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''Unearthing the underworld'' is a history of the Earth as told through rocks – the secret-keepers of past environments, of changing climates and the pulse of life over billions of years. Even the most seemingly ordinary stone can tell us much about the history of this planet, opening vistas of ancient worlds of ice, raging floods, strange, unbreathable atmospheres and(...)
Unearthing the underworld: A natural history of rocks
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''Unearthing the underworld'' is a history of the Earth as told through rocks – the secret-keepers of past environments, of changing climates and the pulse of life over billions of years. Even the most seemingly ordinary stone can tell us much about the history of this planet, opening vistas of ancient worlds of ice, raging floods, strange, unbreathable atmospheres and prehistoric worlds teeming with life. Remarkably, many types of rock owe their existence to living organisms, from the remains of dead animals to rotting ancient forests, or even the activity of fungi, bacteria and viruses. Anything but dull and uninteresting, rocks are intriguing portals that illuminate the secret underworld upon which we live.
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Il s’agit avant tout d’un problème géopolitique : réagir au retour spontané du loup en France, et à sa dispersion dans une campagne que la déprise rurale rend presque à son passé de « Gaule chevelue ». Le retour du loup interroge notre capacité à coexister avec la biodiversité qui nous fonde – à inventer de nouvelles formes de diplomatie. Guidé par Charles Darwin, Konrad(...)
Les Diplomates: Cohabiter avec les loups sur une autre carte du vivant
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Il s’agit avant tout d’un problème géopolitique : réagir au retour spontané du loup en France, et à sa dispersion dans une campagne que la déprise rurale rend presque à son passé de « Gaule chevelue ». Le retour du loup interroge notre capacité à coexister avec la biodiversité qui nous fonde – à inventer de nouvelles formes de diplomatie. Guidé par Charles Darwin, Konrad Lorenz, Temple Grandin, Lucy King… et de nombreux·ses autres « diplomates », ce livre esquisse un monde où nous vivrons « en bonne intelligence avec ce qui, en nous et hors de nous, ne veut pas être domestiqué ».
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Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps (1824-1873), premier jardinier en chef du service des promenades et plantations de la ville de Paris, est l’auteur de l’aménagement paysager de la capitale au moment de sa transformation par le préfet Haussmann. Transformant notamment les bois de Boulogne et de Vincennes, le parc Monceau, réalisant le parc des Buttes-Chaumont, il inaugure(...)
L'art des jardins sous le Second Empire : Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps (1824-1873)
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Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps (1824-1873), premier jardinier en chef du service des promenades et plantations de la ville de Paris, est l’auteur de l’aménagement paysager de la capitale au moment de sa transformation par le préfet Haussmann. Transformant notamment les bois de Boulogne et de Vincennes, le parc Monceau, réalisant le parc des Buttes-Chaumont, il inaugure un nouveau type de jardin, caractérisé par les vallonnements, les formes sinueuses des allées et des pelouses, la richesse de la décoration végétale, qui exalte la modernité du Second Empire et de la bourgeoisie, nouvelle classe dominante. Les nouveaux jardins parisiens se font le reflet de cette société, de ses désirs, ses principes et ses valeurs; et révèlent en même temps ses faiblesses et ses contradictions. Image fidèle de la bourgeoisie parisienne, le nouveau jardin est diversement accueilli dans les pays où il est exporté: en province, à Lille, Marseille, Avignon, Hyères, ainsi qu’à l’étranger, à Genève, Milan, Turin, Vienne et Le Caire. Le jardin parisien du Second Empire caractérisera ainsi l’art des jardins du XIXè siècle, et marquera de son empreinte la plupart des réalisations paysagères du XXè siècle. Luisa Limido est née en Italie en 1964. Architecte, Docteur en géographie à l’Université de Paris I, elle a préparé une thèse sur les jardins publics parisiens sous le Second Empire. Elle travaille actuellement sur le rapport ville-nature et société dans la ville du XIXè et XXè siècles.
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"Ecology and design" addresses a shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for incorporating ecological principles in the teaching of landscape design and planning. The book explains why landscape architecture and design and planning faculty should include ecology standard part of their curricula, provides insights on how that can be done, and offers model(...)
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January 1900, Washington
Ecology and design : frameworks for learning
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"Ecology and design" addresses a shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for incorporating ecological principles in the teaching of landscape design and planning. The book explains why landscape architecture and design and planning faculty should include ecology standard part of their curricula, provides insights on how that can be done, and offers model from successful programs.
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January 1900, Washington
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The relationship between landscape and architecture became strained in the early Modern Movement when the two parted ways in an effort to idealize place making. The aim of this volume of essays is to create a platform where these two disciplines may be reunited in a critical dialogue. The book originates from a symposium of the title and lecture series organized by the(...)
Re-envisioning landscape / architecture
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The relationship between landscape and architecture became strained in the early Modern Movement when the two parted ways in an effort to idealize place making. The aim of this volume of essays is to create a platform where these two disciplines may be reunited in a critical dialogue. The book originates from a symposium of the title and lecture series organized by the School of Architecture at Arizona State University during 1998-1999. It includes over 20 essays by academics and professionals whose work addresses the need to reconsider these two disciplines as complementary pieces of the same puzzle.
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The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This second edition adds not only a new preface, but five new essays--from Edward Said, W.(...)
Landscape and power / second edition
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The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This second edition adds not only a new preface, but five new essays--from Edward Said, W. J. T. Mitchell, Jonathan Bordo, Michael Taussig, and Robert Pogue Harrison-extending the scope of the book in remarkable ways.
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Casey's discussion ranges widely from Northern Sung landscape painting to nineteenth-century American and British landscape painting and photography, from prehistoric petroglyphs and medieval portolan charts to seventeenth-century Dutch cartography and land survey maps of the American frontier. From these culturally and historically diverse forays a theory of(...)
Representing place : landscape painting & maps
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Casey's discussion ranges widely from Northern Sung landscape painting to nineteenth-century American and British landscape painting and photography, from prehistoric petroglyphs and medieval portolan charts to seventeenth-century Dutch cartography and land survey maps of the American frontier. From these culturally and historically diverse forays a theory of representation emerges. Casey proposes that the representation of place in visual works be judged in terms not of resemblance, but of reconnecting with an earth and world that are not the mere content of mind or language-a reconnection that calls for the embodiment and implacement of the human subject.
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"Geography of the gaze" offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, Renzo Dibbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the way natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed. He begins with(...)
Landscape Theory
April 2002, Chicago
Geography of the gaze : urban and rural vision in early modern Europe
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"Geography of the gaze" offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, Renzo Dibbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the way natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed. He begins with the idea of the "view" explaining its role in the invention of landscape painting and in the definition of landscape as a cultural space. Among other topics, Dubbini explores how the descriptive and pictorial techniques used in mariners' charts, view-oriented atlases, military cartography, and garden design were linked to the proliferation of highly realistic paintings of landscapes and city scenes; how the "picturesque" system for defining and composing landscapes affected not just art but also archaeology and engineering; and how the ever-changing modern cityspaces inspired new ways of seeing and representing the urban scene in Impressionist painting, photography, and stereoscopy. Transladed by Lydia G. Cochrane.
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April 2002, Chicago
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"Artscapes" attempts to show how the artificial landscape produced by artists in collaboration with architects and landscape architects can alter the nature of place, transforming it into a location capable of establishing a more intense dialogue with the user. The sensibility of these artists selects, shapes and colonises the landscape in the reformulation of an(...)
Artscapes : art as an approach to contemporary landscape
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"Artscapes" attempts to show how the artificial landscape produced by artists in collaboration with architects and landscape architects can alter the nature of place, transforming it into a location capable of establishing a more intense dialogue with the user. The sensibility of these artists selects, shapes and colonises the landscape in the reformulation of an ecological consciousness that shifts our attention of its constituent objects towards an awareness and understanding of emerging relationships.
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The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. Today the lawn is one of America's leading "crops," outstripping cotton in acres by a factor of two. "American green", Ted Steinberg's exposé of this phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of(...)
American green : the obsessive quest for the perfect lawn
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The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. Today the lawn is one of America's leading "crops," outstripping cotton in acres by a factor of two. "American green", Ted Steinberg's exposé of this phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of Levittown—just miles from where Steinberg grew up—to the present love affair with turf colorants, leaf blowers, and riding mowers. For half a century, Americans have been on a quest for the greenest, weed-free, ultra-trim turf imaginable. But perfection has its costs. Blending muckraking journalism and social history, Steinberg looks at both the lighter and the darker side of the all-American landscape, from mower accidents and pesticide poisonings to lawnmower racing and the man so addicted to perfection that he re-created Augusta's 12th hole in his backyard.
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