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Author | : Pallavi Shrivastava |
Publisher | : Copal Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9383419148 |
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The City Observed by Pallavi Shrivastava reads like dispatches from a battlefront by a seasoned war correspondent. Each chapter is a stimulating vignette of some memorable place, or recently contrived artifact, through which Pallavi unravels counter intuitive conclusions. Pallavi has two eyes and many voices. Those two eyes see things often unnoticed, bringing into focus a collage of real life issues and human circumstances. She has an uncanny ability to conceive of the metropolis as an everyday person would, yet to catalyze unique understandings and conclusions from her choreographies! She navigates the metropolis building narratives out of keen insights, speaking for those without voices; giving eyes to people who have eyes, but no vision. Pallavi's most provocative ability is to reveal contradictions between the emerging urban form and the critical needs of the everyday Mumbaikar, who emerges forgotten in the unfolding scenario. Her written landscapes reveal disturbing images of the bad within the good, and of poverty within plenty. From bright images emerge a sense of charm, tinged by nostalgia for the city's past, yet a warning of pathos in times to come.
Author | : Charles Willard Moore |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Graham Byfield |
Publisher | : Editions Didier Millet |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 981406811X |
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Marries more than 150 pencil drawings and watercolor paintings with a brief history of this great European city and its architecture.
Author | : Pierre Manent |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2013-09-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674727703 |
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What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement by one of Europe's most influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition since ancient times to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, and a reflection on what it means to be modern. Manent's genealogy of the nation-state begins with the Greek city-state, the polis. With its creation, humans ceased to organize themselves solely by family and kinship systems and instead began to live politically. Eventually, as the polis exhausted its possibilities in warfare and civil strife, cities evolved into empires, epitomized by Rome, and empires in turn gave way to the universal Catholic Church and finally the nation-state. Through readings of Aristotle, Augustine, Montaigne, and others, Manent charts an intellectual history of these political forms, allowing us to see that the dynamic of competition among them is a central force in the evolution of Western civilization. Scarred by the legacy of world wars, submerged in an increasingly technical transnational bureaucracy, indecisive in the face of proliferating crises of representative democracy, the European nation-state, Manent says, is nearing the end of its line. What new metamorphosis of the city will supplant it remains to be seen.
Author | : Kevin Lynch |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1964-06-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262620017 |
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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Author | : Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Discoveries in science |
ISBN | : |
Download Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Boulder Laboratories (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Airglow |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul Goldberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : David Grann |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2010-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400078458 |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned. “Suspenseful…rollicking.” —The New York Times In 1925, Percy Fawcett went into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle. Look for David Grann’s new book, The Wager, coming in April 2023!