Sleeping In The Courtyard
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Courtyard Housing And Cultural Sustainability
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Author : Donia Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-13
Courtyard Housing And Cultural Sustainability written by Donia Zhang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with Political Science categories.
Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor widely accepted or recognized. This book elicits the interplay of nature-culture-architecture and theorizes the concept of cultural sustainability and culturally sustainable architecture. It identifies four key themes in Chinese philosophy: Harmony with Heaven, Harmony with Earth, Harmony with Humans, and Harmony with Self, along with Greek philosopher Aristotle’s physics: form, space, matter, and time, it sets them as criteria to evaluate the renewed and new courtyard housing projects constructed in China since the 1990s. Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents, observation notes, and real estate brochures, the book proposes new courtyard garden house design strategies that promote healthy communities and human care for one another, a concept that is universally applicable. The volume is a first opportunity to take a holistic view, to encompass eastern and western, tangible and intangible, cultures in the theorization of cultural sustainability and culturally sustainable architecture. It is a comprehensive contribution to architectural theory.
Courtyards
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Author : John Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2002
Courtyards written by John Reynolds and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
"Courtyards presents a survey of courtyards, contemporary design guidelines, and a diverse selection of examples. Readers will acquire a basic understanding of the balance that must exist between garden and building, including practical advice for planting."--BOOK JACKET.
An Amulet That Disguises
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Author : Elery Keene
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2018-08-30
An Amulet That Disguises written by Elery Keene and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Fiction categories.
The adventurers seek to enter The Peoples Republic in search of Robert Swift. The government of The Peoples Republic outlaws all people that are not considered to be of the Human race, including Dwarves, Eldens, Erebans, and others. It also outlaws all use of Magic including spellcasting, healing by use of spells, and possession of any magic items. These crimes are punishable by death. The group includes a Dwarf and two Eldens who must disguise themselves, and all six of them must conceal their magic items and abilities as they risk danger and death in this Republic to accomplish their mission.
Courtyard Housing
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Author : Brian Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006
Courtyard Housing written by Brian Edwards and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.
This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that the courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past.
Cultural Landscape Transaction And Values Of Nupe Community In Central Nigeria
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Author : Isa Bala Muhammad
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2019-01-15
Cultural Landscape Transaction And Values Of Nupe Community In Central Nigeria written by Isa Bala Muhammad and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Social Science categories.
The book provides readers with insights on how cultural landscapes are conceptualised under two major realms of tangible and intangible values as exemplified in this study of a rural Nupe community in central Nigeria. Equally important are the people-space and place relationship which results in a sense of place. The cultural values of communities are a product of both natural as well as the social setting which begins with the family. Accordingly, this book showcases how the concept of family structure shapes the architecture of the domestic space. Similarly, it also exemplifies how tangible and intangible cultural values are constituted within the domestic space as well as the entire cultural landscape. The uniqueness of this book is on the empirical evidence which is based on the documentation of an eight-month ethnographic study which brought about the native’s resident perception of their cultural landscape. This aligns with the global call in which UNESCO is at the forefront advocating the need for the preservation of values and identities of cultural landscapes. More also is that scholars in Human geography, Anthropology, Ethnography, Architecture and Cultural landscape studies can relate to the cultural transactions discussed in different chapters this book. The concluding chapter of this book gives the deductions drawn from the cultural landscape values of Nupe community which resulted in the formulation of Grounded Theory with spatial implications.
The Afterlife Is Where We Come From
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Author : Alma Gottlieb
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-10-31
The Afterlife Is Where We Come From written by Alma Gottlieb and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-31 with Social Science categories.
When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way the Beng rear their children? In this unique and engaging ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb explores how religious ideology affects every aspect of Beng childrearing practices—from bathing infants to protecting them from disease to teaching them how to crawl and walk—and how widespread poverty limits these practices. A mother of two, Gottlieb includes moving discussions of how her experiences among the Beng changed the way she saw her own parenting. Throughout the book she also draws telling comparisons between Beng and Euro-American parenting, bringing home just how deeply culture matters to the way we all rear our children. All parents and anyone interested in the place of culture in the lives of infants, and vice versa, will enjoy The Afterlife Is Where We Come From. "This wonderfully reflective text should provide the impetus for formulating research possibilities about infancy and toddlerhood for this century." — Caren J. Frost, Medical Anthropology Quarterly “Alma Gottlieb’s careful and thought-provoking account of infancy sheds spectacular light upon a much neglected topic. . . . [It] makes a strong case for the central place of babies in anthropological accounts of religion. Gottlieb’s remarkably rich account, delivered after a long and reflective period of gestation, deserves a wide audience across a range of disciplines.”—Anthony Simpson, Critique of Anthropology
Famous Murder Trials
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Author : Pramod Kumar Das
language : en
Publisher: Universal Law Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Famous Murder Trials written by Pramod Kumar Das and has been published by Universal Law Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Murder categories.
China S Old Dwellings
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Author : Ronald G. Knapp
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2019-03-31
China S Old Dwellings written by Ronald G. Knapp and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-31 with Architecture categories.
China's Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms in any language. It and its companion volume, China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation (UH Press, 1999), together form a landmark study of the environmental, historical, and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population. Both books draw on the author's thirty years of fieldwork and extensive travel in China as well as published and unpublished material in many languages. China's Old Dwellings begins by tracing the interest in Chinese vernacular buildings in the twentieth century. Early chapters detail common and distinctive spatial components, including the interior and exterior modular spaces that are axiomatic components of most Chinese dwellings as well as conventional structural components and building materials common in Chinese construction. Later chapters examine representative housing types in the three broad cultural realms--northern, southern, and western--into which China has been divided. Knapp completes his survey with an exploration of China's old dwellings in the context of the rapid economic and social changes that are destroying so many of them.
Supreme Court On Rarest Of Rare Cases
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Author : Pramod Kumar Das
language : en
Publisher: Universal Law Publishing
Release Date : 2011
Supreme Court On Rarest Of Rare Cases written by Pramod Kumar Das and has been published by Universal Law Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Capital punishment categories.
The Nightingale Won T Let You Sleep
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Author : Steven Heighton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-03-14
The Nightingale Won T Let You Sleep written by Steven Heighton and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Fiction categories.
From internationally acclaimed and Governor General’s Award-winning author Steven Heighton comes a passionate novel of buried secrets, the repercussions of war and finding love among the ruins Elias Trifannis is desperate to belong somewhere. To make his dying ex-cop father happy, he joins the military—but in Afghanistan, by the time he realizes his last-minute bid for connection was a terrible mistake, it’s too late and a tragedy has occurred. In the aftermath, exhausted by nightmares, Elias is sent to Cyprus to recover, where he attempts to find comfort in the arms of Eylül, a beautiful Turkish journalist. But the lovers’ reprieve ends in a moment of shocking brutality that drives Elias into Varosha, once a popular Greek-Cypriot resort town, abandoned since the Turkish invasion of 1974. Hidden in the lush, overgrown ruins is a community of exiles and refugees living resourcefully but comfortably. Thanks to the cheerfully corrupt Colonel Kaya, who turns a blind eye, they live under the radar of the Turkish authorities. As he begins to heal, Elias finds himself drawn to the enigmatic and secretive Kaiti while he learns at last to “simply belong.” But just when it seems he has found sanctuary, events he himself set in motion have already begun to endanger it.