“…Nomads, empires, states…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…section I. Empires, states and minorities -- section II. The national states -- section III. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Disaster-Oriented PPPs in Florida -- The Divided Empire State -- Disasters in the Old Dominion -- Toward New Understandings of Disaster-Oriented PPPs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1919 in the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire -- State birth at the frontier of knowledge : reimagining international law from post-imperial Vienna -- Sovereignty in sequence : law, time, and decolonization -- Conclusion the temporal life of states…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontier Texas, 1846-1861 187 -- 9. Empire State of the South, 1846-1861 207 -- 10. The Civil War, 1861-1865 239 -- 11. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Delirio de Nueva York: un manifiesto retroactivo para Manhattan; Página Legal; Índice; Introducción; Prehistoria; Coney Island: la tecnología de lo fantástico; La doble vida de la utopía: el rascacielos; La frontera en el cielo; Los teóricos del rascacielos; Las vidas de una manzana: el hotel Waldorf-Astoria y el edificio Empire State; Inestabilidad definitiva: el Downtown Athletic Club; Qué perfecta puede ser la perfección: la creación del Rockefeller Center; El talento de Raymond Hood; Todos los Rockefeller Centers; Radio City Music Hall: "la diversión nunca acaba"…”

“…Ambos están comprometidos (ella es la amante de un magnate y él se va a casar con una rica heredera), pero se hacen una promesa antes de abandonar el barco: encontrarse en el Empire State Building en un plazo de seis meses si siguen sintiendo lo mismo el uno por el otro…”

“…Si dispone de un montón de monedas tan alto como el Empire State Building, ¿podrá meterlas todas en una habitación? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; How Can I Get the Best Shot?; Chapter 8: The Empire State Building; Why It's Worth a Photograph; Where Can I Get the Best Shot?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The most influential U.S. economic indicators -- Employment -- Employment situation -- Weekly claims for unemployment insurance -- Help-wanted advertising index -- Corporate layoff announcements -- Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) -- Consumer spending and confidence -- Personal income and spending -- Retail sales -- E-commerce retail sales -- Weekly chain store sales -- Consumer credit outstanding -- Cambridge Consumer Credit Index -- Consumer Confidence Index (Conference Board) -- Survey of consumer sentiment (University of Michigan) -- ABC News/Money Magazine Consumer Comfort Index -- UBS Index of Investor Optimism -- National output and inventories -- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) -- Durable goods orders -- Factory orders -- Business inventories -- Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization -- Institute for Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing survey -- Institute for Supply Management (ISM) non-manufacturing business survey -- Chicago Purchasing Managers index (Business Barometer) -- Index of Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) -- Housing and construction -- Housing starts and building permits -- Existing home sales -- New home sales -- Housing Market Index : National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) -- Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey and the National Delinquency Survey -- Construction spending -- Regional Federal Reserve Bank surveys -- Regional Federal Reserve Bank reports -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York : Empire State Manufacturing Survey -- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia : Business Outlook Survey -- Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City : Manufacturing Survey of the 10th district -- Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond : manufacturing activity for the fifth district -- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago : National Activity Index (CFNAI) -- The Federal Reserve Board's Beige Book -- Foreign trade -- International trade in goods and services -- Current account balance (summary of International transactions) -- Prices, productivity, and wages -- Consumer Price Index (CPI) -- Producer Price Index (PPI) -- Employment Cost Index -- Import and export prices -- Productivity and costs -- Employer costs for employee compensation -- Real earnings -- Yield curve…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Railway Sheds, Expo Pavilions, Terminals - Spatial Landscapes of the Future, p. 58 ; Railways Conquer Architecture, p. 62 ; Euston Station, London, p. 64 ; Lime Street Station, Liverpool, p. 66 ; Gare d’Austerlitz, paris, p. 68 ; Station Designed by german Master Builders, p. 70 ; Field of Experimentation Expo Pavilions, p. 72 ; Crystal Palace, London, p. 74 ; Glass Palace, Munich, p. 74 ; Palais des Machines, World Exhibition, Paris, p. 78 ;Interim Worlds: The Avant-garde and Fascination with Construction, p. 80 ; Main station on Santa Maria Novella, Florence, p. 82 ; “Tensegrity” Structures for Wide Halls – Richard Buckminster Fuller and the Consequences, p. 84 ; Olympic Stadium, Munich, p. 86 ; US Pavilion, Expo Osaka, p. 88 ; A New Type of Terminal: Station and Airport Buildings, p. 90 ; Roofing Over the Postal Vehicle Shed, Chur, p. 92 ; Waterloo lnternational Terminal, London, p. 94 ; Lehrter Main Station, Berlin, p. 98 ; New Stations for Deutsche Bahn - Visions, p. 100 ; How Concrete Became Lighter - 100 Years of Concrete Pioneers, p. 102 ; Concrete: The Building Material of the 20th Century, p. 106 ; The ldeal Industrial City - Citè Industrielle, p. 108 ; The Magazine ABC, p. 110 ; The Domino Model, p. 112 ; Système Hennebique: The Strength of Reinforced Concrete in Design, p. 114 ; Apartment House, 25bis rue Franklin, Paris, p. 116 ; Bally Shoe Factory, Dottikon, p. 118 ; Fiat Automobile Factory Lingotto, Turin, p. 120 ; Key Buildings of Dutch Modernism, p. 122 ; Bauhaus Dessau, p. 126 ; The Invention of the “Mushroom Column”, p. 124 ; Van Nelle Tobacco, Tea and Coffee Factory, Rotterdam, p. 128 ; Johnson Wax, Administration Building, Racine, Wisconsin, p. 130 ; The Further Development of a Modern Culture of Building in Concrete: Concepts for Free Spatial Forms, p. 132 ; Pier Luig Nervi - Engineer Architect, p. 134 ; Angelo Mangiarotti - The Design Impact of Concrete: Structural Systems, p. 136 ; Franz Dischinger and Concrete Shell Technology, p. 138 ; Eduardo Torroja - The Logic of Form, p. 140 ; Eladio Dieste - Thin-shell Brickwork Structures: Using Concrete Technology, p. 142 ; Heinz Isler - Spatial Form and Shell Technology, p. 144 ; Concrete and Architectonically Shaped Space, p. 146 ; Portuguese Pavilion, World Exposition on the Theme of the Oceans, Lisbon, p. 148 ; Menil Collection Museum, Houston, Texas, p. 150 ; Hochschule fïr Technik und Wirtschaft and Commercial Building on Ottoplatz, Chur, p. 152 ; Transitions - From Tectonics to Morphology, Andermatt, p. 154 ; The “Liberated Façade” - From Wall to Partition to Skin, p. 156 ; Iron Skeleton Structure and Curtain Wall, p. 160 ; Office Buildings Liverpool, p. 162 ; Menier Chocolate Factory Noisiel-sur-Marne, p. 164 ; From the New York Iron Works to the “Chicago Frame”, p. 166 ; First Leiter Building and Fair Building; Chicago, Illinois, p. 168 ; The Chicago School of Architecture, p. 170 ; The “'façade libre” - A Project of Modernism, p. 172 ; The Luxfer Prism Company - Frank Lloyd Wright's Studies and Projects, p. 174 ; The Industrial Building Culture in Germany, p. 176 ; “Le mur rideau” - Studies and Projects by Le Corbusier, p. 178 ; Industrial Façade Technology - Studies and Projects by Jean Prouve, p. 180 ; The Lightness of Post-war Modernism, p. 182 ; Ludwig Mirs van der Rohe: IIT Campus and Skyscraper Technology in Chicago, p. 184 ; An American School of Thought of Post-war Modernism: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, p. 186 ; From “Liberated Space” to Transparent Skin: Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf, p. 188 ; After 1973 - The Future of the Intelligent Building Envelope, p. 190 ; The Technology of Structural Glazing - Peter Rice and RFR, p. 192 ; Experiments in the Field of Material Technology - the Buildings of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, p. 194 ; Concepts for New Glass Façades, p. 196 ; Transformation Strategies, p. 198 ; The “Communicative” Building Envelope, p. 200 ; Process Thinking Conquers Construction – lndustrialisation from the Balloon Frame to the Skyscraper, p. 202 ; Balloon Frame and Skyscraper: The First Symbols of Successful Industrial Building, p. 206 ; Wooden Frame Construction: Balloon Frame and Western Frame, p. 208 ; The McCormick Factory: “Interchangeable Parts” as the Forerunner of Industrial Building, p. 210 ; The Chicago Frame and the lnvention of the Skyscraper, p. 212 ; Frank Lloyd Wright – Ballon-frame Construction Technique and Tectonic Design, p. 214 ; Mass Production and the Industrial Programme of Modern Architecture, p. 216 ; Albert Kahn and the 'Industrial Office', p. 218 ; Major and Model Developments, p. 220 ; Case Study Houses, p. 224 ; Empire State Building, New York, p. 226 ; Construction System Mindset Between the “Sputnik Shock” and the “Oil Shock” - Precursors and Consequences, p. 228 ; Jean Prouve: from the “baraque demonlable” to the “2CV de l'habitat”, p. 230 ; The General Panel System, p. 232 ; The USM Construction System, p. 234 ; Concrete Construction Systems, p. 236 ; Structuralism, p. 238 ; From Mass-made to Customised Production, p. 240 ; Bercy 2 Shopping Centre Charenton le Pont near Paris, p. 242 ; Spheres, Blobs and Digital Tectonics, p. 244 ; Combination of Industrial and Manual Techniques, p. 246 ; "Sustainable Building Design" - A Future Project, p. 248 ; Efficiency and Effectiveness of Systems, Structures and Elements, p. 252 ; The Invention of the Joint, p. 254 ; The Renault Distribution Centre, Swindon, p. 256 ; Aluminium Jubilee Pavilion, Paris, p. 258 ; IBM Travelling Exhibition Pavilion, p. 260 ; Air as Construction Material, p. 262 ; Material and Technology, Resources and Processes, p. 264 ; Shigeru Ban: The “Paper Tube Structure” Technique, p. 266 ; Profiling: a Constant Theme of Industrial Design, p. 268 ; Plastics, New Materials, Composities, p. 270 ; Metamorphoses in Glass, p. 272 ; “Light Tech” and “Low Energy” - A Watershed in The Way of Thinking, p. 274 ; The “New Atrium” , p. 276 ; The City Mall, p. 278 ; The Green Skyscraper, p. 280 ; The Newsirit and Peak_Lab Research Projects, p. 282 ; Regarding the Question of Habitat, p. 286 ; 10 Points Regarding a Culture of Sustainability, p. 288 ; Learning from Nature, p. 290 ; Low-energy Strategies, p. 292 ; The Sustainable Skin Concept, p. 294 ; Jean-Marie TJibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, p. 296 ; Sir Ove Arup: The Key Speech, 1970, p. 298 ; Notes, p. 306 ; Bibliography, p. 313 ; Index, p. 318 ; Picture Credits, p. 318 ; lndex of Names, p. 318 ; Index of Places and Projects, p. 320 ; Exhibition and Expo Projects, p. 322.…”