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English Country House Interiors
Jeremy Musson
(2011)
Hardcover - 272 pages
Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 0847835693
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A highly detailed look at the English country house interior, offering unprecedented access to England's finest rooms. In this splendid book, renowned historian Jeremy Musson explores the interiors and decoration of the great country houses of England, offering a brilliantly detailed presentation of the epitome of style in each period of the country house, including the great Jacobean manor house, the Georgian mansion, and the Gothic Revival castle. For the first time, houses known worldwide for their exquisite architecture and decoration - including Wilton in Wiltshire, Chatsworth in Derbyshire, and North Yorkshire's Castle Howard - are seen in unprecedented detail. With intimate views of fabric, gilding, carving, and furnishings, the book will be a source of inspiration to interior designers, architects, and home owners, and a must-have for anglophiles and historic house enthusiasts.
The fifteen houses included represent the key periods in the history of English country house decoration and cover the major interior fashions and styles. Stunning new color photographs by Paul Barker - who was given unparalleled access to the houses - offer readers new insights into the enduring English country house style. Supplementing these are unique black-and-white images from the archive of the esteemed Country Life magazine.
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The Buildings of England - Yorkshire: York and the East Riding
Nikolaus Pevsner, David Neave (Editor)
(2002)
Hardcover - 832 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300095937
Synopsis by publisher:
This volume sheds light on the pride of the region - the great medieval churches of York Minster, the Minster and St Mary at Beverley, and Holy Trinity, Hull but also on less well known architectural pleasures of town and county. Outstanding Victorian village churches, including masterpieces by Street & Pearson, are as rewarding as the major country houses of Burton Agnes, Burton Constable and Sledmere. The countryside offers a wide range of monuments, from the beautifully sited ruins of Kirkham Priory to the spectacular Humber Bridge. Farmhouses and cottages of the Wolds, picturesque estate villages and chapels, and industrial structures are all brought into focus. A large section is devoted to York and includes a survey of the historic buildings of the city centre from the Roman period onwards. This is complemented by a detailed exploration of York's eighteenth and nineteenth-century suburbs. Equal care has been applied to the descriptions of Beverley, with its attractive townscape, and the port of Hull, where unexpected highlights include seventeenth-century merchant houses, Georgian almshouses, ornate Victorian pubs and grand Edwardian public buildings.
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Dead Cities: And Other Tales
Mike Davis
(2004)
Paperback - 448 pages
The New Press
ISBN: 1565848446
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Now in paperback, a brilliant book in which radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the decline of the American city. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, federal policy - as well as the areas he calls "national sacrifice zones" where warfare and arms production have rendered the landscape uninhabitable. The apocalyptic tour of urban America includes as destinations New York, Utah, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Los Angeles and San Diego. As Mike Davis shows in this extraordinary book, prophecies of urban doom too often come true. Writing by the light of burning cities - Berlin in 1945, L.A. in 1992, and New York in 2001 - he explores the future of urban life in the face of catastrophic terrorism, global warming, and runaway capitalism. His unifying theme - and challenge to conventional theory - is the radical contingency of the metropolis.
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Tourists in Historic Towns: Urban Conservation and Heritage Management
Aylin Orbasli
(2000)
Paperback - 228 pages
Spon Press
ISBN: 0419259309
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
For the tourist industry, history has become a product that can be marketed, sold and even re-created. Historic settlements and urban areas have become products for consumers seeking an experience. This text examines the relationship of culture, heritage, conservation and tourism development in historic towns and urban centres, debating the impacts of tourism on historic towns and the role tourism plays in conservation and urban continuity. Discussing long-term planning and effective management, based on strategic decision making which is multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional, the book aims to provide guidance in tourism development and visitor management for historic towns, in support of sustainable development objectives and community development. The main focus of the book is medium-sized historic towns and historic quarters which are attractive to the tourist market, but historic quarters in large cities and smaller rural settlements are not excluded. The book covers historic towns that are established or emerging on the tourist market in both developed and developing countries. Alongside over a hundred examples of historic towns, five historic towns are discussed as case studies: Granada, Spain; York, England; Mdina, Malta; Antalya, Turkey and Quedlinburg, Germany. Aylin Orbasli is a trained architect and specialist on the subject of historic towns, tourism, conservation and development. She actively works in the field both as a practitioner and as a consultant, also continuing to research the subject. She works internationally as a consultant, advising on heritage management, tourism planning and development.
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Splintering Urbanism
Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin
(2001)
Paperback - 400 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415189659
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Two defining processes shape our age: the urbanization of our planet and the uneven connections of globalization. Both are underpinned by radical transformations of networked infrastructures: telecommunications, transport, energy, water, and even urban streets. "Splintering Urbanism" offers an analysis of the contemporary urban condition through the lens of such infrastructure networks. It develops an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks, new technologies, and contemporary urban spaces. The text offers a perspective on: globalization and the city; technology and the city; urban, architectural and social theory; infrastructure, architecture and the built environment; social, economic and physical transformations in cities; and developed, post-colonial and post-communist worlds. To illustrate these discussions, "Splintering Urbanism" brings together a global selection of case studies, examples and boxed extracts. These take the reader on a global journey encompassing financial districts in New York and Tokyo; e-commerce spaces and logistics hubs in London and the US; new media districts in San Francisco; new megacities in China and South-East Asia; malls in Atlanta and Singapore; back office zones in Jamaica and Northern England; gated communities in Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Manila and Bombay (Mumbai); and network ghettos in the US, UK and the developing world. "Splintering Urbanism" should be valuable reading for urbanists, geographers, planners, architects, sociologists, researchers in science and technology and communications studies, and all those seeking a definitive statement of the contemporary urban condition.
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After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City
Michael Sorkin (Editor), Sharon Zukin (Editor)
(2002)
Hardcover - 240 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415934796
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The September 11 attacks transformed all of New York City, not just the historic financial district of lower Manhattan. In "After the World Trade Center", the social critics Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin call on nineteen of New York's best urbanists to consider the attack and its aftermath in the broadest context. These essays provide a panoramic social portrait of the city at a new crossroads, one that both reflects New York's pre-eminent role as a financial and cultural capital and reveals the fault lines under the last few years of rapid growth. The essays point to a manifesto for a democratically planned New York, where all the city's communities from Tribeca to Chinatown and Jackson Heights count. But while the city still digs through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey to control the right to rebuild "ground zero". Financial firms line up for sweetheart deals. Architects and planners debate surveillance schemes over New York's boisterous public life, and proposals for memorials are gaining in appeal. Though these processes are taking form, none has achieved a political consensus. Through a multitude of perspective on the emerging city, "After the World Trade Center" provides alternative visions to the expected landscape of power.
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