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How to Read Bridges is a practical introduction to looking at the
structure and purpose of bridges. It is a guide to reading the
structural clues embedded in every bridge that allows their variety
and ingenuity to be better appreciated. Small enough to carry in
your pocket and serious enough to provide real answers, this
comprehensive guide analyses and explores all types of bridges from
around the world from the first millennium to the present day. The
book also explores fundamental concepts of bridge design, key
materials and engineering techniques whilst providing an accessible
visual guide with intelligent text, using detailed illustrations
and cross-sections of technical features.
'A time when Russia's movements in the East are being watched by
all with such keen interest seems a fitting one for the appearance
of a work dealing with her Central Asian possessions' (from the
original Introduction).
Originally published in 1899, The Heart of Asia is a definitive
history of Central Asia from pre-history to the contemporary
machinations of the Russian empire. The book is valuable not only
because of the quality of the historical work on the early period,
but also because of the unique picture that it gives of
contemporary views on the potential for Anglo-Russian conflict, at
a time when the Russian Empire was Britain's closest rival for
Asian hegemony.
Scholars of modern Russia and Central Asia will find much that
echoes, and indeed drives, more recent events. Includes 34
illustrations and two maps.
Asmara, the capital of the small East African country of Eritrea,
bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting
architectural 'discoveries' of recent years. Built almost entirely
in the 1930s by the Italians, who transformed it into a hotbed of
radical architectural innovation, Asmara has one of the highest
concentrations of Modernist architecture anywhere in the world.
This superb building-by-building survey, illustrated with
previously unpublished archival material and specially commissioned
photography, chronicles the colonial past and remarkable survival
of a city that has evocatively been described as "the Miami of
Africa."
Originally published in 1899, The Heart of Asia is a definitive
history of Central Asia from pre-history to the contemporary
machinations of the Russian empire. The book is valuable not only
because of the quality of the historical work on the early period,
but also because of the unique picture that it gives of
contemporary views on the potential for Anglo-Russian conflict, at
a time when the Russian Empire was Britain's closest rival for
Asian hegemony. Scholars of modern Russia and Central Asia will
find much that echoes, and indeed drives, more recent events.
Includes 34 illustrations and two maps.
McMorran & Whitby are arguably one of the most unsung practices
of post-war British architecture. Led from the late 1950s by Donald
McMorran and George Whitby, two indisputable architectural
heavyweights of the post-war era, the practice willingly rejected
the experimentalism and fleeting faddishness that characterised the
dominant paradigm of the age and from which so many of Britain's
towns and cities are still blighted. The practice can be seen as
part of an evolution in British classical tradition with direct
linkages through other eminent figures such as Sir Edwin Lutyens
and E. Vincent Harris. Their work found notable favour with public
institutions, such as the police, county and city councils, and
universities. These include Devon County Hall in Exeter, various
buildings at Nottingham University, West Suffolk County Council
buildings in Bury St Edmunds, but, above all, numerous significant
commissions for the City Corporation such as Wood Street Police
Station and the extension to the Central Criminal Courts, commonly
known as the New Bailey. This book is the first major publication
on McMorran & Whitby's work, and therefore contains an
inspiring combination of contemporary photography and previously
unpublished archival material. It is an essential read for
architects, students, and historians, not least because it
highlights the importance in the arts of seeking longer
perspectives than those which, all too often, our own ephemeral
epoch permits. This book has been commissioned as part of a series
of books on 20th Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English
Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society.
The aim of this book is to discover in what light the religious and
literary tradition of India appears where caste is concerned;
including discussions on the present system, the past, and its
origins.
The aim of this book is to discover in what light the religious and
literary tradition of India appears where caste is concerned;
including discussions on the present system, the past, and its
origins.
This book explores China's encounter with architecture and
modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism - an encounter
that was mediated not by a singular notion of modernism emanating
from the west, but that was uniquely multifarious, deriving from a
variety of sources both from the west and, importantly, from the
east. The heterogeneous origins of modernity in China are what make
its experience distinctive and its architectural encounters
exceptional. These experiences are investigated through a
re-evaluation of established knowledge of the subject within the
wider landscape of modern art practices in China. The study draws
on original archival and photographic material from different
artistic genres and, architecturally, concentrates on China's
engagement with the west through the treaty ports and leased
territories, the emergence of architecture as a profession in
China, and Japan's omnipresence, not least in Manchuria, which
reached its apogee in the puppet state of Manchukuo. The study's
geographically, temporally, and architecturally inclusive approach
framed by the concept of multiple modernities questions the
application of conventional theories of modernity or
post-colonialism to the Chinese situation. By challenging
conventional modernist historiography that has marginalised the
experiences of the west's other for much of the last century, this
book proposes different ways of grappling with and comprehending
the distinction and complexity of China's experiences and its
encounter with architectural modernity.
This book explores China's encounter with architecture and
modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism - an encounter
that was mediated not by a singular notion of modernism emanating
from the west, but that was uniquely multifarious, deriving from a
variety of sources both from the west and, importantly, from the
east. The heterogeneous origins of modernity in China are what make
its experience distinctive and its architectural encounters
exceptional. These experiences are investigated through a
re-evaluation of established knowledge of the subject within the
wider landscape of modern art practices in China. The study draws
on original archival and photographic material from different
artistic genres and, architecturally, concentrates on China's
engagement with the west through the treaty ports and leased
territories, the emergence of architecture as a profession in
China, and Japan's omnipresence, not least in Manchuria, which
reached its apogee in the puppet state of Manchukuo. The study's
geographically, temporally, and architecturally inclusive approach
framed by the concept of multiple modernities questions the
application of conventional theories of modernity or
post-colonialism to the Chinese situation. By challenging
conventional modernist historiography that has marginalised the
experiences of the west's other for much of the last century, this
book proposes different ways of grappling with and comprehending
the distinction and complexity of China's experiences and its
encounter with architectural modernity.
Luke Him Sau/Lu Qianshou (1904 1991) is best known internationally
and in China as the architect of the iconic Bank of China
Headquarters in Shanghai. One of the first Chinese students to be
trained at the Architectural Association in London in the late
1920s, Luke s long, prolific and highly successful career in China
and Hong Kong offers unique insights into an extraordinary period
of Chinese political turbulence that scuppered the professional
prospects and historical recognition of so many of his colleagues.
Global interest in China has risen exponentially in recent times,
creating an appetite for the country s history and culture. This
book satiates this by providing a highly engaging and visual
account of China s 20th-century architecture through the lens of
one of the country s most distinguished yet overlooked designers.
It features over 250 new colour photographs by Edward Denison of
Luke s buildings and original archive material. The book charts
Luke s life and work, commencing with his childhood in colonial
Hong Kong and his apprenticeship with a British architectural firm
before focusing on his education at the Architectural Association
(1927 30). In London, Luke was offered the post of Head of the
Architecture Department at the newly established Bank of China,
where IM Pei s father was a senior figure. Luke spent the next
seven years in the inimitable city of Shanghai designing buildings
all over China for the Bank before the Japanese invasion in 1937
forced him, and countless others, to flee to the proxy wartime
capital of Chongqing. In 1945 he returned to Shanghai where he
formed a partnership with four other Chinese graduates of UK
universities; but civil war (between the Communists and
Nationalists) once again caused him and others to uproot in 1949.
Initially intent on fleeing with the Nationalists to Taiwan, Luke
was almost convinced to stay in Communist China but decided finally
to move to Hong Kong. There, for the third time in his life, he had
to establish his career all over again. Despite many challenges, he
eventually prospered, becoming a pioneer in the design of private
residences, schools, hospitals, chapels and public housing.
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++++ The Church The Teacher Of Her Children, A Sermon Edward
Denison (bp. of Salisbury.)
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ A Brief Record: Being Selections From Letters And Other
Writings Of Edward Deninson Edward Denison Baldwyn Leighton
E.Barrett and sons, 1871 History; General; History / General
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The growth rate of national income has fluctuated widely in the
United States since 1929. In this volume, Edward F. Denison uses
the growth accounting methodology he pioneered and refined in
earlier studies to track changes in the trend of output and its
determinants. At every step he systematically distinguishes changes
in the economy's ability to produce as measured by his series on
potential national income from changes in the ratio of actual
output to potential output. Using data for earlier years as a
backdrop, Denison focuses on the dramatic decline in the growth of
potential national income that started in 1974 and was further
accentuated beginning in 1980, and on the pronounced decline from
business cycle to business cycle in the average ratio of actual to
potential output, a slide under way since 1969. The decline in
growth rates has been especially pronounced in national income per
person employed and other productivity measures as growth of total
output has slowed despite a sharp acceleration in growth of
employment and total hours at work. Denison organizes his
discussion around eight table that divide 1929-82 into three long
periods (the last, 1973-82) and seven shorter periods (the most
recent, 1973-79 and 1979-82). These tables provide estimates of the
sources of growth for eight output measures in each period. Denison
stresses that the 1973-82 period of slow growth in unfinished. He
observes no improvement in the productivity trend, only a weak
cyclical recovery from a 1982 low. Sources-of-growth tables isolate
the contributions made to growth between "input" and "output per
unit of input." Even so, it is not possible to quantify separately
the contribution of all determinants, and Denison evaluates
qualitatively the effects of other developments on the productivity
slowdown.
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