Mountains and Megastructures Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour /
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| Yhteenveto: | XIX, 328 p. 60 illus., 38 illus. in color. text |
| Kieli: | englanti |
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Singapore :
Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Painos: | 1st ed. 2021. |
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| Linkit: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7110-7 |
| Aineistotyyppi: | Elektroninen Kirja |
Sisällysluettelo:
- 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.