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160 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Berlin : Jovis Verlag, [2026], ©2026
The ocean as ground / Matteo Vianello ; preface Taneha K. Bacchin ; essays by Jeffrey S. Nesbit, Nikos Katsikis ; afterword Beatrice Moretti.
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Berlin : Jovis Verlag, [2026], ©2026
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"Infrastructure" is a unique guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they're there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected places. It covers an industrial landscape comprised of agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing, and waste. The objects that fill our(...)
Infrastructure : a field guide to the industrial landscape
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"Infrastructure" is a unique guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they're there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected places. It covers an industrial landscape comprised of agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing, and waste. The objects that fill our everyday environment are streetlights, railroad tracks, antenna towers, highway overpasses, power lines, satellite dishes, and thousands of other manufactured items, many of them so familiar we hardly notice them. Larger and more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of the landscape : coal mines, nuclear power plants, grain elevators, oil refineries, and steel mills, to name a few. "Infrastructure" is a compelling and clear guide for those who want to explore and understand this mysterious world we've made for ourselves.
Engineering Structures
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238 pages ; 32 cm
Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2008.
West 8, mosaics / editing and translation, Fanny Smelik [and others].
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Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2008.
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Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways(...)
Roads to power: Britain invents the infrastructure state
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Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life.
Architectural Theory
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xx, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Fragments of the city : making and remaking urban worlds / Colin McFarlane.
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xx, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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1 online resource.
[Place of publication not identified] : FHNW HGK, 2023.
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[Place of publication not identified] : FHNW HGK, 2023.
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xxiii : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Lieden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Early Buddhist architecture in context : the great stūpa at Amarāvatī (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE) / by Akira Shimada.
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xxiii : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Lieden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
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xxiv, 500 p. : ill., plans ; 31 x 24 cm.
New York : J. Wiley, 1893.
Buildings and structures of American railroads : a reference book for railroad managers, superintendents, master mechanics, engineers, architects, and students / by Walter G. Berg.
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xxiv, 500 p. : ill., plans ; 31 x 24 cm.
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New York : J. Wiley, 1893.
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371 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City ; Zurich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2016], ©2016
Climates : architecture and the planetary imaginary / James Graham, editor ; Caitlin Blanchfield, managing editor.
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371 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City ; Zurich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2016], ©2016
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137 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm
Pittsburgh : The Company, [1894?]
Album of designs / Building Department, Shiffler Bridge Company, Pittsburgh, Penn'a.
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137 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm
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Pittsburgh : The Company, [1894?]