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**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2023**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022From the prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, The Song of the Cell tells the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life.In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, look down their hand-made microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that alters both biology and medicine forever. It is the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves, are built from these compartments. Hooke christens them 'cells'.The discovery of cells announced the birth of a new kind of medicine. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's, AIDS, lung cancer - all could be re-conceived as the results of cells, or a cellular ecosystem, functioning abnormally. And all could be treated by therapeutic manipulations of cells. This revolution in cell biology is still in progress: it represents one of the most significant advances in science and medicine.Both panoramic and intimate, this is Siddhartha Mukherjee's most spectacular book yet.

';New Dark Ageis among the most unsettling and illuminating books I've read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I've read about contemporary life.'New YorkerAs the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we're living in a new Dark Age. From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from artificial intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is governed or presented to us. The media is filled with unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by anonymous software, while companies dominate their employees through surveillance and the threat of automation. In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.

A provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space

When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action.The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts, not opinions. Insights, not statistics.The Carbon Almanac is a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between hundreds of writers, researchers, thinkers, and leaders that focuses on what we know, what has come before, and what might happen next. With thousands of data points, articles and charts explaining carbon's impact on everything in our society, from our the economy to extreme weather events, it is the definitive source for facts and the basis for a global movement to fight climate change. This book isn't what the oil companies, marketers, activists, or politicians want you to believe. This is what's really happening, right now. Our planet is in trouble, and no one concerned group, corporation, country, or hemisphere canaddress this on its own. We are in this together. And it's not too late for concerted, collective action for change.

In Mont Blanc Lines, photographer and alpinist Alex Buisse has travelled the Mont Blanc massif to capture images of the major mountain faces and to trace the classic climbing and skiing lines. As well as Mont Blanc, also featured are the Grandes Jorasses, the Aiguille du Midi and more, as well as the Matterhorn and the Eiger in Switzerland.

I "Glimt fra skisportens verden - Skiforbundet gennem 75 år" kommer vi helt ind bag skibrillerne hos fremtrædende danske skiløbere. I 50 portrætter af konkurrenceløbere, trænere og ledere føres vi hele vejen fra 1930'erne op til nutiden. Vi får et indblik i, hvad der har drevet ambitiøse konkurrenceløbere og skiledere til at dedikere en stor del af deres liv til en sport, der kun sjældent kan dyrkes i Danmark. "Glimt fra skisportens verden - Skiforbundet gennem 75 år" er en historisk bog om den organiserede skisports udvikling i Danmark, hvor ordene er hovedpersonernes egne.

The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and well being

The publication re:imagine your city invites you to explore and rethink current paradigms that shape our urban environments. It offers insightful perspectives on commemoration and heritage, city planning and gentrification, migration and post-pandemic changes, solidarity and critical spatial practices. The publication is the result of a collective effort by an engaged transdisciplinary network of urban practitioners, educators, researchers, artists, designers and architects in the framework of the international design lab for urban practices and transformation re:imagine your city.

Poverty and inequality have pervaded British society to this day, but this has not always been self-evident to contemporaries - popular understandings have depended on existing knowledge. Inequality Knowledge provides the first detailed history of the numbers about the gap between rich and poor. It shows how they were produced, used, and suppressed at times, and how activists, scientists, and journalists eventually wrestled control over the figures from the state. The book traces the making and the politics of statistical knowledge about economic inequality in the United Kingdom from the post-war era to the 1990s. What kind of knowledge was available to contemporaries about socio-economic disparities in Britain and how they evolved over time? How was this knowledge produced and by whom? What did policy makers and civil servants know about the extent of poverty and inequality in British society and to what extent did they take the distributional impact of their social and fiscal policies into account? Far from just a technical matter, inequality knowledge had far-reaching implications for key debates and the wider political culture in contemporary Britain. Historicizing inequality knowledge speaks to a long tradition of historical research about social class divisions and cultural representations of economic disparities in twentieth-century Britain.

bogevischs buero Wohnbebauung Weinbauernstraße, MünchenEin Recht auf Luxus für jedermensch ist immer noch eine kontroverse Forderung. Selbst im heutigen Wohlstandsstaat klingt es als Parole so dekadent wie ein Recht auf Schönheit. Zwar scheint es zumeist so, wenn man in deutschen Fußgängerzonen unterwegs ist, als würden alle, von Schulkindern bis Best-Ager, im Überfluss schwelgen. Aber ein besserer Gradmesser für die Bereitschaft unserer Gesellschaft, das Besondere allen zukommen zu lassen, ist die deutsche Bau- und Sozialgesetzgebung. Sie regelt mit scharfen Linealen und Standards, was Menschen zusteht, die zum Wohnen in den immer teurer werdenden Städten Unterstützung vom Staat brauchen, also eine Sozialwohnung. Luxus ist hier faktisch ausgeschlossen, und Schönheit dadurch eigentlich auch.Dabei kann die Disziplin der Architekturpsychologie inzwischen sehr dezidiert nachweisen, dass gerade die Verwundbarsten der Gesellschaft am intensivsten auf ihre gebaute Umgebung reagieren. Starke und gesunde Menschen besitzen dagegen eine extrem hohe Toleranz gegenüber qualitätsarmer Umgebung. Deswegen müssten die Regeln des Bauens eigentlich umgekehrt sein, als sie sind. Alte, Arbeitslose und Arme, also die klassische Klientel des geförderten Wohnungsbaus, sollten viel eher von einer gut entworfenen und schönen Umwelt gestärkt werden als Menschen mit Geld und Erfolg. Aber in der bestehenden Praxis führen die Resultate des gesetzlichen Wohnprüfregimes eher zu einem Gefühl der Bestrafung bei den Nutzern und zu serieller Monotonie in Städtebau und Architektur.Deswegen ist der Dachbalkon in der Weinbauernstraße 16 in München ein Ort zum Staunen. Nicht nur, weil man hier einen exquisit urbanen Blick über den vitalen Stadtteil Giesing genießt, doppelkonfessionell gerahmt von Luther- und Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, sondern weil diese Krönung eines Neubaus mit 19 EOF-geförderten Wohnungen den Hausrundgang mit der ungläubigen Frage beschließt, ob das hier wirklich sozialer Wohnungsbau ist? Die große Loggia im fünften Geschoss, gefasst von sienaroten Wänden, die sich farblich stimmig mit den Dachziegeln verbinden, ist eine geradezu luxuriöse Freifläche, die das loftartige Dachgeschoss im Vorderhaus atmosphärisch in den offenen Himmel vergrößert. (...) Till BrieglebGeförderte Wohnanlage mit Tiefgarage Planungsbeginn: 2013, Fertigstellung: 202013 Wohneinheiten im Vorderhaus, 6 Maisonettes im Rückgebäude, 23 Stellplätze in der TiefgarageEnergiestandard: KFW 70Konstruktion: Vordergebäude - Dämmziegel, Rückgebäude - Massivbau mit hinterlüfteter HolzfassadeAuszeichnungen: Shortlist BDA Regionalpreis "Über Oberbayern"

Weltweit entwickeln sich immer mehr Städte zu Smart Cities. Sie wollen technologisch fortschrittlicher, effizienter und vernetzter sein, um sich den Herausforderungen unserer Zeit ¿ dem Klimawandel, der zunehmenden Urbanisierung und den demografischen Veränderungen unserer Gesellschaft ¿ zu stellen. Dafür werden zahlreiche Maßnahmen in der Stadtentwicklung initiiert, die die Lebensräume der Menschen verbessern. Dieses essential zeigt, wie die Vision einer zukünftigen Stadt, die für die Bürgerinnen und Bürger entwickelt wird, nachhaltig erfolgreich sein kann. Und es erläutert, welche Rolle die Partizipation der Bewohnenden, die Stadtverwaltung sowie der Einsatz von Technologie und Daten dabei spielen. .

The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the ocean to outer space, these places are divided into six chapters: Paradises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments. The spectrum ranges from Steve Jobs' Apple Park in California to a national park in Costa Rica, a small field station for the protection of wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, to the border wall between Israel and Palestine. This book is a grand tour of the most pertinent places in the world today.

When it comes to the question of the legal significance of the so called bellum iustum doctrine, i.e. the idea of a just war, international lawyers start to feel uneasy. A large part of contemporary legal scholarship maintains the opinion that this doctrine was never part of international law. However, the subject remains controversial. The work in hand casts a new light on the longstanding bellum iustum - bellum legale controversy while taking into account the more recent narrative turn in international law with particular consideration of its implications on international legal theory. It is shown that any categorical denial of the just war doctrine in international law is flawed from the outset, since law is value-related.

Hit the slopes then warm up afterward with the quintessential après ski cocktail! This book features classic and creative cocktail recipes that are sure to satisfy after a day of skiing or snowboarding.

For at least two decades, major cities in Turkey have been subjected to endless waves of urban development that has left scores of building demolitions in its wake. The construction waste produced is immense but its removal or abatement is completely ignored by the state. Who will deal with all this waste? Enter the reclaimers (çikmacis), an informal network of building salvagers who have stepped in to create a new form of assemblage that fills this gap. Erdogan Onur Ceritoglu makes an in-depth ethnographic study of the under-the-radar livelihood of the reclaimers long-term. He also focuses on incremental architecture through the reuse of second-hand building elements.

The City of Mariupol's heroic defence and systematic destruction at the beginning of the Russian invasion have made it an international symbol of senseless brutality and Ukrainian defiance. The ruined city today still harbours the embers of that resistance. Join a multidisciplinary team of architects, planners, Mariupol residents, and outside experts from "Ro3kvit. Urban Coalition for Ukraine" as they envision the rebirth of their beloved city following its liberation. Inspired by the Ukrainian people's faith and determination to rebuild, the authors join forces with displaced Mariupol residents to imagine a dynamic future for Mariupol that will begin the day the Ukrainian flag rises. Despite the unavailability of reliable information and the difficulty of communicating with the scattered population, the team illustrates the case for planning rebuilding while the city is still under occupation, both so as to exorcise the scars of war and colonialism and to establish a viable economy and human-centred city that draws strength from its tragic past.This title is part of the Histories of Ukrainian Architecture programme initiated by DOM publishers in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine's sovereignty on 24 February 2022.

This publication reflects the work of the first year of Ro3kvit - Urban Coalition for Ukraine. The members are profes­sionals from Ukraine and elsewhere who have come together to rethink Ukraine's future. In six chapters covering topics ranging from urbanism to housing and from identity to circular building and governance, the many different aspects of rebuilding and reconstruction are addressed in the form of longer essays, conversations, and project descriptions. All texts and projects are written or executed by Ro3kvit members. Sometimes the authors express their personal views and involvement, creating a rich amalgam of different voices while adhering to a common set of values that members of Ro3kvit share and cherish. Rökvit's work follows five principles: Civil society comes first, Ro3kvit's work is ethically sound, Consideration of prudent use of sources and resources, Education is crucial, Ro3kvit's work is network-based.This title is part of the Histories of Ukrainian Architecture programme initiated by DOM publishers in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine's sovereignty on 24 February 2022.

1960 wurde in Brasilia die Verwirklichung einer städtebaulichen Vision nach Entwürfen von Lúcio Costa und Oscar Niemeyer gefeiert, gleichzeitig wurde nach Plänen von Le Corbusier die Sektoren-Stadt Chandigarh gebaut. Der Export der Moderne, die Retorten-Stadt, entsprang einer westlichen Planungseuphorie mit utopischen Zügen. In beiden Städten ist die fremde Architektur mit den einheimischen Kulturen in Einklang gekommen und eigenständige Identitäten haben sich gebildet. Das Buchprojekt geht der Frage nach, wie in den beiden Städten die Aneignung der Moderne erfolgt ist, wie die Menschen damit leben und umgehen. Es werden Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede aufgespürt und ein Bild des urbanen Alltags gezeigt. Auf Initiative des Verlegers hat der junge Fotograf Iwan Baan eine aktuelle Bestandesaufnahme des Lebens in den beiden Städten vorgenommen.

Though sometimes overlooked and underestimated, rural space has played a substantial role in social, cultural, economic, and ideological change. This role can be studied by looking at the re/production of spatial agents that were caused by direct or indirect political interventions in rural communities. In this book, scholars looking at case studies from Greece, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, and Austria discuss the making of identity in and through rural areas, which have dramatically changed under different political, social, and economic conditions from the turn of the 20th century up until today. By focusing on potential contestations of such changes, the authors provide a better in-depth understanding of spatial dynamics related to cultural and social spheres of 20th-century rurality. Includes contributions of national and international experts Deals with 20th-century rural environment and identity-making policies Findings of an international symposium of DFG Research Training Group "Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings", Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg

Developing cultural heritage in a more sustainable way. New approaches and examples from practice. "Open Heritage" is a response to the urgent need for a more open definition of cultural heritage, of the parties involved in protecting and maintaining it, and of the relevant planning processes in order to ensure the sustainable reuse of cultural heritage in times of climate change, social inequality and social plurality. This book introduces in a clear and systematic manner the results of the EU-funded OpenHeritage project, which examined best practices in different European countries. It focuses on the idea of inclusive heritage management based on community-driven processes. It is designed to act as a guide for anyone involved in planning, researching, and deciding on the further development and use of cultural heritage. Systematic presentation of the results of the EU-funded project OpenHeritage A collection of different approaches to assessing the social impact of bottom-up cultural heritage reuse projects Presentation of numerous methods derived from OpenHeritage case studies and other European initiatives

From the 1950s to the 1980s, the open-air playground was a social laboratory. Innovative, wacky, educational, and exciting playground designs emerged in European and American cities, as well as elsewhere around the world: artists, landscape designers, architects, and activists sought to provide children with the best possible place to play, while also reimagining cities and communities. First published in 2018, The Playground Project instantly became a classic. This much-expanded new edition brings back the wealth of ideas of that period to inspire us today. It offers many previously unpublished images, numerous new portraits, especially of female protagonists of the time, as well as findings from the latest research on playground design. An incisive introductory essay places the playground at the intersections of education, architecture, urban politics, design history, and leisure policy. A detailed focus is placed on the forgotten history of playgrounds in the former German Democratic Republic. Moreover, young researchers explore the culture of memory surrounding the Shek Lei Playground in Hong Kong, and the role that playgrounds played in the process of state-building in Mexico. The book is a tribute to play in public spaces and a rich source for architects, designers, students, children, and political actors.

In architectural discourse surrounding the Arabian Gulf, the desert is often overlooked as a contrasting backdrop to the region's oil-fueled cities. Space Wars challenges the view of the desert as a wasteland by bringing together the perspectives of architects, artists, ecologists, cartographers, and more to shed light on a complex landscape that is host to critical operations for the development of sovereign states. Moving across scales and time, Kuwait's hinterland serves as the critical lens to look at the region's past traumas, current struggles, and possible futures.

Bei der Frage, was eine Stadt lebenswert macht, spielt die Konzeption des Stadtparterres eine zentrale Rolle. Das Stadtparterre ist das städtische Erdgeschoss, die ebenerdige Zone der Stadt: ein Gewebe aus bebauten und unbebauten Räumen, in dem wir uns alltäglich bewegen und begegnen. Während sich die Stadtforschung bisher entweder auf die Erdgeschosszone oder den öffentlichen Raum fokussiert, betrachtet dieses Buch das systemische Zusammenspiel von Erdgeschoss, Innenhof, Straße und deren Übergangsräumen. Durch eine umfassende Analyse gründerzeitlicher Strukturen mithilfe des Urban Parterre Modelling werden deren versteckte Potenziale und Herausforderungen untersucht und in Hinblick auf eine künftige nachhaltige, resiliente und zirkuläre Nutzung von Bestandsarchitekturen diskutiert. Ausgehend vom Wiener Gründerzeitparterre wirft die Autorin einen kritischen, vergleichenden Blick auf die städtebauliche Entwicklung verschiedener Stadtparterre-Systeme europäischer Metropolen.