Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River, Nezar AlSayyad

Автор: Jim Clifford
Название: West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London`s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914
ISBN: 0774834234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774834230
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: West Ham and the River Lea explores the environmental and social history of London’s most populous independent suburb and its second largest river. Jim Clifford maps the migration of industry into West Ham’s marshlands and reveals the consequences for the working-class people who lived among the factories. He argues that poverty, pollution, water shortages, and disease stimulated momentum for political transformation, providing an opening for a new urban politics to emerge. This book establishes the importance of the urban environment in the development of social democracy in Greater London at the turn of the twentieth century.

Автор: Mindrup Matthew
Название: The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse
ISBN: 0262042754 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262042758
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: An investigation of different uses for the architectural model through history--as sign, souvenir, funerary object, didactic tool, medium for design, and architect's muse.

For more than five hundred years, architects have employed three-dimensional models as tools to test, refine, and illustrate their ideas. But, as Matthew Mindrup shows, the uses of physical architectural models extend beyond mere representation. An architectural model can also simulate, instruct, inspire, and generate architectural designs. It can be, among other things, sign, souvenir, toy, funerary object, didactic tool, medium, or muse. In this book, Mindrup surveys the history of architectural models by investigating their uses, both theoretical and practical.

Tracing the architectural model's development from antiquity to the present, Mindrup also offers an interpretive framework for understanding each of its applications in the context of time and place. He first examines models meant to portray extant, fantastic, or proposed structures, describing their use in ancient funerary or dedicatory practices, in which models are endowed with magical power; as a medium for architectural reverie and inspiration; and as prototypes for twentieth-century experimental designs. Mindrup then considers models that exemplify certain architectural uses, exploring the influence of Leon Battista Alberti's dictum that models be simple, lest they distract from the architect's ideas; analyzing the model as a generative tool; and investigating allegorical, analogical, and anagogical interpretations of models.

Mindrup's histories show how the model can be a surrogate for the architectural structure itself, or for the experience of its formal, tactile, and sensory complexity; and beyond that, that the manipulation, play, experimentation, and dreaming enabled by models allow us to imagine architecture in new ways.

Автор: Ned Bertz
Название: Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Urban Space in Tanzania
ISBN: 0824851552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824851552
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Based on a range of archival, oral, and newspaper sources from Tanzania and India, this book explores the history of cross-cultural encounters that shaped regional ideas of diaspora and nationhood from the earliest days of colonial Tanganyika - when Indian settlement began to expand dramatically - to present-day Tanzania, a nation always under construction.

Автор: Clack Timothy, Brittain Marcus
Название: The River: Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area
ISBN: 1789690331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789690330
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Описание: This sumptuously illustrated book brings together a remarkable collection of the world`s leading archaeologists, ecologists, historians and ethnographers who specialise in the Omo-Turkana area (spanning spans parts of Ethiopia, South Sudan and Kenya), and recognising it as a crucial, and currently vulnerable, resource of global heritage.

Автор: Dodson Michael S.
Название: Banaras: Urban Forms and Cultural Histories
ISBN: 113866006X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138660069
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The book provides a unique analysis of the city of Banaras and explores the city`s diverse urban cultures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays written by acknowledged experts in north Indian culture and history to examine the construction of diverse urban identities in, and after, the British colonial period.

Название: Planning Cultures and Histories
ISBN: 1138687804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138687806
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book addresses the influences of planning cultures and histories on the temporal evolution of planning systems and spatial development. As well as providing an international comparative perspective on these issues, the contributions to the book also engage in a search for new conceptual frameworks and alternative points of view to better understand and explain these differences. The book makes three main academic contributions. First, it catalogues some of the key changes in planning systems and the impact on spatial development patterns. Second, it examines the interrelationship between planning cultures and histories from a path-dependency perspective. Third, it discusses the variations in physical development patterns resulting from different planning cultures and histories. Chapters from different parts of the European continent present evidence at different scales to illustrate these aspects. In all cases, the specific combinations of political, ideological, social, economic and technological factors are important determinants of urban and regional planning trajectories as well as spatial development patterns. This book was previously published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Автор: Sarah Longair
Название: Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964
ISBN: 147243787X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472437877
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or Peace Memorial Museum) is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history behind its construction and collection has been overlooked by historians until now. Drawing on a rich and wide range of hitherto unexplored archival, photographic, architectural and material evidence, this book is the first serious investigation of this remarkable institution. Although the museum was not opened until 1925, this book traces the longer history of colonial display which culminated in the establishment of the Zanzibar Museum. It reveals the complexity of colonial knowledge production in the changing political context of the twentieth century British Empire and explores the broad spectrum of people from diverse communities who shaped its existence as staff, informants, collectors and teachers. Through vivid narratives involving people, objects and exhibits, this book exposes the fractures, contradictions and tensions in creating and maintaining a colonial museum, and casts light on the conflicted character of the ’colonial mission’ in eastern Africa.

Автор: Soluri John, Leal Claudia, Padua Jose Augusto
Название: A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
ISBN: 1789205131 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789205138
Издательство: Berghahn
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Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.

Автор: Sidney Greenblatt
Название: The People of Taihang: An Anthology of Family Histories
ISBN: 1138644382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138644380
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Taihang Mountains lay on the border between Shansi and Hopei in China and originally published in 1972, this edited anthology collates family histories as told by the people who lived there. This title will be of interest to students of Asian studies and Anthropology.

Автор: Franklin F. Webb, Ricky L. Cox
Название: The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia: Illustrated Histories, 1770-2010
ISBN: 0786437235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786437238
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Provides an overview of grain milling in Floyd County, Virginia, from 1770 to the present day. Topics covered include the difficulties involved in identifying early mills, the importance of mill site selection,water wheel types, laws regulating mills, the decline of milling and physical remains at abandoned mill sites. It also provides individual histories of 140 grist, flour, and feed mills.