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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins(...)
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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins(...)
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Lawn People: how grasses, weeds and chemicals make us who we are
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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins interviews homeowners about their lawns, and uses national surveys, analysis from aerial photographs, and economic data to determine what people really feel about-and how they treat-their lawns. Lawn People places the lawn in its ecological, economic, and social context. Robbins considers the attention we pay our turfgrass-the chemicals we use to grow lawns, the hazards of turf care to our urban ecology, and its potential impact on water quality and household health. He also shows how the ecology of cities creates certain kinds of citizens, deftly contrasting man's control of the lawn with the lawn's control of man. Lawn People provides an intriguing examination of nature's influence on landscape management and on the ecosystem.
Lawn People: how grasses, weeds and chemicals make us who we are
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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins interviews homeowners about their lawns, and uses national surveys, analysis from aerial photographs, and economic data to determine what people really feel about-and how they treat-their lawns. Lawn People places the lawn in its ecological, economic, and social context. Robbins considers the attention we pay our turfgrass-the chemicals we use to grow lawns, the hazards of turf care to our urban ecology, and its potential impact on water quality and household health. He also shows how the ecology of cities creates certain kinds of citizens, deftly contrasting man's control of the lawn with the lawn's control of man. Lawn People provides an intriguing examination of nature's influence on landscape management and on the ecosystem.
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June 2007, Philadelphie
June 2007, Philadelphie
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This third AD by the guest-editors of the highly successful Emergence and Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance. Whereas the dictionary definition of performance - to `carry out an action' or `to fulfill a task' - invokes a tired utilitarian debate, Hensel and Menges inject the(...)
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This third AD by the guest-editors of the highly successful Emergence and Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance. Whereas the dictionary definition of performance - to `carry out an action' or `to fulfill a task' - invokes a tired utilitarian debate, Hensel and Menges inject the(...)
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Architectural Design Versatility and Vicissitude
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This third AD by the guest-editors of the highly successful Emergence and Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance. Whereas the dictionary definition of performance - to `carry out an action' or `to fulfill a task' - invokes a tired utilitarian debate, Hensel and Menges inject the meaning of the word `performance' with an entirely new life. In this context, form is redefined not as the shape of a material object alone, but as the multitude of effects, a milieu of conditions, modulations and microclimates that emanate from an object's exchange with its specific environment; a dynamic relationship that is perceived and interacted with by a subject. A synergetic employment of performance and morpho-ecological techniques combine to create integral design solutions that will render an alternative model for sustainability. This issue presents historical precursors and precedents for this approach, as well as the current state of the art of morpho-ecological design. Key contributors include: Klaus Bollinger and Manfred Grohmann of Bollinger & Grohmann, Aleksandra Jaeschke, OCEAN, Professor Remo Pedreschi, Defne Sunguroglu, Peter Trummer and Michael Weinstock.
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This third AD by the guest-editors of the highly successful Emergence and Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance. Whereas the dictionary definition of performance - to `carry out an action' or `to fulfill a task' - invokes a tired utilitarian debate, Hensel and Menges inject the meaning of the word `performance' with an entirely new life. In this context, form is redefined not as the shape of a material object alone, but as the multitude of effects, a milieu of conditions, modulations and microclimates that emanate from an object's exchange with its specific environment; a dynamic relationship that is perceived and interacted with by a subject. A synergetic employment of performance and morpho-ecological techniques combine to create integral design solutions that will render an alternative model for sustainability. This issue presents historical precursors and precedents for this approach, as well as the current state of the art of morpho-ecological design. Key contributors include: Klaus Bollinger and Manfred Grohmann of Bollinger & Grohmann, Aleksandra Jaeschke, OCEAN, Professor Remo Pedreschi, Defne Sunguroglu, Peter Trummer and Michael Weinstock.
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March 2008, London
March 2008, London
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Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy(...)
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Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy(...)
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An ontolgy of trash: the disposable and its problematic nature
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Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy inquires into the meaning of disposable objects and explores the nature of our prodigious refuse. He takes trash as a real ontological problem resulting from our unsettled relation to nature. The metaphysical drive from immanence to transcendence leaves us in an alien world of objects drained of meaningful physical presence. Consequently, they become interpreted as beings that somehow essentially lack being, and exist in our technological world only to disappear. Kennedy explores this problematic nature and looks for possibilities of salutary change.
An ontolgy of trash: the disposable and its problematic nature
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Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy inquires into the meaning of disposable objects and explores the nature of our prodigious refuse. He takes trash as a real ontological problem resulting from our unsettled relation to nature. The metaphysical drive from immanence to transcendence leaves us in an alien world of objects drained of meaningful physical presence. Consequently, they become interpreted as beings that somehow essentially lack being, and exist in our technological world only to disappear. Kennedy explores this problematic nature and looks for possibilities of salutary change.
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February 2008, Albany
February 2008, Albany
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La construction et l'entretien d'une maison individuelle, rêves de beaucoup d'entre nous, représentent environ la moitié de toute l'énergie qu'un individu va consommer dans sa vie. Cet ouvrage détaille les méthodes de construction respectueuses de l'environnement et économes en «énergie grise», ainsi que les équipements permettant de capter et d'utiliser au maximum les(...)
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La construction et l'entretien d'une maison individuelle, rêves de beaucoup d'entre nous, représentent environ la moitié de toute l'énergie qu'un individu va consommer dans sa vie. Cet ouvrage détaille les méthodes de construction respectueuses de l'environnement et économes en «énergie grise», ainsi que les équipements permettant de capter et d'utiliser au maximum les(...)
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Construire écolo: pour une maison économe en énergie
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La construction et l'entretien d'une maison individuelle, rêves de beaucoup d'entre nous, représentent environ la moitié de toute l'énergie qu'un individu va consommer dans sa vie. Cet ouvrage détaille les méthodes de construction respectueuses de l'environnement et économes en «énergie grise», ainsi que les équipements permettant de capter et d'utiliser au maximum les énergies renouvelables pour son fonctionnement, voire de fabriquer de l'énergie. A la fois ouvrage de sensibilisation et véritable guide pour le lecteur qui souhaite aller plus loin, ce livre d'un abord très facile fourmille de schémas, tableaux comparatifs et références de sites spécialisés. Plusieurs exemples de réalisations concrètes sont détaillés, de la villa luxueuse à la modeste maison en kit. L'auteur, de par son expertise, a une vision réellement globale de l'habitat écologique, et place son discours dans le contexte européen.
Construire écolo: pour une maison économe en énergie
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La construction et l'entretien d'une maison individuelle, rêves de beaucoup d'entre nous, représentent environ la moitié de toute l'énergie qu'un individu va consommer dans sa vie. Cet ouvrage détaille les méthodes de construction respectueuses de l'environnement et économes en «énergie grise», ainsi que les équipements permettant de capter et d'utiliser au maximum les énergies renouvelables pour son fonctionnement, voire de fabriquer de l'énergie. A la fois ouvrage de sensibilisation et véritable guide pour le lecteur qui souhaite aller plus loin, ce livre d'un abord très facile fourmille de schémas, tableaux comparatifs et références de sites spécialisés. Plusieurs exemples de réalisations concrètes sont détaillés, de la villa luxueuse à la modeste maison en kit. L'auteur, de par son expertise, a une vision réellement globale de l'habitat écologique, et place son discours dans le contexte européen.
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February 2008, Paris
February 2008, Paris
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Listen in on any conversation about architecture these days and you will almost certainly hear the buzzword of early 21st century building—sustainability. But just how sustainable must a building be to earn that sought-after designation? How must architects reconsider the entire design process to achieve this important goal? Taking sustainability to the next level, the(...)
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Listen in on any conversation about architecture these days and you will almost certainly hear the buzzword of early 21st century building—sustainability. But just how sustainable must a building be to earn that sought-after designation? How must architects reconsider the entire design process to achieve this important goal? Taking sustainability to the next level, the(...)
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Integrated design in contemporary architecture
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Listen in on any conversation about architecture these days and you will almost certainly hear the buzzword of early 21st century building—sustainability. But just how sustainable must a building be to earn that sought-after designation? How must architects reconsider the entire design process to achieve this important goal? Taking sustainability to the next level, the emerging practice of integrated design provides the strategies to achieve high-performance, low energy, and cost-effectiveness, by a careful ground-up consideration of how the program, siting, design, materials, systems, and products of a building connect, interact, and affect one another. This approach eschews specialists working in isolation in favor of solutions that are greater than the sum of their parts.
Integrated design in contemporary architecture
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Listen in on any conversation about architecture these days and you will almost certainly hear the buzzword of early 21st century building—sustainability. But just how sustainable must a building be to earn that sought-after designation? How must architects reconsider the entire design process to achieve this important goal? Taking sustainability to the next level, the emerging practice of integrated design provides the strategies to achieve high-performance, low energy, and cost-effectiveness, by a careful ground-up consideration of how the program, siting, design, materials, systems, and products of a building connect, interact, and affect one another. This approach eschews specialists working in isolation in favor of solutions that are greater than the sum of their parts.
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August 2008, New York
August 2008, New York
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Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories- over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies and unexamined routines- dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.
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Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories- over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies and unexamined routines- dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.
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January 1900, Sausalito
January 1900, Sausalito
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Building the green economy success stories from the grass roots
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Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories- over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies and unexamined routines- dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.
Building the green economy success stories from the grass roots
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Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories- over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies and unexamined routines- dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.
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January 1900, Sausalito
January 1900, Sausalito
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Ce livre propose de faire découvrir plus de 50 constructions de cabanes réalisées par la société La Cabane perchée, qui respectent la forme de l'arbre, sans y planter un clou. Les aquarelles de Daniel Dufour et les photographies de Vincent Thfoin constituent les 300 documents inédits de cet ouvrage.
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Ce livre propose de faire découvrir plus de 50 constructions de cabanes réalisées par la société La Cabane perchée, qui respectent la forme de l'arbre, sans y planter un clou. Les aquarelles de Daniel Dufour et les photographies de Vincent Thfoin constituent les 300 documents inédits de cet ouvrage.
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May 2006, Paris
May 2006, Paris
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Vivons perchés : 50 créations originales de la cabane perchée
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Ce livre propose de faire découvrir plus de 50 constructions de cabanes réalisées par la société La Cabane perchée, qui respectent la forme de l'arbre, sans y planter un clou. Les aquarelles de Daniel Dufour et les photographies de Vincent Thfoin constituent les 300 documents inédits de cet ouvrage.
Vivons perchés : 50 créations originales de la cabane perchée
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Ce livre propose de faire découvrir plus de 50 constructions de cabanes réalisées par la société La Cabane perchée, qui respectent la forme de l'arbre, sans y planter un clou. Les aquarelles de Daniel Dufour et les photographies de Vincent Thfoin constituent les 300 documents inédits de cet ouvrage.
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May 2006, Paris
May 2006, Paris
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Simone Swan : adobe building
Simone Swan : adobe building
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Like an organism sitting and breathing on its site in the Chihuahuan desert, the Swan House is a building of organic beauty and hybrid cultural intelligence. Simone Swan has created an architectural and environmental project that re-examines and promotes traditional adobe building while introducing compatible forms, such as the Nubian vault and dome. Swan studied with(...)
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Like an organism sitting and breathing on its site in the Chihuahuan desert, the Swan House is a building of organic beauty and hybrid cultural intelligence. Simone Swan has created an architectural and environmental project that re-examines and promotes traditional adobe building while introducing compatible forms, such as the Nubian vault and dome. Swan studied with(...)
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Simone Swan : adobe building
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Like an organism sitting and breathing on its site in the Chihuahuan desert, the Swan House is a building of organic beauty and hybrid cultural intelligence. Simone Swan has created an architectural and environmental project that re-examines and promotes traditional adobe building while introducing compatible forms, such as the Nubian vault and dome. Swan studied with the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in his Cairo studio and after his death in 1989 adopted his mission of helping house the world’s poor. Simone Swan: Adobe Building is the first book to discuss and illustrate Swan’s architecture while also chronicling one of her annual workshops in Dollens’ first-hand account. Dollens suggests that by biologically analyzing historic adobe we may be able to hybridize its constituents as replacements for current toxic materials, creating new biomimetic, adobe-related building materials suitable for green architecture.
Simone Swan : adobe building
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Like an organism sitting and breathing on its site in the Chihuahuan desert, the Swan House is a building of organic beauty and hybrid cultural intelligence. Simone Swan has created an architectural and environmental project that re-examines and promotes traditional adobe building while introducing compatible forms, such as the Nubian vault and dome. Swan studied with the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in his Cairo studio and after his death in 1989 adopted his mission of helping house the world’s poor. Simone Swan: Adobe Building is the first book to discuss and illustrate Swan’s architecture while also chronicling one of her annual workshops in Dollens’ first-hand account. Dollens suggests that by biologically analyzing historic adobe we may be able to hybridize its constituents as replacements for current toxic materials, creating new biomimetic, adobe-related building materials suitable for green architecture.
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January 1900, Santa Fe
January 1900, Santa Fe
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De nombreux matériaux utilisés pour notre habitation sont source de perturbations plus ou moins importantes sur notre organisme. Notre habitat ne constitue pas une barrière protectrice, bien au contraire. Ce livre est conçu comme un guide de la maison écologique et vous aidera pour connaître les matériaux polluants ; savoir les remplacer par des produits naturels ;(...)
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De nombreux matériaux utilisés pour notre habitation sont source de perturbations plus ou moins importantes sur notre organisme. Notre habitat ne constitue pas une barrière protectrice, bien au contraire. Ce livre est conçu comme un guide de la maison écologique et vous aidera pour connaître les matériaux polluants ; savoir les remplacer par des produits naturels ;(...)
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Construire sain et naturel : le guide des matériaux écologiques
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De nombreux matériaux utilisés pour notre habitation sont source de perturbations plus ou moins importantes sur notre organisme. Notre habitat ne constitue pas une barrière protectrice, bien au contraire. Ce livre est conçu comme un guide de la maison écologique et vous aidera pour connaître les matériaux polluants ; savoir les remplacer par des produits naturels ; utiliser les énergies renouvelables ; découvrir les principes de la géobiologie et du feng-shui ; trouver les professionnels avec 228 adresses utiles.
Construire sain et naturel : le guide des matériaux écologiques
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De nombreux matériaux utilisés pour notre habitation sont source de perturbations plus ou moins importantes sur notre organisme. Notre habitat ne constitue pas une barrière protectrice, bien au contraire. Ce livre est conçu comme un guide de la maison écologique et vous aidera pour connaître les matériaux polluants ; savoir les remplacer par des produits naturels ; utiliser les énergies renouvelables ; découvrir les principes de la géobiologie et du feng-shui ; trouver les professionnels avec 228 adresses utiles.
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April 2006, Rennes
April 2006, Rennes
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Au sommaire : les différents systèmes, la conception, la réalisation, es lantes, l'entretien, différents exemples de réalisations avec plans.
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Au sommaire : les différents systèmes, la conception, la réalisation, es lantes, l'entretien, différents exemples de réalisations avec plans.
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Piscines écologiques de la conception à la réalisation
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Au sommaire : les différents systèmes, la conception, la réalisation, es lantes, l'entretien, différents exemples de réalisations avec plans.
Piscines écologiques de la conception à la réalisation
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Au sommaire : les différents systèmes, la conception, la réalisation, es lantes, l'entretien, différents exemples de réalisations avec plans.
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April 2006, Paris
April 2006, Paris
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