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Studies in Imperialism
Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from the sixteenth century through to the twentieth century. It asserts that Britain's four-hundred year entanglement with global empire left its mark upon the British Isles as much as it did the wider world. Buildings stood as one of the most conspicuous manifestations of the myr…
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- 9781526142689
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Where We Want to LiveReclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
**Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity), divided neighborhoods, and a non-walkable life. Urban designer Ryan Gravel makes a case for h…
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- 9781466890534
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- 1 online resource (255 pages)
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Mysteries of the MallAnd Other Essays
A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes. Following How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski casts a seasoned critical eye over the modern scene with Mysteries of the Mall. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting of our metropolitan world. In thirty-five discerning essays, Rybczynski ranges over subjects as varied as shopping malls, Centra…
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- 9781429953245
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- 1 online resource (337 pages)
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Elements of Furniture Design
A comprehensive look at the history, elements of construction, and all the steps in furniture design from an expert in the industry. Elements of Furniture Design is a resource of information gathered from 30 years of working as a professional furniture designer. These elements of design are essential, and there is no other resource where they are available in one place. The reader will gain a c…
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- 9781507303870
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- 1 online resource (256 pages)
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Conjuring the RealThe Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Cent…
In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth century was a time of expanding historical consciousness, a period that saw the birth of modern historiography, a profusion of historical novels and paintings, and the widespread production of historical plays. Historical buildings, in themselves already of intense interest to people of the day, also found their way …
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- 9780803235427
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- 1 online resource (232 pages)
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Material und Strukturechtheit in der Architektur
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Material und Strukturechtheit in der Architektur" verfügbar.
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- 9783112741757
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- 1 online resource (24 pages)
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Unbekannte Skizzen von Wolf Caspar von Klengel
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Unbekannte Skizzen von Wolf Caspar von Klengel" verfügbar.
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- 9783112741832
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- 1 online resource (64 pages)
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Die Zentralbauprojekte Augusts des StarkenEin Beitrag zur Rolle des Bauherrn …
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Zentralbauprojekte Augusts des Starken" verfügbar.
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- 9783112742693
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- 1 online resource (164 pages)
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The Authority of Everyday ObjectsA Cultural History of West German Industrial…
From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past. The Authority of Everyday Objects details …
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- 9780520420588
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- 1 online resource (361 pages)
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Weimar SurfacesUrban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany
Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture, analyzing the power that 1920s Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.
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- 9780520420656
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