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Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1789141036

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We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than architecture. This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals, and asylums, to the “corridors of power,” bureaucratic labyrinths, and housing estates of the twentieth century. Taking in a wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film, and TV, Corridors explores how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.

Author : Doris Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000389464

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Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book’s seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumption corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and environmental and sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the general public.

Author : Guy Nordenson
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category :
ISBN : 9783775745895

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The Regional Plan Association has produced four comprehensive regional plans for the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metropolitan region since its foundation in 1922. This book examines the evolving role of design in the first three plans and presents the design initiatives of the Fourth Regional Plan (2017) in depth. The new plan seeks to shift the focus of regional planning from a traditional center-to-periphery hierarchy to an expanded notion of "corridor" that includes transportation, ecology, access and equity. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, this collaborative initiative of the Regional Plan Association, Princeton University, and four innovative design teams produced design proposals for four regional corridors: the Highlands (forest corridor), the Bight (coastal corridor), the Inner Ring (suburban corridor) and the Triboro (city corridor). Looking forward to 2040, the Fourth Regional Plan imagines a transformed and vital future for parts of the New York City metro area that are little understood and often overlooked. Paul Lewis is a principal at LTL Architects, New York, and Professor and Associate Dean at Princeton University School of Architecture. Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer at Guy Nordenson and Associates, New York, and Professor of Architecture and Structural Engineering at Princeton University. Catherine Seavitt is a landscape architect at Catherine Seavitt Studio, New York, and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the City College of New York.

Author : Daron Acemoglu
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0735224382

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How does history end? -- The Red Queen -- Will to power -- Economics outside the corridor -- Allegory of good government -- The European scissors -- Mandate of Heaven -- Broken Red Queen -- Devil in the details -- What's the matter with Ferguson? -- The paper leviathan -- Wahhab's children -- Red Queen out of control -- Into the corridor -- Living with the leviathan.

Author : Sara Hammerschmidt
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780874203936

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Corridor redevelopment is not a new topic. Various planning and design approaches--such as complete streets, living streets, and livable streets--aim to redevelop commercial corridors to meet more of their users' needs, including their need for walking and biking rather than just traveling by car. A marked difference between a healthy corridors approach and other approaches is that the former looks beyond just the street and considers how the street supports the daily needs of all who live, work, and travel along it. Building Healthy Corridors: Transforming Urban and Suburban Arterials into Thriving Places takes a comprehensive view and considers how the corridor contributes to the overall health of the surrounding community, including community members' opportunities to be physically active. It also considers safety, housing affordability, transportation options, environmental sustainability, and social cohesion as well as modifications that would link residents to the corridor and improve connections to jobs and adjacent parts of the community.

Author : Gary Whitney
Publisher : Frog Limited
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781883319762

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The story of psychic artist Monica Szu-Whitney, illustrated with art she has created during journeys to the "other side". The book explains how Monica developed as a psychic artist and discusses her journeys and subsequent work, which is reproduced here in 26 color photos.

Author : Kate Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780816684311

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"Corridor" offers a series of conceptually provocative readings that illuminate a hidden and surprising relationship between architectural space and modern American fiction. By paying close attention to fictional descriptions of some of modernityOCOs least remarkable structures, Kate Marshall discovers a rich network of connections between corridors and novels, one that also sheds new light on the nature of modern media.

Author : C.P. Snow
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2010-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755118391

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The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry.

Author : Catherine A. Corson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300212275

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