Empire, state & building
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Word Count
66,000 words, Guess
Page Count
264 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101940291844
- ISBN-139781940291840
- Library of Congress Control Number2016949087
- OCLC Control Number952207682
- Better World Books9781940291840
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL44546778M
Classifications
- DDC720
- LCCNA2542.35 .M64 2017
- LCCNA2542.35.M64 2017
Alternate Titles
- Empire, state and building
Description
This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of building's material basis reveal much about the dynamics and efficacy of how we build. This book plots the material history and geography for one plot of land in Manhattan: the parcel of land under the Empire State Building over the past two hundred years. Through rich illustrations, it tracks all the building material that have passed through this parcel or remain it in geographic and ecological dynamics: spatially (in terms of their geographic material footprints and industrial processes) and quantitatively (in terms of embodied energy, embodied carbon, and energy flow). In successive chapters, the book articulates the empire and states that are inherent to building, but remain unconsidered abstract and unknown by architects.
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