A comprehensive guide to all that an architecture student might need to know about undertaking the dissertation, including material on CD-ROM and online sources, web based research techniques, digital images, alternative imaging strategies, key architecture links, referencing and dissertation extrac[...]
This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other movi[...]
Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - estimated at 40 million worldwide and creating a subculture of clothes, boards, music, slang and moves. This book demonstrates that street-style skateboarding offers a critique of architecture, the city and capitalism.[...]
A skateboarding book like no other, this collection of stunning color photographs from around the world reveals an authentic, unsentimental view of an often overglamorized subculture. The Irish photographer and skateboarder Richard Gilligan spent four years traveling through Europe and the US to pho[...]
Cities are both products of culture, and sites where culture is made and received. By presenting the very best of classic and contemporary writing on the culture of cities, The City Cultures Reader provides an accessible overview of the diverse material on the interface between cities and culture. T[...]