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The Vanes of Shrewsbury: Shrewsbury Drawings by Eddie Parker - Colour Edition - Paperback

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by Eddie Parker (Illustrator), David Harley (Author)My uncle Eddie Parker, though he worked in engineering for most of his life, was a talented amateur artist with a keen interest in Shropshire history. After his death, his daughter Eve and I agreed to publish a book featuring his drawings of old Shrewsbury buildings, with historical background and some photographs, where appropriate, of the same sites as they are today. The main difference between this edition and the first edition is that t...

The Metaphysical Nature of Ancient Vasthu Shastra - Paperback

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by Chaitanya Yellapu (Author)During my recent years practicing Vasthu Shastra as a consultant, I have noticed a deep interest among engineers, architects, and others to know about the traditional Indian science of Vasthu Shilpa Shastra, which is not influenced by the new age Vasthu and the fears induced in the current trends.Though there is a vast amount of literature available in Sanskrit, English, and other Indian languages, there is no single book that is available nowadays that covers the...

From Byzantine to Norman Italy: Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari - Hardcover

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by Clare Vernon (Author), Dionysios Stathakopoulos (Editor)This is the first major study to comprehensively analyze the art and architecture of the archdiocese of Bari and Canosa during the Byzantine period and the upheaval of the Norman conquest. The book places Bari and Canosa in a Mediterranean context, arguing that international connections with the eastern Mediterranean were a continuous thread that shaped art and architecture throughout the Byzantine and Norman eras. Clare Vernon has ex...

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

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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...

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by Leigh Michaels (Author)Visit the homes of Ottumwa, Iowa Why are there such grand houses lining the Fifth Street Bluff? Who built the homes that march up Court Hill, line Chester Avenue, and nestle into neighborhoods all across the city?Share in the stories behind more than 100 of Ottumwa's homes, past and present -- the historic, notable, notorious and interesting houses of this city along the Des Moines River. Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions: 0.46 x 10 x 8 IN Publication Date: October 01,...

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by William Benham (Author)Old St Paul's Cathedral was the medieval cathedral of the City of London that, until 1666, stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral. Built from 1087 to 1314 and dedicated to Saint Paul, the cathedral was the fourth church on the site at Ludgate Hill. Work on the cathedral began during the reign of William the Conqueror and took more than 200 years, construction was delayed by another fire in 1135. The church was consecrated in 1240 and enlarged again in 1...

Property, Planning and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply - Paperback

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by Quintin Bradley (Author)The struggle for the right to housing is a battle over property rights and land use.For housing to be provided as a human need, land must be recognised as a common right.Property, Planning and Protest is a compelling new investigation into public opposition to housing and real estate development. Its innovative materialist approach is grounded in the political economy of land value, and it recognises the conflict between communities and real estate capital as a stru...

Faith of Our Fathers: Religion in Lawrenceville - Paperback

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by Jude Wudarczyk (Author), James Wudarczyk (Author)Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville has always been a wonderfully diverse neighborhood, and that diversity is obvious in the churches its residents built. Here is the most complete history ever written of the churches of Lawrenceville-some long gone, others still thriving, all with fascinating stories to tell. More than twenty different churches, Catholic and Protestant, are chronicled here, along with other religious institutions that served the nei...

La+ Interruption: Interruption - Paperback

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by Tatum Hands (Editor), Richard Weller (Editor)How can design be used to challenge the status quo, to interrupt the jargon, to disrupt and redirect ecological and socio-economic flows? LA+ Journal's fourth international design ideas competition invited designers to take an established place and design something to productively interrupt both its cultural and spatial context. What does this mean? It means injecting something different into a given context to effect new meanings and new funct...

Islamic Heritage Architecture IV - Hardcover

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by Santiago Hernandez (Editor)Islamic architecture has enriched design with a wide variety of structural shapes, including among others, unique arches, a wide variety of vaults and domes which allow for new forms to be developed. This volume deals with the design of many types of buildings in Islamic countries, including not only the better known public buildings like mosques, mausolea, citadels and forts, but also houses and gardens, engineering works such as bridges and dams, irrigation sys...

Anecdotes Of The Manners And Customs Of London During The Eighteenth Century: Including The Charities, Depravities, Dresses, And Amusements, Of The Ci - Hardcover

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by James Peller Malcolm (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the publ...

General Problems in the Linear Perspective of Form, Shadow, and Reflection: Or the Scenographic Projections of Descriptive Geometry - Hardcover

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by Samuel Edward Warren (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the publ...

Meditations Among the Tombs: In a Letter to a Lady - Hardcover

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by James Hervey (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domai...

Ruins of the Palace of Emperor Diocletian: The Ancient Roman Palace at Spalatro in Dalmatia - Modern-day Split, Croatia - Illustrated in the 1760s - Hardcover

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by Robert Adam (Author)Emperor Diocletian's palace is a historic marvel - this book and its sketches, published by architect Robert Adam in the 1760s, aided the rediscovery of this Ancient Roman treasure.Illustrative of late-Roman architecture, Diocletian's palace was comprised of a military garrison; two temples; flower and vegetable gardens; servant, guest, dining and living quarters; large storage cellars and various outbuildings. A sprawling structure, the palace was the center of a small...

The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work - Paperback

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by Florian Idenburg (Author), Leeann Suen (Author), Iwan Baan (Photographer)Immerse yourself with architects Florian Idenburg and LeeAnn Suen as they journey through a wide-ranging collection of the objects, systems, and buildings that have occupied the American office space since the advent of the internet. Through stories and speculations, Idenburg and Suen expose the relationships between space, work, and people, and explore the intentions that have driven the development of office design ...

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by Tevin Bennett (Author)This notebook s created for college and uiversity purposes. 8x11 notebook 120 pages Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.44 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 04, 2022

A Pyrrhic Victory: Volume III - Fate - Paperback

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by Ian Crouch (Author)A Pyrrhic Victory Volume III: Fate follows the first two award-winning volumes in the historic trilogy A Pyrrhic Victory by Ian Crouch. In 279 BC, Pyrrhus has just won the bloody battle of Asculum against the Romans in the battle that gave rise to the expression "A Pyrrhic Victory"-one that comes at such a great cost that the victory may not have been worth the ordeal that was suffered. While punished, the power of the legions has not been broken. The road to Rome is sti...

The Apatani Way of Life: Shaping a Culture Through Bamboo, Cane and Land Use - Hardcover

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by Ritu Varuni (Author)This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It explores the fascinating indigenous knowledge of field and forest and a uniquely sustainable and enduring way of life that continues to evolve in the modern context. The book tells the story of how a material culture was shaped around bamboo and cane resources and nurtured by a strong community spirit and spirituality that transce...

Architectural Documentation: Built Environment, Modernization, and Turkish Nationalism - Hardcover

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by Serra Akboy-İlk (Author)Against the backdrop of building a new country, this study explores and evaluates the documentation culture in early republican Turkey. Having fought the Turkish War of Independence (1919-22) against the Allied Powers, the revolutionaries led by legendary leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) came to engage with the idea of the West and its cultural origin. With the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the constitution abolished the 600-year-old Ottoma...

University Spatial Development and Urban Transformation in China - Paperback

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by Cui Liu (Author)The past few decades have seen universities take on a leading role in urban development, actively providing public services beyond teaching and research. The relationship between the university and the city has great influence on the space of university, which is vividly reflected in the process of university spatial development. This process has been particularly evident in China as Chinese universities and cities have been undergoing dramatic transformations since reform ...

Bahrain Village Houses: A Walk in the Past - Hardcover

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by Mansoor Ahmed Alaali (Author)Bahrain consists of a group of islands in the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain boasts several civilizations stretching over five thousand years. The deep Arab roots meant that they traditionally had an embedded Arab culture and traditions. This is a unique book focusing on the designs and architecture of old Bahraini traditional village houses. The book focuses on how the old Bahraini builders demonstrated such workmanship and use of local materials to build marvelous des...

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by Gillian Barlow (Author)Personal, philosophical, and conceptual essays by an Australian architect, on the meaning of "home" and "place," on architecture in Australia, houses for Aboriginal people, Australian history, her personal connection with Aboriginal red dirt country, all centering around the Hojoki, an early Japanese text on the human-sized house, and on the metaphorical meaning of a number of Japanese characters. Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions: 0.49 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date...

Hypogeans: Space that Matters - Paperback

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by Rubén Alcolea (Editor)The anthropological relationship between humans and nature defines a fundamental basis for the creation of architecture. The necessity to build in the wilderness resulted in a beautiful symbiosis which characterized the origin of architecture at the beginning of civilization. Although nature may be understood now as the antithesis of the built environment, any creation of space requires a clear understanding of the natural surroundings and the enhancement of the possi...

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by David Hilbert (Author)CHAPTER I. THE FIVE GROUPS OF AXIOMSCHAPTER II. THE COMPATIBILITY AND MUTUAL INDEPENDENCE OF THE AXIOMS.CHAPTER III. THE THEORY OF PROPORTION.CHAPTER IV. THE THEORY OF PLANE AREAS.CHAPTER V. DESARGUES'S THEOREM.CHAPTER VI. PASCAL'S THEOREM.CHAPTER VII. GEOMETRICAL CONSTRUCTIONS BASED UPON THE AXIOMS I-V. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 13, 1991

Estimating Foreign Military Power - Paperback

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by Philip Towle (Editor)This book, first published in 1982, addresses the problem of assessing the central and regional balance of power. The collection of essays by experts on the different countries looks at the miscalculations about the military power of foreign countries which have been made in the past and the difficulties which have to be overcome today before we can reach a correct estimate of the power of other states. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.59 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication...

The Borgarthing Law and the Eidsivathing Law: The Laws of Eastern Norway - Paperback

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by Lisa Collinson (Editor), Torgeir Landro (Editor), Bertil Nilsson (Editor)The Borgarthing Law and the Eidsivathing Law is dedicated to two closely linked medieval laws which were intended to cover adjacent legal provinces in eastern Norway, around and beyond the modern capital, Oslo. The core of this book consists of new translations of the two laws, based on the recent editions and translations into modern Norwegian by Eyvind Fjeld Halvorsen and Magnus Rindal. Individual rules cover subjec...

Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art - Paperback

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by Tsuyoshi Tane (Author)The Complete Record of the Revival and Transformation of a 100-Year-Old Brick Warehouse into a Museum of Contemporary Art.The Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art is the first museum in Japan designed by Paris-based and internationally active architect Tsuyoshi Tane. This book reveals the full story of how Tane's work on "architecture that inherits memory" transformed a century-old brick warehouse into a contemporary art museum. Starting with the architectural concept,...

Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life - Paperback

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by Eric S. Nelson (Author)Daoism and Environmental Philosophy explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their potential significance in our contemporary environmental crisis. This book traces early Daoist depictions of practices of embodied emptying and forgetting and communicative strategies of undoing the fixations of words, things, and the embodied self. These are aspects of an ethics of embracing plainness and simplicity, n...

Urban Planning for Climate Change - Paperback

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by Barbara Norman (Author)This book tackles the future challenges and opportunities for planning our cities and towns in a changing climate and recommends key actions for more resilient urban futures.Urban Planning for Climate Change focusses on how urban planning is fundamental to action on climate change. In doing so it particularly looks at current practice and opportunities for innovation and capacity building in the future - carbon neutral development, building back better and creating m...

The Story of Howsham Mill: Restoring an 18th century watermill for 21st century use - Paperback

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by Martin Phillips (Author)Howsham Mill sits on a small island in the River Derwent near Malton in North Yorkshire. It was built in 1755 to impress, an eye-catcher, by the new heir to the Howsham Estate. It served the farmers of the area until its closure in 1947, grinding corn for both flour and livestock feed. The building fell into disrepair as the woodland grew up around it. A chance discovery in 2003 resulted in the formation of the Renewable Heritage Trust and a project to restore this ...

Who Saved the Parthenon?: A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution - Paperback

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by William St Clair (Author), David St Clair (Editor), Lucy Barnes (Editor)In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821-33. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores ...

Architectures of Emergency in Turkey: Heritage, Displacement and Catastrophe - Paperback

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by Eray Çayli (Editor), Pinar Aykac (Editor), Sevcan Ercan (Editor)Challenging existing political analyses of the state of emergency in Turkey, this volume argues that such states are not merely predetermined by policy and legislation but are produced, regulated, distributed and contested through the built environment in both embodied and symbolic ways.Contributors use empirical critical-spatial research carried out in Turkey over the past decade, exploring heritage, displacement and catastro...