Author: Hong Kong Chinese Women's Club CollegePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Building on Tradition, We Reach for New Heights
Author: Hong Kong Chinese Women's Club CollegePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Vertical City
Author: K. Al-KodmanyPublisher: WIT Press
ISBN: 1784662577
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Each century has its own unique approach toward addressing the problem of high density and the 21st century is no exception. As cities try to cope with rapid population growth - adding 2.5 billion dwellers by 2050 - and grapple with destructive sprawl, politicians, planners and architects have become increasingly interested in the vertical city paradigm. Unfortunately, cities all over the world are grossly unprepared for integrating tall buildings, as these buildings may aggravate multidimensional sustainability challenges resulting in a “vertical sprawl” that could have worse consequences than “horizontal” sprawl. By using extensive data and numerous illustrations this book provides a comprehensive guide to the successful and sustainable integration of tall buildings into cities. A new crop of skyscrapers that employ passive design strategies, green technologies, energy-saving systems and innovative renewable energy offers significant architectural improvements. At the urban scale, the book argues that planners must integrate tall buildings with efficient mass transit, walkable neighbourhoods, cycling networks, vibrant mixed-use activities, iconic transit stations, attractive plazas, well-landscaped streets, spacious parks and engaging public art. Particularly, it proposes the Tall Building and Transit Oriented Development (TB-TOD) model as one of the sustainable options for large cities going forward. Building on the work of leaders in the fields of ecological and sustainable design, this book will open readers’ eyes to a wider range of possibilities for utilizing green, resilient, smart, and sustainable features in architecture and urban planning projects. The 20 chapters offer comprehensive reading for all those interested in the planning, design, and construction of sustainable cities.
Building
Author: Messiah and Exaltation
Author: Andrew ChesterPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161490910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Andrew Chester focuses on Jewish messianic hope, intermediary figures, and visionary traditions of human transformation, particularly in the Second Temple period, and analyzes their significance for the origin and development of New Testament Christology. He brings together five previously published essays on these themes: these include two long chapters, one on Jewish messianic and mediatorial traditions in relation to Pauline Christology, the other on messianism and eschatology in early Judaism and Christianity, plus one on messiah and Temple in Sibylline Oracles 3-5. Two further essays, on the significance of Torah in the messianic age, and on resurrection, transformation and early Christology, have been extensively revised. There are also three substantial new chapters, all of which engage closely with recent scholarly debate. The first, on the origin of Christology, argues for the significance of Jewish visionary traditions of human transformation for understanding how 'high' Christology came about at such an early stage within the New Testament. The second discusses the complex questions of the definition, scope and nature of Jewish messianism, especially in relation to the Hebrew Bible and the more-recently available Qumran evidence, and their significance for the New Testament. The third is concerned with what Paul means by the 'law of Christ', and the wider issues raised by this.
New Pencil Points
Author: Anniversary Celebration of the New England Society in the City of New York
Author: The Carriage Journal
Author: Thomas RyderPublisher: Carriage Assoc. of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
View from the Box . . . · · · · · · · · · · Equine Dentistry · · · · · · · · · · A Hundred Years A-Rolling . . . . . . . . . . ... · · · · · The Driving Revival The Lynden Pioneer Museum . Gimmicks and Gadgets Book Reviews . Questions and Answers Coach Lace . The Carriage Association Tour of Switzerland . Coaching Through the Swiss Alps.. . · · · Canada's State Carriage Letters to the Editor .. The Carriage Trade Ware Moths! ...
The Administrator's Guide to School-Community Relations
Author: George E. PawlasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317922409
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This large collection of handy ideas features easy-to-use tools, comprehensive checklists, and sets of “Do’s and Don’ts” advisories. It provides guidelines on how to conduct effective parent conferences, suggestions on how to recruit and work with volunteers, and other useful tips to help bring your school and your community closer together.
Anniversary Celebration of the New England Society in the City of New York ...
Author: New England Society in the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Modern Architecture
Author: Frank Lloyd WrightPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691232539
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism.