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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl +2 more
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The aim of the study is to present landscape changes in the nineteenth century in the central part of the Upper Silesian Industrial District, which is the municipality of Katowice (southern Poland).
Paweł Cybulski +4 more
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Lecture III: There are maps and there are maps – motives, markets and users [PDF]
This is the third of three lectures given on 5,6 and 8 March 2007 as the Sandars lectures for that year at Cambridge University Library. The text is as read at the time, but includes some later revisions and citations to works used within the text.
Tyacke, Sarah
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Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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The remnant of the 1513 world map of the Ottoman corsair (and later admiral) Muhiddin Piri, a.k.a. Piri Reis, with its focus on the Atlantic and the New World can be ranked as one of the most famous and controversial maps in the annals of the history of ...
Pinto, Karen C.
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Multilingual lexicon of undersea features [PDF]
The department prepares a multilingual lexicon of undersea feature types with the purpose to make information on configuration of the seafloor and undersea feature types available for the general public interested in geographical sciences.
Dutkó, András Ákos, Márton, Mátyás
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A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2
This volume provides a mechanism to uncover the extremely rich split-CP of V2 languages, in both root and embedded clauses, on the basis of theoretical arguments and empirical findings. The movement of the inflected verbal head is triggered to agree with
Giuseppe Samo
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