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xvii, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010.
Materials, technologies and practice in historic heritage structures / edited by Maria Bostenaru Dan, Richard Přikryl and Ákos Török.
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xvii, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010.
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337 pages ; 22 cm
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
The last utopia : human rights in history / Samuel Moyn.
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337 pages ; 22 cm
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
journals and magazines
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Curated by Samir Bantal, JaapJan Berg, Kees van der Hoeven and Anne Luijten, this edition of the Architecture in the Netherlands yearbook features 30 of the most remarkable architectural projects realized on Dutch soil in 2008. Taken together, these projects present an overview of current trends, design strategies, architectural typologies and topical themes.
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September 2009
Architecture in the Netherlands 2008/09
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Curated by Samir Bantal, JaapJan Berg, Kees van der Hoeven and Anne Luijten, this edition of the Architecture in the Netherlands yearbook features 30 of the most remarkable architectural projects realized on Dutch soil in 2008. Taken together, these projects present an overview of current trends, design strategies, architectural typologies and topical themes.
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September 2009
Magazines
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Text and illustrations explain how to create a dream garden above ground from laying flooring and building planters, through soil and planting techniques, to choosing color, furniture, water features, and lighting. Full-color photographs of some of the world's most aerial gardens encourage readers of various tastes and climates. 250 color photos. 50 color artworks. 50 b drawings.
Roof gardens : balconies & terraces
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Text and illustrations explain how to create a dream garden above ground from laying flooring and building planters, through soil and planting techniques, to choosing color, furniture, water features, and lighting. Full-color photographs of some of the world's most aerial gardens encourage readers of various tastes and climates. 250 color photos. 50 color artworks. 50 b drawings.
Gardens
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What other post-industrial landscape affords the possibility of being so completely overhauled, from its very soil mix to the edifices erected upon it? In 2009, the IBA conference "Opportunity: Post-Mining Landscapes" addressed these and related themes. Examining former mining sites in Europe, the U.S., Chile, South Africa and China, the proceedings of this conference(...)
Post-mining landscape: Conference documentation
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What other post-industrial landscape affords the possibility of being so completely overhauled, from its very soil mix to the edifices erected upon it? In 2009, the IBA conference "Opportunity: Post-Mining Landscapes" addressed these and related themes. Examining former mining sites in Europe, the U.S., Chile, South Africa and China, the proceedings of this conference demonstrate the fertile opportunities of these landscapes.
Landscape Theory
Past objects
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In the space between archaeology and history stand men like Scott Jordan, a New Yorker who has been digging around in the city's soil for several decades. What began as a childhood hobby searching for treasure evolved into a lifestyle that has resulted in Jordan haunting building sites throughout the five boroughs, attempting to recover history before it is paved over forever.
Past objects
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In the space between archaeology and history stand men like Scott Jordan, a New Yorker who has been digging around in the city's soil for several decades. What began as a childhood hobby searching for treasure evolved into a lifestyle that has resulted in Jordan haunting building sites throughout the five boroughs, attempting to recover history before it is paved over forever.
Design Theory
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" Dutch architects 7 " presents the most recent projects of 120 architects, interior architects, urban planners, and landscape architects and provides excellent insight into the signature style of the Dutch and the unique contribution they make to contemporary architecture. The book carries a comprehensive address index that provides contact details for all of the(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Amsterdam
Nederlandse architecten 7 / Dutch architects 7 : architects, interior architects, urban planners, landscape architects
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" Dutch architects 7 " presents the most recent projects of 120 architects, interior architects, urban planners, and landscape architects and provides excellent insight into the signature style of the Dutch and the unique contribution they make to contemporary architecture. The book carries a comprehensive address index that provides contact details for all of the companies featured – and that means just about every architectural office on Dutch soil.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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'Heaven's Breath', the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biology, physics, sociology, physiology, psychology, history, and philosophy. Watson shows how winds shape the world and maintains its life world, functioning as the circulatory and nervous systems of the planet, sharing our energy and(...)
Heaven's breath: a natural history of the wind
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'Heaven's Breath', the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biology, physics, sociology, physiology, psychology, history, and philosophy. Watson shows how winds shape the world and maintains its life world, functioning as the circulatory and nervous systems of the planet, sharing our energy and information, distributing warmth, bringing rain, enriching or stripping away soil, air-conditioning the globe.
Landscape Theory
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Within this easy to understand book, you’ll learn how to; root cuttings and leaves in soil and water, germinate pips, pits and seeds along with other propagation techniques. From decorative house plants, to herbs and vegetables, this book will multiply your botanical abundance. Propagation projects include: popular herbs and edibles including rosemary, mint, thyme and(...)
Seeds and cuttings: A guide to germinating, cutting and multiplying 60 plants
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Within this easy to understand book, you’ll learn how to; root cuttings and leaves in soil and water, germinate pips, pits and seeds along with other propagation techniques. From decorative house plants, to herbs and vegetables, this book will multiply your botanical abundance. Propagation projects include: popular herbs and edibles including rosemary, mint, thyme and pineapple, fruit trees such as orange, olive and apple, popular decorative and indoor plants like monstera, pilea, marantha, and hoya.
Gardens
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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men(...)
Dirty old London: the victorian fight against filth
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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them.
History until 1900, Great Britain