Italian Cities And Landscapes

Author : William H. Fain
Publisher : Balcony Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1890449326

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Italian Cities and Landscapes by William H. Fain Pdf

In an age of digital cameras and computer renderings, the tradition of drawing and assembling an architectural sketchbook seems at once either willfully eccentric and or charmingly retrograde. But its profound importance to architecture and urban planning endures. Italian Cities and Landscapes is a compact and lovely sketch book created by architect William H. Fain during a six month fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Exploring the Italian city and countryside by bicycle, Fain used colored pencil to sketch scenes of the street life, the magnificent landscapes, and the architectural marvels of Italy. Italian Cities and Landscapes shows that for the creative individual, documenting travels through drawing continues to be a valuable means of learning to see, understand, and design.

Author : Cesare Rossi,Marco Boroli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Architecture
ISBN : NYPL:33433105159218

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"Italian Cities and Landscapes," by Cesare Rossi,Marco Boroli Pdf

Author : Carmen M. Enss,Luigi Monzo
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839446607

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Townscapes in Transition by Carmen M. Enss,Luigi Monzo Pdf

How did urban Italy come to look the way it does today? This collection of essays assembles recent studies in architectural history and theory exploring the historical paradigms guiding architecture and landscape design between the world wars. The authors explore physical changes in townscapes and landscapes, covering a wide range of architectural designs from strict modernist solutions to variations of regionalism, mediterraneanism and national style from all over Italy. Specifically, the volume explains how conservation, restoration and town planning for historic areas led to the production of heritage, and elucidates the role played by architects like Marcello Piacentini, Innocenzo Sabbatini, Mario De Renzi and Giulio Ulisse Arata.

Author : Mauro Soldati,Mauro Marchetti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319261942

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Landscapes and Landforms of Italy by Mauro Soldati,Mauro Marchetti Pdf

The book deals with the most striking landscapes and landforms of Italy. Attention is given to landform diversity and landscape evolution through time which has been controlled by very diverse geological conditions and dramatic climate changes that have characterized the Italian peninsula and islands since the end of the last glaciation. In addition, various examples of human impact on the landscape are presented. Landscapes and Landforms of Italy contains more than thirty case studies of a multitude of Italian geographical landmarks. The topics and sites described in this book range from the Alpine glaciers to the Etna and Vesuvius volcanoes, taking into account the most representative fluvial, coastal, gravity-induced, karst and structural landscapes of the country. Chapters on the geomorphological landmarks of the cities of Rome and Venice are also included. The book provides the readers with the opportunity to explore the variety of Italian landscapes and landforms through informative texts illustrated with several color maps and photos. This book will be relevant to scientists, scholars and any readers interested in geology, physical geography, geomorphology, landscape tourism, geoheritage and environmental protection.

Author : Gregory Smith,Gilda Berruti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000870657

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The Landscapes of Italian Food by Gregory Smith,Gilda Berruti Pdf

This book examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local practices and local cultural history. It illustrates the utility of the value chain concept in navigating the complexities of comparative advantage in an advanced market setting. It establishes the connection between the landscape and individual food practices, and how they have responded to the commodification of the agri-food system, maintaining a distinctive local character while ensuring development and a healthy diet. It explores how community gardens are now a consolidated part of Italian urban experience, as well as the multiple policy frameworks which govern these activities. The book then explores a wider range of food procurement channels, from food cooperatives to buying groups and institutional partnerships, including the strategies employed by large retail groups to respond to the growing environmental sensitivity of their customers. Multifunctional implications of antimafia activities involving social agriculture are also explored. Finally, the book ends with a survey of European and domestic Italian policies aiming to protect and promote healthy food practices while preserving the integrity of the landscape. This is fascinating reading for anyone interested in quality food and the territory, as well as academic readers from such disparate disciplines as sociology, urban studies, anthropology and Italian studies.

Author : Pippo Ciorra,Marco D'Annuntiis
Publisher : Skira
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8881186543

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New Italian Architecture by Pippo Ciorra,Marco D'Annuntiis Pdf

"The young Italian architects are now out of the "impasse and of their unwitting "ennui. Or rather, they have begun to emerge and raise their gaze from the drawing board to observe the material and non-material phenomena occurring in the outside world in the meantime. In the concrete material world of the Italian cities and landscape, sudden radical transformations have effected the whole universe to which architectural, planning and urban knowledge must be applied. While the intangible world of ideas and non-architectural artistic languages, traces and representations of these transformations have been presented for some time." (Pippo Ciorra) Ten young Italian architects are analyzed and combined to show the most advanced researches on the contemporary Italian urban landscape. The projects and photographs are introduced by three essays by Pippo Ciorra, Kay-Bea Jones and Francesco Jodice. "Architects ABDR Carmen Andriani Aldo Aymonino Stefano Boeri Pippo Ciorra Alberto Ferlenga Ricci & Spaini Renato Rizzi Mirko Zardini & Lukas Meyer Cino Zucchi "Photographers Marina Ballo Charmet Olivo Barbieri Antonio Biasiucci Botto & Bruno Vincenzo Castella Marco Calo Alessandro Cimmino Paola de Pietri Paola Di Bello Francesco Jodice

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : EAN:4064066063269

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Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens Pdf

This is not a novel, but a description of Dickens' sojourn in Italy taken in 1844. Dickens spent almost a year there and this account of his travels is full of vivid descriptions of the people and places he encountered.

Author : Gillian Souter,John Souter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Italy
ISBN : 1905214529

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Walking in Italy by Gillian Souter,John Souter Pdf

Walking in Italy is a unique guide written for those who want to experience the delights of Italy’s finest towns cities and landscapes.The best way to appreciate Italy is undoubtedly on foot, whether you are visiting a city for the first time or venturing out into the Italian countryside. You don’t need to be an athlete to enjoy a well-informed stroll around Verona or even a two-day hike along the sparkling coastline of the Cinque Terre.This book helps you plan your journey and enjoy the best of Italy. It offers alternative walking tours in Rome, Florence, and Venice, suggests routes around such gems as Sienna and Perugia, and leads you into Italy’s most stunning landscapes and national parks. The day walks and two-day itineraries are designed with occasional walkers in mind and never take you too far from a comfortable hotel bed and a good meal. A lucid and lively text provides plenty of information and is accompanied by a collection of beautiful photographs and hand-drawn maps.

Author : Charles Fitzroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0316907863

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Italy Revealed by Charles Fitzroy Pdf

A guide to the artistic treasures of Italy which ignores the major cities of Florence, Venice, Rome and Naples, and instead concentrates on the beauties of the Italian landscape. This book also provides historical information on the artists, patrons, towns and villages featured.

Author : Emilio Sereni
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400864454

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History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape by Emilio Sereni Pdf

Emilio Sereni's classic work is now available in an English language edition. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape is a synthesis of the agricultural history of Italy in its economic, social, and ecological context, from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. From his perspective in the Italian tradition of cultural Marxism, Sereni guides the reader through the millennial changes that have affected the agriculture and ecology of the regions of Italy, as well as through the successes and failures of farmers and technicians in antiquity, the middle ages, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. In this sweeping historical survey, he describes attempts by successive generations to adapt Italy's natural environment for the purposes of agriculture and to respond to its changing ecological problems. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape first appeared in 1961. At the time of its publication it was a pathbreaking work, parallel in its importance for Italy to Marc Bloc's masterwork of 1931, The Original Characteristics of French Rural History. Sereni invented the concept of the historical "agricultural landscape": an interdisciplinary characterization of rural life involving economic and social history, linguistics, archeology, art history, and ecological studies. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Tullio Pagano
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611476408

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The Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature by Tullio Pagano Pdf

The book focuses on literary representations of the northern Italian region of Liguria, whose landscape has been portrayed by internationally-known Italian poets and novelists, from Eugenio Montale to Italo Calvino. The author argues that the most perceptive authors situate themselves on a metaphorical ridge dividing the “dark side” of Mediterranean landscape, with its harsh and mountainous territory, from the sun-drenched Riviera, celebrated by the tourist industry and for the most part destroyed during the so-called economic boom. The complex and often antithetical concepts of landscape examined in the introduction inform the author’s readings of those modern and contemporary writers who have tried to make sense of the ambivalences present in Ligurian landscape, from the period of Italian Risorgimento to the present.

Author : Giuliana Minghelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135104818

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Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film by Giuliana Minghelli Pdf

This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural production in the service of memorialization and comprehension for a nation that had neither a Nuremberg nor a formal process of reconciliation. Through her readings of canonical neorealist films, Minghelli unearths the memorial strata of the neorealist image and investigates the complex historical charge that invests this cinema. This book is both a formal analysis of the new conception of the cinematic image born from a crisis of memory, and a reflection on the relation between cinema and memory. Films discussed include Ossessione (1943) Paisà (1946), Ladri di biciclette (1948), and Cronaca di un amore (1950).

Author : Elana Shohamy,Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Monica Barni
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694812

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Linguistic Landscape in the City by Elana Shohamy,Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Monica Barni Pdf

This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications on linguistic landscape, but the editors aim to investigate the nature of a field of study which is characterised by its interest in ‘ordered disorder’. The editors aspire to delve into linguistic landscape beyond its appearance as a jungle of jumbled and irregular items by focusing on the variations in linguistic landscape configurations and recognising that it is but one more field of the shaping of social reality under diverse, uncoordinated and possibly incongruent structuration principles.

Author : Philip Pregill,Nancy Volkman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780471293286

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Landscapes in History by Philip Pregill,Nancy Volkman Pdf

The definitive, one-stop reference to the history of landscape architecture-now expanded and revised This revised edition of Landscapes in History features for the first time new information-rarely available elsewhere in the literature-on landscape architecture in India, China, Southeast Asia, and Japan. It also expands the discussion of the modern period, including current North American planning and design practices. This unique, highly regarded book traces the development of landscape architecture and environmental design from prehistory to modern times-in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America. It covers the many cultural, political, technological, and philosophical issues influencing land use throughout history, focusing not only on design topics but also on the environmental impact of human activity. Landscape architects, urban planners, and students of these disciplines will find here: * The most comprehensive, in-depth, and up-to-date overview of the subject * Hundreds of stunning photographs and design illustrations * A scholarly yet accessible treatment, drawing on the latest research in archaeology, geography, and other disciplines * The authors' own firsthand observations and travel experiences * Insight into the evolution of landscape architecture as a discipline * Useful chapter summaries and bibliographies

Author : Antonio Attini,Marcello Bertinetti
Publisher : White Star
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : 8854402672

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Cities of Italy by Antonio Attini,Marcello Bertinetti Pdf

The S-shaped Grand Canal of Venice, its banks lined with centuries-old homes and palaces. The lofty domes of Florence, nestled in the heart of Tuscany. The terraced houses of Positano, the "Pearl of the Amalfi Coast." Each city in Italy is completely distinctive, reflecting millennia of history and rich artistic and cultural legacies. This addition to White Star's new aerial photography series highlights the architecture and landscapes that make each Italian city special.