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The Invention of Rivers

Alexander's Eye and Ganga's Descent

By: Dilip da Cunha

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The Invention of Rivers

Alexander's Eye and Ganga's Descent

By: Dilip da Cunha

Featuring more than 150 illustrations, many in color, The Invention of Rivers integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted special roles in defining human habitation and everyday practice.

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352

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Penn Studies in Landscape Arch

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0812249992

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9780812249996

Mississippi Floods

Designing a Shifting Landscape

By: Anuradha Mathur,Dilip da Cunha,Professor Dilip Da Cunha

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Mississippi Floods

Designing a Shifting Landscape

By: Anuradha Mathur,Dilip da Cunha,Professor Dilip Da Cunha

Each time the waters of the mighty Mississippi River overflow their banks, questions arise anew about the battle between "man" and "river". How can we prevent floods and the damage they inflict while maintaining navigational potential and protecting the river's ecology?" "The design of the Mississippi and how it should proceed has long been a subject of controversy. What is missing from the discussion, say the authors of this book, is an understanding of the representations of the Mississippi River. Landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and architect/planner Dilip da Cunha draw together an array of perspectives on the river and show how these different images have played a role in the process of designing and containing the river landscape. Analyzing maps, hydrographs, working models, drawings, photographs, government and media reports, painting, and even folklore, Mathur and da Cunha consider what these representations of the river portray, what they leave out, and why that might be. With original silk screen prints and a selection of maps, the book joins historic, scientific, engineering, and natural views of the river to create an entirely new portrait of the great Mississippi."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Yale University Press

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0300084307

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9780300084306

Mississippi Floods

Designing a Shifting Landscape

By: Anuradha Mathur,Dilip da Cunha,Professor Dilip Da Cunha

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Designing a Shifting Landscape

By: Anuradha Mathur,Dilip da Cunha,Professor Dilip Da Cunha

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Yale University Press

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0300084307

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Handbook of Clinical Pediatrics

An Update for the Ambulatory Pediatrician

By: Donald E. Greydanus,Dilip R. Patel,Vinay N. Reddy

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Handbook of Clinical Pediatrics

An Update for the Ambulatory Pediatrician

By: Donald E. Greydanus,Dilip R. Patel,Vinay N. Reddy

A brilliant and original exponent of a rare genre, the philosophical essay. Once read, Cioran cannot fail to provoke reaction."-New York Times Book...

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World Scientific

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9814280496

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9789814280495

Soak

Mumbai in an Estuary

By: Anuradha Mathur,Dilip da Cunha

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Mumbai in an Estuary

By: Anuradha Mathur,Dilip da Cunha

Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary is a unique way of looking at Mumbai's terrain and the history of its making. It presents an alternative visualisation of MumbaI's landscape with extraordinary' artistic and design expertise. Innovative technique in architectural drawing, rare photo-works, maps and models add to the thought-provoking and exciting insights. Proposes twelve design initiations that work to resolve the problem of flood. Uses approximately 72 historical maps and illustrations and 90 new drawings and photographic works done by the authors themselves. Comes across as a major initiative that will bring awareness of contemporary concerns of cities, using design to create public awareness and involvement. Holds global relevance in the context of sea level rise and climate change. This is a distinctive book in response to the Mumbai flood of 2005. It aspires to address and transform the increasingly shrill language of fear, anxiety and dread that marks our reception of the rains in Mumbai today. The book imagines the sea and the monsoon not as enemies and agents of flood, but as inevitable partners in the shaping of the land and thereby offers a new vocabulary for living with the monsoon and the sea.

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8129114801

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9788129114808

Design in the Terrain of Water

By: Anuradha Mathur,Dilip da Cunha

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By: Anuradha Mathur,Dilip da Cunha

Design in the Terrain of Water makes room for water as a ground in design: water that is everywhere before it is somewhere; water that is in rain before it is in rivers, soaks before it flows, spreads before it gathers, blurs before it clarifies; water that is ephemeral, transient, uncertain, interstitial, chaotic, omnipresent. This is water to which people are increasingly turning to find innovative solutions to water scarcity, pollution, aquifer depletion and other problems that are assuming center stage in local and global politics, dynamics, and fears. It is also water that is celebrated and ritualized in ordinary and everyday practices across many cultures. The book brings together the work of eminent professionals, designers, artists, scientists and theorists, who respond to the challenges that this water poses, its visualization, its infrastructure, its politics and its science. At a moment when design disciplines are beginning to embrace measures such as flexibility, agility and resilience, this book makes an important and timely contribution. These are measures that we associate more closely with water and watery imagination than the terra firma that grounds aspirations of prediction and control that have proved elusive, perhaps even detrimental. The book asks if in this time of uncertainty and ambiguity brought on by increasing openness of economies, cultures, and ecologies, we need to re-invent our relationship with water. Should we look to the past, present and future and ask if in seeing water somewhere rather than everywhere we miss opportunities, practices and lessons that could inform and transform the design project? What role has representation and visualization played in confining water to a place on land? Can we look at projects in history and projects emerging today - cities, infrastructures, buildings, landscapes, artworks - with a cultivated eye for waters everywhere? What is it to see water as not within, adjoining, serving or threatening settlement, but the ground of settlement? Design in the Terrain of Water is a collection of visual and textual essays that present a way, a direction, and perhaps even a paradigm shift in how professionals imagine, build, and advocate in a terrain of water.

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ORO Applied Research + Design

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1941806244

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9781941806241

Book's by Dilip da Cunha

The Invention of Rivers

The Invention of Rivers

Mississippi Floods

Mississippi Floods

Mississippi Floods

Mississippi Floods

Handbook of Clinical Pediatrics

Handbook of Clinical Pediatrics

Soak

Soak

Design in the Terrain of Water

Design in the Terrain of Water

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