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Le Corbusier conférencier
Le Corbusier conférencier
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On connait Le Corbusier architecte, peintre, designer, théoricien... Ce livre aborde un aspect sans doute moins connu de sa personnalité, celui de conférencier, qui eut une importance capitale dans sa carrière. Tout au long de sa vie, des années 1920 jusqu'aux années 1960, Le Corbusier prononce des conférences dans le monde entier: en Europe bien sûr, à Paris, Madrid,(...)
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On connait Le Corbusier architecte, peintre, designer, théoricien... Ce livre aborde un aspect sans doute moins connu de sa personnalité, celui de conférencier, qui eut une importance capitale dans sa carrière. Tout au long de sa vie, des années 1920 jusqu'aux années 1960, Le Corbusier prononce des conférences dans le monde entier: en Europe bien sûr, à Paris, Madrid,(...)
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Le Corbusier conférencier
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On connait Le Corbusier architecte, peintre, designer, théoricien... Ce livre aborde un aspect sans doute moins connu de sa personnalité, celui de conférencier, qui eut une importance capitale dans sa carrière. Tout au long de sa vie, des années 1920 jusqu'aux années 1960, Le Corbusier prononce des conférences dans le monde entier: en Europe bien sûr, à Paris, Madrid, Barcelone, Genève, Zurich, Stockholm, Oslo, Anvers, Rome, Prague, Moscou, mais aussi à Alger, aux États-Unis et en Amérique Latine.
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On connait Le Corbusier architecte, peintre, designer, théoricien... Ce livre aborde un aspect sans doute moins connu de sa personnalité, celui de conférencier, qui eut une importance capitale dans sa carrière. Tout au long de sa vie, des années 1920 jusqu'aux années 1960, Le Corbusier prononce des conférences dans le monde entier: en Europe bien sûr, à Paris, Madrid, Barcelone, Genève, Zurich, Stockholm, Oslo, Anvers, Rome, Prague, Moscou, mais aussi à Alger, aux États-Unis et en Amérique Latine.
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février 2008, Paris
février 2008, Paris
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Architecture, monographies
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Embracing one's own traditions is not a backward turn. Instead, it represents the chance to obtain a European identity, which after the erratic attemps at finding form in past decades can now be developed further in a new continuity. The works of Ortner & Ortner exhibit this clearly. Following their Primer of Architecture, Ortner & Ortner new provide a compendium of(...)
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Embracing one's own traditions is not a backward turn. Instead, it represents the chance to obtain a European identity, which after the erratic attemps at finding form in past decades can now be developed further in a new continuity. The works of Ortner & Ortner exhibit this clearly. Following their Primer of Architecture, Ortner & Ortner new provide a compendium of(...)
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Architecture, monographies
Architecture, monographies
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janvier 2008, Basel Boston, Berlin
janvier 2008, Basel Boston, Berlin
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Ortner & Ortner: buildings for European culture
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Embracing one's own traditions is not a backward turn. Instead, it represents the chance to obtain a European identity, which after the erratic attemps at finding form in past decades can now be developed further in a new continuity. The works of Ortner & Ortner exhibit this clearly. Following their Primer of Architecture, Ortner & Ortner new provide a compendium of their buildings and designs for 'European culture'. Presented are projects in three areas: theaters, museums, and libraries. The projects begin with the experimental ventures from the Haus-Rucker-Co era and end cultural buildings that are among the most significant internationally. 'European culture' is an exemplary situation in which the old and new concur in an unparalleled wealth of features and are then reunited in a new blend. A comprehensive text section with contributions by Manuela Hötzl, Ernst Hubeli, Bart Lootsma, Sophie Lovell, and Laurids Ortner focuses on selected projects, grasping the ingredients of this European blend.
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Embracing one's own traditions is not a backward turn. Instead, it represents the chance to obtain a European identity, which after the erratic attemps at finding form in past decades can now be developed further in a new continuity. The works of Ortner & Ortner exhibit this clearly. Following their Primer of Architecture, Ortner & Ortner new provide a compendium of their buildings and designs for 'European culture'. Presented are projects in three areas: theaters, museums, and libraries. The projects begin with the experimental ventures from the Haus-Rucker-Co era and end cultural buildings that are among the most significant internationally. 'European culture' is an exemplary situation in which the old and new concur in an unparalleled wealth of features and are then reunited in a new blend. A comprehensive text section with contributions by Manuela Hötzl, Ernst Hubeli, Bart Lootsma, Sophie Lovell, and Laurids Ortner focuses on selected projects, grasping the ingredients of this European blend.
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janvier 2008, Basel Boston, Berlin
janvier 2008, Basel Boston, Berlin
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Subconscious city
Subconscious city
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and(...)
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and(...)
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Subconscious city
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and physical landscape, and its power to shape identity. This volume includes poetry and lyrics by John K. Samson, new fiction by Guy Maddin, creative meditations by Jeanne Randolph and Marvin Francis, and essays by Sigrid Dahle, Molly Johnson and Richard Milgrom, Claudine Majzels, and Dempsey and Millan, ranging in topics from the benefits of zero growth to the Aboriginal urban experience. Artworks of KC Adams, Keith Berens, Simon Hughes' Bonnie Marin, Diana Thorneycroft and many others.
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and physical landscape, and its power to shape identity. This volume includes poetry and lyrics by John K. Samson, new fiction by Guy Maddin, creative meditations by Jeanne Randolph and Marvin Francis, and essays by Sigrid Dahle, Molly Johnson and Richard Milgrom, Claudine Majzels, and Dempsey and Millan, ranging in topics from the benefits of zero growth to the Aboriginal urban experience. Artworks of KC Adams, Keith Berens, Simon Hughes' Bonnie Marin, Diana Thorneycroft and many others.
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mars 2008, Winnipeg
mars 2008, Winnipeg
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Architecture du Canada
Architecture du Canada
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Edmund Burke's "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful" is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful", Burkes subject here was that quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime" - an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in(...)
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Edmund Burke's "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful" is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful", Burkes subject here was that quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime" - an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in(...)
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Burke: A philosophical enquiry into the sublime and beautiful
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Edmund Burke's "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful" is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful", Burkes subject here was that quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime" - an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burkes essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary.
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Edmund Burke's "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful" is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful", Burkes subject here was that quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime" - an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burkes essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary.
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avril 2008, London, New York
avril 2008, London, New York
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Théorie de l’architecture
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L'idéologie structuraliste
L'idéologie structuraliste
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« Le structuralisme, c'est l'idéologie d'une période où la pratique s'inspire du concept de structure dans les cadres du mode de production et de rapports sociaux de production déterminés. La pratique sociale est aussi une pratique politique: celle de l'État. » Henri Lefebvre
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« Le structuralisme, c'est l'idéologie d'une période où la pratique s'inspire du concept de structure dans les cadres du mode de production et de rapports sociaux de production déterminés. La pratique sociale est aussi une pratique politique: celle de l'État. » Henri Lefebvre
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L'idéologie structuraliste
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« Le structuralisme, c'est l'idéologie d'une période où la pratique s'inspire du concept de structure dans les cadres du mode de production et de rapports sociaux de production déterminés. La pratique sociale est aussi une pratique politique: celle de l'État. » Henri Lefebvre
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« Le structuralisme, c'est l'idéologie d'une période où la pratique s'inspire du concept de structure dans les cadres du mode de production et de rapports sociaux de production déterminés. La pratique sociale est aussi une pratique politique: celle de l'État. » Henri Lefebvre
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janvier 1973, Paris
janvier 1973, Paris
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Théorie de l’architecture
Théorie de l’architecture
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In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern across a wide range of disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, this book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to(...)
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In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern across a wide range of disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, this book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to(...)
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Théorie de l’architecture
Théorie de l’architecture
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février 1997, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi
février 1997, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi
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Doing cultural studies: the story of the Sony Walkman
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In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern across a wide range of disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, this book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such an important role in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.
Doing cultural studies: the story of the Sony Walkman
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In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern across a wide range of disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, this book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such an important role in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.
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février 1997, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi
février 1997, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi
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Théorie de l’architecture
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CPULs: continuous productive urban landscapes, designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities
CPULs: continuous productive urban landscapes, designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities
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This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of(...)
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This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of(...)
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Architecture écologique
Architecture écologique
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janvier 2005, Amsterdam, Boston, London
janvier 2005, Amsterdam, Boston, London
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CPULs: continuous productive urban landscapes, designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities
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This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them. Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.
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This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them. Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.
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janvier 2005, Amsterdam, Boston, London
janvier 2005, Amsterdam, Boston, London
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Architecture écologique
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Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, herald and architect of some of the most important country houses of his era. In this book architectural historian Vaughan Hart draws on these diverse interests to examine afresh Vanbrugh's surviving, destroyed and unrealised buildings as well as the designs he executed in collaboration with(...)
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Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, herald and architect of some of the most important country houses of his era. In this book architectural historian Vaughan Hart draws on these diverse interests to examine afresh Vanbrugh's surviving, destroyed and unrealised buildings as well as the designs he executed in collaboration with(...)
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Sir John Vanbrugh : storyteller in stone
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Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, herald and architect of some of the most important country houses of his era. In this book architectural historian Vaughan Hart draws on these diverse interests to examine afresh Vanbrugh's surviving, destroyed and unrealised buildings as well as the designs he executed in collaboration with Nicholas Hawksmoor. It was the fate of Vanbrugh's buildings to be at first maligned and then misunderstood. Hart outlines the contemporary political and social events which influenced the architect and shows how his strikingly original houses, such as those as Seaton Delaval and Grimsthorpe, can be interpreted through reference to classical mythology, renaissance fortifications and medieval houses. Vaughan Hart is Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath.
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Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, herald and architect of some of the most important country houses of his era. In this book architectural historian Vaughan Hart draws on these diverse interests to examine afresh Vanbrugh's surviving, destroyed and unrealised buildings as well as the designs he executed in collaboration with Nicholas Hawksmoor. It was the fate of Vanbrugh's buildings to be at first maligned and then misunderstood. Hart outlines the contemporary political and social events which influenced the architect and shows how his strikingly original houses, such as those as Seaton Delaval and Grimsthorpe, can be interpreted through reference to classical mythology, renaissance fortifications and medieval houses. Vaughan Hart is Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath.
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avril 2008, New Haven, London
avril 2008, New Haven, London
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Architecture, monographies
Architecture, monographies
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to(...)
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to(...)
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Storming the gates of paradise: Landscapes for politics
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium–not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view. Her introduction sets the tone and the book's overarching themes as she describes Thoreau, leaving the jail cell where he had been confined for refusing to pay war taxes and proceeding directly to his favorite huckleberry patch. In this way she links pleasure to politics, brilliantly demonstrating that the path to paradise has often run through prison.
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium–not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view. Her introduction sets the tone and the book's overarching themes as she describes Thoreau, leaving the jail cell where he had been confined for refusing to pay war taxes and proceeding directly to his favorite huckleberry patch. In this way she links pleasure to politics, brilliantly demonstrating that the path to paradise has often run through prison.
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mai 2008, Berkeley
mai 2008, Berkeley
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Théorie de l’architecture
Théorie de l’architecture
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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins(...)
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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins(...)
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Lawn People: how grasses, weeds and chemicals make us who we are
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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins interviews homeowners about their lawns, and uses national surveys, analysis from aerial photographs, and economic data to determine what people really feel about-and how they treat-their lawns. Lawn People places the lawn in its ecological, economic, and social context. Robbins considers the attention we pay our turfgrass-the chemicals we use to grow lawns, the hazards of turf care to our urban ecology, and its potential impact on water quality and household health. He also shows how the ecology of cities creates certain kinds of citizens, deftly contrasting man's control of the lawn with the lawn's control of man. Lawn People provides an intriguing examination of nature's influence on landscape management and on the ecosystem.
Lawn People: how grasses, weeds and chemicals make us who we are
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For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins interviews homeowners about their lawns, and uses national surveys, analysis from aerial photographs, and economic data to determine what people really feel about-and how they treat-their lawns. Lawn People places the lawn in its ecological, economic, and social context. Robbins considers the attention we pay our turfgrass-the chemicals we use to grow lawns, the hazards of turf care to our urban ecology, and its potential impact on water quality and household health. He also shows how the ecology of cities creates certain kinds of citizens, deftly contrasting man's control of the lawn with the lawn's control of man. Lawn People provides an intriguing examination of nature's influence on landscape management and on the ecosystem.
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juin 2007, Philadelphie
juin 2007, Philadelphie
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Architecture écologique
Architecture écologique
