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Bay of All Saints
This award-winning film examines the realities of urban poverty through the experiences of a community living in Brazil’s palafitas: shacks built over the water and supported by stilts.
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The Human Scale
This film criticizes the twentieth-century urban planning model of megacities and argues for a return to a human scale of design.
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Microtopia
This film displays ideas and experiments in art and architecture to design and dwell in portable, flexible, environmentally-friendly off-grid and compact homes.
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Life After People [Zukunft ohne Menschen]
Life After People is a television series in which scientists, engineers, and other experts speculate about what Earth will be like if humanity instantly disappears.
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Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
Arcadia
The Kauri Case—Native Nature and National Identity in Titirangi, New Zealand
The article discusses the role of native trees as representatives of national identity and belonging.
Arcadia
Alistair Knox (1912–1986) and the Birth of Environmental Building in Australia
Environmental building in Australia as a form of communing with nature.
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About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North
Through interdisciplinary work in the circumpolar north, About the Hearth refocuses on issues of material culture and social organization in indigenous and local communities. In the process, it makes some compelling ethnographic and theoretical arguments.
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Building on Water: Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times
Building on Water focusses on the relationship between early modern agriculture and water management in Europe, and the history of Venetian hydraulic management.
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Molding the Planet: Human Niche Construction at Work
This volume explores some of the diverse niches created by humans in different times and places. The essays span the globe, from Texas to China, from Scandinavia to Papua New Guinea, exploring agricultural spaces and indoor biomes, human aesthetics, and Anthropocentric perspectives.