Author: Simona Boscani Leoni
Publisher: Emergence of Natural History
ISBN: 9789004412460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories"--
Connecting Territories
Author: Simona Boscani Leoni
Publisher: Emergence of Natural History
ISBN: 9789004412460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories"--
Publisher: Emergence of Natural History
ISBN: 9789004412460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories"--
Occupying and Connecting
Author: Frei Otto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Cities, estates and routing systems develop, change constantly and fundamentally cannot be planned. Claims to ownership, land and building regulations, planning decisions and political interventions make it difficult for settlement structures to adapt to constantly changing requirements to such an extent that meaningful and totally ecological use of the surface of the earth is becoming increasingly difficult, although new techniques and flexible planning models mean that a connection could be found with the self-designing processes of urban-development history. Plants are anchored in their location on the face of the earth, animals and human beings have mobile territory and encampments that become static with increasing density. Human settlements are organisms, but they are not hereditarily anchored in their form like corals, sponges or beehives. They often grow and shrink at the same time. Their form can almost never be called chaotic. Typical self-formation processes lead to astonishing genetic optimisation in the course of time. Processes of change have become so rapid today that current urban-planning theories have been overtaken. But high effectiveness of self-created, in other words unplanned settlements in terms of energy and biology is totally achievable today in 'natural' town and transport planning and leads to ecologically meaningful solutions that are also full of beauty. The present study dates from 1995. It was written in the context of special research into 'natural constructions' by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and has hitherto been available only in German and as a working paper for circulation between those involved in the research project.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Cities, estates and routing systems develop, change constantly and fundamentally cannot be planned. Claims to ownership, land and building regulations, planning decisions and political interventions make it difficult for settlement structures to adapt to constantly changing requirements to such an extent that meaningful and totally ecological use of the surface of the earth is becoming increasingly difficult, although new techniques and flexible planning models mean that a connection could be found with the self-designing processes of urban-development history. Plants are anchored in their location on the face of the earth, animals and human beings have mobile territory and encampments that become static with increasing density. Human settlements are organisms, but they are not hereditarily anchored in their form like corals, sponges or beehives. They often grow and shrink at the same time. Their form can almost never be called chaotic. Typical self-formation processes lead to astonishing genetic optimisation in the course of time. Processes of change have become so rapid today that current urban-planning theories have been overtaken. But high effectiveness of self-created, in other words unplanned settlements in terms of energy and biology is totally achievable today in 'natural' town and transport planning and leads to ecologically meaningful solutions that are also full of beauty. The present study dates from 1995. It was written in the context of special research into 'natural constructions' by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and has hitherto been available only in German and as a working paper for circulation between those involved in the research project.
Report of the ... Conference
Author: International Law Association. Conference
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : DVD-ROMs
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The association's Report of the executive council, 1913/15, includes papers prepared for a proposed 1914 conference at the Hague.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : DVD-ROMs
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The association's Report of the executive council, 1913/15, includes papers prepared for a proposed 1914 conference at the Hague.
Selected Topics Connected with the Laws of Warfare as of August 1, 1914
Author: Joseph Richardson Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : War (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : War (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Hertslet's Commercial Treaties
Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Appendix, alphabetical index, and chronological list
Author: Sir Edward Hertslet
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Hertslet's Commercial Treaties
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Chicago Daily News Almanac and Political Register
Author:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Traffic World and Traffic Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1666
Book Description
The Traffic World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description