Unbuilding - 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 Unbuilding write by David Macaulay. This book was released on 1987-10-26. Unbuilding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “In this wonderfully urbane fantasy” the Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator imagines the process of dismantling the Empire State Building (Publishers Weekly). The acclaimed author of City and Pyramid now applies his inquisitive mind and stunningly detailed artwork to one of New York’s most iconic buildings. When the Empire State Building is purchased by an eccentric prince who wants to move it to the Arabian Desert, the intricate process of unbuilding begins. Along the way, Macaulay takes young readers on a tour of the skyscraper’s history and architecture and explains the many feats of engineering that went into its construction. His straightforward, informative text is illustrated with “perhaps the finest series of visually expansive, black-and-white perspective drawings, incisive renderings of the skyscraper and its celebrated ‘views’” (The Washington Post).
Unbuilding Jerusalem
Unbuilding Jerusalem - 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 Unbuilding Jerusalem write by Steven Goldsmith. This book was released on 1993. Unbuilding Jerusalem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Unbuilding
Unbuilding - 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 Unbuilding write by Robert H. Falk. This book was released on 2007. Unbuilding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Unbuilding Cities
Unbuilding 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 Unbuilding Cities write by Anique Hommels. This book was released on 2008-08-29. Unbuilding Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. City planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considered to be dynamic and flexible spaces—never finished but always under construction—it is very difficult to change existing urban structures; they become fixed, obdurate, securely anchored in their own histories as well as in the histories of their surroundings. In Unbuilding Cities, Anique Hommels looks at the tension between the malleability of urban space and its obduracy, focusing on sites and structures that have been subjected to "unbuilding"—redesign or reconfiguration. She brings the concepts of science and technology studies (STS) to bear on the study of cities. Viewing the city as a large sociotechnological artifact, she demonstrates the usefulness of STS tools that were developed to analyze other technological artifacts and explores in detail the role of obduracy in sociotechnical change. Her analysis distinguishes three concepts of obduracy: interactionist, in which actors with diverging views are constrained by fixed ways of thinking and interacting; relational, in which change is difficult because of technology's embeddedness in sociotechnical networks; and enduring, in which persistent traditions influence the development of technology over time. Hommels examines the tensions between obduracy and change in three urban redesign projects in the Netherlands: a renovated city center that fell into drabness and disrepair; a highway system that runs through a densely populated urban area; and a high-rise housing project, designed according to modernist precepts and built for middle-class families, that became a haven for unemployment and crime. Unbuilding Cities contributes to a productive fusion of STS and urban studies.
Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel
Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel - 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 Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel write by Fran Markowitz. This book was released on 2015. Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrod’s groundbreaking ethnographic research of Israel’s underpopulated south complicated the dominant social science discourse and government policy of the day by focusing on the ironies inherent in the project of Israeli nation building and on the process of migration prompted by social change. Drawing from Weingrod’s perspective, this collection considers the gaps, ruptures, and juxtapositions in Israeli society and the cultural categories undergirding and subverting these divisions. Organized into four parts, the volume examines our understanding of Israel as a place of difference, the disruptions and integrations of diaspora, the various permutations of Judaism, and the role of symbol in the national landscape and in Middle Eastern studies considered from a comparative perspective. These essays illuminate the key issues pervading, motivating, and frustrating Israel’s complex ethnoscape.
