Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings, Hardcover - Owen Hatherley

Reducere. When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast...

An evocative historical journey in search of the landscapes that communism built, exploring the original ideas behind the region's immense boulevar...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Owen HatherleyNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 182 x 266 x 62Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

How to make a fairer, more just city From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner ...

DescriptionOver the past 20 years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centers, supermodernist concert...

A History of the Church through its Buildings takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces wher...

The book that immerses the Cold War in the warm bath of nostalgia.

A polemical history of municipal socialism in London - and an argument for turning this capitalist capital red again. A polemical history of munici...

Will to Freedom is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an ...

Argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. This work features chapters ranging fr...

Publisher: Film & Video UmbrellaAuthor(s): Owen HatherleyIllustration(s): 16 film stillsNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 177 x ...

Should Britain form a new union with its old 'Dominions' in Canada, Australia andNew Zealand? Are they really our closest allies and relations? And...

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The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar min...

Reducere. In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison tells stories of people and places that have nourished his career as a teacher and a designer of nature-insp...

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the buildings of Colchester have changed and developed over the las...

Reducere. Every city has a look and feel that informs how people respond to it. Visitors react to the skyline, clean streets, traffic patterns and the like, ...

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A unique history of Christianity in the British Isles, told through its sacred buildings - from ancient, wooden churches to lofty cathedralsPublish...

This attractive and cleverly structured guide gives walkers the ten best walks through the fascinating historic landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales N...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...

Reducere. A fascinating analysis of the decline and fall of Western communism by a participant observer.

Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes...

The story of a great shipping line and its vessels through conflicts, in rare postcards and images

Reducere. Four billion years in the palm of your hand, Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects is the story of our planet as you've never seen it ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anatole KonstantinThis book is the story of the men who believed they knew how to create an ideal world, and in its name di...

The story of London, told through twelve of its most seminal buildings. 'Excellent ...this is an imaginative book that finds a convincing new way t...

This book explores the Hungarian Communist Party's (HCP) political operation, which was intertwined with the history of the country itself. It is b...

Reducere. The rugged beauty of the Cape's landscape has been captured in writing since the days of Henry David Thoreau. Yet few mention the area's architectu...

Reducere. Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-...

Reducere. Communism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements the world has ever seen. At the height of their influence, Communists c...

DescriptionThis book presents guidance, theory, methodologies, and case studies for analyzing tree rings to accurately date and interpret historic ...

Reducere. DescriptionSimonton, Duval, Eaton, Whitehead, Southard, Truman--if you discover how these Key West streets, and all the others, came by their names...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of England, then keep reading...There are few places that entice the imagination quite like England...

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Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford travel across the country to tell the story of the nati...