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At a time when many of the past decades' urban renewal projects are facing the wrecking ball, Detroit's Lafayette Park continues to be a model of urban livability. This in-depth look at the project explores why. Amid the oppressive urban blight of post-World War II Detroit, the Lafayette Park project emerged as a vibrant point of optimism and viability. Planned by Ludwig(...)
Case : Hilberseimer/ Mies van der Rohe Lafayette park Detroit
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At a time when many of the past decades' urban renewal projects are facing the wrecking ball, Detroit's Lafayette Park continues to be a model of urban livability. This in-depth look at the project explores why. Amid the oppressive urban blight of post-World War II Detroit, the Lafayette Park project emerged as a vibrant point of optimism and viability. Planned by Ludwig Hilberseimer, with concrete, glass, and steel buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe, and a park and gardens designed by Alfred This latest volume in the CASE series published in collaboration with the Harvard University's Graduate School of Design examines an often-overlooked paragon of modern architecture's highest goals. Today, while public housing and other urban renewal projects are being abandoned and even torn down, this volume discusses not only the significance of Lafayette Park's singular achievement, but also its relevance to the continuing debates about the status of public housing in the contemporary city.
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Des légumes en hiver est un manuel pratique destiné aux jardiniers amateurs comme aux professionnels du maraichage. En vingt chapitres illustrés, Eliot Coleman, cultivateur américain et pionnier de l'agriculture biologique, dévoile les méthodes qu'il développe au coeur de son exploitation de petite surface, selon trois principes primordiaux : diminuer l'impact(...)
Des légumes en hiver : produire en abondance même sous la neige
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Des légumes en hiver est un manuel pratique destiné aux jardiniers amateurs comme aux professionnels du maraichage. En vingt chapitres illustrés, Eliot Coleman, cultivateur américain et pionnier de l'agriculture biologique, dévoile les méthodes qu'il développe au coeur de son exploitation de petite surface, selon trois principes primordiaux : diminuer l'impact environnemental, densifier les cultures et réduire le coût financier de son exploitation. Particulièrement connu pour ses techniques de culture hivernales et respectueuses de l'environnement, ce producteur explique comment parvenir à récolter des légumes variés et de qualité, quelle que soit la saison. Il défend l'utilité des serres mobiles et des tunnels, encore inexploités en France, l'une des clés du succès pour les récoltes de primeurs tout au long de l'année. Le lecteur apprend pas à pas à préparer un sol, puis à semer et à récolter à l'aide d'un équipement modeste et peu mécanisé évitant au maximum le recours aux énergies polluantes. Schémas et planning explicatifs jalonnent l'ouvrage afin d'aider chacun à cultiver des légumes, même lorsque les conditions climatiques ne s'y prêtent pas. Les conseils de l'auteur accompagnent les producteurs en herbe à chaque étape de leur apprentissage en leur permettant notamment de faire face aux questions et difficultés qu'ils peuvent rencontrer dans la mise en oeuvre de cultures saines ou encore en abordant la question des outils nécessaires à ce travail de la terre. Des légumes en hiver se présente comme un plaidoyer pour une relocalisation des productions agricoles.
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L'auteur révèle dans ce livre l'histoire et la philosophie des plats de pâtes de toute l'Italie et nous apprend notamment le secret : pour chaque forme de pâte, il y a la sauce qui convient, la clé de la réussite est dans cette adéquation parfaite. Cannelloni, fusilli, linguine, tortellini... ce sont plus de 80 formes de pâtes qui sont référencées et illustrées, avec pour(...)
Géométrie de la pasta
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L'auteur révèle dans ce livre l'histoire et la philosophie des plats de pâtes de toute l'Italie et nous apprend notamment le secret : pour chaque forme de pâte, il y a la sauce qui convient, la clé de la réussite est dans cette adéquation parfaite. Cannelloni, fusilli, linguine, tortellini... ce sont plus de 80 formes de pâtes qui sont référencées et illustrées, avec pour chacune d’entre elle son histoire, ses caractéristiques, sa composition et les recettes des sauces les plus adaptées. Retrouvez ainsi plus de 100 recettes de pâtes dans une fusion saisissante entre cuisine et design.
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Tuber, or Not Tuber? THAT is our question. In this year’s annual Apartamento cookbook, we’re taking Shakespeare’s famous lines from Hamlet way underground and asking ourselves, What even is a tuber? Where past cookbooks nod directly to pantry staples, spices, or sweets, "Apartamento Cookbook #8: Tuber, or not tuber?" engages readers in the "to be, or not to be" of the(...)
Apartamento cookbook #8: Tuber or not tuber?
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Tuber, or Not Tuber? THAT is our question. In this year’s annual Apartamento cookbook, we’re taking Shakespeare’s famous lines from Hamlet way underground and asking ourselves, What even is a tuber? Where past cookbooks nod directly to pantry staples, spices, or sweets, "Apartamento Cookbook #8: Tuber, or not tuber?" engages readers in the "to be, or not to be" of the culinary world, answering with recipes that draw on a range of root vegetables. A teasing "Tuber Check" accompanies each recipe, gamifying the standard cookbook and introducing readers to an array of subterranean treats, tuber or not. In dishes from James Beard Award winner Corey Lee, Noma flavour scientist Arielle Johnson, royal baker Claire Ptak, Oaxacan flagbearer Thalia Barrios García, and visual artist Motoyuki Daifu, among others, tubers and their kindred stems take the form of fresh salads, fried enyucados, or cool horchata. Swiss Design Award winner Olga Prader brings the book to life with her playful illustrations, taking us deeply, delectably underground. Apartamento will donate 20% of profits generated by this book to The Enriqueta Villavecchia Private Foundation for Child Oncology.
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Nourrir la ville et la solidarité : Initiatives communautaires à l'assaut des déserts alimentaires
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Un vacarme constant. Du béton brûlant. De la grisaille. Un horizon rétréci par des milliers d’immeubles. Un voisinage peuplé d’inconnu·es. Alors que la croissance et l’étalement des grands centres urbains se poursuivent au Canada comme ailleurs, est-il possible d’imaginer une nouvelle façon de faire société ? Et si les villes se faisaient aussi verdoyantes,(...)
Nourrir la ville et la solidarité : Initiatives communautaires à l'assaut des déserts alimentaires
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Un vacarme constant. Du béton brûlant. De la grisaille. Un horizon rétréci par des milliers d’immeubles. Un voisinage peuplé d’inconnu·es. Alors que la croissance et l’étalement des grands centres urbains se poursuivent au Canada comme ailleurs, est-il possible d’imaginer une nouvelle façon de faire société ? Et si les villes se faisaient aussi verdoyantes, nourrissantes ? Cet essai explore le rôle de l’alimentation – au-delà de l’agriculture urbaine – dans la réappropriation des quartiers par leurs résident·es. Et si, en (ré)enchâssant l’alimentation au sein du tissu urbain, nous réinventions la ville ?
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Grave Matters
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'Cemeteries', writes Mark C. Taylor, 'are where I go to commune with "my" ghosts. The journey to the cemetery is always solitary even when I am with people who are closest to me. In the graveyard, the we is dispersed and the I stripped bare.' In "Grave Matters", Taylor's ghosts become our own. His thoughtful, poignant essay interweaves personal narrative, historical(...)
Grave Matters
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'Cemeteries', writes Mark C. Taylor, 'are where I go to commune with "my" ghosts. The journey to the cemetery is always solitary even when I am with people who are closest to me. In the graveyard, the we is dispersed and the I stripped bare.' In "Grave Matters", Taylor's ghosts become our own. His thoughtful, poignant essay interweaves personal narrative, historical analysis, cultural commentary and philosophical reflection. Dietrich Christian Lammerts's photographs show us the graves of the artists, architects, writers, philosophers and musicians who shaped Western culture; at once beautiful and disturbing, they suggest an alternative history of modernism and its precursors. Grave Matters raises difficult questions: What place do the modern greats have in the postmodern age? Who decided where and how they would be buried? Who wrote their epitaphs? What do their deaths, and their graves, tell us about their lives and suggest about our own? The words and images of Grave Matters inscribe the future that we all face, and to ponder this memento mori is to meet life anew.
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For more than 150 years, Central Park has been the centerpiece of New York City, drawing more than 25 million visitors each year. In this title, the author, the official historian and photographer of the Central Park Conservancy, takes readers through America's most popular and celebrated park, where natural and manmade features are interwoven into a spectacular work of public art.
Seeing Central Park : the official guide to the world's greatest urban park
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For more than 150 years, Central Park has been the centerpiece of New York City, drawing more than 25 million visitors each year. In this title, the author, the official historian and photographer of the Central Park Conservancy, takes readers through America's most popular and celebrated park, where natural and manmade features are interwoven into a spectacular work of public art.
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This book is an historical investigation of mourning sites and practices within the context of the province of British Columbia. The authors are concerned, primarily, with the rise of the roadside death memorial in the late twentieth century. They argue that RDMs are not a marginal, quirky phenomenon but part of a longer and complex story about the meaning of both death(...)
Private grief, public mourning: the rise of the roadside shrine in British Columbia
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This book is an historical investigation of mourning sites and practices within the context of the province of British Columbia. The authors are concerned, primarily, with the rise of the roadside death memorial in the late twentieth century. They argue that RDMs are not a marginal, quirky phenomenon but part of a longer and complex story about the meaning of both death and grieving, one more thread in a long tapestry of public exhibitions of grief that serve to announce to the watching world who we are.
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This publication shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health, including such common plants as mullein (a tea made from the leaves and flowers suppresses a cough), stinging nettle (steam the leaves and you have a tasty dish rich in iron), cattail (cooked stalks taste similar to corn and are rich in protein),(...)
Identifying and harvesting edible and medicinal plants in wild (and not so wild) places
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This publication shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health, including such common plants as mullein (a tea made from the leaves and flowers suppresses a cough), stinging nettle (steam the leaves and you have a tasty dish rich in iron), cattail (cooked stalks taste similar to corn and are rich in protein), and wild apricots (an infusion made with the leaves is good for stomach aches and disgestive disorders). More than 260 detailed line drawings help readers identify a wide range of plants - many of which are suited for cooking by following the more than thirty recipes included in this book.
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Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and patterns of consumption, yet none of the plants required for their preparation was native to the continent: coffee was imported from the Levant, tea from Asia, and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Their introduction to 17th-century Europe(...)
Coffee, tea, and chocolate: consuming the world
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Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and patterns of consumption, yet none of the plants required for their preparation was native to the continent: coffee was imported from the Levant, tea from Asia, and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Their introduction to 17th-century Europe revolutionized drinking habits and social customs. It also spurred an insatiable demand for specialized vessels such as hot beverage services and tea canisters, coffee cups and chocolate pots. This beautiful book demonstrates how the paraphernalia associated with coffee, tea, and chocolate can eloquently evoke the culture of these new beverages and the material pleasures that surrounded them. Contributors address such topics as the politics of coffee consumption in 18th-century Germany; 18th-century visual satires on the European consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; and the design history of coffee pots in the United States between the colonial period and the present.
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