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Policy and Law in Heritage Conservation
ISBN: 9780419232803 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developed in association with the Cultural Heritage Department of the Council of Europe, this book examines key themes and objectives for the protection of the architectural and archaeological heritage in a range of European countries. It includes countries of the west that have already made significant progress in developing systems for the protection of the immovable heritage but also a smaller group to illustrate the situation in countries currently in the process of reforming their legislation and institutions in the field, particularly central and eastern Europe. For each of the country...
Developed in association with the Cultural Heritage Department of the Council of Europe, this book examines key themes and objectives for the protecti...
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415,91 zł |
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Management of Historic Centres
ISBN: 9780419232902 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines key themes for the management of historic urban centres within a representative sample of centres in different European countries. The twelve historic centres that have been chosen are spread throughout Europe. They are diverse in character and the range includes small towns, cities and urban centres within cities. Some have been designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites or Cities, whilst others have recognition, or have been proposed as European Cities of Culture. The centres have all faced different problems and a variety of approaches have been utilised which are also...
This book examines key themes for the management of historic urban centres within a representative sample of centres in different European countries. ...
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415,91 zł |
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Keeping Time : The History and Theory of Preservation in America
ISBN: 9780471473770 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The historic preservation movement has had a huge influence on America's built landscape for the past thirty years. Discover the cornerstone primer on the topic -- Keeping Time. This edition features a wealth of new material, including new chapters on preservation values in oral-based cultures, international preservation, and future developments in the field.
In addition, you?ll find a clear, concise survey of preservation movement's history, complete with:
The historic preservation movement has had a huge influence on America's built landscape for the past thirty years. Discover the cornerstone primer on...
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249,57 zł |
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Historic Preservation and the Imagined West : Albuquerque, Denver, and Seattle
ISBN: 9780700614776 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stroll through Larimer Square in Denver or through Pioneer Square in Seattle and you feel that you're stepping into history while browsing the expensive boutiques and tourist shops. But are you? In this intriguing study of some of America's favorite places, Judy Morley takes a fresh look at adaptive reuse efforts in cities of the former frontier. Focusing on urban preservation resulting from the competing interests of architectural preservationists, city planners, chambers of commerce, and boosters, she shows how developers have often taken artistic license to refashion the western past into...
Stroll through Larimer Square in Denver or through Pioneer Square in Seattle and you feel that you're stepping into history while browsing the expensi...
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178,06 zł |
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The History of Gauged Brickwork
ISBN: 9780750682725 / Angielski / Twarda / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes a look at the history and use of cut, rubbed and gauged brickwork, as well as the use of tools and equipment and the differences between historic and contemporary bricks with a view to inform conservation and restoration decisions.
This book takes a look at the history and use of cut, rubbed and gauged brickwork, as well as the use of tools and equipment and the differences betwe...
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665,53 zł |
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Places That Count : Traditional Cultural Properties in Cultural Resource Management
ISBN: 9780759100701 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text offers professionals within the field of cultural resource management (CRM) practical advice on dealing with traditional cultural properties (TCPs). Responsible for coining the term to describe places of community-based cultural importance, Thomas King now revists this subject to instruct readers in TCP site identification, documentation and management. He identifies common issues of contention and methods of resolving them through consultation and other means. Through the extensive use of examples, from urban ghettos to Polynesian ponds to Mount Shasta, TCPS are shown not to be...
This text offers professionals within the field of cultural resource management (CRM) practical advice on dealing with traditional cultural properties...
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806,16 zł |
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Places That Count : Traditional Cultural Properties in Cultural Resource Management
ISBN: 9780759100718 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Places That Count offers professionals within the field of cultural resource management (CRM) valuable practical advice on dealing with traditional cultural properties (TCPs). Responsible for coining the term to describe places of community-based cultural importance, Thomas King now revisits this subject to instruct readers in TCP site identification, documentation, and management. With more than 30 years of experience at working with communities on such sites, he identifies common issues of contention and methods of resolving them through consultation and other means. Through the extensive...
Places That Count offers professionals within the field of cultural resource management (CRM) valuable practical advice on dealing with traditional cu...
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321,00 zł |
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A Richer Heritage : Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780807854518 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surveying the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America, this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in the field. A Richer Heritage will be an essential, thought-provoking guide for professionals as well as administrators, volunteers, and policy makers involved in preservation efforts.
An introduction traces the evolution of historic preservation in America, highlighting the principal ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape the movement. The book also describes the workings--legal, administrative, and fiscal--of... Surveying the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America, this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in...
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265,52 zł |
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Historic Preservation : Collective Memory and Historical Identity
ISBN: 9780813522937 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historic preservation is a cultural movement gaining momentum and adherents throughout Europe and the United States. How do we decide what to preserve and how to preserve? Who benefits from the efforts of preservationists, curators, developers, and other "symbolic bankers" to safeguard an increasing variety of structures for future generations? Diane Barthel raises these and other questions in this important new book. Taking a comparative approach, Barthel finds that preservation in Britain has largely been an elite enterprise aimed at preserving traditional values. In the United States, by...
Historic preservation is a cultural movement gaining momentum and adherents throughout Europe and the United States. How do we decide what to preserve...
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200,33 zł |
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Historic Homes of Minnesota
ISBN: 9780873515573 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historic Homes of Minnesota is the engaging story of the evolution of architectural styles in Minnesota from 1830 to 1914--from the influence of the early French traders along the Mississippi and St. Croix to the emergence of the school of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Through photographs and colorfully informative text, internationally known historian Roger Kennedy helps readers understand the unique styles of Minnesota's first homes, including the Mower House in Arcola, the first large house on the St. Croix; Alexander Ramsey's "Mansion House" in St. Paul, influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch... Historic Homes of Minnesota is the engaging story of the evolution of architectural styles in Minnesota from 1830 to 1914--from the influence of the e...
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126,21 zł |
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Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project
ISBN: 9780892365876 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes tests performed on model adobe buildings used to evaluate seismic damage mitigation techniques applicable to the retrofitting of historic and culturally significant adobe structures. Part of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (GSAP), the three-year program outlined in this volume was designed to develop and test minimally invasive, inexpensive, and easily implemented methods of protecting such structures from severe earthquake damage. The authors identify typical failure modes of adobe structures and describe specific retrofit techniques to help minimize such failures....
This book describes tests performed on model adobe buildings used to evaluate seismic damage mitigation techniques applicable to the retrofitting of h...
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183,90 zł |
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Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures
ISBN: 9780892365883 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a companion volume to Seismic Stabilization of Historic Abode Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Abode Project, and it offers guidance for planners, architects and engineers in the retrofitting of historic and culturally significant abode structures. The text consists of two parts: a planning guide, which outlines the fundamental conservation principles and preparatory steps in the design of a plan, and an engineering guide, which describes the types of earthquake damage typically encountered in historic abode buildings and presents detailed technical procedures for...
This is a companion volume to Seismic Stabilization of Historic Abode Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Abode Project, and it offers guida...
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183,90 zł |
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Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation
ISBN: 9780892368266 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the proceedings of the conservation theme from the World Archaeological Congress held in Washington, D.C., in 2003.
Presents the proceedings of the conservation theme from the World Archaeological Congress held in Washington, D.C., in 2003.
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315,25 zł |
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Wallpapers in Historic Preservation
ISBN: 9781410224101 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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170,21 zł |
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Chasing Covered Bridges: And How to Find Them
ISBN: 9781563119934 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A full color Virtual Encyclopedia"" of America's Covered Bridges Chasing Covered Bridges lists locations, including state, county, etc.) and contains more than 260 full color featured photos, with a total of 800 of these beautiful old structures. Relive America's past through these grand old symbols of times long gone. Join author Paul Parrott, (retired after 22 years in the Navy and nearly 20 years in the U.S. Postal Service), in his travels as he searches to find ""Still yet one more bridge.""""
A full color Virtual Encyclopedia"" of America's Covered Bridges Chasing Covered Bridges lists locations, including state, county, etc.) and contains...
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191,77 zł |
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Historic Preservation Technology : A Primer
ISBN: 9780471788362 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to historic preservation goes well beyond the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and shows how wood, stone, masonry, and metal were used in the past and how adaptive re-use can be employed to bring modern amenities to historic structures. The book covers all aspects of the exterior and interior building fabric, including windows, roofing, doors, porches, and electrical and mechanical systems for both residential and small-scale commercial buildings. Richly illustrated with photographs showing typical elements of historic buildings, decay mechanisms, and...
This introduction to historic preservation goes well beyond the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and shows how wood, stone, ma...
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408,66 zł |
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Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities
ISBN: 9781405126564 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities examines how the two key issues of urban conservation and sustainability relate to each other in the context of historic cities, and how they can be brought together in a common philosophy and practice that is mutually supportive. It sets out the theoretical and practical background to architectural conservation and how its perceived relevance and level of attainment can be extended when harnessed to wider agendas of sustainability and cultural identity. It tests the achievement of urban conservation through case studies from across Europe...
Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities examines how the two key issues of urban conservation and sustainability relate to each other in th...
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387,50 zł |
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A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
ISBN: 9781416578932 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and Arab-style houses, gorgeous with intricate, if often shabby, mosaic work. While vacationing in Morocco, Suzanna Clarke and her husband, Sandy, are inspired to buy a dilapidated, centuries-old riad in Fez with the aim of restoring it to its original splendor, using only traditional craftsmen and handmade materials. So begins a remarkable...
The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes ...
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88,94 zł |
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Historic Preservation Handbook
ISBN: 9780071589871 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guide to understanding historic architecture and its preservation shows how to analyze and evaluate buildings in order to better renovate existing ones and create outstanding new ones. Heavily illustrated with plans, diagrams, and photos.
This practical guide to understanding historic architecture and its preservation shows how to analyze and evaluate buildings in order to better renova...
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403,60 zł |
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Architectural Conservation : Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9780632040254 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an introductory text for students in built environment disciplines, as well as those who manage or own historic properties, and those embarking upon architectural conservation professionally. It is designed to give an understanding of the main principles, materials and problems in the field of conservation and it features a number of case studies.
This book provides an introductory text for students in built environment disciplines, as well as those who manage or own historic properties, and tho...
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241,43 zł |