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Hints On the Formation of Gardens and Pleasure Grounds: With Designs, in Various Styles of Rural Embellishment: Comprising Plans for Laying Out Flower - Paperback

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by John Claudius Loudon (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved...

A Reprint Of The Country Builder's Assistant, The American Builder's Companion, The Rudiments Of Architecture, The Practical House Carpenter, Practice - Hardcover

$46.01

by Asher Benjamin (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, repr...

Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden - Paperback

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by Gertrude Jekyll (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, rep...

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by Robert Swain Peabody (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved...

Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden - Hardcover

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Architectural Drawing and Draughtsmen - Paperback

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by Reginald Blomfield (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, ...

Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy: Accommodating an Uncertain Future - Paperback

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by Laura Sanderson (Editor), Sally Stone (Editor)Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy explores the emergent techniques in architectural education that are helping to bridge the gap between the institutional setting and working practice. It demonstrates how teaching and learning can, and should, be directed towards tackling the real-world problems that students will encounter within their professional careers. Architectural and design practitioners are becoming less specialised, they a...

Architectural Drawing and Lettering ... Part I--Architectural Drawing, by Frank A. Bourne and H.V. Von Holst. Part Ii--Architectural Lettering, by Fra - Paperback

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by Frank Augustus Bourne (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserve...

The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906: And Their Effects On Structures and Structural Materials - Paperback

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by Grove Karl Gilbert (Author), Richard Lewis Humphrey (Author), Joseph Austin Holmes (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and...

Progressive Studio Pedagogy: Examples from Architecture and Allied Design Fields - Paperback

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by Charlie Smith (Editor)Progressive Studio Pedagogy provides guidance to educators in all design fields by questioning processes and assumptions about teaching and learning, utilising examples from architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. Through a series of case studies, this book presents innovative approaches to learning and teaching in design studio. Traditionally, design education is perceived to be a process for acquiring skills and a site for developing creative pote...

The Modern Builder's Guide: Illustrated by Ninety Copper-plate Engravings - Hardcover

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by Minard Lafever (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, repr...

Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces - Paperback

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by Corinna del Bianco (Author)Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces looks at self-built dwellings and settlements in the case study city of Pemba in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozambique. 　 Self-built houses born from need, in haste and with limited economical resources are often considered to be temporary structures but frequently become an integral part of the urban fabric, representative of a local culture of living. The study is part of the Spontaneous Living Spaces research project, and thro...

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by Elsie De Wolfe (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, repr...

Stable Building and Stable Fitting: A Handbook for the use of Architects, Builders, and Horse Owners - Hardcover

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by Byng Giraud (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reprodu...

Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC: A Framework for Local Funding, Collaborative Governance and Community Organizing for Change - Paperback

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by Kathryn Howell (Author)Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC uses the case of Washington, DC to examine the past, present, and future of subsidized and unsubsidized affordable housing through the lenses of history, governance, and affordable housing policy and planning. Affordable housing policy in the US has often been focused at the federal level where the laws and funding to build new affordable housing historically have been determined. However, as federal housing subsidies...

New York in Cinematic Imagination: The Agitated City - Paperback

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by Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes (Author) New York in Cinematic Imagination is an interdisciplinary study into urbanism and cinematic representations of the American metropolis in the twentieth century. It contextualizes spatial transformations and discourse about New York during the Great Depression and the Second World War, examining both imaginary narratives and documentary images of the city in film. The book argues that alternating endorsements and critiques of the 1920s machine age city a...

International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative: A Bottom-Up Approach - Paperback

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by Sidh Sintusingha (Editor), Hao Wu (Editor), Wenqi Lin (Editor)International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative investigates the most significant global‐scale international trade expansion and capital investment programme since the Second World War. This book focusses on the multi-national perspectives of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in order to interrogate the Chinese government's representation of it as a symbol of "peace, cooperation, development and mutual benefit." With...

The Architect: Or, Practical House Carpenter - Paperback

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Urban Regeneration in China: Institutional Innovation in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai - Paperback

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by Yan Tang (Author), Dong Yang (Author)The book examines institutional innovation in urban regeneration in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai, three Chinese cities that have experienced sweeping changes in recent years, providing an ideal guide to the development of urban regeneration practices in China. As a starting point, the book revisits relevant theoretical developments and the institutional experiences of urban regeneration in some Asian pioneer cities and regions, such as Hong Kong, T...

Culture and Rural-Urban Revitalisation in South Africa: Indigenous Knowledge, Policies, and Planning - Paperback

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by Mziwoxolo Sirayi (Editor), Modimowabarwa Kanyane (Editor), Giulio Verdini (Editor)This book captures ground-breaking attempts to utilise culture in territorial development and regeneration processes in the context of South Africa and our 'new normal' brought by COVID-19, the fourth industrial revolution, and climate change the world over. The importance of culture in rural-urban revitalisation has been underestimated in South Africa and the African continent at large. Despite some cultura...

Folklore Studies of Traditional Chinese House-Building - Paperback

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by Shiwu Li (Author), Xiao Xiao (Translator), Eric Chiang (Translator)Chapter 1. Land Worship and building construction Folklore.- Chapter 2. Tree Worship and building construction Folklore.- Chapter 3. Beam Setting Ceremony and Application of Fetishes.- Chapter 4. Supernatural Beings, Incantations, and Talismans: The Taoist Influence.- Chapter 5. House Builders' Covert Sorcery in Social and Cultural Context.- Chapter 6. The Legend of Gun and the Origin and Evolution of Chiwei.- Chapter 7. Co...

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by Priscilla T. Graham (Author), Charonda Johnson (Author)Freedmen's Town Immediately west of downtown Houston lies the city's oldest Indigenous African American community affectionally known as Historic Freedmen's Town located in Fourth Ward. Wards were established in 1841. Although the ward system was officially discontinued in 1906, Houstonians continued to identify the city's various communities by those political subdivisions. Freedmen's Town was established immediately after the Civil W...

Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation Amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, Ohio - Hardcover

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by Stephanie Ryberg-Webster (Author)Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland's historic preservation community during the 1970s and 1980s. While pro-preservationists argued for the economic and revitalization benefits stemming from saving and repurposing older buildings, population loss and economic contraction prompted decades of deterioration, underinvestment, vacancy, and abandonment. Stephanie Ryberg-Webster uncovers th...

Double Devastation Brought Glorious Transformation - Paperback

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by Paula Jones (Author)In the early hours of a cold New Years' Eve morning in 1977, gunfire rang out and a blood-curdling scream could be heard through the house. The scream was followed by another sound of gunfire, and then there was complete silence. A bloodthirsty psychotic killer who was supposed to be a husband and a friend had taken the lives of two people that were dearly loved that morning. The front page of the local paper called it a double homicide, and before the presses had been ...

Swivel To Sustainability: A Full Systems Business Transformation Guidebook - Paperback

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by Leyla Acaroglu (Author), Emma Segal (Designed by)Embracing full systems sustainability offers the major business innovation opportunity of our time - but the road map to sustainable transformation is not always clear. This guidebook demystifies the transformation process by laying out what sustainability is (and isn't), sharing the tools needed to overcome organizational change barriers and providing tactical approaches to infusing sustainability into the organizational DNA through its ope...

Land Loss in Louisiana: A Neopragmatic Redescription - Paperback

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by Olaf Kühne (Author), Lara Koegst (Author)This book is oriented on testing and developing the neopragmatic approach of horizontal geographies, in which we follow approaches of natural sciences, social sciences, and cultural studies. Regional focus is thereby put on a rapidly changing elemental space and its social representations, characterized by unstable and not well-defined hybridities: coastal Louisiana. This region is highly dynamic: the Mississippi River in particular, with its extens...

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by William Semenow (Author)"The Beach Boy" is the fictionalized autobiography of William Semenow. He was born two years after the end of the Second World War into a secure and cohesive Jewish family on a small barrier island off the North Atlantic seaboard. Although the Allies had won, Nazis hadn't given up their dream of the Final Solution and seemed to be lurking in every cove and behind every sand dune.Follow him through such tragic events as the loss of his Flash Gordon helium balloon and...

ACADIA 2021 Realignments: Toward Critical Computation: Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in - Paperback

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by Kathrin Dörfler (Editor), Stefana Parascho (Editor), Jane Scott (Editor)The ACADIA 2021 Conference Proceedings contains the collection of Technical Papers and Projects describing research presented during this year's conference as well as Field Notes and transcripts of the Keynote conversations that served to anchor each day's discussion. Number of Pages: 684 Dimensions: 1.86 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 26, 2022

How To Build Your Barndominium - Paperback

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by Ronnie Steiner (Author)Are you looking for a practical solution for a shop/house combination?Do you have a large family that needs more space to run around and enjoy?Are you a fan of open-space concept houses but want an affordable solution? If any of these questions sound like what you need help with and if you're finally ready to start planning and building your barndominium, then keep reading... The appeal of barndominiums can be summed up in three words. Savings. More space. And improv...

An Architecture of Light: Islamic Art in Algeria - Paperback

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by Farida Benouis (Author), Houria Chérid (Author), Lakhdar Drias (Author)An Architecture of Light / Islamic Art in Algeria is the most recent title to be published in our series Islamic Art in the Mediterranean. This illustrated book is a thorough guide to Algeria's Islamic artistic heritage, from the earliest trading routes in the Sahara to the cosmopolitan port of Algiers. It can be enjoyed as an armchair guide to Algeria's museum collections and architecture, which are described in exquis...

San Antonio's Monte Vista: Architecture and Society in a Gilded Age - Paperback

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by Donald E. Everett (Author)This is the definitive work on the 100-block Monte Vista National Historic District, which survives nearly intact from San Antonio's Gilded Age. It is the finest neighborhood of the era remaining in Texas. Architects drawn to the burgeoning city from across the country designed homes both elaborate and modest in an unusual variety of styles, from Queen Anne to Prairie to Tudor to Spanish Colonial Revival, during the heady times when San Antonio was the largest cit...

Seo For Beginners 2023: Complete Beginner's Guide To Search Engine Optimization - Paperback

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by Oliver S. Huneycutt (Author)You will have heard of search engine optimization if you own a website (SEO). Every day, people use the internet to browse and conduct searches. GlobalWebIndex estimates that 60% of people worldwide have access to the internet. And did you know that 53% of B2B and B2C website traffic comes from organic search? That implies that search engines like Google may account for more than half of the traffic to your website. To increase website traffic, you must optimize...