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"This book explores how to assess, characterize and design urban spaces using perceptual approaches. It gathered theory and case studies on methods for data collection and analysis of individual responses about the experience of urban environments and how knowledge can inform the planning and design of public spaces to enhance people's experience of the urban realm"--

Die klassische Moderne entsprang keineswegs voraussetzungsfrei den Köpfen ihrer Protagonisten beziehungsweise den sie entbindenden historischen Schocks, sondern war zutiefst in der europäischen Kulturentwicklung verwurzelt. Warum dann konnte sie sich so radikal, als definitiver Bruch mit der Geschichte, in das kollektive Bewusstsein einschreiben? Hochhaus und Gemeinschaft - als Vokabeln des großen Versuchs, mit allen historischen Maßstäben zu brechen - bilden die thematische Klammer des vorliegenden Essays, der diese Frage zu beantworten sucht

"Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell's career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and further by World War II and the rise of totalitarian states. In a world that seems increasingly like one of Orwell's dystopias, a willingness to speak truth to power is more important than ever. With Orwell on Truth, readers get a collection of both powerful quotes and the context for them."--