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Urban parks such as New York City's Central park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the(...)
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November 2005, Austin
Rethinking urban parks : public space and cultural diversity
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Urban parks such as New York City's Central park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people. This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban parks. Using case studies of New York City's Prospect park, Orchard beach in Pelham Bay park, and Jacob Riis park in the Gateway national recreation area, as well as New York's Ellis Island bridge proposal and Philadelphia's Independence national historical park, the authors identify specific ways to promote, maintain, and manage cultural diversity in urban parks. They also uncover the factors that can limit park use, including historical interpretive materials that ignore the contributions of different ethnic groups, high entrance or access fees, park usage rules that restrict ethnic activities, and park "restorations" that focus only on historical or aesthetic values. With the wealth of data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public.
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The essays in this volume were written on the occasion of the symposium on 'Landscape Architecture in Mutation' held at the ETH Zurich in October 2004. The contributors consider the changed aesthetic, functional and natural characteristics of urban landscapes, and present suitable approaches and procedures for their design and development. This book provides the(...)
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January 2005,
Landscape architecture in mutation - essays on urban landscape
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The essays in this volume were written on the occasion of the symposium on 'Landscape Architecture in Mutation' held at the ETH Zurich in October 2004. The contributors consider the changed aesthetic, functional and natural characteristics of urban landscapes, and present suitable approaches and procedures for their design and development. This book provides the theoretical background for the "mutation" of landscape architecture, illustrating theory with exemplary planning projects - ranging from individual to geographical scales - in Switzerland, Europe and the USA. The contributors represent various disciplines : landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, engineering, art history and cultural studies. In English with summaries in German.
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Des hommes et des...chiens
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Les chiens nous côtoient depuis des milliers d'années. Dans ce récit fascinant, fondé sur une documentation à jour, Susan McHugh décortique le débat actuel sur les liens entre chiens et loups. Elle étudie aussi la place de l'espèce canine dans la mythologie et la religion, et dans des cultes anciens aussi divers que ceux de l'Alaska, de la Grèce, du Pérou et de la Perse.(...)
Des hommes et des...chiens
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Les chiens nous côtoient depuis des milliers d'années. Dans ce récit fascinant, fondé sur une documentation à jour, Susan McHugh décortique le débat actuel sur les liens entre chiens et loups. Elle étudie aussi la place de l'espèce canine dans la mythologie et la religion, et dans des cultes anciens aussi divers que ceux de l'Alaska, de la Grèce, du Pérou et de la Perse. Elle compare l'histoire des chiens en Extrême-Orient, en Europe, en Afrique et aux Amériques, discute du phénomène assez récent d'élevage et de création d'espèces et du statut de ces animaux dans la science et la fiction. Elle expose leurs contributions multiples et variées à nos vies, comme compagnons ou aides d'aveugles, mais aussi à la littérature, au cinéma où à la recherche scientifique. «Chiens» nous éclaire sur la manière dont hommes et chiens se sont mutuellement façonnés au cours des millénaires.
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October 2005, Paris
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This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. This new international study raises awareness of the landscape and encourages new ways of thinking about quality in design.
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March 2005, London, New York
The cultured landscape : designing the environment in the 21st century
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This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. This new international study raises awareness of the landscape and encourages new ways of thinking about quality in design.
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Considérant la nature comme une chaîne nécessaire à comprendre et à apprivoiser, Gilles Clément décrit les phénomènes météorologiques comme la pluie ou le vent, non comme des ennemis mais comme des éléments naturels qu'il faut accueillir. Des phénomènes stupéfiants sont présentés. V. Schaefer, en 1946, montre, notamment, qu'ensemencer le nuage à l'aide de neige carbonique(...)
Nuages
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Considérant la nature comme une chaîne nécessaire à comprendre et à apprivoiser, Gilles Clément décrit les phénomènes météorologiques comme la pluie ou le vent, non comme des ennemis mais comme des éléments naturels qu'il faut accueillir. Des phénomènes stupéfiants sont présentés. V. Schaefer, en 1946, montre, notamment, qu'ensemencer le nuage à l'aide de neige carbonique produit aussitôt de la pluie.
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A travers les péripéties d'un jardinier explorateur, Gilles Clément montre l'interaction entre la nature, les animaux et les hommes et constate que cet équilibre est menacé. Néanmoins la nature est pour lui un refuge et elle est comprise non comme un paradis perdu, mais comme un espace habitable et à partager.
Le dindon et le dodo : petite conférence sur le jardin planétaire
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A travers les péripéties d'un jardinier explorateur, Gilles Clément montre l'interaction entre la nature, les animaux et les hommes et constate que cet équilibre est menacé. Néanmoins la nature est pour lui un refuge et elle est comprise non comme un paradis perdu, mais comme un espace habitable et à partager.
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Studies of the landscape have ranged from discussions of cultural geography at one end and botany at the other, with quite a mix in between. In this book Marc Treib focuses on the subject of the designed landscape, which he takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas, as well as a number of other landscape forms. His writings begin with an investigation of order and its(...)
Settings and stray paths : writing on landscapes and gardens
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Studies of the landscape have ranged from discussions of cultural geography at one end and botany at the other, with quite a mix in between. In this book Marc Treib focuses on the subject of the designed landscape, which he takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas, as well as a number of other landscape forms. His writings begin with an investigation of order and its perception: How have humans organized landscapes so that the experience of them could be directed, or even "read," decoded, and understood? His writings include analyses of both historical and contemporary works, with a geographic distribution that treats Asia as well as Europe and North America. Certain essays address the question of content in landscape design, others its meaning; others examine the lives and contributions of major figures in the field, for example, cultural landscape historian John Brinckerhoff Jackson and landscape architect Garrett Eckbo; subjects such as influence also receive the author's attention. As a whole, the essays cover a remarkable range, examining issues that few other writers have attempted to explain in detail. Treib brings a designer's eye to his work, paring observation and formal analysis with a more theorical formulation of the ideas from which or by which landscape architecture is produced. Photographs by the author complement his writings, adding a visual dimension to the provocative ideas outlined in the essays. While all of these essays have appeared in print over a period of some twenty-five years, many have been published in specialist journals or in a foreign language. Settings and Stray paths assembles a vital collection of Marc Treib's writings on landscape architecture, for the first time in a single source book.
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the(...)
Reading Zen in the rocks : the Japanese dry landscape garden
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian François Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history of these gardens. Berthier's guided tour of the famous garden of Ryoanji (Temple) in Kyoto leads him into an exposition of the genre, focusing on its Chinese antecedents and affiliations with Taoist ideas and Chinese landscape painting. He traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form. "Reading Zen in the Rocks" is fully illustrated with photographs of all the major gardens discussed, making it a handsome addition to the library of anyone interested in gardening, Eastern philosophy, and the combination of the two that the karesansui so superbly represents.
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The dominion of the dead
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and(...)
The dominion of the dead
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn.
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The first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a guide to Britain's strange and ancient places, to standing stones and pagan rituals, and to the process of re-enchantment via weird walking. In this book is a radical idea. By walking the ancient landscape of Britain and following the wheel of the year, we can reconnect to our shared(...)
Weird Walk : Wanderings and wonderings through the British ritual year
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The first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a guide to Britain's strange and ancient places, to standing stones and pagan rituals, and to the process of re-enchantment via weird walking. In this book is a radical idea. By walking the ancient landscape of Britain and following the wheel of the year, we can reconnect to our shared folklore, to the seasons and to nature. Let this hauntological gazetteer guide you through our enchanted places and strange seasonal rituals.
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