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This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.
The folklore of the freeway: race and revolt in the modernist city
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This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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183 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
American urban form : a representative history / Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore ; drawings by Andrew H. Whittemore.
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183 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
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Manhattan atmospheres : architecture, the interior environment, and urban crisis / David Gissen.
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viii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Manhattan atmospheres : architecture, the interior environment, and urban crisis / David Gissen.
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
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The landscape approach
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The essays in this book afford readers a look into some of Bernard Lassus's most important projects including the Butterfly Bridge at Istres, the highway rest area at Nîmes-Caissargues, the Park of Duisbur-Nord, the Garden of Returns for the Corderie Royale at Rochefort, and the Tuileries in Paris.
The landscape approach
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The essays in this book afford readers a look into some of Bernard Lassus's most important projects including the Butterfly Bridge at Istres, the highway rest area at Nîmes-Caissargues, the Park of Duisbur-Nord, the Garden of Returns for the Corderie Royale at Rochefort, and the Tuileries in Paris.
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January 1900, Philadelphia
Gardens
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viii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2010], ©2010
Places of public memory : the rhetoric of museums and memorials / edited by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott.
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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2010], ©2010
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The experimental Hong Kong-based architecture firm Map Office here presents a graphic novel starring a wide-ranging particle named Pixel, who brings us in, over and through contemporary China : to the ports, inside the factory walls, underneath the highway, through the newly urbanized farmland... quietly noting the rapid changes. Text in English and Chinese.
Unreal estates of China : Map Office - Gutierrez + Portefaix
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The experimental Hong Kong-based architecture firm Map Office here presents a graphic novel starring a wide-ranging particle named Pixel, who brings us in, over and through contemporary China : to the ports, inside the factory walls, underneath the highway, through the newly urbanized farmland... quietly noting the rapid changes. Text in English and Chinese.
Architecture Monographs
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In various roles in city and state government from 1930 to 1965, Robert Moses reshaped the fabric of the city. From Lincoln Center to the Triborough Bridge, the West Side Highway to the Cross Bronx Expressway, his public projects, reassessed in this book by notable urbanists, continue to exert a strong influence in the lives of New Yorkers.
Urban Theory
February 2007, New York, London
Robert Moses and the modern city : the transformation of New York
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In various roles in city and state government from 1930 to 1965, Robert Moses reshaped the fabric of the city. From Lincoln Center to the Triborough Bridge, the West Side Highway to the Cross Bronx Expressway, his public projects, reassessed in this book by notable urbanists, continue to exert a strong influence in the lives of New Yorkers.
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February 2007, New York, London
Urban Theory
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xi, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Concrete and clay : reworking nature in New York City / Matthew Gandy.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
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xxix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Chicago, Ill. : Center for American Places, 2012.
American tourism : constructing a national tradition / edited by J. Mark Souther and Nicholas Dagen Bloom.
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Chicago, Ill. : Center for American Places, 2012.
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Disque vinyle / LP (33 rpm) This record is a rough approximation of how the island of Montréal might sound if played on a vast turntable. It is a record of what might be heard as a needle traces across the island’s varied surfaces, cuts through its snow banks and jumps its highway barriers. It is a document of a landscape transduced into sound. montrealphonographe.ca
Douglas Moffatt : Montréal phonographe LP
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Disque vinyle / LP (33 rpm) This record is a rough approximation of how the island of Montréal might sound if played on a vast turntable. It is a record of what might be heard as a needle traces across the island’s varied surfaces, cuts through its snow banks and jumps its highway barriers. It is a document of a landscape transduced into sound. montrealphonographe.ca
Contemporary Art Monographs