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Future Park

Imagining Tomorrow's Urban Parks

By: Amalie Wright

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Future Park

Imagining Tomorrow's Urban Parks

By: Amalie Wright

The first public parks were created on urban 'greenfields'. Once these designated sites had been used, cities looked towards post-industrial sites, and built parks in places that had suffered from environmental degradation, neglect, abandonment and conflict. With finite stocks of urban post-industrial land now also approaching exhaustion, more ways of making parks are required to create inclusive, accessible and resilient urban places. Future Park invites Australian built environment professionals and policymakers to consider the future of parks in our cities. Including spectacular images of public spaces throughout the world, the book describes the economic, social and environmental benefits of urban parks, and then outlines the threats and challenges facing cities and communities in an age when more than half the world's population are urban dwellers. Future Park introduces the need to embrace new public park thinking to ensure that benefits continue to be realised. Future Park illustrates imaginative and resourceful responses to real challenges by highlighting recent proposals and projects. These projects coalesce around four broad themes – linkages, obsolescences, co-locations and installations – responding to contemporary urban paradoxes, and ensuring parks continue to play a vital role in the lives of our cities.

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357

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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ISBN 10

0643106626

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9780643106628

Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture

Exploring the Materiality of Ancient Polychrome Forms

By: Amalie Skovmøller

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Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture

Exploring the Materiality of Ancient Polychrome Forms

By: Amalie Skovmøller

The fact that most ancient marble portraits were once intentionally polychrome has always been lurking at the corners of art historical and archaeological research. Despite the fact, that the colours of the sculpted forms completed, enhanced and even extended the plastic shapes, the topic has not been devoted much dedicated attention. This book represents the first full-length academic monograph which explores the original polychromy of Roman white marble portraiture. It presents results from scientific analysis of portraits in statuary and bust formats dating to the first three centuries CE. The book also explores the cultural and social significance of colours in their original contexts, and how the immaterial affects of the polychrome, three-dimensional images can be integrated into the traditional research into ancient portraiture, which has tended to place overwhelming emphasis on iconography, typology and biography. By doing so the ancient sculpted marble form, as we know it, will be exposed and confronted, and the impact of manipulated material effects, that were meant to evoke a broad range of multisensory experiences, will be emphasized. The book puts forth a new way of analysis to be tested and developed in the future.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110585529

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9783110585520

The Complete Flower Arranger

By: Amalie Adler Ascher

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The Complete Flower Arranger

By: Amalie Adler Ascher

This volume contains many examples of contemporary and traditional floral designs, useful information on the mechanics of arranging, explanations of the principles of design, guidance in the use of design elements (such as color) and useful advice for those arrangers.

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Touchstone

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0671227742

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9780671227746

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Future Park

Future Park

Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture

Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture

The Complete Flower Arranger

The Complete Flower Arranger

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