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In The Evolving European City, renowned urban planner and architect Giuseppe Marinoni and eminent photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte assemble a breathtaking presentation of cities that have undergone profound change in order to combat congestion, pollution, and the unsightliness of industrial wastelands. Marinoni conveys a profound belief that unified urban plans under the direction of one creative vision can bring an enhanced quality of life to city dwellers, provide them with the means to move easily to and from home, work, and at the same time ensure environmental sustainability. Chiaramonte, through his exquisite photographs of sites in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom, offers readers visual evidence of the architectural and infrastructure accomplishments of European urban projects over the last two decades. Beautifully presented in eye-opening detail, The Evolving European City is a timely representation of environmental sustainability and social progress in the modern age.

In The Evolving European City, renowned urban planner and architect Giuseppe Marinoni and eminent photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte assemble a breathtaking presentation of cities that have undergone profound change in order to combat congestion, pollution, and the unsightliness of industrial wastelands. Marinoni conveys a profound belief that unified urban plans under the direction of one creative vision can bring an enhanced quality of life to city dwellers, provide them with the means to move easily to and from home, work, and at the same time ensure environmental sustainability. Chiaramonte, through his exquisite photographs of sites in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom, offers readers visual evidence of the architectural and infrastructure accomplishments of European urban projects over the last two decades. Beautifully presented in eye-opening detail, The Evolving European City is a timely representation of environmental sustainability and social progress in the modern age.

In The Evolving European City, renowned urban planner and architect Giuseppe Marinoni and eminent photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte assemble a breathtaking presentation of cities that have undergone profound change in order to combat congestion, pollution, and the unsightliness of industrial wastelands. Marinoni conveys a profound belief that unified urban plans under the direction of one creative vision can bring an enhanced quality of life to city dwellers, provide them with the means to move easily to and from home, work, and at the same time ensure environmental sustainability. Chiaramonte, through his exquisite photographs of sites in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom, offers readers visual evidence of the architectural and infrastructure accomplishments of European urban projects over the last two decades. Beautifully presented in eye-opening detail, The Evolving European City is a timely representation of environmental sustainability and social progress in the modern age.

In The Evolving European City, renowned urban planner and architect Giuseppe Marinoni and eminent photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte assemble a breathtaking presentation of cities that have undergone profound change in order to combat congestion, pollution, and the unsightliness of industrial wastelands. Marinoni conveys a profound belief that unified urban plans under the direction of one creative vision can bring an enhanced quality of life to city dwellers, provide them with the means to move easily to and from home, work, and at the same time ensure environmental sustainability. Chiaramonte, through his exquisite photographs of sites in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom, offers readers visual evidence of the architectural and infrastructure accomplishments of European urban projects over the last two decades. Beautifully presented in eye-opening detail, The Evolving European City is a timely representation of environmental sustainability and social progress in the modern age.

In The Evolving European City, renowned urban planner and architect Giuseppe Marinoni and eminent photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte assemble a breathtaking presentation of cities that have undergone profound change in order to combat congestion, pollution, and the unsightliness of industrial wastelands. Marinoni conveys a profound belief that unified urban plans under the direction of one creative vision can bring an enhanced quality of life to city dwellers, provide them with the means to move easily to and from home, work, and at the same time ensure environmental sustainability. Chiaramonte, through his exquisite photographs of sites in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom, offers readers visual evidence of the architectural and infrastructure accomplishments of European urban projects over the last two decades. Beautifully presented in eye-opening detail, The Evolving European City is a timely representation of environmental sustainability and social progress in the modern age.

In "The English Home from Charles I. to George IV," J. Alfred Gotch meticulously examines the evolution of domestic architecture and design in England, spanning a transformative 200-year period. With a rich tapestry of historical narrative and vivid illustrations, Gotch contextualizes the aesthetics and functional aspects of English homes against societal shifts, including the rise of the middle class and changing cultural norms. His eloquent prose marries scholarly rigor with poetic flair, making this work a remarkable contribution to the fields of architectural history and cultural studies. Gotch draws from an extensive array of primary sources, allowing the reader to appreciate the nuanced relationship between architecture and the social fabric of the era. J. Alfred Gotch, a noted architect and historian, possessed a profound interest in how the built environment reflects societal values. His background in architecture and his passion for historical preservation fueled his desire to document the critical developments in English domestic architecture. Through his scholarly pursuits, Gotch aimed to illuminate how these changes served as both reflections and catalysts for broader cultural evolution during a time of significant political and social upheaval. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of architecture, history, and culture. Gotchs insightful analysis invites readers to not only understand the physical aspects of English homes but also to appreciate their role as vessels of historical memory and identity. Whether you are a historian, architect, or simply an enthusiast of English history, this work will enrich your understanding of the domestic spaces that shaped a nation.In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:- Handpicked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.

Great hosting isnt about perfectionits about connection. The Effortless Gatherer helps you create memorable, heartwarming get-togethers that feel easy, natural, and joyfully human. Whether its a potluck dinner, game night, or candlelit supper, this guide teaches you how to make gatherings glow with calm confidence.Filled with charm, humor, and real-world wisdom, The Effortless Gatherer transforms the way you hostmaking your home a place where people feel comfortable, connected, and cared for.Because the best hosts dont aim for perfectthey create peaceful joy.Welcome warmth. Share food. Make memories. Repeat.

The study of earthworks has been one of the most neglected subjects in English archology until quite recent years. It may even be said that during the first half of the 19th century, less attention was paid to earthworks than by our older topographical writers. Leland, in the reign of Henry VIII., never failed to notice the Dikes and Hilles, which were Campes of Men of Warre, nor the Hilles of Yerth cast up like the Dungeon of sum olde Castelle, which he saw in his pilgrimages through England. And many of our 17th- and 18th-century topographers have left us invaluable notices of earthworks which were extant in their time. But if we turn over the archological journals of some fifty years ago, we shall be struck by the paucity of papers on earthworks, and especially by the complete ignoring, in most cases, of those connected with castles.

The Cozy Corner reveals how to transform even the smallest space into a reading retreat that nurtures your mind and soul. More than a guide to interior styling, this book explores how light, color, texture, and placement combine to create an atmosphere that inspires reading and relaxation.Drawing on design principles, psychology of space, and practical organization tips, youll learn how to choose the right seating, lighting, and decor for focus and tranquility. Whether you live in a tiny apartment or spacious house, this book walks you through step-by-step projects to build your ideal reading nookcustomized to your personality, taste, and lifestyle.Filled with photos, layout ideas, and creative touches, The Cozy Corner shows you that the perfect reading space isnt about sizeits about intention, comfort, and inspiration.

Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect grown your own environments and ensured that many households were supplied with their own fruit and vegetables throughout the year. This book offers an insight into the digging and sowing of these gardens, as well as exploring how walled gardens contributed towards a sustainable lifestyle and often were a source of not just food, but also natural medicines. A wealth of contemporary illustrations, material from archives, gardening manuals, seed catalogues, engravings and other documents, paint a vivid picture of the country house kitchen garden and its development over three and a half centuries. This delightful book recounts an important part of our historic houses and their national heritage to be enjoyed by gardeners and non-gardeners alike.

The subject which we have here treated is a sort of figurative battle-field, where fierce contests have for ages been from time to time waged; and, notwithstanding the determined assaults of the attacking hosts, the contention and its cause remain pretty much as they were at the commencement of the war. We in the matter remain strictly neutral, merely performing the part of the publics "own correspondent," making it our duty to gather together such extracts from despatches, both ancient and modern, as may prove interesting or important, to take note of the vicissitudes of war, mark its various phases, and, in fine, to do our best to lay clearly before our readers the historical factsexperiences and argumentsrelating to the much-discussed "Corset question."

Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly the very symbol of democracy itself, instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how?In this book William St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview. He explores its role and meaning by weaving together a range of textual and visual sources into two innovative oratorical experiments a speech in the style of Thucydides and a first-century CE rhetorical exercise which are used to develop a narrative analysis of the temple structure, revealing a strange story of indigeneity, origins, and empire.The Classical Parthenon offers new answers to old questions, such as the riddle of the Parthenon frieze, and provides a framing device for the wider relationship between visual artefacts, built heritage, and layers of accumulated cultural rhetoric. This groundbreaking and pertinent work will appeal across the disciplines to readers interested in the classics, art history, and the nature of history, while also speaking to a general audience that is interrogating the role of monuments in contemporary society.

Lively, irreverent and insightful.Lauren ElkinLike Jon Ronson on town planners ... Endlessly funny, seriously smart.John GrindrodCities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks. So goes the argument. But is it true? What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there?Here, Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life, from shimmering edifices in the Arizona desert to forest-bathing in deepest Wales, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings. Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of todays green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are - in all their raucous, constructed and artificial glory.

The churches, chapels and meeting houses of Cork are the bedrock of the city. They represent the finest of architecture, house some of our most treasured art and their development mirrors and records the growth of the city itself. A comprehensive and accessible guide for locals, tourists and historians, this work provides a fascinating insight into the wider history of Cork for well over a thousand years.

Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou lectures on Byzantine Studies at the Open University, and is an expert on the art and society of Venetian-dominated Crete (1211-1669). During this period, Crete was perhaps the most important Venetian stronghold in the Mediterranean . The traditional view that there was little cultural interaction between the native Greek Orthodox population and the Venetian colonists has recently been cast in doubt. From the early fourteenth century onwards, the two ethnically and religiously different inhabitants of Crete formed in fact a hybrid society, and Cretan artistic development reflects this progress. The book focuses as a case study on the church of the Archangel Michael at Kavalariana. This is a small church in the village of Kavalariana on the south-western part of the island. It is dated by a dedicatory inscription to the year 1327/28. The conservative iconographic programme of the wall paintings inside the church consists of seventeen religious scenes and thirty-three isolated saintly figures. As the paintings are signed Ioannes, they have been attributed to the prolific fourteenth-century Cretan artist Ioannes Pagomenos. A close examination of the style and comparisons with Pagomenos oeuvre suggest, however, that Ioannes of Kavalariana was a separate artist with an identity of his own. A unique feature of the Kavalariana cycle is the pro-Venetian inscription which, in combination with the fourteen portraits of the donors that appear in the church, forms an important witness to Venetian/Cretan cultural interaction.

Sancta Sophia is the most interesting building on the worlds surface. Like Karnak in Egypt, or the Athenian Parthenon, it is one of the four great pinnacles of architecture, but unlike them this is no ruin, nor does it belong to a past world of constructive ideas although it precedes by seven hundred years the fourth culmination of the building art in Chartres, Amiens, or Bourges, and thus must ever stand as the supreme monument of the Christian cycle. Far from being a ruin, the church is one of the best preserved of so ancient monuments, and in regard to its treatment by the Turks we can only be grateful that S. Sophia has not been situated in the more learned cities of Europe, such as Rome, Aachen, or Oxford, during the period of revived interest in ecclesiastical antiquities. Our first object has been to attempt some disentanglement of the history of the Church and an analysis of its design and construction; on the one hand, we have been led a step or two into the labyrinth of Constantinopolitan topography, on the other, we have thought that the great Church offers the best point of view for the observation of the Byzantine theory of building.

Delving into the sublime architecture and rich history of the Gothic cathedrals that punctuate the landscape of Northern France, M. F. Mansfields "The Cathedrals of Northern France" is a masterful exploration into sacred spaces. The book intricately weaves together detailed historical narratives with evocative descriptions of each cathedrals artistic and architectural features, employing a lyrical prose style that mirrors the soaring heights of the cathedrals themselves. Mansfield situates the cathedrals within their broader socio-cultural context, examining how they served as both spiritual centers and symbols of regional pride throughout various epochs, thus illuminating their enduring significance in the collective consciousness of France. M. F. Mansfield, an esteemed scholar in Gothic architecture with a background in art history, was inspired to write this book by her profound appreciation for the craftsmanship and religious fervor embodied in these monumental structures. Her years of study in France, coupled with firsthand experiences of these cathedrals, inform her writing, intermingling scholarly insight with passionate narratives. Mansfields explorations reveal how these edifices reflect the values and aspirations of the societies that created them, offering readers a deeper understanding of their cultural legacy. This book is highly recommended for enthusiasts of architecture, history, and those captivated by the spiritual narratives conveyed through artistry. Mansfields engaging approach and insightful observations render "The Cathedrals of Northern France" not just a scholarly work, but an invitation to appreciate the beauty and significance of these historic landmarks.

In "The Cathedrals of Northern France," M. F. Mansfield provides readers with an in-depth exploration of the architectural wonders that are the cathedrals in Northern France. Through detailed descriptions and vibrant imagery, Mansfield captures the essence of each cathedral, highlighting the intricate details and historical significance of these towering structures. The book is written in a scholarly yet accessible style, making it suitable for both seasoned art historians and curious enthusiasts alike. Mansfields attention to detail and passion for the subject shine through in every page, immersing readers in the beauty and complexity of these magnificent buildings. Situating the cathedrals within their cultural and historical context, Mansfield provides a rich tapestry of information that enhances the readers understanding of these architectural marvels. For anyone with an interest in art, architecture, or history, "The Cathedrals of Northern France" is a must-read. Mansfields expertise and love for the subject make this book a comprehensive and engaging exploration of some of the worlds most stunning architectural achievements.

The companion reissue to The Spirit of London, this classic text from 1934 is still an invaluable aid to understanding Englands cathedrals. It aims to give a brief account, and pictorial review, of each cathedral in England. Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the subject. From mighty York minster, Durham and Canterbury through St Albans to Ripon and Southwark, all the cathedrals are covered. The full list of cathedrals covered are: Bristol, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, London, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, St Albans, Salisbury, Southwark, Southwell, Wells, Winchester, Worcester, York. Also the Parish church cathedrals of Birmingham, Blackburn, Bradford, Chelmsford, Coventry, Derby, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, St Edmundsbury, Sheffield and Wakefield. Not only does it have the stunning Brian Cook illustration on the cover (Gloucester Cathedral), but several of Brians line drawings are used inside the book. A beautiful book to have on any shelf, this is also a practical guide that still works as a reference guide. It should be stocked in all the cathedral shops across England! The companion reissue to The Spirit of London, this classic text from 1934 is still an invaluable aid to understanding Englands cathedrals. It aims to give a brief account, and pictorial review, of each cathedral in England. Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the subject. From mighty York minster, Durham and Canterbury through St Albans to Ripon and Southwark, all the cathedrals are covered. The full list of cathedrals covered are: Bristol, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, London, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, St Albans, Salisbury, Southwark, Southwell, Wells, Winchester, Worcester, York. Also the Parish church cathedrals of Birmingham, Blackburn, Bradford, Chelmsford, Coventry (pre-war building), Derby, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, St Edmundsbury, Sheffield and Wakefield. Not only does it have the stunning Brian Cook illustration on the cover (Gloucester Cathedral), but several of Brians line drawings are used inside the book. A beautiful book to have on any shelf, this is also a practical guide that still works as a reference guide. It should be stocked in all the cathedral shops across England!

The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine is a profile for cathedrals and churches that can be found along the Rhine river, which begins in the Swiss canton of Graubunden in the southeastern Swiss Alps and flows into the Netherlands where it eventually empties into the North Sea. Featured locations include the Cologne Cathedral, Abbey of Laach, and Schaffhausen Cathedral.