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“myra giesen”

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  • Curating Human Remains

    Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom

    by Myra Giesen, Kirsty McCarrison, Liz White, Margaret Clegg, Mark A. Hall, Michael G Parker Pearson, Mike Pitts, Rebecca Redfern, Simon Mays, Victoria Park0, Charlotte Roberts1, Charlotte Woodhead2, Duncan Sayer3, Gillian Scott4, Hedley Swain5, Jacqueline McKinley6, Jelena Bekvalac7, Jennifer Sharp8 ...
    How to care for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other repositories in the United Kingdom, providing a baseline for understanding the scope and nature of human remains collections and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    by Joan Baxter ...
    For fifty years, the pulp mill near Pictou in northern Nova Scotia has buoyed the local economy and found support from governments at all levels. But it has also pulped millions of acres of forests, spewed millions of tonnes of noxious emissions into the air, consumed quadrillions of litres of fresh water and then pumped them out again as toxic effluent into nearby Boat Harbour, and eventually ... Read more

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  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Thompson ...
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    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

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  • Transforming Museums in the Twenty-first Century

    by Graham Black ...
    In his book, Graham Black argues that museums must transform themselves if they are to remain relevant to 21st century audiences – and this root and branch change would be necessary whether or not museums faced a funding crisis. It is the result of the impact of new technologies and the rapid societal developments that we are all a part of, and applies not just to museums but to all arts bodies ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Urban Design Futures

    Edited by Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland ...
    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Read more

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  • Urban Design: Method and Techniques

    by Rafael Cuesta, Christine Sarris, Paola Signoretta, J.C Moughtin ...
    This book deals with a wide range of techniques used in the urban design process. It then goes on to relate these techniques to a unique, comprehensive account of method. A method of urban design is developed which has sustainability and environmental protection at the centre of its philosophy. Previously, literature regarding the urban design method has been almost totally neglected; this book ... Read more

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  • Inclusive Urban Design: Public Toilets

    by Clara Greed ...
    This is a unique text providing both design guidance and policy direction for the provision and design of public toilets covering city-wide, district-level and site-specific principles. It highlights the role of urban design in reversing the trend of inadequate toilet provision, and sets out guidelines for design which meets both user need and provider requirements. Greed presents the fundamental ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • "This Disastrous and Inhuman Structure": The Reconstruction of Euston Station, 1959-1977

    by Murray Tremellen ...
    Between 1959 and 1977, London's Euston station was completely rebuilt as part of the modernisation of the West Coast Main Line. Much loved Victorian buildings, including the famous Doric Arch and Great Hall, were swept away and replaced by a Modernist building described by John Betjeman as a "disastrous and inhuman structure".Although the new station is widely derided, no one has yet made a ... Read more

    $5.66 USD

  • City Branding

    by John Heeley, Chris Cooper ...
    Series series Contemporary Tourism Reviews
    Contemporary Tourism Reviews will provide you with critical, state-of-the-art surveys of all of the major areas of tourism study to people who are coming to a topic for the first time. The CTR series provides accessible and structured overviews to all areas of research in the broadly defined subject of tourism with links to original sources of information, sites, books and journals as well as a ... Read more

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  • Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals)

    How People Are Creating Their Own Environment

    by Nick Wates, Charles Knevitt ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The conceptual framework rests fundamentally on the principle that the built environment is most effective when those who live in a particular area are actively engaged with its ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Design Quality in New Housing

    Learning from the Netherlands

    by Matthew Cousins ...
    This book addresses the need for an in-depth study into design quality in new housing. The wider implications of policy and design are examined through a series of case studies of new housing projects in the UK and the Netherlands.Dutch interdisciplinary design and modern methods of construction are widely considered to be of the highest quality from which much can be learned and understood. This ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Design Out Crime

    by Ian Colquhoun ...
    Here is a book about the practical design of communities and housing in which people can enjoy a good quality of life, free from crime and fear of crime. Recognising that crime, vandalism and anti-social behaviour are issues of high public concern, and that the driving forces behind crime are numerous, this book argues that good design can help tackle many of these issues. It shows how, through ... Read more

    $79.99 USD