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La ciudad ColombianaLa formación espacial de la conquista siglos XVI - XVII
La ciudad colombiana es el gran legado de Jacques Aprile-Gniset. El rol de las distintas fuerzas involucradas en los procesos urbanos y su resultado en la ocupación de los territorios y en las conformaciones socio-espaciales guían su trabajo.Es justamente la relación entre las formaciones sociales con las espaciales, la que le permitió construir la primera gran historia urbana del país, la…
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La ciudad colombianaLa formación espacial americana prehispánica
"La Ciudad Colombiana" es el gran legado de Jacques Aprile-Gniset. El rol de las distintas fuerzas involucradas en los procesos urbanos y su resultado en la ocupación de los territorios y en las conformaciones socio-espaciales guían su trabajo. Es justamente la relación entre las formaciones sociales con las espaciales, la que le permitió construir la primera gran historia urbana del país,…
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Across This LandA Regional Geography of the United States and Canada
A fascinating overview of the lands and peoples of the United States and Canada, both past and present. Based on decades of research and written in clear, concise prose by one of the foremost geographers in North America, John C. Hudson's Across This Land is a comprehensive regional geography of the North American continent. Dividing the terrain into ten regions, which are then subdivided into…
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AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC
"The model of what a concise, attractive guidebook should be."—Mid-Atlantic Country This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 450 of Washington, DC's, most noteworthy buildings and monuments. Organized into 19 discrete walking tours, plus one general tour of peripheral sites, this thoroughly revised sixth edition features …
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American KairosWashington National Cathedral and the New Civil Religion
A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an American civil religion. In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first city planner of Washington, DC, introduced the idea of a "great church for national purposes." Unlike L'Enfant's plans for the White House, the US Capitol, and the National Mall, this grand temple to the republic never materialized. But in 1890, the Episcopal Ch…
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Big PlansThe Allure and Folly of Urban Design
Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlights both the futili…
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Capital's UtopiaVandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916
In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that pr…
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Ecological PlanningA Historical and Comparative Synthesis
Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 Ecological planning is the process of understanding, evaluating, and providing options for the use of landscape to ensure a better fit with human habitation. In this ambitious analysis, Forster Ndubisi provides a succinct historical and comparative account of the various approaches to this process. He then reveals how each of …
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Entrepreneurial VernacularDevelopers' Subdivisions in the 1920s
During the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the subdivision tract housing now commonplace in the U.S. Originally published in 2001. Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes are so familiar a part of the American landscape that it is hard to imagine a time when they were not common in the U. S. The shi…
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Flickering TreasuresRediscovering Baltimore's Forgotten Movie Theaters
The riveting story of Baltimore's movie theaters over the past century, eloquently told through extraordinary photographs and poignant reminiscences. 2018 Winner of the Preservation Award of the Baltimore Heritage Baltimore has been home to hundreds of theaters since the first moving pictures flickered across muslin sheets. These monuments to popular culture, adorned with grandiose architec…
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