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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the capital of the European Union, has experienced a remarkable ascent to an international financial centre during the past years. Its growth in importance and affluence is also increasingly reflected in high-quality architecture. It is time to pay tribute to the architecture of Luxembourg in a beautiful, bibliophile volume – also in order(...)
LX architecture, in the heart of Europe, contemporary architecture in Luxembourg
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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the capital of the European Union, has experienced a remarkable ascent to an international financial centre during the past years. Its growth in importance and affluence is also increasingly reflected in high-quality architecture. It is time to pay tribute to the architecture of Luxembourg in a beautiful, bibliophile volume – also in order to obtain for it the international attention that it deserves.
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In 2011, Malagasy photographer Emmanuelle Andrianjafy arrived in the port city of Dakar, situated on the westernmost African coast, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. 'Nothing’s in Vain' is Adrianjafy’s response to the experience of uprooting to the Senegalese capital, a city as vibrant as it is disorientating. The sequence of images careens between street scenes, portraits,(...)
Emmanuelle Andrianjafy: Nothing's in vain
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In 2011, Malagasy photographer Emmanuelle Andrianjafy arrived in the port city of Dakar, situated on the westernmost African coast, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. 'Nothing’s in Vain' is Adrianjafy’s response to the experience of uprooting to the Senegalese capital, a city as vibrant as it is disorientating. The sequence of images careens between street scenes, portraits, landscapes, and close-up details, recreating her fluctuating experience of the multiple faces of the city.
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vii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
New York : Walker & Co., 2008.
The last days of old Beijing : life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed / Michael Meyer.
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In Vinegia : Per Michel Tramezino, MDXLVII [1547]
Procopio Cesariense De gli edifici di Giustiniano imperatore / di greco in Volgare tradotti per Benedetto Egio da Spoleti.
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In Vinegia : Per Michel Tramezino, MDXLVII [1547]
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This book traces the growth of New York from its initial settlement on the tip of Manhattan through the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War to its rise as the nation’s premier commercial capital and industrial center and as a magnet for immigrant hopes and dreams in the 19th century to its standing as a beacon of modern culture in the 20th century and as a(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2021
New York: An illustrated history, revised and expanded
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This book traces the growth of New York from its initial settlement on the tip of Manhattan through the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War to its rise as the nation’s premier commercial capital and industrial center and as a magnet for immigrant hopes and dreams in the 19th century to its standing as a beacon of modern culture in the 20th century and as a worldwide symbol of resilience in the 21st century.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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'Mirroring Effects' analyses political and economic practices concerning environment-making in the contemporary world. Written as real-life tales, the presented case studies explore the relationship between urbanisation processes and capitalism. They chart the ongoing restructuration of built and lived spaces in diverse regions of the Global North and Global South,(...)
Mirroring effects, tales of territory
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'Mirroring Effects' analyses political and economic practices concerning environment-making in the contemporary world. Written as real-life tales, the presented case studies explore the relationship between urbanisation processes and capitalism. They chart the ongoing restructuration of built and lived spaces in diverse regions of the Global North and Global South, tracing the course of capital-led development in settings such as Addis Ababa, Mumbai, Cairo, São Paulo, Berlin, Paris, and Shanghai.
Urban Theory
Mute vol 2 no 7
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We are living through an intensification of citizens', and non-citizens', visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and points-based immigration systems destroy the legal and informational grey zones in which the poor shelter and organise. As black economies and shadow sectors are exposed to the light of networked information in the interests of(...)
Mute vol 2 no 7
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We are living through an intensification of citizens', and non-citizens', visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and points-based immigration systems destroy the legal and informational grey zones in which the poor shelter and organise. As black economies and shadow sectors are exposed to the light of networked information in the interests of population management, border enforcement, welfare clamps-downs and, above all, profit, what are the risks and advantages of visibility?
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The First Photographs of Amsterdam presents a broad selection of images of the Dutch capital taken during the early years of photography. Drawn from the Amsterdam City Archives and other collections in the Netherlands and abroad, the finest surviving pictures of the city from that period are brought together. The book shows a wide range of early photographic techniques(...)
First photoggraphs of Amsterdam 1845-1875
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The First Photographs of Amsterdam presents a broad selection of images of the Dutch capital taken during the early years of photography. Drawn from the Amsterdam City Archives and other collections in the Netherlands and abroad, the finest surviving pictures of the city from that period are brought together. The book shows a wide range of early photographic techniques and genres, such as personal, souvenir and travel albums, cabinet cards, stereographs and news pictures.
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In three decades of visits to China, photographer Lois Conner has witnessed firsthand the monumental physical transformation of the country. Nowhere is this change more dramatic than in the capital city of Beijing, the subject of Conner's new book Beijing: Contemporary and Imperial. Conner's black-and-white panoramas reveal an ancient city in thrall to change, where the(...)
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Beijing: contemporary and imperial
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In three decades of visits to China, photographer Lois Conner has witnessed firsthand the monumental physical transformation of the country. Nowhere is this change more dramatic than in the capital city of Beijing, the subject of Conner's new book Beijing: Contemporary and Imperial. Conner's black-and-white panoramas reveal an ancient city in thrall to change, where the lingering splendor of a dynastic past is cast into shadow by rising concrete and steel.