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Landscape planning for a new Australian town
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Kent McCoy |
Many people I have talked to ,who have read this book ,consider it the most comprehensive and revealing description of the crucial role a landscape architect plays in developing idealized environment… |
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Chandigarh
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Bärbel Högner |
In the nineteen-fifties the architectural profession turned its gaze towards India where Le Corbusier had been commissioned to build an ideal modern city. Today, Chandigarh is a pulsating metropolis … |
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Salvage
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Robert Edric |
The far north of England, one hundred years in the future, the Gulf stream has ceased: Quinn has been appointed by the government to conduct an audit on a remote area of land designated for a new mod… |
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Ghost cities of China
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Wade Shepard |
"Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban popula… |
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Dreamstreets
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Jacqueline Yallop |
[The author] began her working life leading guided walks at a small village ... Built by philanthropic employers for families working the lead mines, the isolated settlement was one of a network of '… |
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Celebrating Chandigarh
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Jaspreet Takhar |
This book documents one aspect of the conference and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the conception of the city of Chandigarh, held Jan. 9-11, 1999, by providing an analysis of issues that are… |
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