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Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles Under Louis XIV is the first book to examine how the vast gardens of Versailles were used for these diplomatic receptions during the reign of the Sun King (1661-1715). The gardens were the final mise en scène of an elaborate ritual, which included the housing of the foreigners in Paris, their journey to Versailles, and their(...)
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août 2008, Philadelphia
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Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles Under Louis XIV is the first book to examine how the vast gardens of Versailles were used for these diplomatic receptions during the reign of the Sun King (1661-1715). The gardens were the final mise en scène of an elaborate ritual, which included the housing of the foreigners in Paris, their journey to Versailles, and their official audience with the king in the palace. A showcase for the achievements of royal artists, landscape architects, and hydraulic engineers, the gardens were soon regarded as one of the wonders of the modern world, proclaiming the wealth, power, and artistic taste of France and the French monarchy.
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août 2008, Philadelphia
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Les jardins sont des lieux de respiration et de beauté qui ont de tout temps réhaussé l'éclat des civilisations. L'eau, source de vie, constitue l'un de leurs ornements majeurs. Retracer l'histoire de l'eau dans les jardins, du monde antique jusqu'aux plus récents, c'est à dire les situer dans l'histoire des mentalités, des sciences et des techniques, et suivre un(...)
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janvier 2008, Wavre
L'eau dans les jardins d'europe
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Les jardins sont des lieux de respiration et de beauté qui ont de tout temps réhaussé l'éclat des civilisations. L'eau, source de vie, constitue l'un de leurs ornements majeurs. Retracer l'histoire de l'eau dans les jardins, du monde antique jusqu'aux plus récents, c'est à dire les situer dans l'histoire des mentalités, des sciences et des techniques, et suivre un parcours qui mène à un bon usage de l'eau. Dans les jardins anciens, les effets produits par des fontaines, par des jets d'eau ou simplement par un ruisseau ou un étang sont nés de rencontres parfois miraculeuses entre une certaine conception du bonheur et une image de la nature où convergent toutes les connaissances d'une époque. Aujourd'hui, les jardins contemporains utilisent toutes les possibilités de la technologie : l'eau fuse ou se faufile, elle apporte partout le mouvement et la lumière grâce à des jets d'eau informatisés, à des cascades recyclées ou à des brumisateurs. A une époque ou nous nous occupons de la gestion durable des ressources naturelles, cette technologie permet de conserver l'agrément des jardins et de tirer les plus beaux effets de l'eau tout en la préservant.
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A garden is more than meets the eye growth from the past growth still to come strolling through a garden is like wandering through a vast memory everything has an origin faraway places always remembered bonds with friends some dead but imoortal here growth rings you are a garden (see page 396)
Henk Gerritsen: essay on gardening
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A garden is more than meets the eye growth from the past growth still to come strolling through a garden is like wandering through a vast memory everything has an origin faraway places always remembered bonds with friends some dead but imoortal here growth rings you are a garden (see page 396)
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From capsicum, peppermint, licorice, and tea tree to the toothache plant and queen’s delight, this Kew Pocketbook is an exploration of some of the most important and commonly used medicinal plants, showcased through forty stunning paintings from the Kew archives. As the vital source behind a vast and varied array of contemporary drugs, these plants have been utilized with(...)
Kew pocketbooks: Medicinal plants
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From capsicum, peppermint, licorice, and tea tree to the toothache plant and queen’s delight, this Kew Pocketbook is an exploration of some of the most important and commonly used medicinal plants, showcased through forty stunning paintings from the Kew archives. As the vital source behind a vast and varied array of contemporary drugs, these plants have been utilized with life-restoring rewards across the world. The Library and Archives at Kew is one of the most extensive botanical libraries in the world, with the oldest item dating back to the 1370s. In this pocketbook series from Kew, each book presents forty botanical paintings from the collections, illustrating the variety within each group, as well as the diversity of the collection and artistic styles. An introductory chapter by a Kew expert provides an overview of this plant group, and extended captions accompany each painting.
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The book discusses the ways in which the project can critically contribute to an affirmative biopolitical action of substantial emancipation; it considers space an essential agent, and not only a collective capital, or a support, for adapting our lives to the recent profoundly changed conditions. In all the new research on the future of urban space, the renewed interest(...)
Biopolitical garden: Spaces, lives, transition
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The book discusses the ways in which the project can critically contribute to an affirmative biopolitical action of substantial emancipation; it considers space an essential agent, and not only a collective capital, or a support, for adapting our lives to the recent profoundly changed conditions. In all the new research on the future of urban space, the renewed interest in life, tragically affected by health, ecological and socio-political crises, raises a crucial theoretical and projective question: what role can space play in maintaining and promoting life in the broader sense of bíos? This book is based on the conviction that there is an urgent need to revisit the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics - free, however, from the privilege given to the goal of control - to rethink the project of the city and territory in transition in an affirmative and emancipatory way.
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Is a river alive?
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At the heart of "Is a River Alive?" is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept. Around the world, rivers are dying(...)
Is a river alive?
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At the heart of "Is a River Alive?" is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept. Around the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming. But a powerful movement is also underway to recognize the lives and the rights of rivers, and to re-animate our relationships with these vast, mysterious presences whose landscapes we share. The young "rights of nature" movement has lit up activists, artists, law-makers and politicians across six continents—and become the focus for revolutionary thinking about rivers in particular.
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« Le Laboratoire de fermentation » retrace quatre années d'enquête sur les plantes sauvages et cultivées et les moyens de les faire fermenter. Dans un second temps, apparaissent des notations davantage autobiographiques (hortobiographiques ?). La question que pose Le Laboratoire de fermentation, c'est : comment faire pour ne pas verser dans le pathogène (comme on le dit(...)
Le laboratoire de fermentation
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« Le Laboratoire de fermentation » retrace quatre années d'enquête sur les plantes sauvages et cultivées et les moyens de les faire fermenter. Dans un second temps, apparaissent des notations davantage autobiographiques (hortobiographiques ?). La question que pose Le Laboratoire de fermentation, c'est : comment faire pour ne pas verser dans le pathogène (comme on le dit de la fermentation alimentaire et en psychiatrie aussi) mais, au contraire, d'envisager notre relation à l'humain (individu et société) et au non-humain (végétal et autres), avec toute l'attention et le soin requis aujourd'hui.
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Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered. It is the annual flood pulse?the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain?that gives(...)
In praise of floods: The untamed river and the life it brings
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Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered. It is the annual flood pulse?the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain?that gives a river its vitality, but it is human engineering that kills it, suppressing the flood pulse with dams, irrigation, siltation, dikes, and levees. In demonstrating these threats to the riverine world, award-winning author James C. Scott examines the life history of a particular river, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) of Burma, the heartland and superhighway of Burman culture. Scott opens our understanding of rivers to encompass their entirety?tributaries, wetlands, floodplains, backwaters, eddies, periodic marshlands, and the assemblage of life forms dependent on rivers for their existence and well-being. For anyone interested in the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration, rivers offer a striking example of the consequences of human intervention in trying to control and domesticate a natural process, the complexity and variability of which we barely understand.
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Landscape architecture is a key profession for a world facing an uncertain environmental future. Yet it is hindered by a chronic identity crisis : is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe ? This book examines the three principle value systems which influence landscape architectural practice,(...)
Ecology community and delight : sources of values in landscape architecture
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Landscape architecture is a key profession for a world facing an uncertain environmental future. Yet it is hindered by a chronic identity crisis : is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe ? This book examines the three principle value systems which influence landscape architectural practice, the aesthetic, the social and the environmental, and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future.
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décembre 1999, New York
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Le paysage des origines : le voyage en Sicile de Richard Payne Knight
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octobre 1998, Paris
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