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Tracing the design of “techno-cities” that blend the technological and the pastoral. Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowde
Heterotopia and Heritage Preservation
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Pages: 490
Authors: Smaranda Spanu
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-02 - Publisher: Springer

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This book approaches the field of built heritage and its practices by employing the concept of heterotopia, established by the French philosopher Michel Foucaul
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
Language: en
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Authors: Eric S. Hintz
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-17 - Publisher: MIT Press

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How America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions. During the nineteenth century, heroic individual
Little Edens
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Barbara Klein Moss
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-04 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"Each of Moss's surprising, beautifully constructed, and soulful stories brilliantly illuminates the paradox of paradise." --Booklist
Cities and the Knowledge Economy
Language: en
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Authors: Tim May
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban de