Author: René-Charles PlanckePublisher:
ISBN: 9782868491053
Category : Railroads
Languages : fr
Pages : 511
Book Description
Le chemin de fer en Seine-et-Marne: De la vapeur au T.G.V
Author: René-Charles PlanckePublisher:
ISBN: 9782868491053
Category : Railroads
Languages : fr
Pages : 511
Book Description
Le chemin de fer de Seine-et-Marne (1). De la vapeur au T.G.V.
Author: René-Charles PlanckePublisher: FeniXX
ISBN: 230744632X
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 516
Book Description
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Le chemin de fer en Touraine
Author: Jean-Luc PéchinotPublisher:
ISBN: 9782868811721
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 51
Book Description
French books in print, anglais
Author: ElectrePublisher:
ISBN: 9782765407881
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 1846
Book Description
Railroad Record and Journal of Commerce, Banking, Manufactures and Statistics
Author: Shipbuilders of the Thames and Medway
Author: Philip BanburyPublisher: Newton Abbot : David and Charles
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Environmental and Water Resources History
Author: Jerry R. RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Annotation Twenty-four contributions address the history of various government and academic organizations that have played a role in the nation's water resources and environmental activities. Papers address topics including environmental engineering history and developments, hydraulic engineering pioneers, Bureau of Reclamation history and developments, university water and hydraulic education and research, hydrology and water resource planning, and an invited paper discussing the history of life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama rivers. Six contributions discuss the formation of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) and the history of ASCE technical divisions and codes and standards activities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Thailand, Angkor (Cambodia)
Author: Johanna DittmarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angkor (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Architecture and Nihilism
Author: Massimo CacciariPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300052152
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Massimo Cacciari, one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today, is the founder of the trend of criticism known as "negative thought" that focuses on the failure of traditional logic to explicate the problems of modernity. This book, which introduces his writings to an English-speaking audience, provides a striking social and philosophical account of the twentieth-century metropolis. Patrizia Lombardo's extensive introduction situates Cacciari's thought within the milieu of Italian political activism and philosophy between the 1960s and the 1980s, from his collaboration on the leftist journal Contropiano to his long association with Manfredo Tafuri." "Cacciari studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists, and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society. He begins by defining the modern metropolis, using the terms and ideas of Georg Simmel and Max Weber, but revealing where their frameworks are limited. He then examines the work of Adolf Loos and other architects and designers in early twentieth-century Vienna, showing how their architecture and criticism expose the alienation and utopianism in notions of the organic city. Cacciari demonstrates how architecture intersects with the city and the state but also with the interior of the private dwelling and with its resistance to the external world. Bringing together philosophy, sociology, urbanism, labor history, economics, and aesthetics, he helps us comprehend via these disciplines a crucial period in the history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Invisible Gardens
Author: Peter WalkerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262731164
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthetic. The major protagonists include Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Marx, Isamu Noguchi, Luis Barragan, Daniel Urban Kiley, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, Ian McHarg, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo. They were the pioneers of a new profession in America, the first to offer alternatives to the historic landscape and the park tradition, as well as to the suburban sprawl and other unplanned developments of twentieth-century cities and institutions. The work is described against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Second World War, the postwar recovery, American corporate expansion, and the environmental revolution. The authors look at unbuilt schemes as well as actual gardens, ranging from tiny backyards and play spaces to urban plazas and corporate villas. Some of the projects discussed already occupy a canonical position in modern landscape architecture; others deserve a similar place but are less well known. The result is a record of landscape architecture's cultural contribution - as distinctly different in history, intent, and procedure from its sister fields of architecture and planning - during the years when it was acquiring professional status and struggling to define a modernist aesthetic out of the startling changes in postwar America.