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Acknowledgments |
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Foreword: The Future of Libraries |
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Prologue: What is a Library |
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Photo Series: The Library as Public Space |
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More than Access to Knowledge: On the Changing Shape of Tomorrow's Urban Library Short List of 100+ Relevant Libraries |
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Part II The Past and the Presence |
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The Evolution of the Library: from Stockholm - to Sendai - to Seattle - to Tianjin |
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The Selected Case Studies and Statements from Library Designers |
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Arata Isozaki & Associates, Tokyo |
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Oita Prefectural Library, Oita, Japan |
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Kitakyushu Central Library, Fukuoka, Japan |
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Toyonokuni Library for Cultural Resources, Japan |
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Shenzhen Library and Cultural Center, Shenzhen, China |
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Toyo Ito & Associates, Tokyo |
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Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan |
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Tama Art University Library, Tokyo, Japan |
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Gifu Media Cosmos, Gifu City, Japan |
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Snohetta, Oslo and New York |
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt |
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Temple University Charles Library, Philadelphia, US |
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James Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University, US |
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Ryerson University Student Learning Centre, Toronto, Canada |
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Calgary New Central Library, Calgary, Canada |
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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, North Dakota, US |
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Delft University of Technology Library, the Netherlands |
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Birmingham Library, Birmingham, UK |
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LocHal Library Tilburg, the Netherlands |
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Tainan Public Library, Tainan, Taiwan |
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library expansion, New York, US |
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library expansion, Washington, D.C., US |
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Surry Hills Library and Neighbourhood Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Max Webber Library, Blacktown, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Craigieburn Library, Hume City, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Bartlett Memorial Library and Moe Service Centre, Gippsland, VIC, Australia |
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Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre, Bankstown, NSW, Australia |
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Bunjil Place Cultural Centre, Narre Warren, City of Casey, VIC, Australia |
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Will Bruder + Partners, Portland |
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Burton Ban Central Library, Phoenix, Arizona, US |
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Billings Public Library, Billings, Montana, US |
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Agave Library, Phoenix, Arizona, US |
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Eun Young Yi, Cologne and Seoul |
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Stuttgart City Library, Stuttgart, Germany |
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Public Library Nanjing, China |
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Kerry Hill Architects, Singapore and Perth |
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168 | (2) |
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City of Perth Library and History Centre, Perth, Australia |
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Max Dudler Architects, Berlin and Frankfurt |
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170 | (14) |
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Berlin, Germany |
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Zaha Hadid Architects, London |
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172 | (4) |
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Vienna University of Economics Library, Vienna, Austria |
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Middle East Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York |
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176 | (4) |
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Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University, New York, US |
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Steven Holl Architects, New York |
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180 | (4) |
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Queens Public Library, Hunters Point, New York, US |
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Foster + Partners, London |
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184 | (2) |
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The House of Wisdom, Sharjah, UAE |
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Dominique Coulon & Associates, Strasbourg |
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Media Library, Thionville, France |
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Antoine Predock, Albuquerque |
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187 | (2) |
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Bibliotheca de Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico (unbuilt) |
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Alberto Kalach & Taller de Arquitectura X, Mexico City |
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Bibliotheca Vasconcelos, Mexico City, Mexico |
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Bibliotheca de Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico (unbuilt) |
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Tianjin Binhai New Area Library, Tianjin, China |
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Part III The Future: Reimaging the Library of Tomorrow |
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Looking Ahead: Collecting and Sorting Ideas for Tomorrow's Sustainable Libraries The Library as a Hybrid Urban Place, Community Destination and Leader in Sustainability |
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Part IV The Design Studio |
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Epilogue by Keith Webster: The Future of the Library and the Library of the Future |
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Final Thought: Temporary Library and Micro-Library |
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References |
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Bibliography: Further Reading and Resources on Libraries |
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List of Featured Architects |
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About the Author |
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Introducing a Selection of Former Ph.D. Students |
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Index |
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