Bruce Ferguson

Franck Daphnis

* First book to link housing and microfinance * Presents international and US experience As the premier book to provide a comprehensive overview of housing microfinance worldwide, Housing Microfinance sets the standard for future work in the field. The expert contributors combine wisdom from the separate fields of housing policy and microfinance, demonstrating what each can learn from the other. With solid guidance for practitioners and policymakers, the book reviews important issues for international and domestic microfinance institutions that are considering expanding into housing and for providers of conventional housing loans who seek to offer their services to poor clients who lack collateral or regular income.

A Guide to Practice

Housing Microfinance

Jessica Morgan

Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.)

Cornelia Parker

Essays by Bruce W. Ferguson, Jill Medvedow, Jessica Morgan.

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction outlines a philosophy of values in landscape construction, demonstrating how integral structures, such as pavements and walls, constitute a key element to how people interact with and inhabit the final design. The book discusses how these structures enable, assist and care for people, negotiating between the dynamic processes of site ecosystems and the soil on which they are founded. They articulate spatial, functional, cultural and ecological meanings. Within this theoretical framework, designers will learn to recognize and insert a set of core values into the most technical design stages to reach their full potential. By offering a new perspective on landscape construction, moving away from the exclusively technical characteristics, this book allows landscape architects to realise the ideal vision for their designs. It is abundantly illustrated with examples from which designers can learn both successes and failures and will be an essential companion to any study of built landscapes.

The Vision of Built Spaces

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction

National Gallery of Canada

"Canada Video: a window on the new world of Canadian videoart. In keeping with the theme of the XXXIX Venice Biennale, the rebellion of the younger generation, this catalogue features eight innovative Canadian artists: Colin Campbell; Tom Sherman; Lisa Steele; the duo of Pierre Falardeau and Julien Poulin; and General Idea, a group composed of A.A. Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal. Canada Video throws further light on video's unique contribution to the world of art, and is important as a catalogue of Canada's participation in one of the premier art exhibitions, the Venice Biennale."--back cover.

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