70.

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Architectural Novel

Scholars in disciplines from architecture and the fine arts, to the various branches of history and social studies, will find this study timely given

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Plaster Monuments

We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require o

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Geologics - Vicente Guallart

Anotace: A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society. He proposes, by means of his architecture, projects and writings, fresh ways for building in five distinct urban areas: the city, the periphery, the outskir...

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Geologics

A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society. He proposes, by means of his architecture, projects and writings, fresh ways for building in five distinct urban areas: the city, the periphery, the outskirts, the ru...

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Sociology of the Caring Professions

This text discusses the role of the caring professions and reforms in the welfare state, assessing the impact on organizational roles and relationships. It should be of value to those studying sociology, social policy, nursing and social work.

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Corporate Cultural Responsibility

As companies seek new ways to add value to society, this book places business support of the arts in a corporate social responsibility context and off

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Rethinking Disability and Human Rights Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students working in disability studies, planning, architecture, public health, rehabilitation, social work, and education....

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Theatres of Architectural Imagination Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces. Imagination is arguably the architect’s most crucial capacity, underpinning memory, invention and compassion. No simple power of the mind, architectural imagination is deeply embodied, social and situational. Its performative potentia...

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Theatres of Architectural Imagination Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces. Imagination is arguably the architect’s most crucial capacity, underpinning memory, invention and compassion. No simple power of the mind, architectural imagination is deeply embodied, social and situational. Its performative potentia...

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Universities under Neoliberalism Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book explores the rise of neo-liberalization in academic system in a highly unlikely place: Sweden, a country with a strong social democratic tradition and a long history of state regulation of higher education. This edited collection will be of value to researchers, academics, and students with an interest in in organizational studies, governance, management, higher ...

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Archigram

In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture floated away, tethered by wires, gantries, tubes, and trucks. In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadl...

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Empire of Love

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulate in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperia...

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Anthropological Optimism Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book theorizes the role of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism’s origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. The COVID-19 pandemicunderscored the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic coll...

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Anthropological Optimism Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book theorizes the role of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism’s origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. The COVID-19 pandemicunderscored the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic coll...

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Au revoir, Prague

Audiokniha MP3 Jaromír Čermák,Karel Šašek, čte František Fröhlich Vyšehrad - the ancient seat of the Princes of Bohemia, dating from the first half of the 10th century. The cemetery with "Slavín" where outstanding Czech artists and scientists are laid to rest. (Smetana "Vyšehrad"). Wenceslas Squere (Václavské náměstí) - the main Prague thoroughfare with St. Wenceslas Mo...

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Ukraine, Russia and the West Taylor & Francis Ltd

Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to restore the Cold War security architecture in Europe, the major Western powers h...

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Ukraine, Russia and the West Taylor & Francis Ltd

Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to restore the Cold War security architecture in Europe, the major Western powers h...

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Gaudi. The Complete Works - 40th Anniversary Edition - Rainer Zerbst

<p>Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. With brand-new photography, plans and drawings by Gaudí himself, as well as an extensive appendix of all his works including furniture and unfinished projects, this book takes us through the Catalonian’s fantastic...

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Innovative Apartment Buildings

Current design of apartment buildings is facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic, cultural and social aspects that led to the writing of this book. The depletion of non-renewable natural re...

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The Iconic British House - Dominic Bradbury

<p>A definitive survey of the finest examples of residential architecture in Britain from 1900 to the present, featuring the major architects of the 20th century and leading emerging talents. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the architectural history and heritage of Britain. This has been driven by many important political, cultural and so...

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