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Delirious New Orleans : Manifesto For An Extraordinary American City

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Stephen Verderber ; foreword by Kevin Alter
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, University of Texas Press, 2009
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- Table of contents only
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Vernacular architecture · Louisiana · New Orleans · Outsider art · Urban renewal · City planning · Hurricane Katrina, 2005 · New Orleans (La.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Verderber, Stephen
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Creating Colonial Williamsburg : The Restoration Of Virginia’s Eighteenth-century Capital

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Monument Wars : Washington, D.C., The National Mall, And The Transformation Of The Memorial Landscape

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Kirk Savage
Publication Details
Book, University of California Press, 2009
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Monuments · Washington (D.C.) · Memorials · Memorialization · United States · Mall, The (Washington, D.C.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Savage, Kirk, 1958-
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Automats, Taxi Dances, And Vaudeville : Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places Of Leisure

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David Freeland
Publication Details
Book, New York University Press, 2009
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Historic buildings · New York (State) · New York · Theaters · History · New York (N.Y.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Social life and customs · Freeland, David
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The Architecture Of The Yale Center For British Art

Attribution
Jules David Prown
Publication Details
Book, 3rd ed, Yale Center for British Art, 2009
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Yale Center for British Art · History · Architecture · Connecticut · New Haven · 20th century · New Haven (Conn.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Prown, Jules David
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Concert Of Wills Making The Getty Center

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J. Paul Getty Trust ; a Maysles Films Inc. production ; a film by Susan Froemke, Bob Eisenhardt
Publication Details
Video, J. Paul Getty Trust, 2003
Description
This acclaimed documentary traces the building of the Getty Center, one of the most ambitious cultural undertakings of the twentieth century. Spanning fourteen years, from the early blueprints to the groundbreaking to the public opening of the Center in December 1997, the film takes viewers from California to a rock quarry in Italy where the Center’s signature travertine originated. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Getty Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) · Richard Meier & Partners · Art centers · California · Los Angeles · Los Angeles (Calif.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Froemke, Susan · Eisenhardt, Bob · J. Paul Getty Trust · Maysles Films
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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) F869.L88 G48 2003 DUE 12-18-09

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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN)	F869.L88 G48 2003	DUE 12-18-09

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The National Mall : Rethinking Washington’s Monumental Core

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edited by Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. Field ; foreword by James F. Cooper
Publication Details
Book, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
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Description
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., has held an important place in the American psyche since the early nineteenth century. The National Mall presents an overarching account of how a democratic society plans, creates, and expands a national ceremonial space, opening the way for a broadly based inquiry into the Mall as it was, is, and will become. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Landscape protection · Washington (D.C.) · City planning · Memorials · Social aspects · United States · Monuments · Public spaces · Case studies · Aesthetics, American · Mall, The (Washington, D.C.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Glazer, Nathan · Field, Cynthia R
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA9127.W2 N38 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA9127.W2 N38 2009	NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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Our White House : Looking In, Looking Out

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created by 108 renowned authors and illustrators and the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance ; with an introduction by David McCullough
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Candlewick Press, 2008
Description
Starting with a 1792 call for designers to plan a presidential mansion and continuing through the present day, OUR WHITE HOUSE takes in everything from the amusing antics of presidents’ children and pets to the drama of the White House ablaze and the specter of war; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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White House (Washington, D.C.) · History · Juvenile literature · Washington (D.C.) · Buildings, structures, etc. · United States · Politics and government · Buildings, structures, etc · National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 975.3 Ou94o 2008 AVAILABLE

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	975.3 Ou94o 2008	AVAILABLE

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Berlin Modern Architecture : Exhibition Catalogue

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editors, Gernot & Johanne Nalbach ; [translated by Chris Charlesworth with Susan Cox and Francesca Rogier]
Publication Details
Book, Senatsverwaltung für Bau-und Wohnungswesen, 1989
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City planning · Germany · Berlin · Exhibitions · Architecture · History · 20th century · Architectural drawing · Berlin (Germany) · Buildings, structures, etc. · Nalbach, Gernot · Nalbach, Johanne · Internationale Bauausstellung Berlin (1987)
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA9200.B4 B493 1989 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	NA9200.B4 B493 1989	AVAILABLE

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Metropolitain : A Portrait Of Paris

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Matthew Weinreb and Fiona Biddulph
Publication Details
Book, Phaidon Press, 1994
Description
Paris has always enjoyed a reputation as a city at the forefront of architecture and urban planning. Through elaborate sequences, astonishing angles and intriguing details, this volume is a powerful celebration of the buildings and their features, punctuated by Fiona Biddulph’s anecdotal essays on centuries of Parisian architectural history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Architecture · France · Paris · Paris (France) · Buildings, structures, etc · Weinreb, Matthew · Biddulph, Fiona
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA1050 .W446 1994 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA1050 .W446 1994	AVAILABLE

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Versailles

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Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos ; photography by Robert Polidori ; translated from the French by John Goodman
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Abbeville Press, 1991
Description
Tracing the transformation of Louis XIII’s modest hunting lodge into the spectacular showplace of the French monarchy, photographs of the architecture, interiors, and gardens include the most recent research on the architecturally innovative and influential palace. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Louis · XIV, · King of France, · 1638-1715 · Art patronage · Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) · History · Gardens · France · Versailles · Classicism in art · Interior decoration · 17th century · Architecture and state · Versailles (France) · Buildings, structures, etc · Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie · Polidori, Robert · Goodman, John, 1952 Sept. 19-
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA7736.V5 P4713 1991 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	NA7736.V5 P4713 1991	AVAILABLE

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Siena : Constructing The Renaissance City

Attribution
Fabrizio Nevola
Publication Details
Book, Yale University Press, 2007
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Architecture · Italy · Siena · History) · 15th century · Architecture, Renaissance · Political aspects · Siena (Italy) · Buildings, structures, etc · Nevola, Fabrizio, 1970-
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA1121.S54 N48 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA1121.S54 N48 2007	AVAILABLE

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Slavery In The Age Of Reason : Archaeology At A New England Farm

Attribution
Alexandra A. Chan
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, University of Tennessee Press, 2007
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Royall, Isaac, · 1677-1739 · Family · Isaac Royall House (Medford, Mass.) · Slavery · Massachusetts · Medford · History · Slaves · Social conditions · Farm life · Landscape · Social aspects · Medford (Mass.) · Antiquities · Buildings, structures, etc · Biography · Race relations · Chan, Alexandra A., 1973-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F74.M5 C48 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F74.M5 C48 2007	AVAILABLE

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Lady Liberty : A Biography

Attribution
Doreen Rappaport ; illustrated by Matt Tavares
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Candlewick Press, 2008
Description
Engineers, plasterers, carpenters, coppersmiths — many of them immigrants — work together to turn the lady into a monument over 100 feet tall. Doreen Rappaport’s historically accurate, poetic vignettes and Matt Tavares’s magnificent images remind us of the true origins of a national symbol — and show that it took a lot of people to make the Lady. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) · Juvenile literature · History · Juvenile literature · New York (N.Y.) · Buildings, structures, etc. · Rappaport, Doreen · Tavares, Matt
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OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER) 974.71 R221L 2008 AVAILABLE

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OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER)	974.71 R221L 2008	AVAILABLE

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Building A Century Of Progress : The Architecture Of Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair

Attribution
Lisa D. Schrenk
Publication Details
Book, University of Minnesota Press, 2007
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Description
Many of the designs provoked intense responses from critics and other prominent architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Adams Cram, fueling heated debates over the appropriate direction for architecture in the United States. Demonstrating the rich diversity of progressive American building design seen at the fair, Building a Century of Progress captures a crucial moment in American modernism. Schrenk is assistant professor of architecture and art history at Norwich University and former education director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Century of Progress International Exposition · (1933-1934 : · Chicago, Ill.) · Buildings · Exhibition buildings · Illinois · Chicago · History · 20th century · Chicago (Ill.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Schrenk, Lisa Diane
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(LOWER LEVEL) NA6750.C45 C467 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	NA6750.C45 C467 2007	AVAILABLE

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