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1) Dakota
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Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Brawling western saga with John Wayne battling land grabbers in the Dakota territory.
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Français
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Les architectes, les urbanistes et parfois les architectes de paysage mentionnent dans leurs biographies professionnelles le « design urbain » comme appartenant à leur champ d'expertise. Les architectes, les urbanistes et les architectes de paysage seraient-ils naturellement des designers urbains? Et le design urbain ne serait-il qu'une activité connexe de l'urbanisme, de l'architecture de paysage et plus encore de l’architecture? Cela a été...
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Español
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Durante las últimas décadas han tenido lugar numerosas iniciativas artísticas en Bogotá, que han logrado cierta visibilidad y significación, gracias a su capacidad de incidir en la producción de espacios públicos, por su papel en la visibilización de sectores marginados de la ciudad, por la participación de sus agentes en las pugnas por la garantía de los derechos culturales de amplias
franjas poblacionales, por la profundización de procesos...
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English
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The digital intelligence that is inevitably starting to penetrate every aspect of our previously analogue systems of living, working or social interacting calls for new models of designing our city and opens new territories of experimentation in the processes related to urban design.
While the idea of intelligent machines that simulate "cognitive functions" such as "learning" or "problem solving" is not new, its extensive use, in recent years,...
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English
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A visionary survey of urbanism from the Middle Ages to the late 1930s, with a new introduction by Thomas Fisher Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford-a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker-The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to rebuild the urban world on a sounder human foundation. First published in 1938, this radical investigation into the human...
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English
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The scale, complexity and pace of urban change in the recent past has been disorienting. As individual cities evolve into complex urban agglomerations, sometimes called city-regions, urban scholars battle to find adequate vocabularies for contemporary urban processes while practitioners continually search for meaningful governance responses. Governing Complex City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century explores the ongoing evolution of regional and metropolitan...
7) Eiffel Tower
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English
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"Eiffel Tower: A Monumental Journey" delves into the enchanting story of the world-renowned Eiffel Tower. This comprehensive book unfolds the Tower's rich tapestry, from its historical inception to its modern-day significance. We begin with a vivid exploration of the Tower's past, revealing the vision behind its creation and its evolution into a global icon. The journey then takes a romantic turn, illuminating the Eiffel Tower's status as a symbol...
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English
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The life of the visionary conservationist who created the Appalachian Trail is chronicled in this "first-rate biography of a unique American thinker" (Mark Harvey, Journal of American History).
Born in 1879, Wilderness Society cofounder Benton MacKaye was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation and recreation. Spanning three-quarters of a century, his career had a major impact on emerging movements in conservation, environmentalism, and...
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Français
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En cinquante ans, le centre-ville de Montréal a vu s'implanter un réseau piétonnier protégé de près de 30 kilomètres, donnant accès à ce qu'on appelle maintenant la ville intérieure. Le « RÉSO », entièrement accessible au public, comprend des stations de métro et des gares, des halls d'immeubles, de bureaux et d'habitation, des galeries marchandes, des pavillons universitaires et bien d'autres structures. Toronto a connu avec le «...
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English
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"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers" Alison Isenberg is professor of history at Princeton University, where she codirects the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. She is the author of Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It.
A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco
Designing...
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English
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Robert M. Fogelson is professor emeritus of urban studies and history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books about American urban history, including The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917–1929; Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930; and Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950.
One of the nation's foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through...
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English
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"Winner of the John Friedmann Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning" "Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize, Society of City and Regional Planning History" Brian D. Goldstein is associate professor of architectural history in the Department of Art and Art History at Swarthmore College.
An acclaimed history of Harlem's journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance
With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today's...
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