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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass(...)
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass(...)
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America and how we can take it back
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible.
Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America and how we can take it back
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible.
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November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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Urban Theory
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xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022], ©2022
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022], ©2022
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In the midst of things : the social lives of objects in the public spaces of New York City / Mike Owen Benediktsson.
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xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
In the midst of things : the social lives of objects in the public spaces of New York City / Mike Owen Benediktsson.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022], ©2022
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xv, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Cambridge, Massachussets : The MIT Press, 2015., ©2015
Cambridge, Massachussets : The MIT Press, 2015., ©2015
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Old wheelways : traces of bicycle history on the land / Robert L. McCullough.
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xv, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Old wheelways : traces of bicycle history on the land / Robert L. McCullough.
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Cambridge, Massachussets : The MIT Press, 2015., ©2015
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280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
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Robert Smithson / organized by Eugenie Tsai with Cornelia Butler ; additional essay by Thomas Crow ; texts by Alexander Alberro [and others] ; interview with Robert Smithson by Moira Roth.
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280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Robert Smithson / organized by Eugenie Tsai with Cornelia Butler ; additional essay by Thomas Crow ; texts by Alexander Alberro [and others] ; interview with Robert Smithson by Moira Roth.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
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xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.
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St. Louis : the evolution of an American urban landscape / Eric Sandweiss.
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xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
St. Louis : the evolution of an American urban landscape / Eric Sandweiss.
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Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.
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xviii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
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New York : Praeger, ©1972.
New York : Praeger, ©1972.
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A documentary history of conservation in America / edited by Robert McHenry with Charles Van Doren ; introduction by Lorus and Margery Milne.
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xviii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
A documentary history of conservation in America / edited by Robert McHenry with Charles Van Doren ; introduction by Lorus and Margery Milne.
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New York : Praeger, ©1972.
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Nearly two hundred years later, Olaf Unverzart has photographed the Alps and given them a 21stcentury perspective. Disappearing glaciers, the steeply inclined asphalt roads of the Tour de France, machinery crushed by avalanches, or huge cement fortifications imbedded in rock and defying nature--Unverzart's large-format images focus on the marks humankind leaves behind(...)
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Nearly two hundred years later, Olaf Unverzart has photographed the Alps and given them a 21stcentury perspective. Disappearing glaciers, the steeply inclined asphalt roads of the Tour de France, machinery crushed by avalanches, or huge cement fortifications imbedded in rock and defying nature--Unverzart's large-format images focus on the marks humankind leaves behind(...)
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Alp: alpine landscape pictures
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Nearly two hundred years later, Olaf Unverzart has photographed the Alps and given them a 21stcentury perspective. Disappearing glaciers, the steeply inclined asphalt roads of the Tour de France, machinery crushed by avalanches, or huge cement fortifications imbedded in rock and defying nature--Unverzart's large-format images focus on the marks humankind leaves behind when attempting to master nature.
Alp: alpine landscape pictures
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Nearly two hundred years later, Olaf Unverzart has photographed the Alps and given them a 21stcentury perspective. Disappearing glaciers, the steeply inclined asphalt roads of the Tour de France, machinery crushed by avalanches, or huge cement fortifications imbedded in rock and defying nature--Unverzart's large-format images focus on the marks humankind leaves behind when attempting to master nature.
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October 2014
October 2014
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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Koen van den Broek: Crack
Koen van den Broek: Crack
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Koen van den Broek paints landscapes on the boundary of abstraction and realism: urban outskirts, architectural details, cracks in asphalt, kerbstones, a straight road in perspective. He has recently become known for his Border Paintings, abstracts cropped from architecture, and for his collaborations with John Baldessari. Crack presents the first comprehensive selection(...)
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Koen van den Broek paints landscapes on the boundary of abstraction and realism: urban outskirts, architectural details, cracks in asphalt, kerbstones, a straight road in perspective. He has recently become known for his Border Paintings, abstracts cropped from architecture, and for his collaborations with John Baldessari. Crack presents the first comprehensive selection(...)
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Koen van den Broek: Crack
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Koen van den Broek paints landscapes on the boundary of abstraction and realism: urban outskirts, architectural details, cracks in asphalt, kerbstones, a straight road in perspective. He has recently become known for his Border Paintings, abstracts cropped from architecture, and for his collaborations with John Baldessari. Crack presents the first comprehensive selection of Van den Broek's work over the last ten years.
Koen van den Broek: Crack
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Koen van den Broek paints landscapes on the boundary of abstraction and realism: urban outskirts, architectural details, cracks in asphalt, kerbstones, a straight road in perspective. He has recently become known for his Border Paintings, abstracts cropped from architecture, and for his collaborations with John Baldessari. Crack presents the first comprehensive selection of Van den Broek's work over the last ten years.
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July 2010
July 2010
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The strategies employed by designers around the world today provide with a myriad of practical solutions and demonstrate how gardens can be incorporated even into the most nomadic of lifestyles bound by concrete and asphalt. Les stratégies développpées par les designers du monde entier donnent des solutions pratiques pour réaliser des jardins, en montrant qu'ils peuvent(...)
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The strategies employed by designers around the world today provide with a myriad of practical solutions and demonstrate how gardens can be incorporated even into the most nomadic of lifestyles bound by concrete and asphalt. Les stratégies développpées par les designers du monde entier donnent des solutions pratiques pour réaliser des jardins, en montrant qu'ils peuvent(...)
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Small urban gardens - petits jardins urbains - klein gärten in der stadt
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The strategies employed by designers around the world today provide with a myriad of practical solutions and demonstrate how gardens can be incorporated even into the most nomadic of lifestyles bound by concrete and asphalt. Les stratégies développpées par les designers du monde entier donnent des solutions pratiques pour réaliser des jardins, en montrant qu'ils peuvent s'intégrer à cet environnement d'asphalte et de béton.
Small urban gardens - petits jardins urbains - klein gärten in der stadt
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The strategies employed by designers around the world today provide with a myriad of practical solutions and demonstrate how gardens can be incorporated even into the most nomadic of lifestyles bound by concrete and asphalt. Les stratégies développpées par les designers du monde entier donnent des solutions pratiques pour réaliser des jardins, en montrant qu'ils peuvent s'intégrer à cet environnement d'asphalte et de béton.
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May 2006, Köln
May 2006, Köln
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Wilshire Blvd.
Wilshire Blvd.
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Far from the clichés of an L.A. lifestyle, where images of pools and palm trees gloss over urban reality, Wilshire Boulevard has served architectural realness throughout its historic development. Since the late nineteenth-century, when real estate magnate Henry Gaylord Wilshire donated to the city a strip of land to build the boulevard, Wilshire has functioned as the(...)
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Far from the clichés of an L.A. lifestyle, where images of pools and palm trees gloss over urban reality, Wilshire Boulevard has served architectural realness throughout its historic development. Since the late nineteenth-century, when real estate magnate Henry Gaylord Wilshire donated to the city a strip of land to build the boulevard, Wilshire has functioned as the(...)
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Wilshire Blvd.
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Far from the clichés of an L.A. lifestyle, where images of pools and palm trees gloss over urban reality, Wilshire Boulevard has served architectural realness throughout its historic development. Since the late nineteenth-century, when real estate magnate Henry Gaylord Wilshire donated to the city a strip of land to build the boulevard, Wilshire has functioned as the backdrop for L.A.’s urban life—a veritable stage of asphalt and concrete, simultaneously raw and theatrical.
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Far from the clichés of an L.A. lifestyle, where images of pools and palm trees gloss over urban reality, Wilshire Boulevard has served architectural realness throughout its historic development. Since the late nineteenth-century, when real estate magnate Henry Gaylord Wilshire donated to the city a strip of land to build the boulevard, Wilshire has functioned as the backdrop for L.A.’s urban life—a veritable stage of asphalt and concrete, simultaneously raw and theatrical.
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October 2017
October 2017
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
