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Histoire, promenades, architectures, sculptures, tombes célèbres, curiosités, plan des vingt-six cimetières.
Guide des cimetières parisiens
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Histoire, promenades, architectures, sculptures, tombes célèbres, curiosités, plan des vingt-six cimetières.
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January 1999, Paris
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Urban Surprises invites its readers to explore the hundreds of public works of art in Los Angeles: some awe-inspiring, some poignant, and some controversial. Enhanced with neighbourhood maps and colour images by photographer Dennis Keeley, the book also contains a list of program sponsors and an index to the artists themselves.
Urban surprises : a guide to public art in Los Angeles
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Urban Surprises invites its readers to explore the hundreds of public works of art in Los Angeles: some awe-inspiring, some poignant, and some controversial. Enhanced with neighbourhood maps and colour images by photographer Dennis Keeley, the book also contains a list of program sponsors and an index to the artists themselves.
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Essay by Otto Kapfinger. Architects include: Carlo Baumschlager, Marianne Burkhalter, Dietmar Eberle, Ernst Giselbrecht, Roland Gnaiger, Hermann Kaufmann, Christian Lenz, Wolfgang Ritsch, Bruno Spagolla, Christian Sumi, Peter Zumthor.
Architecture in Vorarlberg since 1980: a guide to 260 noteworthy buildings
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Essay by Otto Kapfinger. Architects include: Carlo Baumschlager, Marianne Burkhalter, Dietmar Eberle, Ernst Giselbrecht, Roland Gnaiger, Hermann Kaufmann, Christian Lenz, Wolfgang Ritsch, Bruno Spagolla, Christian Sumi, Peter Zumthor.
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Naming New York is a comprehensive compilation and explanation of the names of Manhattan's streets, alleys, avenues, plazas, parks, and corners. It surveys names currently in use and includes the oldest and the newest honorific add-on names, from Astor Place to Yitzak Rabin Way.
Naming New York: Manhattan places & how they got their names
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Naming New York is a comprehensive compilation and explanation of the names of Manhattan's streets, alleys, avenues, plazas, parks, and corners. It surveys names currently in use and includes the oldest and the newest honorific add-on names, from Astor Place to Yitzak Rabin Way.
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Part 1 of this three volume, comprehensive guide to contemporary American architecture focuses on the West and features 247 buildings along with 17 access maps for 69 different cities. Each building is dedicated one page, accompanied with colour photographs and a brief outline. Buildings featured include: Seattle Central Library (Rem Koolhaas/Oma), San Francisco(...)
A guide to contemporary architecture in America, volume 1 : Western U.S.A.
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Part 1 of this three volume, comprehensive guide to contemporary American architecture focuses on the West and features 247 buildings along with 17 access maps for 69 different cities. Each building is dedicated one page, accompanied with colour photographs and a brief outline. Buildings featured include: Seattle Central Library (Rem Koolhaas/Oma), San Francisco International Airport (SOM), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank O. Gehry) and the Denver Central Library (Michael Graves).
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Brooklyn by name
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From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Uncovering the remarkable stories behind the landmarks, "Brooklyn by name" takes readers on a stroll through the streets and places of this thriving metropolis to reveal the borough's textured past. Listing more than 500 of Brooklyn's most prominent place(...)
Brooklyn by name
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From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Uncovering the remarkable stories behind the landmarks, "Brooklyn by name" takes readers on a stroll through the streets and places of this thriving metropolis to reveal the borough's textured past. Listing more than 500 of Brooklyn's most prominent place names, organized alphabetically by region, and illustrated with photographs and current maps the book captures the diverse threads of American history. We learn about the Canarsie Indians, the region's first settlers, whose language survives in daily traffic reports about the Gowanus Expressway. The arrival of the Dutch West India Company in 1620 brought the first wave of European names, from Boswijck ("town in the woods," later Bushwick) to Bedford-Stuyvesant, after the controversial administrator of the Dutch colony, to numerous places named after prominent Dutch families like the Bergens. The English takeover of the area in 1664 led to the Anglicization of Dutch names, (vlackebos, meaning "wooded plain," became Flatbush) and the introduction of distinctively English names (Kensington, Brighton Beach). A century later the American Revolution swept away most Tory monikers, replacing them with signers of the Declaration of Independence and international figures who supported the revolution such as Lafayette (France), De Kalb (Germany), and Kosciuszko (Poland). We learn too of the dark corners of Brooklyn's past, encountering over 70 streets named for prominent slaveholders like Lefferts and Lott but none for its most famous abolitionist, Walt Whitman. From the earliest settlements to recent commemorations such as Malcolm X Boulevard, this book tells the tales of the poets, philosophers, baseball heroes, diplomats, warriors, and saints who have left their imprint on this polyethnic borough that was once almost disastrously renamed "New York East."
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The denitive L.A. experience may include a shopping spree or a celebrity sighting, but it will certainly involve a car. Without a complex network of subways and buses providing access to points of interest throughout the city, visitors to L.A. and Angelenos alike must spend much of their time navigating the city's vast but often-frustrating freeway system, away from the(...)
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Crusing L. A. : architectural styles in 5 days drives
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The denitive L.A. experience may include a shopping spree or a celebrity sighting, but it will certainly involve a car. Without a complex network of subways and buses providing access to points of interest throughout the city, visitors to L.A. and Angelenos alike must spend much of their time navigating the city's vast but often-frustrating freeway system, away from the ground and the most endearing aspects of the city. "Cruising L.A.", a driver's companion guidebook to Los Angeles, features an expertly guided seven-day driving route through L.A.'s most scenic neighborhoods, exploring their cultural and architectural features.
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This book is Copenhagen's first architectural guide. With approximately 300 entries, it covers buildings, gardens and parks. The introduction to the guide relates the history of the city from its period as "Køpmannæhafn" up until the present. The architecture of Copenhagen - and this includes both the nineteenth century estate, the public housing block from the 1920's,(...)
Copenhagen architecture guide
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This book is Copenhagen's first architectural guide. With approximately 300 entries, it covers buildings, gardens and parks. The introduction to the guide relates the history of the city from its period as "Køpmannæhafn" up until the present. The architecture of Copenhagen - and this includes both the nineteenth century estate, the public housing block from the 1920's, and the comtemporary office building - has its own tone, which can be differentiated from the tones of other cities.
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This guide focuses on the architects whose designs shaped the physical form of the city. Published in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the AIA chapter in Washington State.
Shaping Seattle architecture : a historic guide to the architects
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This guide focuses on the architects whose designs shaped the physical form of the city. Published in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the AIA chapter in Washington State.
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January 1995, Seattle
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Not For Tourists is the ultimate guide for the savy city-dweller. Our philosophy is simple: Whether you've lived in your neighborhood for 55 years or 55 minutes, NFT will help you navigate and explore the city like a local. Written and designed by in-the-know city slickers themselves, NFT is mobile-oriented, cartographically-inclined, and to-the-point.
Not for tourists guide to Los Angeles
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Not For Tourists is the ultimate guide for the savy city-dweller. Our philosophy is simple: Whether you've lived in your neighborhood for 55 years or 55 minutes, NFT will help you navigate and explore the city like a local. Written and designed by in-the-know city slickers themselves, NFT is mobile-oriented, cartographically-inclined, and to-the-point.
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