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  • Scientific Theories 
    Runeson Karl; Skitmore Martin (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)
    The aim ofthis chapter is to look briefly at theories in general, before concentrating on scientific theories - how they are used, structured, tested and verified. The research that usesthe kind of scientific theories we ...
  • A secondary mortgage market in Ghana: Poison or Antidote? 
    Obeng-Odoom Franklin (Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
    There is considerable support for the development of the secondary mortgage market in Ghana. A secondary mortgage market, proponents argue, would be a panacea to the housing problems in Ghana. However, the studies on which ...
  • Sensual Spaces Through Material Abstraction 
    Verghese George (Midlesex University Press, 2007)
  • Serial Techniques in the Arts: General Ambitions and Particular Manifestations 
    Kaji-O'Grady Sandra (A&S Books, 2009)
    Throughout the twentieth century, common techniques for conceiving and composing works of art were applied to different media and to disparate disciplines. Abstraction, narrative and anti-narrative techniques, indeterminacy ...
  • Snap, Post, Share: Understanding the Online Social Life of Personal Photography 
    Cook Eric; Garduno Freeman Cristina (Peter Lang, 2011)
    Cook and Garduno Freeman argue that social networks such as Flickr function as public repositories of personal photography that challenge and democratize the authority of traditional institutions of memory, like libraries ...
  • 'So the flaneur goes for a walk in his room': Interior, arcade, cinema, metropolis 
    Rice Charles (Routledge, 2009)
    To develop this reading, this chapter investigates a series of experiences and cultural forms that constitute the intimate metropolis: the domestic interior, the shopping arcade, the cinema, and a series of figures which ...
  • Soviets 
    Wallen Lawrence (Zhdk (Zurich Hochschule der Kunste/Zurich University of the Arts), 2009)
    A series on Scenography by the Zurich University of the Arts. Published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation
  • The Surfacing of Walls 
    Benjamin Andrew (Thames and Hudson, 2004)
  • Sustainable Textiles: nature or nurture? 
    O'Mahony Marie (Earthscan, 2011)
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  • Szenografie 
    Wallen Lawrence; Brejzek Thea; Haegen Gesa (Suhrkamp, 2009)
    Moving through theatre and architecture in relationship to scenography the chapter positions the emerging field of scenography in the current debate within the spatial sciences.
  • Theory and construction economics 
    De Valence Gerard (Spon Press, 2011)
    Broadly, there are three views of CE. The first follows Hillebrandt and her definition of CE as the application of 'economics to the study of the construction firm, the construction process and the construction industry. ...
  • Thinking Heidegger's post aesthetics through the expanded field of painting. 
    Titmarsh Mark (Liverpool Hope University Press, 2008)
    At a certain point in the late 20lh century the word "aesthetics" withdrew from active service in the theoretical vocabulary of art. It had become both too universal and too particular. Too universal in that everything had ...
  • Time-memory-people 
    Clark-Coolee, B. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007)
  • Torrent Research Centre, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 
    Thomas Leena; Baird George (Routledge, 2010)
    The Torrent Research Centre building in Ahmedabad was completed and fully occupied in 1997 as the new research facilities for Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd (Figure 31,1). The building design has achieved national awards ...
  • Translucent and Fluid: Piranesi's Impossible Plan 
    Stoppani Teresa (Routledge, 2008)
    This edited collection addresses the vital role of the imagination in the critical interpretation of architectural representations. By challenging the contemporary tendency for computer-aided drawings to become mere 'models' ...
  • Twentieth-Century fashion 
    Mcneil Peter (Berg Publishers, 2009)
    Many explanations are presented for the social role of fashion in modern life. The structure and form of Western European clothes are not simply a matter of adornment, or social interaction, nor are they vessels for ...
  • Typologies of Design Practice 
    Dorst Kees; Van Overveld Kees (Elsevier, 2009)
    Design is a. human activity in which we create plans for the creation of artifacts that aim to have value for a prospective user of the artifact, to assist the user in his/her effort to attain certain goals. These goals ...
  • Ubermen: Masculinity, Costume, and Meaning in Comic Book Superheroes 
    Karaminas Vicki (Berg, 2009)
    Much has been written about comic book superheroes and their cinematic adaptations. They are cultural icons recognized in every corner of the world and have featured in the childhoods of most Americans and Australians since ...
  • Unfinished Business: The Historical Project after Manfredo Tafuri 
    Stoppani Teresa (Routledge, 2007)
    Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with ...
  • Urban sanitation through the lens of Thomas Kuhn 
    Abeysuriya Kumudini; Mitchell Cynthia; Willetts Juliet (Oxford University Press, 2010)
    It is a commonly held idea that developing countries would follow the development path forged by industrialized countries, aided by these 'more developed' countries (McGranahan et al. 2001: 3). Thus, the urban sanitary ...