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Louvain-La-Neuve : paysages urbains
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ISBN: 9782930076959 293007695X Year: 2010 Volume: *2 Publisher: Brussels Louvain-la-Neuve Editions de l'octogone


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Dorestad in an international framework : new research on centres of trade and coinage in Carolingian times : proceedings of the first "Dorestad congress" held at the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden, The Netherlands, June 24-27, 2009
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ISBN: 9782503534015 2503534015 9782503539935 Year: 2010 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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Dorestad is a large, wealthy and internationally orientated harbour town from the Carolingian era excavated at the site of Wijk bij Duurstede in the middle of the Netherlands. In the 8th and 9th century AD it functioned as a junction in a network of Carolingian emporia or vici that covered most of present-day Europe. The past decade featured new research into the relations between these towns, their environmental and cultural context, the exchange of goods, coins and ideas, and the role of emperors and Vikings in their rise and fall. This publication contains the results of a scholarly congress in Leiden in June 2009, where renowned historians and archaeologists from eight countries presented studies into the Carolingian emporia, their material culture and their position in early medieval Europe, composed around Dorestad, the only emporium called ‘vicus famosus’ in contemporary sources.


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Berlin, Alexanderplatz : Transforming Place in a Unified Germany.
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ISBN: 9781782383178 9781782383185 9781845457235 1845457234 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Berghahn


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Common ground? Readings and reflections on public space
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ISBN: 0415996899 0415997275 9780415996891 9780415997270 9780203873960 9781135257507 9781135257545 9781135257552 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge


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Modern architecture in Africa
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ISBN: 9789085069614 9085069610 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam : Uitgeverij Boom / SUN 2010.,

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Summary: "Modern architecture in Africa" is one of the few Western studies of modern African architecture. The architect Antoni Folkers calls into question the moralistic, simplified Western Modernism that has become stranded in the African savannah. The critique of the one-sidedness of Western architecture is not only theoretical, but also assumes a practical form in the pluriform and multi-coloured architecture of Africa. After studying at the TU Delft, Antoni Folkers went to Africa in 1984 to become acquainted with the critique of the practice of Western Modernism. His "Modern architecture in Africa" shows both the clash and the blending of 'original' African architecture with Modernism. On the basis of his experiences, he sets the potential and limitations of Modernism in a cultural context and links them with the history and development of Africa.


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Phoenix cities
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ISBN: 9781847426833 1847426832 9786612637353 1847426859 1447302966 1282637355 9781847426857 9781282637351 9781447302964 6612637358 Year: 2010 Publisher: Bristol Policy Press

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This book explores economic, social and environmental transformations in Europe and the USA to inform the regeneration of 'weak market cities'.


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Regard sur la ville durable : vers de nouveaux modes de vie
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ISBN: 9782868914514 2868914519 Year: 2010 Publisher: [Paris] : CSTB,

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A travers la ville durable, il nous faut interroger la civilisation urbaine. Vivre en ville, c'est adopter certains comportements, avoir des exigences culturelles, profiter de services collectifs qui deviennent au fil du temps un mode de vie. Or, la civilisation urbaine actuelle n'est pas éco-compatible. Peut-on la faire évoluer ? Prendre un nouveau cap ? Comment agir ? Peut-on bâtir un autre monde à partir de la ville ? C'est un parcours que les auteurs nous proposent de suivre, un fil d'Ariane qui partirait de la ville pour déboucher au seuil d'une nouvelle façon de vivre : une civilisation urbaine devenue durable car, sous des réalités alarmantes, des signaux faibles nous incitent à croire qu'une évolution positive a déjà commencé. Pour cela, les deux auteurs, de profils complémentaires, se sont associés en un seul regard complété par des observations d'experts.

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