L'ouvrage dépeint l'évolution de la situation foncière en Afrique subsaharienne : la montée de la pression foncière liée à la croissance démographique, à la dégradation écologique et aux pratiques d'exploitation minières, ainsi que les comportements des acteurs (usagers, autorités locales, Etat).
Pour parler de tourisme de mémoire, il faut que les éléments que l'on souhaite « patrimonialiser » fassent réellement « sens » pour des catégories de la population, qu'ils participent à leur identité profonde.
La patrimonialisation des marqueurs socioculturels et identitaires, caractéristique de la ville soudano-sahélienne, en raison de l'originalité et de la beauté qu'elle transmet, a imposé l'intérêt de cet ouvrage.
This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.
This book is about building and maintaining involved, sustainable, and inclusive communities from the ground up during a period of unprecedented growth and global change.
Jacques Hainard, ancien conservateur et directeur du musée d'Ethnographie de Neuchâtel, a révolutionné, à partir des années 1980, la manière de penser et de réaliser les expositions.
This book is about building and maintaining involved, sustainable, and inclusive communities from the ground up during a period of unprecedented growth and global change.
Although there are other books about renovating old houses, this is the first that prioritizes the identification and preservation of the historic, character-defining features of a house as a starting point in the process.
Although there are other books about renovating old houses, this is the first that prioritizes the identification and preservation of the historic, character-defining features of a house as a starting point in the process.
Guest-edited by Agostino De Rosa, Alessio Bortot and Francesco Bergamo Penumbra, from the Latin paene (almost) and umbra (shadow), can be defined as an intermediate zone of transition between light and shadow.
Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build.
"Un momento arquitectónico en Córdoba" intenta atender a ciertas características de las dimensiones sociológica, disciplinar y estilística de la arquitectura en un momento determinado (1916- 1926).
This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.
La arquitectura y el arte barrocos han sido tomados, en diferentes momentos y por diferentes interpretaciones, como una producción basada en la exacerbación del subjetivismo, en la irracionalidad, en los excesos de una saturación y acumulación propias de un horror vacui, todo ello como algo ajeno a los dictados de la razón y de una coherencia fundada en los valores de lo supuestamente objetivo.
BUILDINGS FOR PEOPLE Buildings for People: Responsible Real Estate Development and Planning explores how to balance social concerns with financial and investment considerations without sacrificing profit.
Le façadisme est une pratique architecturale qui s'est établie durant les années 2000 au Maroc comme un procédé de rétention de façades historiques, des parois extérieures des bâtiments anciens, ou comme la création de répliques de ces façades avec des édifications nouvelles ayant un caractère contemporain à leurs intérieurs.
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research.
WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.
Cet ouvrage est le reflet des débats qui ont animé la rencontre "Villes, voyages, voyageurs ; regards sur l'Autre et l'ailleurs", organisée dans le cadre de la première Biennale de la ville et du voyage qui s'est déroulée à Villeurbanne.
This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary examination of the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only living longer but taking much longer to die-often in great pain and suffering.
Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas.
The key principles of designing a pleasant, comfortable and healthy eco-home, with a foreword written by HRH The Prince of Wales, now King Charles III.
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.
A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation PrizeTranslated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama.
The International Symposium on Energy Management and Sustainability (ISEMAS) is a multi-disciplinary symposium that presents research on current issues in energy efficiency, social awareness, and global climate change.
