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280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
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
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Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
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xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.
St. Louis : the evolution of an American urban landscape / Eric Sandweiss.
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xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.
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xviii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
New York : Praeger, ©1972.
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
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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(...)
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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19 p. ; 24 cm.
Philadelphia : Dunlap & Clarke, 1884.
Report of the Board of Experts on Street Paving : to Hon. William B. Smith, Mayor of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, July 8, 1884.
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Philadelphia : Dunlap & Clarke, 1884.
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(...)
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.
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(...)
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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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(...)
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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63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Dearborn, Mich. : Ford Motor Co., ©1964.
New York and World's Fair special issue.
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63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Dearborn, Mich. : Ford Motor Co., ©1964.
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London Orbital
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Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain(...)
London Orbital
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Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before.
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April 2009, New York