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Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and SignificanceCertain cities-most famously New York, London, and Tokyo-have been identified as "global cities," whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in importance, emerging as global cities in their own right....
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La Novela Posible / The Possible Novel«Nunca me pude imaginar que alguien me ayudaría desde un tiempo tan lejano... . Olvidada durante siglos, opacada por hombres artistas a los que se han atribuido los cuadros debidos en realidad a su genio, Sofonisba Anguissola fue una pintora extraordinaria que, sin formación...
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Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in MexicoThis book introduces a new generation of architects working in Mexico and their innovative housing designs. In the period following World War II, eminent Mexican architects such as Juan O'Gorman and Luis Barragán pioneered the adaptation of an international narrative in housing design to...
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What Is Critical Urbanism?: Urban Research as PedagogyA methodological and pedagogical toolkit for urban research. Understanding and managing urban change in our global era demands a high degree of specialized and interdisciplinary knowledge. At the same time, city planners, architects, researchers, policymakers, and activists are deeply immersed in the chaotic and...
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La Atlantida en Español: Explora los Misterios de una de las Ciudades Pérdidas más Famosas de la HistoriaQué tanto sabemos y no sabemos sobre ese paraíso destruido por los dioses y olvidado bajo las frías aguas del tiempo? Te gustaría conocer donde comenzó su historia? Acaso hay evidencias que respalden el mito? Entonces sigue leyendo..."La Atlántida, que se sumergió en el...
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Richard Riemerschmid's Extraordinary Living ThingsHow Richard Riemerschmid's designs of everyday--but "extraordinary"--objects recalibrate our understanding of modernism. At the beginning of the twentieth century, German artist Richard Riemerschmid (1868-1957) was known as a symbolist painter and, by the advent of World War I, had become an important modern architect....
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The Golden DrumThe survival of two kingdoms rests in their hands...After the betrayal in King Sunjo's court, Yun-li and Kyetsu are forced onto a ship heading for Hong Kong. There they discover Cheng and a world darker and more sinister than anything they had imagined. With...
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A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: Volume II: Later Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassicismvolume 2A bold, in-depth analysis of the pastoral form in writing and art. A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature is an unprecedented exploration of the pastoral through the close examination of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral poetry, literature,...
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All the Gold in AbbotsfordA tyrannical and impulsive king has caused unrest across the country. His foolish mistakes have deprived Stephen Warde, captain of the garrison, of the only family he ever had-his father. Now, a dozen years later, Stephen returns from war to the little town of...
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New Mexico Ghost TownsPromises of riches from gold, silver, copper and zinc ores attracted thousands of treasure seekers to the Land of Enchantment. Boomtowns blossomed across the rugged wilderness until the trifecta of the Silver Panic of 1893, World War I and the Great Depression collapsed the...
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The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American DreamThe transformations of the Strip--from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to "starchitecture"--and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury...
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Imagination and Participation: Next Steps in Public Library ArchitectureA manifesto for the future of the library, featuring conversations with leading architects and designersIn Imagination and Participation, Dutch librarians Rob Bruijnzeels and Joyce Sternheim examine the most important recent changes in public library design through conversations with experts and architects who have designed...
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Oxford: An Architectural GuideFew cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, many of them of great beauty, from every period from the eleventh century to the present. In Oxford: An Architectural Guide,...
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A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Glen Rose, Texas: Bypassed, Forgotten, and Preserved Volume 30Located just west of the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex, the community of Glen Rose, on the banks of the spring-fed Paluxy River, has attracted people for a century and a half, not only for the shaded quiet of its streets and its historic structures, but...
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Chicago Catholic Churches: A SketchbookIt began as the hobby of a lifelong Chicagoan. Twenty-five years and more than three hundred freehand church sketches later, it acts as an archive for centuries of architectural and religious history. The pen-and-ink drawings meticulously capture the details of each individual church down...
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The Queen's SpyA perilous mission. An unforgivable betrayal. A secret lost in time... 1584: Elizabeth I rules England. But a dangerous plot is brewing in court, and Mary Queen of Scots will stop at nothing to take her cousin's throne.There's only one thing standing in her...
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Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and ArchitecturePennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots. In the tense days leading up to the 2020 American elections, then-candidate...
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Fading Ads of the Twin CitiesOn brick buildings throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul, overlooked, fleeting symbols chronicle the cities' past.Champion, John Deere, and International Harvester still tout their agricultural equipment, and Gold Medal and Pillsbury Flour remind everyone where these now global companies began. Weathered proclamations from Grain Belt,...
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Old MagicOutlander gets a witchy Meg Cabot twist in this captivating and romantic YA contemporary fantasy following two witches who must travel back in time to stop an ancient curse. The moment new guy Jarrod Thornton walks into the room, Kate senses something strange and...
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Mussolini, Architect: Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist ItalyDuring the fascist years in Italy, architecture and politics enjoyed a close alliance. Benito Mussolini used architecture to educate the masses, exploiting its symbolic prowess as a powerful tool for achieving political consensus. Mussolini, Architect examines Mussolini in Italy from 1922 to 1943 and...
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