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This multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives - aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social - in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous - a radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert. Although green is often celebrated in cities as a(...)
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Paradoxes of green: landscapes of a city state
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This multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives - aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social - in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous - a radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert. Although green is often celebrated in cities as a counter to gray urban environments, green has not always been good for cities. Similarly, manifestation of the color green in arid urban environments is often in direct conflict with the practice of green from an environmental point of view. This paradox is at the heart of the book. In arid environments such as Bahrain, the contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable.
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Centered on the Al Ahsa region, one of the world's oldest and largest oases, "Maghras: A farm for experimentation" (accompanying the inaugural Saudi Pavilion at the 24th Triennale di Milano, marking Saudi Arabia's first participation in this global architecture and design platform) reimagines the farm as a site of collective inquiry, where environmental change, cultural(...)
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Maghras: A farm for experimentation
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Centered on the Al Ahsa region, one of the world's oldest and largest oases, "Maghras: A farm for experimentation" (accompanying the inaugural Saudi Pavilion at the 24th Triennale di Milano, marking Saudi Arabia's first participation in this global architecture and design platform) reimagines the farm as a site of collective inquiry, where environmental change, cultural memory, and community practices converge. The publication documents research, fieldwork, and newly commissioned projects by architects, artists, and practitioners who engaged with farmers, craftspeople, and residents of Al Ahsa. Through essays, images, oral histories, and archival material, it reflects on the shifting relationship between land, water, and community in a landscape transformed by modernization and urban expansion.
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The book is organized around four major themes: urban theory; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the image of the city in film, literature and the media. The final section on virtual cities connects the study of cities with the current cultural landscape.
Imagining cities : scripts, signs, memory
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The book is organized around four major themes: urban theory; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the image of the city in film, literature and the media. The final section on virtual cities connects the study of cities with the current cultural landscape.
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ix, 1246 pages, xxxiv pages of maps, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
New York : Vintage Books, 1975., ©1974
The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York / by Robert A. Caro.
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New York : Vintage Books, 1975., ©1974
Nightscapes
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This book shows how night redefines the framework of thought and action in the realm of the imaginary, of territorial planning and of the practice of landscape, the aim being to arrive at a contemporary urbanism based on perceptual experience. The book is structured in three parts: the first covers the originality and value of the experience of the nocturnal landscape(...)
Nightscapes
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This book shows how night redefines the framework of thought and action in the realm of the imaginary, of territorial planning and of the practice of landscape, the aim being to arrive at a contemporary urbanism based on perceptual experience. The book is structured in three parts: the first covers the originality and value of the experience of the nocturnal landscape for thought and creativity, the second defines infrastructure as the nocturnal landscape’s real scale and strategy, while the third illustrates examples of nocturnal contemporary architecture and landscape.
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561 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©1995.
Uncommon ground : toward reinventing nature / William Cronon, editor.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©1995.
Intangible heritage: Expeditions, observations and lectures by Roberto Burle Marx and collaborators
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''Intangible heritage'' presents both Marx’s work and teachings, compiling nine of his most seminal lectures written between 1962 and 1983. Illustrated with images of his mosaics and detailed maps, the volume groups Marx’s lectures into three thematic sections: in the first, he explores how botanical expeditions, such as his trip to the Amazonas in 1983, informed his(...)
Intangible heritage: Expeditions, observations and lectures by Roberto Burle Marx and collaborators
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''Intangible heritage'' presents both Marx’s work and teachings, compiling nine of his most seminal lectures written between 1962 and 1983. Illustrated with images of his mosaics and detailed maps, the volume groups Marx’s lectures into three thematic sections: in the first, he explores how botanical expeditions, such as his trip to the Amazonas in 1983, informed his thinking about urban landscapes; in the second, Marx traces facets of landscape architecture to their ancestral origins and discusses the role of subjectivity in the profession; in the third, he delves into society's responsibility to protect the environment. The publication also features texts from Marx’s collaborators and admirers, including an essay by José Tabacow, partner of Marx in his last projects, and conversations with art critic Jacques Leenhardt.
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Street Design is the ideal handbook for urban designers, civic leaders, architects, city planners, engineers, and landscape architects, and essential reading for any person who wants to make their community walkable and create memorable streets that are not mere routes to someplace else, but the great places to which other routes lead.
Street design: the secret to great cities and towns
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Street Design is the ideal handbook for urban designers, civic leaders, architects, city planners, engineers, and landscape architects, and essential reading for any person who wants to make their community walkable and create memorable streets that are not mere routes to someplace else, but the great places to which other routes lead.
Urban Theory
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"Repairing the American metropolis" is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's "Common place: toward neighborhood and regional design", first published in 1997. This book presents new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and new urbanism. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built(...)
Repairing the American metropolis : common place revisited
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"Repairing the American metropolis" is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's "Common place: toward neighborhood and regional design", first published in 1997. This book presents new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and new urbanism. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.
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xiv, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
Buildings of Delaware / W. Barksdale Maynard.
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.