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Pages: 400
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Categories: Architecture
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Developments in garden art cannot be isolated from the social changes upon which they either depend or have some bearing. Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural En
The Beau Monde
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Hannah Greig
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in eighteenth-century London - and the colourful tales of extravagance, vanity, intrigue, and sexual ind
Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Miodrag Mitrasinovic
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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Placing theme parks from the United States, Europe and Asia in a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, this fascinating book argues that these fantasy envir
The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 602
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1896 - Publisher: London, MacMillan

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This 1896 volume offers the British Museum curator's scholarly examination of London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens.
Theme Park Landscapes
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Terence G. Young
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

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The prevalence and influence of "theming" increased so dramatically during the 1990s that theme parks have become a metaphor for postmodern urban life. But few