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Designing Disorder

Experiments and Disruptions in the City

By: Richard Sennett,Pablo Sendra

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Designing Disorder

Experiments and Disruptions in the City

By: Richard Sennett,Pablo Sendra

Rethinking the open city Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed? Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking work The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. The need for the Open City, the alternative, is now more urgent that ever. In this provocative essay, Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the life of our cities. What the authors call 'infrastructures for disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide, remain open to change rather than rapidly stagnate. Designing Disorder is a radical and transformative manifesto for the future of twenty-first-century cities.

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Verso Books

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1788737830

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9781788737838

Punk Is Dead

Modernity Killed Every Night

By: Richard Cabut,Andrew Gallix

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Punk Is Dead

Modernity Killed Every Night

By: Richard Cabut,Andrew Gallix

This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in sex, style, politics and philosophy, filtered through punk experience, while believing in the ruins of memory, to explore a past whose essence is always elusive.

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311

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John Hunt Publishing

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1785353470

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9781785353475

Behavior, Technology, and Organizational Development

Eric Trist and the Tavistock Institute

By: Richard Trahair

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Behavior, Technology, and Organizational Development

Eric Trist and the Tavistock Institute

By: Richard Trahair

Eric Trist was a psychologist, social scientist, and a leading figure in the field of organizational development. He was a founding member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London and spent many years in United States academia. This book delves into Trist’s life to examine the evolution of his work and how he applied social science theory, knowledge, and methods to the organization of working life and its management. Richard Trahair outlines Trist’s socio-technical theory of organization and how it applies to the turbulent environment that modern managers face. Trahair begins with Trist’s educational career in England and his attitude toward American and English education. He also describes Trist’s work to improve the United Kingdom’s Army’s method of selecting men for officer training in wartime, and his role in the establishment of the Civil Resettlement Units in England. In place of the traditional technology-driven bureaucracy of industry, Trist recommended that social science researchers help reorganize industries on socio-technical lines. Trist provided convincing evidence that organizations dominated by traditional attitudes were inefficient and unsatisfactory. He made it clear that seeing workers as little more than costly extensions of machines and the industrial environment as nothing but a set of competitive market forces seriously limited potential for growth.

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353

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Transaction Publishers

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1412855497

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9781412855495

Principles of Conveyancing; Designed for the Use of Students: with an Introduction on the Study of that Branch of Law

By: Richard Holmes Coote,Charles Watkins,Henry Hopley White,George Morley,Thomas Coventry

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Principles of Conveyancing; Designed for the Use of Students: with an Introduction on the Study of that Branch of Law

By: Richard Holmes Coote,Charles Watkins,Henry Hopley White,George Morley,Thomas Coventry

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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626

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368879197

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9783368879198

Thorps in a Changing Landscape

By: Paul Cullen,Richard Jones,David N. Parsons

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Thorps in a Changing Landscape

By: Paul Cullen,Richard Jones,David N. Parsons

The authors consider the siting of 'thorps' and 'throps' in relation to the landscape and to soil types in particular. Amply demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of early medieval settlement in England, the authors are able to draw important conclusions about the changes in farming that swept the country during this period and by association the process of village nucleation. By examining both the chronology of place-names in 'thorp' and 'throp' and their qualifying elements (notably the presence or absence of personal names), it appears possible to chart both the speed at which arable enterprises farmed in severalty converted to communal cultivation as well as the direction in which the changes spread. There is a sense of real excitement as many fresh insights are revealed in the course of the book"--P. [4] of cover.

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250

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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1902806824

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9781902806822

Those Innocent Souls

By: Richard McKenzie

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Those Innocent Souls

By: Richard McKenzie

This book is the culmination of five years of research into the topic of child ghosts. With well over three hundred examples given, it is by far the most thorough work on the topic, and is recommended for those with a serious interest in the paranormal, as well as those of a more curious disposition.

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0244863407

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The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918

A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue

By: Roger J. P. Kain,John Chapman,Richard R. Oliver

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The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918

A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue

By: Roger J. P. Kain,John Chapman,Richard R. Oliver

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales. Enclosure maps are fundamental sources of evidence in many types of historical inquiries. Although modern historians tend to view these large-scale maps essentially as sources of data on past economies and societies, this book argues that enclosure maps had a much more active role at the time they were compiled. Seen from this perspective of their contemporary society, enclosure maps are not simply antiquarian curiosities, cultural artefacts, or useful sources for historians but instruments of land reorganisation and control which both reflected and consolidated the power of those who commissioned them. The book is accompanied by a fully searchable, descriptive and analytical web catalogue of all parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure maps extant in public archives and libraries and offers an essential research tool for economic, social and local historians and for geographers, lawyers and planners.

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440

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Cambridge University Press

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052182771X

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9780521827713

The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory

By: Richard Gilbert

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The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory

By: Richard Gilbert

The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory: Containing a Complete Register of the Dignities and Benefices of the Church of England, with the names of their present possessors,patrons &c. and an alphabetical list of the dignitaries and benefits clergy.

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Рипол Классик

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587575804X

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9785875758041

Book's by Richard Acklam

Designing Disorder

Designing Disorder

Punk Is Dead

Punk Is Dead

Behavior, Technology, and Organizational Development

Behavior, Technology, and Organizational Development

Principles of Conveyancing; Designed for the Use of Students: with an Introduction on the Study of that Branch of Law

Principles of Conveyancing; Designed for the Use of Students: with an Introduction on the Study of that Branch of Law

Thorps in a Changing Landscape

Thorps in a Changing Landscape

Those Innocent Souls

Those Innocent Souls

The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918

The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918

The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory

The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory

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