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Basílica de san Esteban – Bolonia
Una pequeña guía ilustrada que acompaña al visitante a través de la historia y la belleza artística de la Basílica de san Esteban. La Basílica de san Esteban es uno de los complejos de culto más antiguos de Bolonia. Tiene vistas a la plaza del mismo nombre y también es conocido como el complejo de las "Siete Iglesias". Esta pequeña guía ilustrada acompaña al visitante a través de l…
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Sites UnseenLandscape and Vision
Sites Unseen challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. While other fields, such as art history and geography, have engaged poststructuralist theory to consider vision and representation, the application of such inquiry to the natural…
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Urbanism and Town PlanningUnderstanding and Anticipating Urban Renewal
Sustainable urban planning and urban renewal are major challenges of the 21st century. In this context, Urbanism and Town Planning proposes a geohistorical approach to urban construction. The city and its neighborhoods are studied through their materials and general layout, which sometimes reveal a logic of economic profitability, prestige and social equity, and sometimes a more innovative ap…
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Spaces of ImmigrationAmerican Ports, Railways, and Settlements
By transporting waves of newly arrived immigrants along rail lines from both coasts, railway companies played an active role in repopulating the interior of the country. Spaces of Immigration follows the travel routes of immigrants during a foundational period of American infrastructure—from ports of arrival to train cars and depots to settlements—showing how the built environment of the ra…
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The Art of the Islamic Garden
Islamic gardens are enchanting places. Just the names of some of the most beautiful gardens in the world - the Alhambra, the Generalife, the Shalimar - conjure up images of calm and even divine beauty. No visitor is left untouched by their magic. This new paperback edition of The Art of the Islamic Garden is an introduction to the design, symbolism and making of an Islamic Garden and it examine…
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Model Schools in the Model CityRace, Planning, and Education in the Nation’…
Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book Award Access to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for social equality—Black Americans wanted the American Dream to apply to them, and equal opportunity for quality education was at the forefront of making…
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Bruno Taut in JapanDas Tagebuch. erster Band 1933
Auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten sollte Japan die erste Station einer Weltreise sein. Doch anstatt in die USA weiterzureisen, blieben Bruno Taut und seine Lebensgefährtin Erica unfreiwillig dreieinhalb Jahre in Japan. Im Tagebuch der ersten sechs Monate ist gespiegelt, wie das euphorische Lebensgefühl des Touristen den Sorgen und Lebensumständen des Exilanten weicht. Alltagsszenen …
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A Territory in ConflictEras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza
A Territory in Conflict explores Israeli and Palestinian projects of modernization and development in the Gaza Strip, from the outset of Israel's military occupation in 1967 to the Oslo Accords of 1993. Rather than reduce the Gaza Strip to an arena of war and violence, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat resurrects the urban and architectural history of Gaza's cities and the varied perspectives and identiti…
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Nippon mit europäischen Augen gesehen
Bruno Taut war 1933 kaum vier Wochen in Japan, als er vom Meiji Shobo Verlag den Auftrag erhielt, ein Buch über seine Eindrücke zu schreiben. 'Nippon mit europäischen Augen gesehen' wurde sofort ein Bestseller. Der prominente Architekt, dem sein Ruf vorauseilte, hatte seit seiner Ankunft in Japan zahlreiche Vorträge gehalten, Kunst- und Kulturdenkmäler besichtigt und alle wichtigen Archite…
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World ObservationEmpire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta
World Observation explores the archives and architecture of It? Ch?ta (1867–1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe, and North America to create the first world history of architecture in Japanese from a truly global set of encounters. In his mission to integrate Japan into existing world histories, legitimate Japanese colonial expansi…
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