Starchitects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Starchitects write by Julio Fajardo. This book was released on 2010-07-27. Starchitects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Starchitects: Visionary Architects of the Twenty-first Century offers a complete and detailed catalog of some of the world's most brilliant architects working today. Featuring biographies and studio information as well as detailed plants, drawings, and photographs of each building, this book is a must-have compendium celebrating the work of the best and brightest—the stars of architecture.
The Icon Project
The Icon Project - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Icon Project write by Leslie Sklair. This book was released on 2017. The Icon Project available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A pioneering look at the ways in which contemporary architecture serves the interests of the capitalist class, from global North to South and through to the petro-cities of the Gulf States In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always driven by private interests. In The Icon Project, sociologist Leslie Sklair focuses on ways in which capitalist globalization is produced and represented all over the world, especially in globalizing cities. Sklair traces how the iconic buildings of our era-elaborate shopping malls, spectacular museums and vast urban megaprojects-constitute the triumphal "Icon Project" of contemporary global capitalism, promoting increasing inequality and hyperconsumerism. He sets out to explain how the architecture industry organizes the social production and marketing of iconic structures and how corporations increasingly dominate the built environment and promote the trend towards globalizing, consumerist cities. The Icon Project, Sklair argues, is a weapon in the struggle to solidify capitalist hegemony as well as reinforce transnational capitalist control of where we live, what we consume, and how we think"--
Better By Design?
Better By Design? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Better By Design? write by Paul L. Knox. This book was released on 2020-10-09. Better By Design? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The design professions—architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, and urban design—share a great deal in terms of intellectual antecedents, professional ideals, and praxis. In particular, they share a commitment to creating better cities—whether at the scale of buildings, neighborhoods, or city-regions. But who decides what constitutes a “good” city, and how should such an ideal be implemented? In Better by Design? Paul Knox explores the intellectual roots of the design professions, showing how architects, planners, and other designers have traditionally interpreted their roles and implemented their ideas in cities across North America and the UK. Drawing on his long record of research and award-winning publications on the social production of the built environment, Knox offers a critical appraisal of their ultimate effectiveness in achieving the goal of creating and sustaining good cities.
International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities
International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities write by Ben Derudder. This book was released on 2012-02-01. International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world. By treating cities at a global scale, it focuses on the 'stretching' of urban functions beyond specific place locations, without losing sight of the multiple divisions in contemporary world cities. The book firmly bases city networks in their historical context, critically discusses contemporary concepts and key empirical measures, and analyses major issues relating to world city infrastructures, economies, governance and divisions. The variety of urban outcomes in contemporary globalization is explored through detailed case studies. Edited by leading scholars of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network and written by over 60 experts in the field, the Handbook is a unique resource for students, researchers and academics in urban and globalization studies as well as for city professionals in planning and policy.
The Performance of Celebrity: Creating, Maintaining and Controlling Fame
The Performance of Celebrity: Creating, Maintaining and Controlling Fame - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Performance of Celebrity: Creating, Maintaining and Controlling Fame write by Amber Anna Colvin. This book was released on 2019-01-04. The Performance of Celebrity: Creating, Maintaining and Controlling Fame available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume addresses the study of celebrity across a variety of academic disciplines and time periods, with an emphasis on the ways fame is understood and controlled in the celebrity-audience relationship.
