1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460774803321

Autore

Pearson Christopher E. M.

Titolo

1000 Obras de Arquitectura / / Christopher E. M. Pearson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Parkstone Press International, , [2014]

©[2014]

ISBN

84-9794-086-5

1-78310-456-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (544 p.)

Disciplina

720.22

Soggetti

Architecture

Historic buildings

Monuments

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contenido; INTRODUCCIÓN; Oriente Medio y África; Asia y Oceanía; Europa (incluidas Rusia y Turquía); Las Américas; Biografías; Cronología; Glosario; Índice

Sommario/riassunto

Desde la mítica torre de babel, los humanos se han propuesto edificar monumentos que estuvieran a la altura de sus egos desproporcionados. A lo largo de los siglos, con construcciones como los antiguos Zigurats, el Taj Majal o el Empire State, el hombre ha demostrado su poder para levantar estructuras con propósitos religiosos o profanos. Estos monumentos, vistos como una declaración cultural muda, un símbolo de los principios de los pueblos (devoción, patriotismo, poder), o un símbolo de la grandeza de una civilización, fascinan y atraen a un público cada vez mayor que queda captivado por la



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910315244603321

Autore

Herscher Andrew <1961->

Titolo

The unreal estate guide to Detroit / / Andrew Herscher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2012

ISBN

9780472900282

0472900285

9781283837194

1283837196

9780472029174

0472029177

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

ARC000000ARC022000SOC026030

Disciplina

977.434

Soggetti

City planning - Michigan - Detroit

Urban policy - Michigan - Detroit

Real estate business - Michigan - Detroit

Detroit (Mich.) Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The Detroit Unreal Estate Agency: A Preface --Unreal Estate: An Introduction --Unprofessional Practices --Ruin Harvest --Detroit Demolition Disneyland --FireBreak --Salvaged Landscape --Food Infill --Earthworks Urban Farm --D-Town Farm --Georgia Street Community Garden --Brightmoor Farmway --Peaches and Greens --"Field of Our Dreams --Municipal Therapy --Motor City Blight Busters --Greening of Detroit --Hope District --Navin Field Grounds Crew --Detroit Mower Gang --Furtive Inhabitation --Detroit Blues.

Hookie Monsters --Urban Yoga Lab --Seed Detroit --Unwarranted Techniques --Feral Research --Detroit Geographical Expedition --Pink Pony Express --Waste Curation --Tree of Heaven Woodshop --Architectural Salvage Warehouse --Friends of Gorgeous Berries --Public Secrecy --Hygienic Dress League --Secret Pizza Party --Trtl --Radical Hospitality --Boggs Center --Catherine Ferguson Academy --Block Clubbing --Unsanctioned Collectives --Temporary Communities



--Dally in the Alley --Theatre Bizarre --Detroit Guerrilla Queer Bar.

John's Carpet House --Tashmoo Biergarten --Do-It-Yourself-Then-Together --UFO Factory --Yes Farm --Micropolitanism --Farnsworth Street --Fourth Street --Trumbullplex --Urban Toeholds --Center for Creative eXchange --Filter Detroit --Ego Circus --Unsolicited Constructions --Accidental Architecture --Michigan Building Parking Garage --Peacemakers International --Blotting --Extreme Housework --Detroit Industrial Gallery --Full Scale Design Lab --Power House --Scavenged Space --Alley Culture --Grafikjam Alleys--The Lot --Submerge --Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit --Patrimony on the Unlost --Hamtramck Disneyland -- Car Wash Cafe --African Bead Museum --Heidleberg Project.

Sommario/riassunto

The Detroit Unreal Estate Agency was founded in 2008 as an open-access platform for research on urban crisis, using Detroit as a focal point. Against the apprehension of Detroit as a problem that needs to be solved, the Agency has regarded Detroit as a site where new ways of imagining, inhabiting and constructing the contemporary city are being invented, tested and advanced.--P. 2.