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xv, 591 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
The Oxford companion to British railway history from 1603 to the 1990s / edited by Jack Simmons and Gordon Biddle.
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xv, 591 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the front line where today's most powerful forces-climate and ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches-are playing out. Increasingly under a 'Cartesian' regime-gridded, mechanized, and optimized for maximal production-these(...)
Koolhaas. Countryside, A Report (US edition)
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The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the front line where today's most powerful forces-climate and ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches-are playing out. Increasingly under a 'Cartesian' regime-gridded, mechanized, and optimized for maximal production-these sites are changing beyond recognition. In his latest publication, Rem Koolhaas explores the rapid and often hidden transformations underway across the Earth's vast non-urban areas. This book gathers travelogue essays exploring territories marked by global forces and experimentation at the edge of our consciousness: a test site near Fukushima, where the robots that will maintain Japan's infrastructure and agriculture are tested; a greenhouse city in the Netherlands that may be the origin for the cosmology of today's countryside; the rapidly thawing permafrost of Central Siberia, a region wrestling with the possibility of relocation; refugees populating dying villages in the German countryside and intersecting with climate change activists; habituated mountain gorillas confronting humans on 'their' territory in Uganda; the American Midwest, where industrial-scale farming operations are coming to grips with regenerative agriculture; and Chinese villages transformed into all-in-one factory, e-commerce stores, and fulfillment centers.
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127 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 25 cm
London : Batsford, 1994.
Book of canals / Nigel Crowe.
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127 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 25 cm
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London : Batsford, 1994.
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ix, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St Martin's Press, ©1990.
The spectacle of nature : landscape and bourgeois culture in nineteenth century France / Nicholas Green.
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Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St Martin's Press, ©1990.
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120 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Harmondsworth ; Baltimore : Penguin, [1973], ©1973
A country camera, 1844-1914 : rural life as depicted in photographs from the early days of photography to the outbreak of the First World War / Gordon Winter.
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120 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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Harmondsworth ; Baltimore : Penguin, [1973], ©1973
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In this volume, photographer Roberto Schezen, together with Italian art historian Marcello Fagiolo, explores twelve villas and great gardens of the Lazio region around Rome, including Hadrian's Villa, Villa D'Este, Palazzo Farnese, Villa Lante, Villas Orsini, Fonte Papacqua, Castello Ruspoli, Palazzo Odescalchi, Villa Aldobrandini, Villa Grazioli, Giardino(...)
Roman gardens : villas of the countryside
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In this volume, photographer Roberto Schezen, together with Italian art historian Marcello Fagiolo, explores twelve villas and great gardens of the Lazio region around Rome, including Hadrian's Villa, Villa D'Este, Palazzo Farnese, Villa Lante, Villas Orsini, Fonte Papacqua, Castello Ruspoli, Palazzo Odescalchi, Villa Aldobrandini, Villa Grazioli, Giardino Caetani (Ninfa), and Giardino Portoghesi. "Roman Gardens: Villas of the Countryside" is the first in a two-volume set. "Roman Gardens: Villas of the City" will be published in 1999.
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September 1997, New York
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Dernier numéro disponible en librairie! Latest issue available at the bookstore!
ICON 135: countryside
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184 pages ; 24 cm
Cambridge : Polity, 2002.
Cities : reimagining the urban / Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift.
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Cambridge : Polity, 2002.
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xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
New York : Rizzoli ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2008.
Italian villas and their gardens / Edith Wharton ; illustrations by Maxfield Parrish.
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New York : Rizzoli ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2008.
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The story of this small architecture firm, which has built a collection of houses in the countryside north of Rome over the past ten years, becomes an opportunity to reflect on the role of authoriality in contemporary design.
Building the landscape: residential pavilions in the Roman countryside
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The story of this small architecture firm, which has built a collection of houses in the countryside north of Rome over the past ten years, becomes an opportunity to reflect on the role of authoriality in contemporary design.
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April 2018
Residential Architecture