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Sicily [videorecording] : Mediterranean jewel / by International Masters Publishers.(CARDINAL)480706; Global Television (Firm)(CARDINAL)589503;

DVD.Surrounded by three seas, Sicily boasts a wealth of wonders from rugged mountains, spouting volcanoes and rocky bays to sandy beaches, olive groves and vineyards. The cities are equally impressive combining ancient Greek temples and amphitheaters with an eclectic mix of architectural styles.

Subjects: Video recordings.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.;

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Mysteries of the mall : and other essays / by Rybczynski, Witold.(CARDINAL)135788;

Part one: the way we live today. Mysteries of the mall ; Godfathers of sprawl ; Big-city amenities. Trees. High-tech jobs. Cappucino. Retirement paradise. Nose rings ; Designs for escape ; Thoughts on Home -- Part two: our urban condition. Tocqueville, urban critic ; We're all Venetians now ; Downtown ; Bauhaus blunders ; Downsizing cities ; The fifth city ; Bollard burg ; New York's rumpus room ; Why we need Olmsted again -- Part three: the art of building. A distinguished failure ; Show dogs ; When buildings try too hard ; The unreal America ; The story king ; A good public building ; A blight at the opera ; Sounds as good as it looks ; The biggest small buildings ; Palladio in the rough -- Part four: place makers. The master ; Corbu ; Why Wright endures ; Call Arup ; Mr. Success ; The unfettered eclectic ; A humble architect ; The Zen master ; The smart man from Hollywood."A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Essays.; Cities and towns; City planning; Architecture and society;

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The living city : why cities don't need to be green to be great / by Fitzgerald, Des,author.(CARDINAL)878139;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. From London to New York and beyond, city governments are investing billions in planting trees, installing green roofs, and building micro-parks. The innovations get even bolder, from a "forest city" in China covered entirely by trees to a program in Melbourne that connects citizens, by email, to their local flora. All of these programs, as sociologist Des Fitzgerald points out, are founded on the same general assumption: there is something innately wrong or unhealthy with urban life today, and that nature holds the cure. In The Living City, he argues that this assumption is fundamentally flawed. Talking to the eclectic group of policymakers, urban planners, and dreamers who are building the city of the future, Fitzgerald explores the real roots of our desire to connect cities to nature. The Living City takes us on a tour of the green city movement, from healing forests of South-East Asia to the cognitive architecture of Southern California, through a lab examining the neuroscientific effects of our surroundings to a start-up that's crowd-mapping hidden nature in East London. Along the way, Fitzgerald untangles the often-centuries old ideas undergirding what, exactly, we mean when we think of "nature" - and why we see it as so irrevocably distant from city life. He argues that many urban design programs stem from a Romantic - and misguided -- view of nature. While he isn't opposed to green spaces, Fitzgerald wants to probe the efficacy of attempts to build them into cities. He argues that they aren't the ultimate panacea that many futurists think: after all, how can a line of trees, or an intrusive app designed to show you where those trees are located, truly improve physical and psychological health on a massive scale? At their most useless, green spaces can end up as flowery decorations, "healing" ways of pushing up house prices. Instead of using green space as a band-aid, Fitzgerald proposes that we examine and fix the root issues, like labor rights and work conditions, contributing to urban unease. Ultimately, he makes an argument for celebrating our cities as they are, not as we'd like them to be - in all of their noisy, constructed, artificial glory"--

Subjects: Cities and towns.; City and town life.; Urban policy.; City planning.;

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David Netto / by Netto, David,author.(CARDINAL)631339; Bland, Mita,illustrator.; Matsumoto, Takaaki,contributor.(CARDINAL)591620;

Town -- Country -- Escape -- Words about the value of tenacity and mentorship."For more than a decade, award-winning designer David Netto has been profiling the leading lights of the design world in lively, illuminating articles for numerous publications. Now, at long last, he turns his erudite eye and rapier wit to his own work as an interior and architectural designer. Featuring some 20 projects, ranging from city apartments and country houses to seaside and mountain getaways, David Netto reveals an eclectic aesthetic that brings to modernism a touch of warmth and personality and to traditionalism a jolt of energy and a dash of the exotic. Extensively photographed and with delightful watercolor illustrations by interiors artist Mita Bland, the book is as enlightening to read as it is inspiring to look at."--Amazon.com.

Subjects: Netto, David.; Interior decoration.; Furniture design.; House furnishings.;

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A history of interior design / by Pile, John F.(CARDINAL)123072;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-449) and index.Prehistory to early civilizations -- Classical civilizations: Greece and Rome -- Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque -- Islamic and Asian traditions -- The later Middle Ages -- The Renaissance in Italy -- Baroque and Rococo in Italy and Northern Europe -- Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo in France and Spain -- Renaissance to Georgian in the Low Countries and England -- Colonial and Federal America -- The regency, revivals, and industrial revolution -- The Victorian era -- The aesthetic movements -- Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession -- Eclecticism -- The emergence of Modernism -- Art deco and industrial design -- The spread of early Modernism in Europe -- Modernism in America -- The ascendancy of Modernism -- Contemporary design.

Subjects: Interior decoration; Interior architecture;

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