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An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese GardensActivities, People, Culture
There are many books published in English on Chinese gardens, but the majority are primarily picture books with little informative content. With a large number of illustrations of Chinese gardens, ancient paintings, block prints, and other artefacts, this book is a social history of Chinese gardens and focuses on how gardens have functioned and been used in Chinese society through the ages. Apa…
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Historic Sugar Mills in Santo DomingoCase Studies in Adaptive Reuse
Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of the Brian Canin Urban Design Award Colonial sugar mills,ingenios coloniales, are essential to the material history of the Dominican Republic. They served as a cornerstone of the national economy and as a foundation for the stability required during the colonial era. From the 1500s to the end of the 1800s, sugar mills and sugar factories…
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Parking Requirements for Shopping CentersSummary Recommendations and Research…
How many parking spaces are needed for today's shopping center? Based on a comprehensive nationwide survey of parking at shopping centers, this book reveals the standards for retail facilities of all sizes from small strip centers to major malls.
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Building SmallA Toolkit for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders, and Gre…
Small-scale, incremental, real estate development offers a growing alternative to more conventional approaches. It helps create more authentic places, acts as a magnet for new investment, helps attract talent based employment, all while fostering a more resilient local economy. This in turn helps communities better differentiate themselves when seeking new investment in an increasingly competit…
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Vaastu ShaastraAn Ancient Technological Treatise
Vaastu Shaastra, the Vedic treatise on the principles of design and construction, is more intricate and elaborate than how the texts in circulation today understand it. These books erroneously attempt to provide readymade solutions in the form of drawings for designs of buildings, thereby fixing the architectural expression of the norms. What makes this book exclusive is its intensive discussio…
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Kem WeberMid-Century Furniture Designs for the Disney Studios
This book is a comprehensive overview of the Kem Weber designed Disney animation furniture that takes the reader on a journey from concept sketches and photos to interviews with legendary artists. Kem Weber, a well-known mid-century architect, influenced California style during the mid-twentieth century with buildings architecture, interior designs and furniture, including his famed Air Line ch…
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Mysticism and ArchitectureWittgenstein and the Meanings of the Palais Stonbor…
Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Palais Stonborough is a multi-disciplinary study of the Viennese palais that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein helped design and build for his sister shortly after he abandoned philosophy for more practical activities and during the period that supposedly separates his "early" from his "late" philosophy. Weaving together discussions of a number…
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Building Nazi GermanyPlace, Space, Architecture, and Ideology
This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise. Instead, it was a series of interrelated programs intended to thoroughly reorganize Germany's economic, cultural, and political landscapes. The …
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Facilitating Watershed ManagementFostering Awareness and Stewardship
Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed management in the real world trenches, the book helps move students and practitioners from bei…
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Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 1: Bioarchaeology, Life and DeathNe…
Explores health and lifeways in monastic communities, focusing on palaeopathological insights into well-being, disabilities, and burial practices across various periods. Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly activities to dedicate themselves primarily to spiritual matters, living in small communities subject to a set of rules and isolated from the secula…
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