Sustainability in America's Cities
Creating the Green Metropolis
This book highlights how America's largest cities are acting to develop sustainable solutions to conflicts between development and environment.
- Copyright year: 2011
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
This provocative and engaging work emerges from Calthorpe’s belief that, just as the last fifty years produced massive changes in our culture, economy and environment, the next fifty will generate changes of an even more profound nature.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Beautiful Walls
Photographic Elevations of Street Art in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Paris
This book celebrates the artistry and audacity of taggers and uncommissioned muralists who have decorate and deface contemporary cities.
- Copyright year: 2011
Design with Microclimate
The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space
Arguing that a comfortable microclimate is the foundation of well-used outdoor places, Robert Brown provides useful guidelines for dealing with climate data, site assessment, microclimate modification, communication, design, and evaluation.
- Copyright year: 2010
Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities
Design Strategies for the Post Carbon World
If widely used, these rules would lead to a much more livable world for future generations – a world that is not unlike the better parts of our own.
- Copyright year: 2010
Art in Turmoil
The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
This book decodes the rhetoric of China’s turbulent decade, a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, to offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.
- Copyright year: 2009
Building an Emerald City
A Guide to Creating Green Building Policies and Programs
- Copyright year: 2009
On the Art of Being Canadian
Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.
- Copyright year: 2009
Floodplain Management
A New Approach for a New Era
Floodplain Management outlines a new paradigm for flood management, one that emphasizes cost-effective, long-term success by integrating physical, chemical, and biological systems with societal capabilities.
- Copyright year: 2009
Ritual Beauty
Ritual Beauty paints a portrait of social, political and religious life in the ancient Americas, the setting in which these exceptional works of art were created. An overview of the PreColumbian world prior to European contact by Joanne Stuhr is followed by essays on Mesoamerican and Andean cultures, shamanism, and textile arts that ...
- Copyright year: 2009
Switchbacks
Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity
Switchbacks explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling and buying Nuxalk art fit into attempts to regain control of heritage?
- Copyright year: 2006
National Visions, National Blindness
Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s
An insightful analysis of how art was used to create an independent Canadian national identity, often at the expense of First Nations representation.
- Copyright year: 2006
Gandharan Buddhism
Archaeology, Art, and Texts
The essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region.
- Copyright year: 2006
Unsettling Encounters
First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr
Featuring almost 300 illustrations, including 90 colour plates, Unsettling Encounters reconstructs a neglected aspect of Carr’s art and is a fresh assessment of her significance as a leading figure in early 20th-century modernism.
- Copyright year: 2007
Images in Asian Religions
Text and Contexts
A comprehensive and balanced look at the role of images in Asian religions, which examines aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied.
- Copyright year: 2004
Northern Exposures
Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
Illustrated throughout with archival photographs, this book examines the photographic and film practice of the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, the three major colonial institutions involved in the arctic and sub-arctic.
- Copyright year: 2004
The Cult of Happiness
Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China
The Cult of Happiness is among the first studies in any field to treat folk art and folk print as historical text. As such, this richly illustrated volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars in Asian studies, history, art history, folklore and print, as well as anyone having a passion for the creativity and culture of rural society.
- Copyright year: 2004
Tales of Ghosts
First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-61
An insightful examination of the complex functions of Northwest Coast art objects produced between 1922 and 1961, and a vital addition to First Nations and Canadian history.
- Copyright year: 2002
Global Goes Local
Popular Culture in Asia
Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms have been invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance.
- Copyright year: 2002