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In Weeds, writer Richard Mabey embarks on a journey with the historical breadth of Michael Pollan. Weaving together the insights of botanists, gardeners, artists, and writers with his own travels and lifelong fascination, Mabey shows how these plants can destroy ecosystems but also can restore war zones and derelict cities.
Weeds: In defense of nature's most unloved plants
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In Weeds, writer Richard Mabey embarks on a journey with the historical breadth of Michael Pollan. Weaving together the insights of botanists, gardeners, artists, and writers with his own travels and lifelong fascination, Mabey shows how these plants can destroy ecosystems but also can restore war zones and derelict cities.
Landscape Theory
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Today the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, population explosion, genetic manipulation, digital networks, plastic islands floating in the oceans. This book explores our changing notion of nature. How nature has become one of the most successful products of our time, much of what we perceive as nature is merely a simulation(...)
Next nature: nature changes along with us
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Today the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, population explosion, genetic manipulation, digital networks, plastic islands floating in the oceans. This book explores our changing notion of nature. How nature has become one of the most successful products of our time, much of what we perceive as nature is merely a simulation although a romanticized idea of a balanced, harmonic, inherently good and threatened entity. How evolution continues nonetheless. How technology - traditionally created to protect us from the forces of nature - gives rise to a next nature, that is just as wild, cruel, unpredictable and threatening as ever. How we are playing with fire again and again. How we should be careful in doing so, yet how this is also what makes us human.
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Curieuse idée : un jardin construit selon des formules mathématiques, où la métaphysique est dissimulée par la perspective, l'épistémologie circonscrite par la géométrie, et la rhétorique accordée à la mobilité de nos corps. Le jardin à la française est une étude sur la perspective et une incitation au mouvement. Géométrisation d'une pensée, figuration du désir, il(...)
Miroirs de l'infini : le jardin à la française et la métaphysique au XVIIe siècle
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Curieuse idée : un jardin construit selon des formules mathématiques, où la métaphysique est dissimulée par la perspective, l'épistémologie circonscrite par la géométrie, et la rhétorique accordée à la mobilité de nos corps. Le jardin à la française est une étude sur la perspective et une incitation au mouvement. Géométrisation d'une pensée, figuration du désir, il correspond, sous Louis XIV, à une théâtralisation du pouvoir absolu. Ce livre se veut, à sa manière, un "guide philosophique" des jardins à la française : Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, Chantilly. Il est une invite à parcourir les jardins autrement, dans une optique philosophique qui rendrait encore plus vif le plaisir, sensuel, de leur découverte.
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In Weeds, Zachary J. S. Falck presents a comprehensive history of “happenstance plants” in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, he examines the proliferation, perception, and treatment of weeds in metropolitan centers from Boston to Los Angeles.
Weeds: An environmental history of metropolitan America
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In Weeds, Zachary J. S. Falck presents a comprehensive history of “happenstance plants” in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, he examines the proliferation, perception, and treatment of weeds in metropolitan centers from Boston to Los Angeles.
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Our landscapes have never failed to entice and capture the imagination of writers, painters and philosophers – and in turn their work has influenced our landscapes for centuries. This carefully selected collection of readings and commentary expertly guides you through the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental foundations of our thinking about landscape, and(...)
Rethinking landscape : a critical reader
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Our landscapes have never failed to entice and capture the imagination of writers, painters and philosophers – and in turn their work has influenced our landscapes for centuries. This carefully selected collection of readings and commentary expertly guides you through the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental foundations of our thinking about landscape, and explores the key writings which shaped the field in its emergence and maturity. Provoking thought and discussion, this book does not provide answers, and will not conclude with an infallible theory of landscape. But with a range of readings from Vitruvius to Jellicoe, from Burke to Berlin to Berleant, from the Picturesque to Phenomenology, every reader will find something here to set them thinking.
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The road movie 'Easy Rider', Yellowstone National Park, Route 66, Stephen Shore’s 'Uncommon Places' or David Lynch’s 'Twin Peaks'; these random names and places immediately fire the imagination. 'Objects in Mirror' investigates just how deep the American landscape has penetrated our daily lives: in films, advertisement, books and music.
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Objects in mirror: The imagination of the American landscape
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The road movie 'Easy Rider', Yellowstone National Park, Route 66, Stephen Shore’s 'Uncommon Places' or David Lynch’s 'Twin Peaks'; these random names and places immediately fire the imagination. 'Objects in Mirror' investigates just how deep the American landscape has penetrated our daily lives: in films, advertisement, books and music.
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Reprise de l'ouvrage paru en 1965 dans lequel l'ornithologue J. Dorst dénonce les effets de l'activité de l'homme sur la biodiversité, accompagnée d'un essai dans lequel le professeur d'écologie R. Barbault souligne l'actualité des positions de J. Dorst et fait un bilan des actions de protection de la biodiversité menées depuis les années 1970.
Avant que nature meure: pour que nature vive
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Reprise de l'ouvrage paru en 1965 dans lequel l'ornithologue J. Dorst dénonce les effets de l'activité de l'homme sur la biodiversité, accompagnée d'un essai dans lequel le professeur d'écologie R. Barbault souligne l'actualité des positions de J. Dorst et fait un bilan des actions de protection de la biodiversité menées depuis les années 1970.
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Charles Correa’s A Place in the Shade explores architectural and urban issues in India, from the house as a machine for dealing with the country’s often hostile climate to the metaphysical role of architecture as a “model of the cosmos.” This provocative and eminently readable collection of essays argues that the country’s habitat must respond to the overriding parameters(...)
A place in the shade : the new landscape & other essays
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Charles Correa’s A Place in the Shade explores architectural and urban issues in India, from the house as a machine for dealing with the country’s often hostile climate to the metaphysical role of architecture as a “model of the cosmos.” This provocative and eminently readable collection of essays argues that the country’s habitat must respond to the overriding parameters of climate, culture and financial resources, and that our physical environment should accommodate both diversity and synergy. Over the last few decades, urban real estate has become the primary source of financing for political parties and the politicians who run them, and as Correa acknowledges, “you cannot look at cities without wandering into architecture on the one hand and politics on the other.” This book identifies the defining issues of the urbanization trends that are so rapidly transforming India.
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The first volume in a new series from Jovis on landscape architecture today, Landscape Vision Motion asks the question: what objectives can be achieved in the theoretical exchange between visual studies, digital media, film, space and motion in the field of landscape architecture? Professionals from various fields contribute.
Landscape vision motion (landscript no.1)
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The first volume in a new series from Jovis on landscape architecture today, Landscape Vision Motion asks the question: what objectives can be achieved in the theoretical exchange between visual studies, digital media, film, space and motion in the field of landscape architecture? Professionals from various fields contribute.
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Filmic Mapping, the second volume in Jovis' new LandScript series, examines forms of land measurement, primarily in documentary and essay films of the past ten years. Contributors from a variety of disciplines weigh in on the state of contemporary landscape architecture and its visual representation.
Filmic mapping: documentary film and the visual culture of landscape architecture (landscript, no. 2)
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Filmic Mapping, the second volume in Jovis' new LandScript series, examines forms of land measurement, primarily in documentary and essay films of the past ten years. Contributors from a variety of disciplines weigh in on the state of contemporary landscape architecture and its visual representation.
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