The Pyrenees in the Modern Era: Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012, Martyn Lyons
Автор: Lynne Horiuchi, Tanu Sankalia Название: Urban Reinventions: San Francisco`s Treasure Island ISBN: 0824866029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824866020 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 43470.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: When it was built in 1937, Treasure Island was considered to be one of the largest man-made islands in the world. Located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the 400-acre island was constructed out of dredged bay mud in a remarkable feat of Depression-era civil engineering by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Its alluring name is an allusion to the fabled remnants of the California Gold Rush found at the bottom of the ocean floor that makes the island.This collection of essays tells the story of San Francisco’s Treasure Island—an artificial, disconnected island that has paradoxically been central to the city’s urban ambitions. Conceived as a site for San Francisco’s first airport in an age of automobile and air transport, Treasure Island hosted the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) in 1939 celebrating the completion of the Golden Gate and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges. With particular focus on Asia and Latin America, the GGIE promoted peace, harmony, and commerce in the Pacific. Treasure Island’s planned use as an airport was scuttled when World War II abruptly reversed the exposition’s message of Pacific unity, and the U.S. government developed Treasure Island and the adjacent Yerba Buena Island into a major Pacific theater naval base.Today, in the midst of a high-tech boom and in one of the most expensive real-estate markets in the world, the city of San Francisco and its developers are proposing an ambitious vision for a new eco-city of about 19,000 residents on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island. The project is considered a model of green urbanism synonymous with a growing global trend toward large-scale, capital-intensive land developments envisioned around ideas of sustainability and spectacular place making. Seen against the successive history of development, future visions for Treasure Island are part of a process of building and erasure that Horiuchi and Sankalia call urban reinventions. This is a process of radical change in which artificial, detached and delimited sites such as Treasure Island provide an ideal plane for tabula rasa planning driven by property, capital, and state control.With contributions by authors well known for their interdisciplinary work, this collection demonstrates how a single site may be interpreted in multiple ways: as a world’s fair site, military installation, a semi-derelict relic of past lives, a toxic site of nuclear waste, and a future eco-city and major real estate development. The volume offers a wide spectrum of critiques of race, imperialism, gendered Orientalism, military land use, property capital exchange, new-eco cities, sustainability, and waste as a byproduct of development.The book will be of interest to general readers as well as teachers, scholars and practitioners in the fields of geography, architecture, planning, urban design, history, environmental studies, American Studies, Asian Studies and military history, among others.
Автор: Sahlins, Peter Название: Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees ISBN: 0520074157 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520074156 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 32730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees".
Автор: Lyons Martyn Название: Pyrenees in the Modern Era ISBN: 1350024783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350024786 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 126720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitu's of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book analyses the individual visions of the heroic Pyrenees which in turn fascinated 19th-century mountaineers and the racing cyclists of the early Tour de France. Martyn Lyons also investigates the role of the Pyrenees during the Second World War as an escape route from Nazi-occupied France, when for thousands of refugees these dangerous borderlands became 'the mountains of liberty', and considers the place of the Pyrenees in recent times right up to the present day.
Drawing on travel writing, press reports and scientific texts in several languages, The Pyrenees in the Modern Era explores both the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees to provide a nuanced historical understanding of the cultural construction of one of Europe's most prominent border regions. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Europe's cultural history in a transnational context.
