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Television Cities: Paris, London, Baltimore

9780822369202
Brunsdon C
Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of Paris, London, and Baltimore to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban and showing how television shapes our perception of urban spaces, both familiar and unknown.
£22.99
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Concrete Dreams: Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires

9781478006305
D'Avella, Nicholas
Nicholas D'Avella offers an ethnographic reflection on the value of buildings in post-crisis Buenos Aires, showing how everyday practices transform buildings into politically, economically, and socially consequential objects, and arguing that such local forms of value and practice suggest possibilities for building better futures.
£24.99
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Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973

9781478017882
Levin, Ayala
Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa.
£24.99
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On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection

9780822313663
Stewart, Susan
An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world.
£22.99
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Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North

9780822359067
Brumfield W
Featuring nearly two hundred full color photographs by William Craft Brumfield, this book documents the architecture of centuries-old wooden and brick churches, cathedrals and homes in the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North.
£38.00
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Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil

9781478004899
Blanc, Jacob
Jacob Blanc examines the creation of the Itaipu Dam-the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world-on the Brazil-Paraguay border during the 1970s and 1980s to explore the long-standing conflicts around land, rights, indigeneity, and identity in rural Brazil.
£24.99
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Havana beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings after 1989

9780822350705
Birkenmaier A & Whitfield E
Looks at portrayals of Havana in literature, music, and the visual arts in the post-Soviet era, as the city is reinvented as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.
£25.99
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Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House

9780822353089
Akcan E
Esra Akcan describes the introduction of modern architecture into Turkey after the Kemalist political elite took power in 1923 and invited German architects to redesign the new capital of Ankara.
£26.99
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Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above

9780822370178
Kaplan C
Caren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery-from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military drones-to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce military power and foster positive political connections.
£24.99
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