Mountains and Megastructures Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour /

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
مؤلف مشترك: SpringerLink (Online service)
مؤلفون آخرون: Beattie, Martin (المحرر), Kakalis, Christos (المحرر), Ozga-Lawn, Matthew (المحرر)
الملخص:XIX, 328 p. 60 illus., 38 illus. in color.
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اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
الطبعة:1st ed. 2021.
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7110-7
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Framing Mountains/Megastructures
  • Chapter One: Border versus Boundary: The Holy Mountain and the Inhabitation of its Periphery
  • Chapter Two: From Picturesque Detachment to Bodily Engagement; the Entwined Histories of Photography, Architecture and Mountaineering
  • Chapter Three: House-building in the Alps with Ruskin Tyndall or CZOgraphy: an eco-criticism for the Critical Zone
  • Chapter Four: Bachelard’s Phenomenology and Verticality
  • Chapter Five: Chthonic Countermeasures: a geological conte
  • Part 2 Mountains
  • Chapter Six: Everest Death Zone
  • Chapter Seven: The Making and Unmaking of Kunanyi
  • Chapter Eight: Lost on the edges of empire: John Stapylton Grey Pemberton’s expedition to Darjeeling and the “snowy ranges”
  • Chapter Nine: Conquering Dragons
  • Part 3 Megastructures
  • Chapter Ten: Artificial Mountains
  • Chapter Eleven: Terremoto in Palazzo
  • Chapter Twelve: How Old Is the Barcelona Pavilion?
  • Chapter Thirteen: ‘Crowding the Stoop’. Climbing the Mega-Structures of Science Fiction
  • Chapter Fifteen: Verticalities of the Imagination. Futurity and the Contemporary in Urban Science Fiction
  • Chapter Sixteen: A Megastructure and a Mountain. Two Ways of Thinking about Architecture Culture
  • Chapter Seventeen: Mount Fuji VS The Megastructures of Tokyo.