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Computers and civilization --- Telecommunication --- Virtual reality --- Environments, Virtual --- Virtual environments --- Virtual worlds --- Computer simulation --- Reality --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Computers and civilization. --- Telecommunication. --- Virtual reality. --- telecommunicatie --- maatschappij --- automatisering --- telecommunications --- cybercultuur --- computerization --- VR (virtual reality)

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The English architects Alison Smithson (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003) were ringleaders of the New Brutalism, active in CIAM and Team 10, and influential in English Pop Art. The Smithsons, who met as architecture students, built only a few buildings but wrote prolifically throughout their career, leaving a body of writings that consider issues in architecture and urbanism and also take up subjects that are "not quite architecture" (the name of a series of articles written by Alison Smithson for the Architects' Journal) -- including fashion design, graphic communication, and children's tales. In this book, M. Christine Boyer explores the Smithsons' writings -- books, articles, lectures, unpublished manuscripts, and private papers. She focuses on unpublished material, reading the letter, the scribbled note, the undelivered lecture, the scrapbook, the "magic box," as words in the language of modern architectural history - especially that of postwar England, where the Smithsons and other architects were at the center of the richest possible range of cultural encounters. Boyer is "writing around" the Smithsons' work by considering the cultural contexts in which they formed and wrote about their ideas. Boyer explains that the Smithsons were intensely concerned with the responsibility of the architect to ensure the quality of place, to build with lyrical appropriateness. They reached back to the country landscapes of their childhood and, Boyer argues, mixed their brand of New Brutalism with the English Picturesque.

Architecture, Modern --- 72.07 --- 72.01 --- 72.038 --- Architectuur ; geschriften ; Alison en Peter Smithson --- Architectuur ; vnl. Groot-Brittannië ; 20ste eeuw --- Architectuur ; 20ste eeuw ; A. en P. Smithson --- New Brutalism --- Moderne Beweging --- Smithson, Alison M. (Margaret Gill) 1928-1993 (°Sheffield, Groot-Brittannië) --- Smithson, Peter 1923-2003 (°Stockton-on-Tees, Groot-Brittannië) --- Architecture --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- History --- Smithson, Alison, --- Smithson, Peter, --- Smithson, Alison Margaret --- Written works. --- Gill, Alison Margaret, --- Smithson, Alison --- Smithson, Alison - 1928-1993 --- Smithson, Peter - 1923-2003

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Architecture --- History --- New York (N.Y.) --- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --- Buildings, structures, etc.

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architectuur --- ruimtelijke ordening --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- leefmilieu --- Sociology of environment --- architecture [discipline] --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- South Africa --- City planning --- Community development, Urban --- Sustainable development --- Urbanisme --- Développement communautaire urbain --- Développement durable --- Zuid-Afrika --- 711.4 --- 316.334.56 --- 711.4(C)(680) --- 72.01 --- Stedenbouw en samenleving ; Zuid-Afrika --- Steden ; Zuid-Afrika ; sociale en politieke aspecten --- Stedenbouw ; socio-economische aspecten --- Stedenbouw ; denken over ; 21ste eeuw --- Apartheid --- Cities and towns --- Sociology, Urban --- <680> --- 711.4 <6> --- Urban sociology --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Stedenbouw --- Urbane sociologie --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad ; Zuid-Afrika --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Africa --- Développement communautaire urbain --- Développement durable --- environments [object groupings]

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The onset of the current global economic crisis provides the perfect backdrop for reviewing the dire consequences that neoliberal urban policies have had upon the city, and for discussing possible alternatives to market-driven development. In this light "Urban asymmetries" centres on the contradictions of uneven urban development as a means of providing both a substantial critique of the current urban condition and a discussion of necessary counter practices, policies and strategies for designing in such environments, and inferring that social betterment within the city is possible by strategic use of the tools available to the urbanist and to the architect. The book aims to disprove some of the prevailing disciplinary discourses in architecture and urbanism which see the city as 'a given' rather than as an evolving socio-historic phenomenon, and intends to challenge the ubiquitous understanding of architecture as devoid of any social transformative power.

Environmental planning --- ruimtelijke ordening --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- City Planning --- Neoliberalism --- Urban policy --- #SBIB:316.334.5U20 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- 911.375.9 --- 339.9 --- 711.4 --- 351.778.6 --- 72.01 --- Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Verstedelijking. Stadsverval. Ontvolking van steden --- Buitenlandse economische betrekkingen. Internationale economische betrekkingen --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Stedelijk beleid --- Beleid (stedenbouw) --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- 339.9 Buitenlandse economische betrekkingen. Internationale economische betrekkingen --- 911.375.9 Verstedelijking. Stadsverval. Ontvolking van steden --- City planning --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban renewal --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Government policy --- Management