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Vertical Metropolis
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Vertical Metropolis written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Skyscrapers categories.
Metropolis
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Author : Thomas Elsaesser
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-07-30
Metropolis written by Thomas Elsaesser and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-30 with Art categories.
Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months' filming, it was Germany's most expensive feature film, a canvas for director Fritz Lang's increasingly extravagant ambitions. Lang, inspired by the skyline of New York, created a whole new vision of cities. One of the greatest works of science fiction, the film also tells human stories about love and family. Thomas Elsaesser explores the cultural phenomenon of Metropolis: its different versions (there is no definitive one), its changing meanings, and its role as a database of twentieth-century imagery and ideologies. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Elsaesser discusses the impact of the 27 minutes of 'lost' footage discovered in Buenos Aires in 2008, and incorporated in a restored edition, which premiered in 2010.
Future
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Author : Lawrence R. Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Release Date : 2009-12-03
Future written by Lawrence R. Samuel and has been published by Univ of TX + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-03 with Social Science categories.
The history of our attitudes toward the possibilities of tomorrow:“A fascinating trek through American future visions from the 1920s to the present.” —Lori C. Walters, Ph.D., University of Central Florida The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future—particularly that of America—in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural dynamics of the times. In this social history, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the future visions of intellectuals, artists, scientists, businesspeople, and others to tell a chronological story about the history of the future in the past century. He defines six separate eras of future narratives from 1920 to the present day, and argues that the milestones reached during these years—especially related to air and space travel, atomic and nuclear weapons, the women’s and civil rights movements, and the advent of biological and genetic engineering—sparked the possibilities of tomorrow in the public’s imagination, and helped make the twentieth century the first century to be significantly more about the future than the past. The idea of the future grew both in volume and importance as it rode the technological wave into the new millennium, and the author tracks the process by which most people, to some degree, have now become futurists as the need to anticipate tomorrow accelerates.
Inventing Autopia
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Author : Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2009-06-02
Inventing Autopia written by Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with History categories.
"Flat-out one of the most interesting books I've read in years. To say that a book about California might rank with Kevin Starr's Americans and the California Dream or Mike Davis' City of Quartz is dangerously high praise, but I think Axelrod's book may someday be in that league."—John Ganim, University of California, Riverside "Inventing Autopia thoughtfully weaves together planning and policy history with cultural history to great effect. It is sure to change our understanding of the ways in which Los Angeles not only grew and developed but envisioned itself in the era."—William Deverell, author of Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
Metropolis
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Author : Allen J. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-03-29
Metropolis written by Allen J. Scott and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-29 with Social Science categories.
Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis. Allen J. Scott demonstrates how the metropolis emerges out of the basic mechanisms of production and work in contemporary society, and how those mechanisms guide general patterns of urban development. His work will be stimulating to social scientists and to planners and policy makers as well. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
The Vertical Imagination And The Crisis Of Transatlantic Modernism
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Author : Paul Haacke
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-11
The Vertical Imagination And The Crisis Of Transatlantic Modernism written by Paul Haacke and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the modern increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In The Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatlantic Modernism, Paul Haacke examines this turn by focusing on discourses of aspiration, catastrophe, and power in major works of European and American literature as well as film, architecture, and intellectual and cultural history. This wide-ranging and pointed study begins with canonical fiction by Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and John Dos Passos, as well as poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, Hart Crane, and Aimé Césaire, before moving to critical reflections on the rise of New York City by architects and writers from Le Corbusier to Simone de Beauvoir, the films of Alfred Hitchcock and theories of cinematic space and time, and postwar novels by Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, and Leslie Marmon Silko, among many other examples. In tracing the rise and fall of modernist discourse over the course of the long twentieth century, this book shows how visions of vertical ascension turned from established ideas about nature, the body, and religion to growing anxieties about aesthetic distinction, technological advancement, and American capitalism and empire. It argues that spectacles of height and flight became symbols and icons of ambition as well as direct indexes of power, and thus that the vertical transformation of modernity was both material and imagined, taking place at the same time through the rapidly expanding built environment and shifting ideological constructions of "high" and "low."
E Vertical City
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Author : Dominique Perrault
language : en
Publisher: Dominique Perrault Architecte
Release Date : 2017-09-25
E Vertical City written by Dominique Perrault and has been published by Dominique Perrault Architecte this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Architecture categories.
Cet ouvrage présente en détail le concept développé par Dominique Perrault pour la métamorphose de la tour Montparnasse. Convaincu que cet édifice participe à la construction d'une ville durable, l'architecte propose un Paris à la hauteur d'une métropole mondiale en unissant vision politique, imagination et savoir-faire. Il développe un ensemble architectural résolument tourné vers l'avenir, démonstration qu'il est possible de construire des immeubles de grande hauteur qui soient responsables, résilients, économes et parfaitement intégrés à leur environnement. Respectant l'emprise foncière de la tour existante, le projet dépasse la question posée en augmentant les surfaces par une extension hissant la tour à plus de 300m, et en diversifiant les programmes.
Metropolis
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Author : Allen John Scott
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Metropolis written by Allen John Scott and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Science categories.
"Scott has something different to say--a new and innovative perspective on the modern city. . . . This is a fine book, and . . . a major contribution to our understanding of the modern metropolis."--Gordon L. Clark, Carnegie Mellon University
The Metropolis Of Tomorrow
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Author : Hugh Ferriss
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-14
The Metropolis Of Tomorrow written by Hugh Ferriss and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-14 with Architecture categories.
The metropolis of the future — as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 — was both generous and prophetic in vision. This illustrated essay on the modern city and its future features 59 illustrations.
The Making Of Hong Kong
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Author : Barrie Shelton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03
The Making Of Hong Kong written by Barrie Shelton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with Architecture categories.
Portrayed as the ‘accidental pioneer of a new kind of urbanism’, Hong Kong’s evolution is traced from its pre-colonial and colonial origins to the contemporary vertical and volumetric metropolis of towers, podia-and-towers, decks, bridges, escalators and other components of multi-level city living.