The Midwest, says Martone (editor of A Place of Sense ), has never had a distinctive regional identity. To redress that situation, he invited 24 of the area's best writers to focus on its townships, six-mile-by-six-mile squares arbitrarily defined by government surveyors. Unfortunately, everything about this volume...
The historian's view of the brevity of the settlement period and subsequent development of Iowa is nowhere so tangibly demonstrated as in the buildings and structures which were created in the process. In virtually every county the first settlers, regardless of the style of homes they left to come to Iowa, followed a...
In the communications network of the twenty-first century, urban cultures will form the matrix of social and intellectual evolution. Nearly half the world's people now live in cities. 1 And though excessive urbanization is a chief factor in the global environmental crisis, the growth of cities is the dominant...
Der Wohnungsbau befindet sich durch tief greifende Ver?nderungen unserer Gesellschaft im Umbruch: neues Rollenverst?ndnis der Frau, ge?nderte Haushaltsstrukturen und ein wachsendes Komfortbedrfnis. Durch das Zusammentreffen vorhersehbarer demographischer, ?kologischer und makro?konomischer Umw?lzungen wird der...
Anasazi Architecture and American Design is a journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, landscape architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. In sixteen chapters, the volume's twenty-two essayists identify Anasazi building and cultural features...
The building of a university campus is an extremely challenging you an extensive study of a variety of styles of universities from around the world. This excellent reference portrays expert architects and their work in designing outstanding educational establishments.
As a compliment to other books on the subject this one would suffice to add some detail, but I certainly am glad it's not the only book on solar home building I own. The material seems to be presented from a limited, but technical, scope of understanding. Although some technical and accurate information has found it's...
Since the arrival of Augustine in Kent in 597, Canterbury has been the very heart of the Church in England. The Saxon cathedral, much enlarged over the years, burnt down in 1067. Its replacement suffered a similar fate in 1174, to be rebuilt again. As a result, the modern visitor is presented with a confusing...
Во втором томе пятитомного справочного издания приводятся электрические и эксплуатационные параметры зарубежных мощных биполярных транзисторов. Габаритные размеры корпусов с предельными отклонениями указаны в российском стандарте. В справочнике помещены перечень фирм-изготовителей и список зарубежных аналогов...
Содержит исчерпывающий материал о терминологии, структуре и оборудовании сетей кабельного телевидения и принципах их проектирования. Рассмотрены общие понятия и принципы формирования и передачи сигнала, основные показатели приемных и передающих систем, приведены формулы и поясняющие их примеры расчета различных...
The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapesDisneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's FairJohn Findlay shows how each created a sense of...
The city is more than just a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse - in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity - and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes...
The objective of this publication was to develop a procedure to establish consistent and rational building system performance and response parameters (R, Cd, 0) for the linear design methods traditionally used in current building codes. The primary application of the procedure is for the evaluation of structural...
Risk Management Series. FEMA P-453. May 2006. Provides guidance in designing shelters and safe rooms in buildings. 264 pages.
The objective of this manual is to provide guidance for engineers, architects, building officials, and property owners to design shelters and safe rooms in buildings. This...
В книге дана классификация легких самолетов по назначению, приведены требования к ним, рассмотрены особенности проектирования легких самолетов различного назначения. Особое внимание уделено созданию концепции, расчету массы, аэродинамических и летных...
