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Fragile Dwelling

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Publisher: Aperture
Keywords: dwelling, fragile
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-10-20
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0893819158
ISBN-13: 9780893819156

This is the third volume of photographs and text by Margaret Morton documenting the lives and living spaces of New York City’s homeless population.Over a ten-year period, Margaret Morton documented the inventive ways in which homeless people in New York City have created not only places to live but also communities that offer a sense of pride, place, and individuality.Morton’s camera reveals the ingenuity of builders who have constructed homes out of discarded materials such as warehouse pallets, junked auto parts, and demolition scrap. Her luminous photographs bring to light the d

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The Minimum Dwelling

Author: Karel Teige
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: dwelling, minimum
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2002-07-30
List price: $62.00
ISBN-10: 0262201364
ISBN-13: 9780262201360

Karel Teige (1900–1951), one of the most important figures of avant-garde modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, influenced virtually every area of art, design, and urban thinking in his native Czechoslovakia. His Minimum Dwelling, originally published in Czech in 1932, and appearing now for the first time in English, is one of the landmark architectural books of the twentieth century. The Minimum Dwelling is not just a book on architecture, but also a blueprint for a new way of living. It calls for a radical rethinking of domestic space and of the role of modern architecture in the planning,

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Dwelling Place of Light

Author: Winston Churchill
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: light, place, dwelling
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2003-07-26
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0766171396
ISBN-13: 9780766171398

1917. In this modern industrial civilization of which we are sometimes wont to boast, a certain glacier-like process may be observed. The bewildered, the helpless, and there are many, are torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left stranded in strange places. Thus was Edward Bumpus severed and rolled from the ancestral ledge, from the firm granite of seemingly stable and lasting things, into shifting shale; surrounded by fragments of cliffs from distant lands he had never seen. Thus, at five and fifty, he found himself gatekeeper of the leviathan Chippering Mill in the City of

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Dwelling Places: A Novel

Author: Vinita Hampton Wright
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: novel, places, dwelling
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-03-26
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060859547
ISBN-13: 9780060859541

Mack and Jodie have no idea how much their lives are going to change when they decide to give up farming. Mack is hospitalized with depression, Jodie finds herself tempted by the affections of another man, and their teenage children begin looking for answers outside the family—Kenzie turns to fundamentalist Christianity, and Taylor starts cavorting with Goths. Told in the unforgettable voices of each family member, this powerful story of family life reveals the stubborn resilience of love and how sometimes the very thing we’re looking for has been waiting at home all along.

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Nature As Landscape: Dwelling and Understanding

Author: Kraft E. Von Maltzahn
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: understanding, dwelling, landscape, nature
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1994-10
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773512330
ISBN-13: 9780773512337

Human interaction with the natural world has created serious environmental problems. In "Nature as Landscape", Kraft von Maltzahn examines the "unnatural" relationship that has developed between human beings and nature. Drawing on evidence from philosophy and the history of science, he argues that humans have become estranged from nature and shows how this estrangement has evolved. Von Maltzahn focuses on how we experience aspects of nature in terms of their outer appearance, such as landscape, and contends that the naturalistic scientific tradition has taught us to divorce ourselves from the

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In Dwelling (Design and the Built Environment)

Author: Peter King
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: environment, design, dwelling
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2008-03-26
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754648702
ISBN-13: 9780754648703

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive analysis of US Federal Antitrust and EC Competition Law. It is encyclopaedic in coverage: examining every constituent element of the law and landmark decisions from the perspectives of economics and policy goals, explaining their implications for commercial operations and advocating policy reforms where necessary.