Life Between Buildings

". . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening..." --Jane Jacobs "This book will have a lasting infl uence on the future quality of public open spac...

Reducere. This publication wants to transmit the constant values of the Seung H-Sang's architecture, which has been routed on principles and ideals driven by...

Italy's famous sights are all to be found here - St Peter's in Rome, Naples with Vesuvius smouldering in the background and canals of Venice. In th...

DescriptionPart guide for the aspiring home florist, part ode to rural interiors and buildings, A Tree in the House celebrates the art of arranging...

DescriptionWhat can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects - a survey and expl...

DescriptionMoscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991 provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period...

Reducere. This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban f...

Reducere. Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as follies, from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration...

In 1970 a group of illegal squatters broke into an abandoned military base in the center of Copenhagen. They found vast swathes of forested land, h...

Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, distribute, and consume. Digit...

Reducere. From the master of contemporary urban fantasy, a new collection of "Newford" storiesThe city of Newford could be any city in North America, burstin...

Reducere. At age six, January ("Jani") Schofield was diagnosed with one of the most severe cases of child-onset schizophrenia on record. Hallucinating consta...

Reducere. Situated in southeastern Harford County and edged by the Chesapeake Bay and the Bush and Gunpowder Rivers, the U.S. Army bases known as Aberdeen Pr...

Reducere. DescriptionNew York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American sub...

Reducere. Dorchester was settled in 1630 by Puritans from England, and for over two hundred years it remained a small farming community. However, the arrival...

Reducere. Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames...

In 2010, Richard Merrick took a family trip to Scotland's Rosslyn chapel--the enigmatic fifteenth-century temple made famous by Dan Brown's The Da ...

Reducere. The story of Alabama's five capitals--St. Stephens, Huntsville, Cahawba, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery--begins in a rough semi-civilized Washington Co...

Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. All family names that still adorn buildings, streets and charity foundations. While the men blazed across A...

This wonderful new book takes us back in time to visit the rural communities that thrived along the banks of the Kennebec River around the turn of ...