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Recommended this month are:

URBAN/ACT
PRACTICES / G ROUPS / NETWORKS / WORKSPACES / OR GANISATIONS / TOOLS / METHODS / PROJECTS / DATA & TEXTS
A handbook for alternative practice
www.peprav.net
ISBN 978-2-9530751-0-6

This publication is the outcome of a series of discussions and collaborations with a number ofgroups from France, Belgium, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia and Canada.

URBAN ACT condenses the idea of a certain type of activism, of a way of acting and organising actions.This ACT/ing can take different forms: from radical opposition and criticism to a moreconstructive and propositional acting, embedded in everyday life.

The practices presented here include artist groups, media activists, cultural workers, software designers, architects, students, researchers, neighbourhood organisations, city dwellers. Most of these groups are usually catalogued as local and their position is minimalised as such, but in fact they are highly specific and have the quality of reinventing uses and practices in ways that traditional professional structures cannot afford (due to their generic functioning). Their ways of being local are complex and multilayered, involving participation and local expertise as well as extra-local collaborations. They reinvent contemporary urban practice as tactical, situational and active, based on soft professional and artistic skills and civic informal structures, which can adapt themselves to changing urban situations that are critical, reactive and creative enough to produce real change.

Places of the Soul

Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art
Christopher Day

Revised to incorporate the changes in opinions and attitudes since its first publication, the new Places of the Soul has brought Christopher Day's classic text into the 21st century.

This new edition of the seminal text Places of the Soul reminds us that true sustainable design does not simply mean energy efficient building. Sustainable buildings must provide for the 'soul'. For Christopher Day architecture is not just about a building's appearance, but how the building is experienced. 'Places of the Soul' treats buildings as environment, intrinsic to their surroundings, and offers design principles that will open the eyes of the architecture student and professional alike, presenting ideas quite different to the orthodoxy of modern architectural education.

Christopher Day's experience as an architect, self-builder, professor and sculptor have all added to the development of his ideas that encompass issues of economic and social sustainability, commercial pressures and consensus design. This book presents these ideas and outlines universal principles that will be of interest and value to architects, builders, planners and developers alike.

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