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A Culture of Improvement
How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the …
Ambient Commons
On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become …
Notes on the Underground
Real and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's technology-dominated world.The underground has always played a …
Documentary Across Disciplines
Artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: …
Remediation
A new framework for considering how all media constantly borrow from and refashion other media.Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that …
Understanding Knowledge as a Commons
Looking at knowledge as a shared resource: experts discuss how to define, protect, and build the knowledge commons in the digital age.Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented …
How to Write a Thesis
Umberto Eco's wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, published in English for the first time. By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name …
Collage City
This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors, rejecting the …
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their …
Learning From Las Vegas
"Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less …