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Some Assembly Required by Michael Sorkin 9780816634835
Booksplease Price: £28.99The long-awaited collection by one of architecture's most exciting voices.Michael Sorkin is widely hailed as one of the best architecture critics writing today. Iconoclastic and often controversial,... -
Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope by Michael Sorkin
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.38Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth... -
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by Michael Sorkin 9780865477575
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477575Author Michael SorkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Point PressPublisher... -
250 Things An Architect Should Know by Michael Sorkin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Michael Sorkin's iconic list is now in a handsome printed package, a perfect gift for any architect, student of architecture, or design-savvy urbanist. By turns poetic and humorous, practical and... -
Exquisite Corpse: Writing on Buildings by Michael Sorkin 9780860916871
Booksplease Price: £24.84'Exquisite Corpse' was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it to the next person to draw on until, finally, the sheet was opened to reveal... -
What Goes Up: The Right and Wrongs to the City by Michael Sorkin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.75Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he charts the dehumanising regimes of mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio that created a city... -
Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State Michael Sorkin 9780415953689
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset... -
All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities by Michael Sorkin 9781844672202
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.85All Over the Map is an urgent response to the radical changes in contemporary architecture and the built environment witnessed in the twenty-first century. Characteristically polemic, incisive and ... -
After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City Michael Sorkin 9780415934794
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhattan that was once the World Trade Center. While... -
Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space by Michael Sorkin 9780374523145
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523145Author Michael SorkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption by Sebastian Mallaby
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller;... -
Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China by Zhongjie Lin
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Studies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development. Relevant debates, however, reveal that the prevailing definitions and practices... -
Zoned Out!: Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised Edition by Tom Angotti
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.86Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city’s zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when... -
Women Reclaiming the City: International Research on Urbanism, Architecture, and Planning by Tigran Haas 9781538162651
Booksplease Price: £93.44This book is the first in which current societal themes revolving around urbanism, architecture, and city planning are put forth solely through female perspectives. It reveals the importance of... -
Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails by Stephen Graham
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, Disrupted Cities exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as... -
Archigram: The Book Peter Cook 9781911422495
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £50.78Archigram comprised Warren Chalk (1927-88), Peter Cook (1936-), Dennis Crompton (1935-), David Greene (1937-), Ron Herron (1930-94), and Michael Webb (1937-). Together they envisioned the future of... -
Urban Design by Alex Krieger 9780816656394
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31Highlights key issues in contemporary urban design through a discussion of its origins, current state, and futureFifty years ago a landmark conference at Harvard University established urban design... -
Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader by William Saunders
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.14More than ever, architectural design is seen as a means to promote commercial goals rather than as an end in itself. Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, for example, simply cannot be... -
Entr'acte: Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture by Jordan Geiger 9781349492800
Booksplease Price: £21.20Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr'acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and... -
Design as Future-Making by Susan Yelavich
Booksplease Price: £36.66Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design... -
Zoned Out!: Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised Edition by Tom Angotti 9781613322079
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city's zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when... -
Unearthed: Stephen Talasnik: Drawings, Sculpture, Installations by Stephen Talasnik
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.84Stephen Talasnik's intricate and mesmerizing work bridges the disciplines of art and architecture in this debut monograph. A polymath whose work encompasses sculpture, drawing, and architectural land... -
Entr'acte: Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture by Jordan Geiger 9781137433947
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £27.83Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr'acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and... -
The Politics of Public Space by Setha M. Low 9780415951395
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces are no longer democratic spaces, but... -
Imagine Buildings Floating like Clouds: Thoughts and Visions on Contemporary Architecture from 101 Key Creatives Vladimir Belogolovsky 9781864709087
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38In this invaluable and thought-provoking book, Vladimir Belogolovsky reflects on nearly 20 years of conversations with leading creatives from around the world whose focus is on art, photography,... -
Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde: Revisiting the Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s Matthew Butcher 9781119506850
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.76The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an 'architectural Big Bang', such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural... -
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically... -
Mall City: Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption by Stefan Al 9780824855413
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all cities, it has the densest and tallest concentration of malls, sandwiched between subways and skyscrapers... -
The Cultures of Cities Sharon Zukin (City University of New York) 9781557864376
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £30.31How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are... -
Between Catastrophe and Revolution: Essays in Honor of Mike Davis by Daniel Bertrand Monk 9781682192771
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom "every day is judgment day" (The Nation), could have imagined. The contributions to this volume are explorations of what... -
Miró Rivera Architects: Building a New Arcadia by Juan Miró
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £45.42Over the course of twenty years, acclaimed studio Miro Rivera Architects has produced an innovative, refined, and imaginative body of work-both modern and respectful of time-honored building... -
Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation Eyal Weizman 9781804297100
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.54How does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how... -
Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City by Neil Smith 9780820352824
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.17Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European... -
Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World by Keller Easterling
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers... -
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful... -
The Death of Drawing: Architecture in the Age of Simulation David Scheer 9780415834964
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The Death of Drawing explores the causes and effects of the epochal shift from drawing to computation as the chief design and communication medium in architecture. Drawing both framed the thinking of... -
Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century by Hal Rothman
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Praise for the Previous Edition (0 415 92612 2): ...lively and provocative...this book will teach you something startling on nearly every page... --The New York Times Book Review Like... -
Cities Surround The Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China by Robin Visser
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop... -
Citymakers: The Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism by Cassim Shepard
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £23.08Cities are where solutions to the twenty-first century's key challenges - addressing inequality, fostering political participation, responding to climate change - will be tested. And as cities adapt... -
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk
Booksplease Price: £22.08What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and...