Growing greener cities [[electronic resource] ] : urban sustainability in the twenty-first century / / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.76 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BirchEugenie Ladner
WachterSusan M |
Collana | The city in the twenty-first century |
Soggetto topico |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning - Environmental aspects Urban beautification - Environmental aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Architecture
Fine Art Garden History Political Science Public Policy Urban Studies |
ISBN |
1-283-89039-9
0-8122-0409-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface: common ground, common good / Amy Gutmann -- Introduction: urban greening and the green city ideal / Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter -- Greening at every scale: nation to roof tops -- Taking the initiative: why cities are greening now / Tom Daniels -- Growing greener regions / Robert D. Yaro and David M. Kooris -- The inter-regional dimension: the greening of London and the wider South East / Robin Thompson -- Greening cities: a public realm approach / Alexander Garvin -- Growing greener, New York style / Rachel Weinberger -- Greener homes, greener cities: expanding affordable housing and strengthening cities through sustainable residential development / Stockton Williams and Dana L. Bourland -- Getting greening done -- Urban stream restoration: recovering ecological services in degraded watersheds / Rutherford H. Platt ... [et al.] -- The role of citizen activists in urban infrastructure development / Paul R. Brown -- Blue-green practices: why they work and why they have been so difficult to implement through public policy / Charlie Miller -- The roots of the urban greening movement / Victor Rubin -- Leveraging media for social change / Harry Wiland and Dale Bell -- Transformation through greening / J. Blaine Bonham, Jr., and Patricia L. Smith -- Community development finance and the green city / Jeremy Nowak -- Growing edible cities / Domenic Vitiello -- Measuring urban greening -- Ecosystem services and the green city / Dennis D. Hirsch -- Metro nature: its functions, benefits, and values / Kathleen L. Wolf -- Green investment strategies: how they matter for urban neighborhoods / Susan M. Wachter, Kevin C. Gillen, and Carolyn R. Brown -- Measuring the economic impacts of greening: the center for neighborhood technology green values calculator / Julia Kennedy, Peter Haas, and Bill Eyring -- What makes today's green city? / Warren Karlenzig -- Afterword / Neal Peirce -- List of contributors. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788510403321 |
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Growing greener cities [[electronic resource] ] : urban sustainability in the twenty-first century / / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.76 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BirchEugenie Ladner
WachterSusan M |
Collana | The city in the twenty-first century |
Soggetto topico |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning - Environmental aspects Urban beautification - Environmental aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Architecture
Fine Art Garden History Political Science Public Policy Urban Studies |
ISBN |
1-283-89039-9
0-8122-0409-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface: common ground, common good / Amy Gutmann -- Introduction: urban greening and the green city ideal / Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter -- Greening at every scale: nation to roof tops -- Taking the initiative: why cities are greening now / Tom Daniels -- Growing greener regions / Robert D. Yaro and David M. Kooris -- The inter-regional dimension: the greening of London and the wider South East / Robin Thompson -- Greening cities: a public realm approach / Alexander Garvin -- Growing greener, New York style / Rachel Weinberger -- Greener homes, greener cities: expanding affordable housing and strengthening cities through sustainable residential development / Stockton Williams and Dana L. Bourland -- Getting greening done -- Urban stream restoration: recovering ecological services in degraded watersheds / Rutherford H. Platt ... [et al.] -- The role of citizen activists in urban infrastructure development / Paul R. Brown -- Blue-green practices: why they work and why they have been so difficult to implement through public policy / Charlie Miller -- The roots of the urban greening movement / Victor Rubin -- Leveraging media for social change / Harry Wiland and Dale Bell -- Transformation through greening / J. Blaine Bonham, Jr., and Patricia L. Smith -- Community development finance and the green city / Jeremy Nowak -- Growing edible cities / Domenic Vitiello -- Measuring urban greening -- Ecosystem services and the green city / Dennis D. Hirsch -- Metro nature: its functions, benefits, and values / Kathleen L. Wolf -- Green investment strategies: how they matter for urban neighborhoods / Susan M. Wachter, Kevin C. Gillen, and Carolyn R. Brown -- Measuring the economic impacts of greening: the center for neighborhood technology green values calculator / Julia Kennedy, Peter Haas, and Bill Eyring -- What makes today's green city? / Warren Karlenzig -- Afterword / Neal Peirce -- List of contributors. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820900103321 |
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Haunted visions [[electronic resource] ] : spiritualism and American art / / Charles Colbert |
Autore | Colbert Charles <1946-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 319 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 701/.08 |
Collana | The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America |
Soggetto topico |
Art, American - 19th century
Spiritualism - United States - History Spiritualism in art |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Architecture Fine Art Garden History |
ISBN |
1-283-89791-1
0-8122-0499-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The History and Teachings of Spiritualism -- Who Speaks for the Dead? -- Reenchanting America -- Revelations by Daylight -- Ghostly Gloamings -- Land of Promise -- Romantic Conjurations -- The Critic as Psychic -- Lessons in Clairvoyance. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788582903321 |
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Haunted visions [[electronic resource] ] : spiritualism and American art / / Charles Colbert |
Autore | Colbert Charles <1946-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 319 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 701/.08 |
Collana | The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America |
Soggetto topico |
Art, American - 19th century
Spiritualism - United States - History Spiritualism in art |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Architecture Fine Art Garden History |
ISBN |
1-283-89791-1
0-8122-0499-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The History and Teachings of Spiritualism -- Who Speaks for the Dead? -- Reenchanting America -- Revelations by Daylight -- Ghostly Gloamings -- Land of Promise -- Romantic Conjurations -- The Critic as Psychic -- Lessons in Clairvoyance. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821885003321 |
Colbert Charles <1946->
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Ideas of Chinese gardens : Western accounts, 1300-1860 / / edited by Bianca Maria Rinaldi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina | 712/.60951 |
Collana | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture |
Soggetto topico |
Gardens, Chinese - China - History
Gardens - China - History Landscape architecture - China - History Aesthetics, Oriental Voyages and travels - History Travelers' writings - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Architecture Asian Studies Cultural Studies Fine Art Garden History Literature Middle Eastern Studies |
ISBN | 0-8122-9208-1 |
Classificazione | LO 89425 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Marco Polo (c. 1254–1324) -- Chapter 2. Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) -- Chapter 3. Álvaro Semedo (1585/1586–1658) -- Chapter 4. Johannes Nieuhof (1618–72) -- Chapter 5. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707) -- Chapter 6. Louis Le Comte (1655–1728) -- Chapter 7. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707) -- Chapter 8. Matteo Ripa (1682–1746) -- Chapter 9. Jean-Denis Attiret (1702–68) -- Chapter 10. William Chambers (1723–96) -- Chapter 11. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–93) -- Chapter 12. John Bell (1691–1763) -- Chapter 13. Michel Benoist (1715–74) -- Chapter 14. François Bourgeois (1723–92) -- Chapter 15. Carl Gustav Ekeberg (1716–84) -- Chapter 16. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 17. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–93) or Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 18. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 19. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 20. George Leonard Staunton (1737–1801) -- Chapter 21. André Everard van Braam Houckgeest (1739–1801) -- Chapter 22. John Barrow (1764–1848) -- Chapter 23. George Macartney (1737–1806) -- Chapter 24. Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759–1845) -- Chapter 25. Félix Renouard de Sainte-Croix (1767–1840) -- Chapter 26. Peter Dobell (1772–1852) -- Chapter 27. James Main (c. 1765–1846) -- Chapter 28. John Francis Davis (1795–1890) -- Chapter 29. Robert Fortune (1813–80) -- Chapter 30. Osmond Tiffany, Jr. (1823–95) -- Chapter 31. Henry Charles Sirr (1807–72) -- Chapter 32. Robert Fortune (1813–80) -- Chapter 33. Charles Taylor (1819–97) -- Chapter 34. Robert Swinhoe (1836–77) -- Chapter 35. Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833–1913) -- Appendix. William Chambers (1723–96) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797714403321 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016 | ||
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Ideas of Chinese gardens : Western accounts, 1300-1860 / / edited by Bianca Maria Rinaldi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina | 712/.60951 |
Collana | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture |
Soggetto topico |
Gardens, Chinese - China - History
Gardens - China - History Landscape architecture - China - History Aesthetics, Oriental Voyages and travels - History Travelers' writings - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Architecture Asian Studies Cultural Studies Fine Art Garden History Literature Middle Eastern Studies |
ISBN | 0-8122-9208-1 |
Classificazione | LO 89425 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Marco Polo (c. 1254–1324) -- Chapter 2. Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) -- Chapter 3. Álvaro Semedo (1585/1586–1658) -- Chapter 4. Johannes Nieuhof (1618–72) -- Chapter 5. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707) -- Chapter 6. Louis Le Comte (1655–1728) -- Chapter 7. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707) -- Chapter 8. Matteo Ripa (1682–1746) -- Chapter 9. Jean-Denis Attiret (1702–68) -- Chapter 10. William Chambers (1723–96) -- Chapter 11. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–93) -- Chapter 12. John Bell (1691–1763) -- Chapter 13. Michel Benoist (1715–74) -- Chapter 14. François Bourgeois (1723–92) -- Chapter 15. Carl Gustav Ekeberg (1716–84) -- Chapter 16. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 17. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–93) or Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 18. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 19. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 20. George Leonard Staunton (1737–1801) -- Chapter 21. André Everard van Braam Houckgeest (1739–1801) -- Chapter 22. John Barrow (1764–1848) -- Chapter 23. George Macartney (1737–1806) -- Chapter 24. Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759–1845) -- Chapter 25. Félix Renouard de Sainte-Croix (1767–1840) -- Chapter 26. Peter Dobell (1772–1852) -- Chapter 27. James Main (c. 1765–1846) -- Chapter 28. John Francis Davis (1795–1890) -- Chapter 29. Robert Fortune (1813–80) -- Chapter 30. Osmond Tiffany, Jr. (1823–95) -- Chapter 31. Henry Charles Sirr (1807–72) -- Chapter 32. Robert Fortune (1813–80) -- Chapter 33. Charles Taylor (1819–97) -- Chapter 34. Robert Swinhoe (1836–77) -- Chapter 35. Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833–1913) -- Appendix. William Chambers (1723–96) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825498403321 |
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Islamic gardens and landscapes [[electronic resource] /] / D. Fairchild Ruggles |
Autore | Ruggles D. Fairchild |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 712.0917/67 |
Collana | Penn studies in landscape architecture |
Soggetto topico |
Islamic gardens
Gardens, Persian |
Soggetto non controllato |
Architecture
Cultural Studies Fine Art Garden History |
ISBN |
1-283-89038-0
0-8122-0728-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Islamic Landscape -- 2. Making the Desert Bloom -- 3. The Science of Gardening -- 4. Organizing the Earth -- 5. Trees and Plants -- 6. Representations of Gardens and Landscape -- 7. Imaginary Gardens -- 8. The Garden as Paradise -- 9. The Here and Hereafter -- 10. A Garden in Landscape -- 11. Religion and Culture -- List of Gardens and Sites -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788514703321 |
Ruggles D. Fairchild
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Islamic gardens and landscapes [[electronic resource] /] / D. Fairchild Ruggles |
Autore | Ruggles D. Fairchild |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 712.0917/67 |
Collana | Penn studies in landscape architecture |
Soggetto topico |
Islamic gardens
Gardens, Persian |
Soggetto non controllato |
Architecture
Cultural Studies Fine Art Garden History |
ISBN |
1-283-89038-0
0-8122-0728-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Islamic Landscape -- 2. Making the Desert Bloom -- 3. The Science of Gardening -- 4. Organizing the Earth -- 5. Trees and Plants -- 6. Representations of Gardens and Landscape -- 7. Imaginary Gardens -- 8. The Garden as Paradise -- 9. The Here and Hereafter -- 10. A Garden in Landscape -- 11. Religion and Culture -- List of Gardens and Sites -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820604803321 |
Ruggles D. Fairchild
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Judaism and Christian art [[electronic resource] ] : aesthetic anxieties from the catacombs to colonialism / / edited by Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
Disciplina | 704.9/482 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KesslerHerbert L. <1941->
NirenbergDavid <1964-> |
Soggetto topico |
Christian art and symbolism - Europe
Judaism in art Art, European - Themes, motives |
Soggetto non controllato |
Architecture
Fine Art Garden History Jewish Studies Religion |
ISBN |
1-283-89892-6
0-8122-0836-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction / Nirenberg, David -- Chapter 1. ''Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded'': Some Reflections on Jewish and Roman Genealogies in Early Christian Art / Elsner, Jaś -- Chapter 2. Unfeigned Witness: Jews, Matter, and Vision in Twelfth-Century Christian Art / Lipton, Sara -- Chapter 3. Shaded with Dust: Jewish Eyes on Christian Art / Kessler, Herbert L. -- Chapter 4. Iudeus sacer: Life, Law, and Identity in the ''State of Exception'' Called ''Marian Miracle'' / Prado-Vilar, Francisco -- Chapter 5. Abraham Circumcises Himself: A Scene at the Endgame of Jewish Utility to Christian Art / Kupfer, Marcia -- Chapter 6. Frau Venus, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Landshut / Timmermann, Achim -- Chapter 7. Jewish Carnality, Christian Guilt, and Eucharistic Peril in the Rotterdam-Berlin Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament -- Chapter 8. The Ghetto and the Gaze in Early Modern Venice / Katz, Dana E. -- Chapter 9. Through a Glass Darkly: Paths to Salvation in Spanish Painting at the Outset of the Inquisition / Pereda, Felipe -- Chapter 10. Renaissance Naturalism and the Jewish Bible: Ferrara, Brescia, Bergamo, 1520-1540 / Campbell, Stephen J. -- Chapter 11. Poussin's Useless Treasures / Neer, Richard -- Chapter 12. Eugène Delacroix's Jewish Wedding and the Medium of Painting / Ubl, Ralph -- Chapter 13. The Judaism of Christian Art -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779476603321 |
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 | ||
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Judaism and Christian art [[electronic resource] ] : aesthetic anxieties from the catacombs to colonialism / / edited by Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
Disciplina | 704.9/482 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KesslerHerbert L. <1941->
NirenbergDavid <1964-> |
Soggetto topico |
Christian art and symbolism - Europe
Judaism in art Art, European - Themes, motives |
Soggetto non controllato |
Architecture
Fine Art Garden History Jewish Studies Religion |
ISBN |
1-283-89892-6
0-8122-0836-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction / Nirenberg, David -- Chapter 1. ''Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded'': Some Reflections on Jewish and Roman Genealogies in Early Christian Art / Elsner, Jaś -- Chapter 2. Unfeigned Witness: Jews, Matter, and Vision in Twelfth-Century Christian Art / Lipton, Sara -- Chapter 3. Shaded with Dust: Jewish Eyes on Christian Art / Kessler, Herbert L. -- Chapter 4. Iudeus sacer: Life, Law, and Identity in the ''State of Exception'' Called ''Marian Miracle'' / Prado-Vilar, Francisco -- Chapter 5. Abraham Circumcises Himself: A Scene at the Endgame of Jewish Utility to Christian Art / Kupfer, Marcia -- Chapter 6. Frau Venus, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Landshut / Timmermann, Achim -- Chapter 7. Jewish Carnality, Christian Guilt, and Eucharistic Peril in the Rotterdam-Berlin Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament -- Chapter 8. The Ghetto and the Gaze in Early Modern Venice / Katz, Dana E. -- Chapter 9. Through a Glass Darkly: Paths to Salvation in Spanish Painting at the Outset of the Inquisition / Pereda, Felipe -- Chapter 10. Renaissance Naturalism and the Jewish Bible: Ferrara, Brescia, Bergamo, 1520-1540 / Campbell, Stephen J. -- Chapter 11. Poussin's Useless Treasures / Neer, Richard -- Chapter 12. Eugène Delacroix's Jewish Wedding and the Medium of Painting / Ubl, Ralph -- Chapter 13. The Judaism of Christian Art -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813053303321 |
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